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Davies said county and county‑association staff discussed the bill on a CCAO call and that the county’s auditor staff are modeling the potential financial effects. “There’s a concern that this will get added to the budget bill, which is concerning,” Davies said during her administrative report.

She said the proposal would affect inside millage for many local taxing districts and that the timing could create cash‑flow challenges if replacement revenue mechanisms (the bill would permit local governments to consider sales tax changes, which require voter approval) are not immediately available. Davies also said most levy recipients would be impacted except libraries, and she urged continued county coordination with the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and the auditor’s office to quantify local impacts.

Why this matters: Davies said the deadline for the state budget cycle is fast approaching and that inserting major tax changes into the budget could create short‑term fiscal stress for counties and other local governments that must continue paying obligations while replacement revenue is arranged.

Next steps: County staff, including work with the auditor’s office, will continue to model impacts and pursue association‑level advocacy. Commissioners discussed concerns and said they would follow developments closely; no formal county action was taken on the bill at the June 9 meeting.

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Jane Hawes, the county’s director of communications, told commissioners the work goes beyond the IT department’s current capacity and that the website must meet a technical deadline in April of next year. “We’re up against a deadline of April 20 fourth of next year to make sure that the website is, fully compliant with the ADA act,” Hawes said during the meeting.

Hawes said the remediation likely will include adding descriptive alternative text to images so screen readers can present them verbally, reordering heading and font structure to be logically hierarchical for assistive technologies, and producing screen‑reader‑accessible versions of press releases and documents already used in the county news archive. She said the engineer’s office has a large archive of construction images that will require decisions about how broadly to apply alt text and metadata.

Hawes also said artificial intelligence tools can help populate alt text for large image sets but that the county wants outside expert guidance on scope and quality. Commissioners asked questions about scope and bidding; the board voted on resolution 25‑428 to issue the RFP, with Vice President Jeff Benton and President Barbara Lewis recorded voting “Aye.”

Next steps: County staff will issue the RFP and accept proposals from qualified vendors to perform site audit and remediation work. Hawes said the county will evaluate bidders’ track record and technical approach to ensure the selected firm can meet accessibility standards and the stated deadline.

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The program, explained on the record by Judge David Hemenowski of the probate/juvenile court, would offer an alternative to the historic practice of suspending juveniles’ licenses after minor moving violations. Hemenowski said the court would continue to require license suspensions while offering the diversion as an option and that the county prosecutor’s office must agree before a case can be diverted into the course.

The pilot would purchase blocks of seats in a six‑hour course that combines three hours of classroom instruction and three hours of on‑surface driving drills. Hemenowski described exercises that simulate wet‑braking, skid avoidance and lane‑change drills and said the program operator needs “almost 4 acres of uninterrupted blacktop” to run the driving exercises. “We’ll come out to around $158 per session,” he said, adding that families would pay roughly three‑quarters of the cost under the proposed fee scale.

Why this matters: motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the U.S. and a frequent cause of serious injury and death locally, the court noted. Hemenowski told the board he keeps a rolling list of local teen fatalities and said, “there are 19 names on that list right now,” to explain the program’s public‑safety rationale.

How it would work: the county would offer the diversion only for first‑offense minor misdemeanor moving violations (for example, low‑level speeding, red‑light or stop‑sign violations, and minor weather‑related loss‑of‑control crashes). Cases would remain eligible for diversion only with prosecutor approval; more serious offenses (including speeding more than 30 mph over the limit, leaving the scene, fleeing, DUIs, driving under suspension and second or third offenses) would be ineligible. If a juvenile accepts the diversion, the court would hold an admission and, on successful program completion, the prosecutor could agree to the diversion disposition. If the juvenile fails to complete the diversion, the suspension and other penalties would be imposed as if the diversion had not been chosen.

Risk and safeguards: Hemenowski said the prosecutor’s office and county civil counsel reviewed the program’s liability exposure and helped draft a liability waiver and proof‑of‑insurance requirements. He said the prosecutor’s civil division — led in the work by Chris Betts — signed off on forms and the memorandum of understanding with the driving school, and that parents would sign waivers and provide insurance documentation before participation.

Funding and next steps: Clerk Fravel asked the board to approve a supplemental appropriation and transfer from the title administration fund to cover the county’s share for the pilot (resolution 25‑427). Hemenowski said the county’s contribution might not exhaust the transferred funds and that the program will be reviewed after 12 months to assess participation, cost structure and the need for outside grants or other support.

The record in the provided transcript excerpt shows the program presentation, the clerk’s funding request and detailed discussion of eligibility, cost and liability; the transcript did not include a recorded vote on resolution 25‑427 in the excerpt provided.

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