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Kate Baker, programs coordinator for the Montgomery County Recorder’s Office, told the commission the county has seen instances of “deed problem” and “false notary fraud,” where bad actors file forged documents to transfer property. Baker said Recorder Kennedy’s office is promoting a fraud‑alert notification signup — available by brochure, QR code or the recorder’s website — which will notify registrants by U.S. mail when a transaction posts against their property; text alerts are coming online, she said.

Baker said recent prosecutions have resulted in jail sentences for two people in the last eight weeks and that the recorder’s office is working with the county prosecutor on prosecutions. She described other recorder programs — transfer‑on‑death recording (designed to pass property directly to named heirs on death), a free notary service and a veterans’ ID card program — and asked the commission and staff to publicize the services. Baker provided the office phone number, (937) 225‑4275, and the recorder’s website, www.mcrecorder.org, for residents seeking information.

Mayor Mims and others thanked Baker; Commissioner Joseph noted he and his family had received fraud alerts and described the program as effective. Baker left printed materials for the commission office and offered to answer follow‑up questions.

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City staff and Dayton Energy Collaborative officials described a multi‑year grant program funded through AES that will support low‑income homeowners and residents by coordinating home‑repair and weatherization services, adding staff capacity for resident outreach and providing gap‑repair funds that enable weatherization work to proceed.

Leila Klein, Bloomberg Innovation Team director in the city’s sustainability office, told commissioners the city obtained a $7.8 million disadvantaged‑communities grant through AES. The City’s role includes providing backbone support to the Dayton Energy Collaborative. Klein said the amount to Dayton Energy Collaborative from the grant totals about $1,680,000 over three years, with year‑one funding of about $345,000. The grant will double Dayton Energy Collaborative staff who help residents complete a single “universal” application and coordinate partner services from organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together Dayton and Miami Valley Community Action Partnership.

Klein described the grant’s use of “gap funding” to address health‑and‑safety barriers — for example pest control or hoarder cleanouts — that can block weatherization projects. She said the grant will also fund a pilot to better serve tenants (many repair programs focus on owner‑occupied homes) and a contractor database intended to help smaller and minority‑owned contracting firms compete for repair work.

Commissioners asked how the initiative aligns with the city’s housing committee work and how departments coordinate program delivery; Klein and staff said the sustainability office is working with the planning, neighborhood and development department and other partners and offered to provide further information to commissioners. Commissioner Fairchild and Commissioner Shaw praised the collaboration and the grant’s potential to make energy‑efficiency and home‑repair dollars more accessible to disadvantaged residents. The city manager’s recommendations — which included a $75,000 CDBG‑funded grant agreement with WestCare Ohio Inc. for East End Youth Development and other calendar items — were approved by voice vote after the presentation.

What the grant will do: Klein said the AES award will pay Dayton Energy Collaborative to convene partners, expand application navigation services for residents, fund gap repairs that unlock weatherization work, pilot tenant‑targeted services and support contractor capacity building for underrepresented firms.

Next steps: City staff will move forward with the grant administration and distribute funds to network partners through the regular CDBG and program delivery processes. City leaders said staff will report back with implementation details and coordination plans for the housing committee and other stakeholders.

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The motion to submit “Ordinance No. 32152‑25” (as read into the record) — described by supporters as a proposal to place a 1‑mill levy before city voters to fund a public hospital — failed on a roll-call vote: Mayor Jeffery Mims and Commissioner Turner Sloss voted yes; Commissioner Joseph and Commissioner Shaw voted no; Commissioner Fairchild abstained. Commissioner Regina Blackshear had presented an amended clerk’s report on the citizen initiative earlier in the meeting, which the commission approved before the subsequent motion to submit the levy to voters.

Supporters of the ballot measure addressed the commission during the public‑comment period. Bishop Richard Cox urged commissioners to “let the voters decide” and stressed the initiative’s benefits for disabled and underinsured residents, saying, “We appeal to your compassion.” Pastor Rodney Carter and several other speakers similarly urged the commission to put the measure before voters. Nancy Keel (spelled in the record variously as Kiel/Keel) said petitioners have collected about 5,500 signatures so far and described distrust among some residents about participating in the process. At the meeting’s end Keel said organizers planned a new 20‑day signature drive to collect 1,250 valid City of Dayton resident signatures between July 24 and August 11 to refile the measure with the city.

Commissioners who opposed putting the levy on the ballot said the proposal lacked key details. Commissioner Joseph and Commissioner Shaw said they had not seen a clear site, complete funding plan or formalized outside partnerships that would be required to build and operate a hospital. In his remarks, Commissioner Shaw said the levy funding cited by supporters was “woefully insufficient” and warned that if the city were forced to fill any long‑term funding gaps, it could jeopardize core municipal services. Shaw also expressed concern that a high‑profile ballot fight could harm passage of an unrelated human‑services levy on upcoming ballots.

The commission had approved the clerk’s amended review and report of the citizen‑initiative petition earlier in the meeting; that administrative step cleared an amended petition for consideration by the commission but did not itself place the question on the ballot.

After the vote, several speakers told the commission they would pursue the citizen‑petition route. Nancy Keel told the audience the organizers would begin collecting the required 1,250 valid signatures and provided contact information and a plan for collection from July 24 to August 11.

The commission’s action does not eliminate the initiative: Ohio law and the organizers’ stated plan allow petitioners to collect signatures and refile to place the measure before voters if they meet the legal signature threshold.

What happens next: Petitioners said they will begin a 20‑day signature drive immediately. The commission did not set any additional hearings or take further steps on the proposal at the July 23 meeting.

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