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Butler County Finance Authority details tools to spur redevelopment, workforce links

5938748 · October 14, 2025
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Joshua Smith, president and CEO of the Butler County Finance Authority, told the Butler County Commissioners the authority has created funding tools and partnerships intended to unlock redevelopment, workforce connections and airport-related economic opportunities across the county.

Joshua Smith, president and CEO of the Butler County Finance Authority, presented a 2025 update to the Butler County Commissioners outlining the authority’s recent tools, partnerships and priorities.

Smith said the authority’s vision is “to achieve economic resilience by connecting capital to mission, people to opportunity, and ideas to impact,” and described a set of financing and coordination efforts intended to revitalize underused sites and better link training programs to jobs.

The Butler County Finance Authority (BCFA) has established a jobs and development bond fund and formed the Southwest Ohio Improvement Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, Smith said. He told commissioners the U.S. Department of the Treasury granted BCFA certified development entity status,…

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