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State Rep. Karen Brownlee urges local advocacy as House budget shifts funding and cannabis revenue rules
Summary
State Rep. Karen Brownlee, who represents District 28, told the Springdale City Council on April 16 that recent changes in the state House budget and to marijuana excise revenue threaten local government and school funding and urged residents and the council to contact legislators.
Karen Brownlee, state representative for District 28, told the Springdale City Council on April 16 that recent moves in the Ohio House budget and proposals for marijuana excise revenue could reduce funding for local governments, schools and libraries.
Brownlee, a Democrat, said she is working across the aisle in a House controlled by a two-thirds Republican supermajority but warned that changes in the operating budget could shift money from localities to the state. “The change from evidence-based funding formulas to unvetted line-item funding for schools and public libraries in the current House budget does not create simplicity for local government,” Brownlee said.
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