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Lorain County public commenters press commissioners on school budget losses and JFS labor dispute
Summary
School board leaders and Job and Family Services employees used public comment to urge the commissioners to reconsider an expanded homestead exemption that reduced local school revenue and to return to the bargaining table with JFS workers, who said staffing shortages and remote-work policies are harming clients.
A string of public commenters at the Lorain County commissioners meeting on March 13 pressed elected officials on two intertwined issues: cuts to school funding tied to the county's homestead property tax changes and an ongoing Job and Family Services (JFS) labor dispute.
Courtney Nazario, president of the Lorain City Schools board, told commissioners the district has cut 24% of its total budget in recent years and that in the last 10 months it lost about $6.4 million in combined state, federal and local funding; she said roughly $1 million of that loss came from Lorain County's expansion of the homestead exemption and urged the board to reconsider the policy before 2027. Nazario invited…
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