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    The Republican-controlled state budget panel approved a request from the Kasich Administration to use $15 million from the state's severance tax fund to pay off a lawsuit settlement for landowners in Grand Lake St. Marys. This fund is normally used for oil and gas drilling needs in impacted coal communities. Democrats objected that this amounted to an improper cash grab from Eastern Ohio communities. The settlement had been in the works for almost a decade, and Democrats argued the state should have properly planned for it rather than taking the money from other communities.

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    The Republican-controlled state budget panel approved a request from the Kasich Administration to use $15 million from the state's severance tax fund to pay off a lawsuit settlement for landowners in Grand Lake St. Marys. This fund is normally used for oil and gas drilling needs in impacted coal communities. Democrats objected that this amounted to an improper cash grab from Eastern Ohio communities. The settlement had been in the works for almost a decade, and Democrats argued the state should have properly planned for it rather than taking the money from other communities.

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    The Republican-controlled state budget panel approved a request from the Kasich Administration to use $15 million from the state's severance tax fund to pay off a lawsuit settlement for landowners in Grand Lake St. Marys. This fund is normally used for oil and gas drilling needs in impacted coal communities. Democrats objected that this amounted to an improper cash grab from Eastern Ohio communities. The settlement had been in the works for almost a decade, and Democrats argued the state should have properly planned for it rather than taking the money from other communities.

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    State raids severance tax fund to pay off unrelated Grand Lake St.

    Marys lawsuit settlement


    Dems object to $15 million state budget cash-grab from impacted Eastern Ohio
    communities
    Over objections from the lead Democrat state After almost ten years to plan for a lawsuit
    Controlling Board member Rep. Jack Cera (D- settlement in the western part of Ohio, I believe
    Bellaire), the Republican-controlled panel tasked state officials failed to responsibly plan for the
    with oversight of state future and instead are
    spending recently approved robbing coal communities of
    a Kasich Administration what is rightfully theirs.
    request to pay off a Grand This funding was supposed
    Lake St. Marys landowners to be used to put people
    lawsuit against the state back to work at good-
    using severance tax paying jobs that can sustain
    revenue from the Ohio a family and let citizens
    Department of Natural plan for their futures.
    Resources oil and gas fund.
    The proposal was slipped The settlement comes on
    into the state budget at the the heels of the state
    eleventh hour with little public debate. budget vote. Rep. Cera tried to amend the budget
    to dedicate at least $10 million in severance tax
    I believe lawmakers should be held accountable for money for infrastructure repairs and related
    resorting to one-time cash-grabs and shell games services in Eastern Ohio communities. However, his
    to prop up a budget that apparently missed the efforts were defeated along party lines.
    mark. This move sheds new light on what I feel are
    dangerous and dishonest financial tricks Republican Cera, also the lead Democratic member on the
    lawmakers in Ohio will play to bolster political House budget committee, has been an outspoken
    talking points. advocate on the need to return severance tax
    revenue to local communities in Eastern Ohio for
    The move to pay off the almost decade-old lawsuit job training, safety and infrastructure
    makes use of some $15 million in severance tax improvements and economic development.
    funds that are normally required to be used for oil
    and gas drilling needs in impacted coal I believe this multi-million-dollar cash grab by the
    communities. Republican state lawmakers state shows where Columbus politicians priorities
    previously transferred $10 million from the same are not with hardworking taxpayers and property
    fund to prop up the state budget shortfall in early owners in Ohio.
    1
    June.

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    http://www.lsc.ohio.gov/fiscal/bid132/budgetindetail-hb49-
    en-with-fy2017actuals.pdf

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