Join Lake County Commissioners Robert Aufuldish, Raymond Sines, and Daniel Troy and County Engineer James Gills for "A Great Lake Experience" at the 128th CCAO/CEAO Annual Summer Conference to be held June 8-10, 2008 at the Renaissance Quail Hollow Resort in Concord.  Geographically, Lake County is the smallest of Ohio's 88 counties with magnificant coastal and country vistas.  Some of the most unique features are the 31 miles of shoreline and two major rivers flowing through the county that provide harbors and marinas for shipping and superb recreational opportunities.  Large national and regional companies call Lake County home. 

CCAO, along with the OJFSDA, PCSAO, and OCDA, signed on to a letter that will be sent to President George W. Bush and Health & Human Services Director Michael Leavitt encouraging them to reconsider their 2007 directive that prohibits states from increasing eligibility under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  This directive prevents Ohio from instituting the increases approved in the most recent budget bill.

In the last biennial budget bill, counties became sub-recipients of federal human service funds.  To implement this sub-recipient relationship and continue receiving human service funds, counties, including commissioenrs, must sign a subgrant agreement sent out by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.  CCAO has drafted a model resolution commissioners may use to approve this signing. 

Since 2005, the CCAO Low Cost Capital Loan Program has offered Ohio counties a cost effective and efficient vehicle for funding their capital projects.  The Program lends funds to participating counties using standardized documents and a closing process.  Pooling the needs of counties reduces the pro-rata share of traditional borrowing costs.  Counties have access to major insituitonal buyers, which might not be available to them if they issued debt directly.  The unique reservation feature permits borrowers to request funds that are held until they need them.  Contact Amber Burke, Associate, RBC Capital Markets, Inc., at (513) 826-0583 or amber.burke@rnccm.com.

This paper summarizes the losses in revenue for four classes of local governments caused by the repeal of the general personal property tax and the telephone company personal property tax.  The summary shows the losses by type of tax levy for four different classes of local government: counties, municipalities, special districts, and townships.  Charts are included that reflect the impact on each county.  The summary does not apply in any way to tax losses of school districts or joint vocational school districts.