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Sign up en-us jsweigart@coxohio.com 2009-07-03T10:52:44-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/07/03/dixon_cries_foul_over_softball.html It appears that not even the great American pastime is safe as Butler County leaders leave no rock unturned in trying to fill a $6 million budget hole. Commission President Donald Dixon took issue Thursday evening, July 2, with a... 13677603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ County Commission 2009-07-03T10:52:44-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/30/county_commissioners_to_meet_i.html Press release from Butler County: The Butler County Board of Commissioners will hold a commission meeting at the New Miami Village Hall on July 2 at 7:00 P.M. To encourage citizen participation, the Board of Commissioners will hold one nightly... 13619303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ County Commission 2009-06-30T09:36:01-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/29/becker_bumped_from_ema_list.html The Butler County Emergency Management Agency has narrowed down the list of applicants for agency director to two — both from outside Ohio. The finalists are Jeff Galloway, emergency management director in Fentress County, Tennessee; and Joey Henderson, emergency management... 13612703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Emergency Management Agency 2009-06-29T17:59:12-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/26/resolutions_part_12_county_aud.html Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds has some major concerns with the amount of work done without a contract, and architectural work that apparently was finished months before it was bid out. This was all uncovered in an ongoing investigation of... 13554403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Resolutions 2009-06-26T12:00:00-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/25/children_services_names_new_di.html Several developments today from Butler County commissioners regarding Butler County Children Services. First, they picked a new director (read the full story here): Butler County commissioners named Jeff Centers as director of Children Services today, June 25. Centers has served... 13558303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Children Services 2009-06-25T15:30:00-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/25/resolutions_part_11_the_sherif.html As I said in yesterday’s post, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones was unavailable for in-depth questions about the county’s relationship with Resolutions, Community Solutions. But here is a synopsis of what his second in command said: It’s misleading to... 13536503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Resolutions 2009-06-25T12:00:00-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/24/irs_calls_tax_rules_obsolete_s.html Despite calling the rule “burdensome” and “obsolete,” Internal Revenue Service officials don’t appear to be letting Butler County officials off the hook for employee back-taxes for personal use of county equipment. The county has set aside $400,000 to pay this... 13536103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Butler County 2009-06-24T13:26:46-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/24/resolutions_part_10_no_comment.html Throughout the process of investigating Butler County’s relationship with the nonprofit Resolutions, Community Solutions, I put in several phone calls to Steve Best, vice president of Resolutions. Best oversaw renovation of the county’s Court Street jail with little county oversight,... 13512103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Resolutions 2009-06-24T12:00:00-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/24/author_advocates_community_inv.html From this story: Marcus Fiesel would be 6 years old Wednesday, June 24, had he lived. Instead, the young Middletown boy died in a closet where his foster parents left him bound in the August heat while they attended a... 13528403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Children Services 2009-06-24T09:47:41-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/23/libraries_warn_of_steep_cuts.html Notice from Lane Public Library in Hamilton: Proposed Cuts to State Funding for Libraries Your Library needs your help! Governor Strickland has proposed a 50 percent reduction in state funding for Ohio’s public libraries. This drastic proposal, if adopted by... 13515803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ 2009-06-23T15:38:03-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/23/resolutions_part_9_the_kimball.html In the process of reviewing expenditures for renovations at Butler County’s Court Street jail — which was done by Resolutions, Community Solutions without a bid or contract — I came across this invoice: It makes more sense if you read it back... 13510703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Resolutions 2009-06-23T11:46:39-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/22/resolutions_part_8_political_c.html Rumor was that Jean Glowka and Steve Best, president and vice president, respectively of Resolutions, Community Solutions, were big campaign contributors to local Butler County commissioners. This would be necessary to determine in the context of an investigation I’m working... 13498603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Resolutions 2009-06-22T18:06:48-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/20/bloody_gop_battle_averted.html By announcing this week he will not run for U.S. Congress, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones averted an epic political battle some worried would have split GOP ranks. Butler County Republican Party Chairman Tom Ellis breathed a sigh of... 13463903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ 2009-06-20T07:30:00-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/19/county_interviewing_for_childr.html UPDATE: The finalists for director of Butler County Children Services, according to county officials: Jeff Centers Bill Morrison Darlene Campbell Charles Lindeman Peter Samples Shana Trent ORIGINAL POST: Looks like Butler County commissioners have narrowed down the list of candidates... 13462203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ Children Services 2009-06-19T15:06:43-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/entries/2009/06/19/boehner_fights_house_battle_qu.html U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner was silent yesterday about news that Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones will not challenge him for his job. Here’s what he was up to yesterday:... 13462103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlercountynews/ 2009-06-19T15:02:26-04:00 jsweigart@coxohio.com