BUSINESS AWARDS

Dayton Metro Library was recently recognized by the Miami Valley Community Action Partnership with its Outstanding Partner award. Business Services Librarian Ann Riegle-Crichton accepted the award at a ceremony held on May 25, 2018.

“We’ve been hosting the CAP ‘Getting Ahead’ classes at the Main Library since last fall,” said Riegle-Crichton. “I’m glad that we’re able to accommodate them from a workforce development standpoint, and help toprovide thismuch- needed service to their class participants.”

“Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin’ByWorld” isa16-week course that gives participants the tools to overcome poverty by building their resources foramoreprosperous life for themselves, their families, andtheir communities. LaVar Glover, Self-Suffificiency Director for CAP, is co-facilitator.

Riegle- Crichton also recently accepted the Dayton Chamber of Commerce Volunteer of the Quarter award, for being an active Chambers upporter and of ff ff ff ff ff fe ring numerous partnership opportunities that support the business community at large.

For more information about the Library’s services, materials and programsfor business andworkforce development, contact Ann Riegle-Crichton at 937496-8631 or email ARiegle@ Dayton Metro Library. org.

It’s not often property assessments receive national attention. Montgomery County Auditor Karl Keith earned a prestigious 2018 AchievementAward fromthe National Association of Coun- ties (NACo) for the community outreach performed on behalf of his offiffice’s 2017 update of property values.

Keith’s “Back on Track” community engagement campaign received the Achievement Award in the civic education and public information category for increasing propertyowners’ understanding of the property valuation process and encouraging their participation in that process.

Montgomery County was one of only four Ohio counties to receive an AchievementAward, andone of only 116 counties nationwide.

The community engagement campaign involved reaching property owners through a number of different methods, including video advertising, community presentations, news stories, mailednotices, a phone hotlineandone-on-oneproperty value reviewmeetings. The Auditor’s Office estimates that it reached county property owners an average of four times each over the course of the yearlong campaign.

Property owners took advantage of multiple opportunities to provide their own input as part of the property value update process. More than 7,000 individuals called the Auditor’ s Off iffi ce Property Owner Hotline to ask questions or provide new informationabout their property. Of those, more than 3,300 property owners scheduled a one-on-one property value review meeting to review and appeal their newvalue. Finally, more than 2,700 fifiled formal property value appeals earlier this year.