Candidates petition for fall ballot
Getting started early takes away pressure when deadline nears.
Prospective candidates are circulating petitions in races for councils, mayors, school boards and more in Warren County for the November election.
The filing deadline to get on the Nov. 5 ballot is Aug. 7, except in communities such as Franklin and Waynesville, where local charters give candidates longer — until Aug. 22 this year.
Those who have at least pulled petitions range from veterans with decades of campaign experience to newcomers contemplating a run for public office for the first time.
In Warren County, Springboro Mayor John Agenbroad said he was seeking re-election for the seventh time.
“It’s already signed. I’m ready to turn it in,” Agenbroad said last week.
Agenbroad was among the earliest, pulling his petitions on Jan. 24, according to election board records. He said he gets them signed early in the election season, regardless of whether he expects a challenge in November.
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“If we hadn’t got that, we couldn’t have moved forward,” Matson said. “We’ve put all our eggs in one basket. This will be the perfect location. All we need is the money to make it work.”
The food pantry must move out of their current location by May of next year to accommodate the board of elections, which will be using the space for storage of equipment and other items, county officials said.
Matson said people sometimes think the pantry sells seafood because of “Fish” in the pantry’s name, but it’s an acronym: Friendship in Service to Humanity.
The pantry served 24,500 people, representing 7,840 families, in 2018.
Twenty percent of the total funds will also be used to support Fair Housing and Administration, says a release from the Greene County Department of Development.
CDBG funding is provided every two years, and the allotment increased for Greene County by $9,000 compared to 2017, said Kristie Tidd, GCDOD manager.
The housing and urban development funds are distributed based on HUD thresh-holds for the entire county’s low- to moderate-income population, Tidd said.
The grants typically get distributed by Sept. 1 and the majority of the funded projects will start early next year, Tidd said.
A second public hearing is set for Thursday, when commissioners are expected to vote on the allocations, according to County Administrator Brandon Huddleson.
“Commissioners carefully considered the five requests before them and only had enough allocated funding from the state to accommodate four of the projects,” Huddleson said.