A petition by "We, The People" to demand the placement on a State-wide ballot a Constitutional Ballot that will not only return the Local Government Fund to the position that it was at prior to any and all changes as made during the Kasich Administration, but in realization of the extreme negative impact that severe dilutions of the LGF has had on ALL types of local government entities (towns, villages, school districts, mental health aid districts, etc.), and the extreme importance of this LGF to the simple basic operations of local governments, that this Amendment reasonably INCREASE the percentage levels of funding into the resurrected LGF.
Why is this important?
A State Constitutional Amendment to reinstate in full measure the Local Government Fund which has been decimated by Governor Kasich and Republican State Legislators. The decimation of the LGF has forced the vast majority (nearly all) local government entities of ALL types (not just cities, suburbs, towns, etc., but school districts, senior citizen programs, mental health assistance districts, etc.) to take local income tax increases and/or property tax increases to significantly higher levels - just in order to provide basic levels of service - or (especially if tax increase requests have repeatedly failed) to be forced to reduce service levels BELOW that of a basic reasonable level.
