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A nice amount for UT from the state.

http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2016/04...unty.print

Quote:“We saw a 30 percent decrease in capital funding, but so did all the other metro areas. They wanted to put more funding out in the rural areas,” Ms. Gramza said. “We were aware that was going to happen.

“We actually feel pretty good about the levels,” Ms. Gramza said.

Glad to see UT got some needed funds. I wonder how they feel about what they received.

From what I've been seeing on TV the past several months, it looks like Wood Co. needs to build a prison.

New HVAC and a just recently remodeled Snyder and a not so old N. Eng? The network backbone was also redone not so long ago (or maybe time is passing faster than I think). Not much in the way of value added in the University's bid that I can see. Maybe they get so few relative dollars because they're not doing much with it? Still, that's a lot for Summit and Mahoney, basically the same place. Somebody got an offer....

This kind of crap is why I hate Ohio State. 50% of capital budget for CbusOSU and the rest for every one else

However it is also possible that we did not ask for anything exciting

Money for a downtown music hall is just government subsidized government. Dollars used to buy that building should be paying off debt on the baseball stadium but the county commissioners stole the money the last time the hens tried to do that so the extra money has been buying warehouses and hockey team and now an old bank for a music hall

Glad I don't t pay taxes there anymore

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/...udget.html

COSI. eyeroll

. The Ohio State University main campus is in line for nearly $82 million in capital funding.

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(04-13-2016 08:33 PM)indianasniff Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/...udget.html

COSI. eyeroll

. The Ohio State University main campus is in line for nearly $82 million in capital funding.

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It makes common sense seem an unwinnable battle.

Indiana, Michigan, Penn, all have higher rated state universities that for the most part, did it on their own. C-Bus St took another path. They decided to have a 50,000 student community college, which over the decades was able to use their mediocrity to grab political advantage by numbers, not quality and it's become a self-feeding system. They are desperate to have OSU mentioned in the same breath as Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, Penn St, they think they can buy their way to the top and they probably can.

I guess congrats are in order. The rest of the state stood by and let it happen. At some point though, the state trustees should have recognized that C-Bus had the momentum to continue growth without state welfare and moved that money to grow the regions.

Looking over the bills it looks like UT got everything they asked for. Overall, Lucas county asked for $53M, and only got $26. Things that didn't make it were big ticket items in department of corrections and department of mental health.

Overall higher ed got $537M. Yes OSU got the biggest chunk of that at nearly $100M, but if weighted by student enrollment it doesn't look as far out of bed. Cinci got $53M. Most of the other schools in the $20some million range. Plus there is money for the community colleges and tech schools too.

Also, not reported typically is that these numbers are just the earmarked dollars. There's close to $2B in the budget that isn't earmarked to a particular location, for school construction, roads, etc. etc. some portion of which will come back to Lucas.

If you want to see what all the Universities got, see: http://www.lsc.ohio.gov/fiscal/capitalbu...ed/bor.pdf