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Gov. Kasich to sign JobsOhio bill on Friday
Governor applauds legislature for passing jobs plan
By John Nolan Staff Writer

DAYTON — Gov. John Kasich, in office just five weeks, praised the Ohio General Assembly’s approval on Wednesday of legislation to create JobsOhio, a private economic-development agency Kasich says is needed to create jobs in a state trying to overcome years of job losses.

“I will be signing it soon,” the governor said shortly after addressing the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce’s board of trustees in downtown Dayton. “It’s a terrific victory for the people of Ohio.”

The Ohio Senate and House both passed legislation to create JobsOhio, which would take over economic development functions from what Kasich describes as a “calcified” Ohio Department of Development. The Dayton Chamber’s board had endorsed the legislation and “we stand ready to assist you,” board chairman Jim Pancoast told Kasich.

Both the GOP-controlled legislative chambers, working quickly with the Republican governor, passed the bill with amendments that lawmakers said are intended to improve transparency, ethics and accountability.

They include specifications that public and private funds cannot be combined at JobsOhio; mandate that agency directors, officers and “certain employees” file ethics disclosure statements required of university trustees in Ohio, and prohibit bribery of JobsOhio board members, officers or employees.

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