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Ghanbari Supports Significant CARES Act Funding for Wood County Communities

September 23, 2020
Haraz N. Ghanbari News

State Rep. Haraz N. Ghanbari (R-Perrysburg) voted today to support House Bill 614, which appropriates $650 million in CARES Act funding to counties, municipalities and townships to help them with the COVID-19 response.

“I’ve had countless conversations with residents and officials throughout Wood County to better understand the financial burdens from COVID-19,” said Ghanbari. “As a result I worked closely with my colleagues on the Finance Committee and in the Ohio Legislature to secure this pandemic relief and guarantee our local governments, townships and villages have the resources they need during these trying times.”

The funding is for COVID-19 pandemic-related expenses incurred by local governments between March 1 and the end of 2020 while unused dollars will be returned to the state.

The allocations for Wood County local governments includes the following:

  • Wood County -  $4,714,088
  • Bairdstown village -  $4,829
  • Bloomdale village -  $24,612
  • Bowling Green -  $1,135,270
  • Bradner village -  $36,684
  • Custar village -  $6,631
  • Cygnet village -  $22,270
  • Fostoria -  $39,243
  • Grand Rapids village -  $36,180
  • Haskins village -  $44,576
  • Hoytville village -  $11,423
  • Jerry City village -  $15,712
  • Luckey village -  $37,621
  • Millbury village -  $44,937
  • Milton Center village -  $5,261
  • North Baltimore village -  $127,747
  • Northwood city -  $195,818
  • Pemberville village -  $51,171
  • Perrysburg -  $779,309
  • Portage village -  $17,297
  • Risingsun village -  $22,666
  • Rossford -  $236,467
  • Tontogany village -  $13,766
  • Walbridge village - $113,621
  • Wayne village -  $33,189
  • West Millgrove village -  $6,342
  • Weston village -  $59,351
  • Bloom township -  $37,513
  • Center township -  $44,792
  • Freedom township -  $50,486
  • Grand Rapids township -  $23,928
  • Henry township -  $28,360
  • Jackson township -  $18,306
  • Lake township -  $253,728
  • Liberty township -  $61,765
  • Middleton township -  $122,522
  • Milton township -  $24,540
  • Montgomery township -  $65,765
  • Perry township -  $53,441
  • Perrysburg township -  $466,519
  • Plain township -  $61,369
  • Portage township -  $40,540
  • Troy township -  $107,423
  • Washington township -  $55,171
  • Webster township -  $47,964
  • Weston township -  $27,964

Ghanbari also voted for Senate Bill 310 back in June, which provided continued capital reappropriations financing and federal COVID-19 relief funding to local governments and higher education institutions.

House Bill 614 will also improve Ohio’s unemployment compensation system. Due to COVID-19, the unemployment compensation system was completely overwhelmed by the mass amounts of unemployment claims filed by Ohioans. The legislation creates the Unemployment Compensation Modernization and Improvement Council to evaluate the claim filing process and technological infrastructure.

The legislation contains an emergency clause and will be effective immediately upon the Governor’s signature.