Public Law in Practice - Ohio's New Tool to Fund Erosion Control Projects

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

McDonald Hopkins Event

Webcast Only

Record high water levels are causing millions of dollars of damage to lakeshore properties. In some cases the damage is so extensive that without repair and mitigation projects, homeowners are in jeopardy of losing their residences. Thankfully, in 2019 the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation to allow lakefront homeowners to create special improvement districts (“SIDs”) to voluntarily assess their property to create funding for erosion control projects. This funding is repaid through the assessment. Now, here in 2021, the Ohio General Assembly is in the finals stages of extending the special improvement legislation to all the watersheds in the state.

In this one-hour webinar presented by McDonald Hopkins Public Law Practice Group, McDonald Hopkins attorneys Amanda Gordon and Mike Wise will be joined by Lake County Administrator Jason Boyd and Vice President/Area Manager for Lake County of ERIEBANK, Tim Flenner, to describe the new funding and how it can be accessed.

Last month the Ohio Supreme Court appeared to have settled a question as to whether public bodies found to have violated the Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22 — the statute that generally requires public bodies to deliberate and make decisions out in the open — may cure their violations by simply redoing in the open what they failed to do in the first place.

The Ohio Senate continues to consider whether to adopt a measure advanced nearly unanimously by the Ohio House that would authorize many public bodies to conduct meetings virtually.

The Ohio Supreme Court determined that a township’s mailing and email lists, used for the purposes of distributing newsletters to residents and businesses, were subject to the Public Records Act, R.C. 149.43

Public Law in Practice - Ohio's New Tool to Fund Erosion Control Projects

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