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Fri. 9:30 p.m.: Transit amendment removed from transportation bill

WARREN – A provision in the transportation budget bill crafted by local transportation officials and a local senator opposed by some senior groups, including the Ohio Association of Senior Centers, was removed from the bill before the Ohio Senate approved its version.

Ohio Sen. Sean O’Brien, D-Bazetta, worked on the amendment with Trumbull Transit mobility manager Michael Verich and Trumbull Transit contractor Terry Thomas, owner of Community Bus Services, in response to questions raised about the legality of using money raised in senior levies to leverage money for a transportation system that benefits other groups of people, and not just seniors.

The amendment to the transportation bill would have been “permissive,” approving a practice already being used in Trumbull County, O’Brien said.

But, the law was introduced while Trumbull County commissioners were waiting to hear from the Ohio Attorney General if the practice in Trumbull County is even legal even though it has been ongoing since the county system was formed in 2011.

Read more in Saturday’s Tribune Chronicle.

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