JobsOhio Launches
Governor Kasich’s signature jobs program has been shovel-ready for some time. Yesterday, it passed the final stop gap before becoming law by securing the necessary contracts before the bipartisan Ohio Controlling Board.
Controlling Board is an arm of the Office of Budget and Management, created to be the final probe into requests for government expenditure. As such, it is staffed evenly by representatives and senators from both sides of the aisle, and guarantees a measure of impartiality for matters of taxpayer moneys.
As is their purpose, the Board raised some questions about Jobs Ohio yesterday, and rightly so. The strategy is brand new – the structure is foreign to state government as it is outside of any example from existing practice – this is an innovation.
Now that the plan is laid, the i’s are dotted and the t’s crossed, let’s commit to helping this innovation take root in our state, and sew fertile ground for job creation and prosperity here at home.