Should Government Employees be Involved in Politics?
Between the national news of angry mobs in D.C. and the local news that Nan Whaley will not run for reelection, an interesting piece in the Dayton Daily News may have escaped your attention. Mohamed Al-Hamdani, Dayton Public School Board President and member of the...
Heck Uses Bonuses to Circumvent Ohio Administrative Code
In our coverage of the bonus scandal from the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, we first looked at how Mat Heck has provided bonuses averaging $8,851.35 to employees in 2020. Then we looked at Heck’s history of graft and previous reports that called him out for...
Decades of Graft by Mat Heck
Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein commenting on executive bonuses for the Dayton Development Coalition: Mar 3, 2014 To pay somebody 25 percent of their salary just because they did the work they were supposed to be doing for their salary never seems to line up...
Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office Siphons Budget Surpluses for Large Employee Bonuses
According to employee bonus letters acquired by Reconstructing Dayton through a public records request, Montgomery County employees receive large bonuses at the end of each year with money that would otherwise go back to the county. These are not normal sized bonuses....
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Next week is Christmas and it will be an odd one. Gatherings will be smaller, less festive, and there won’t be as many gifts. If you were told a year ago that a pandemic would cripple our economy and shut down businesses, schools, and services, would you believe...
Let’s Flip the Script on the County Auditor
Wouldn’t it be great if the auditor’s job was to determine how much money you save rather than how much money you owe? Taxes are all backwards in America. For example, in most countries income taxes are processed automatically and individuals don’t have to worry about...
Property Taxes: An Example of Everything Wrong with Local Government
But, we’ve always done things this way… Why do we make things so complicated? That question drives much of the work at Reconstructing Dayton. Properties values in Montgomery County will increase 15% after the most recent round of revaluation by Auditor...
Support H.B. 305 to Fix Ohio Schools
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed H.B. 305, which will change the way that Ohio schools are funded, and we applaud them for doing so. The bill provides necessary changes to make Ohio public schools more equitable by decreasing a school’s dependence on local...
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