{"id":36458,"date":"2022-06-13T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:43:48","slug":"riedel-mccolley-support-capital-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/riedel-mccolley-support-capital-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Riedel & McColley Support Capital Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Antwerp Village & Paulding Village Slated to Receive Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Representative Craig Riedel (R-Defiance) and State Senator Rob McColley (R-Napoleon) have supported the passing of House Bill 687, the state capital budget, which will provide funding for local projects throughout Ohio and within the 82nd House District. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capital budget focuses on the most pressing needs of state government, schools, and economic development within Ohio\u2019s communities.  It is a collaborative process involving state and local leaders, the economic development community, the arts community, and others to provide guidance on local investments, while balancing the state\u2019s need for fiscal restraint and responsibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation will also make appropriations that will fund the following district projects: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Kingsbury Riverfront Park will receive $150,000 for upgrades to the park;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Paulding County Park District will receive $14,500 to install a new floating pier, improve access to the Auglaize River and installation of swings overlooking the Maumee River near Cecil ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Penny Nature Center will receive $50,000 for drainage, bridge and parking lot improvements;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Girl Scouts of Western Ohio will receive $250,000 for renovations at Camp Libbey;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Village of Antwerp will receive $125,000 for the construction of the Holly Kobee Memorial Splash Pad;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Village of Paulding will receive $50,000 for improvements to Leila McGuire Jeffrey Park;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Paulding County will receive $25,000 for lighting improvements at the fairgrounds;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Van Wert Niswonger Performing Arts Center will receive $150,000 to complete work on the annex workshop;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Village of Middle Point will receive $150,000 to convert an abandoned building into a community center;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Village of Convoy will receive $31,000 for the restoration of the Convoy Opera House Annex;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Friends of the St. Marys Theater and Grand Opera House will receive $500,000 to restore the St. Marys Grand Opera House;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The Armstrong Air and Space Museum will receive $100,000 for updates <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 Auglaize County will receive $50,000 for parking lot improvements;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022 The City of Wapakoneta will receive $50,000 for the construction of a playground at the waterpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation also provides more than $100 million for Ohio school safety grants, which will help public and private schools address local building security needs, $600 million for public school building construction, renovation and repairs and $400 million for the Public Works Commission to help communities with local road, bridge and water projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This legislation passed the Ohio House and Ohio Senate Wednesday, June 1, 2022 and now heads to the Governor for his consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antwerp Village & Paulding Village Slated to Receive Funds State Representative Craig Riedel (R-Defiance) and State Senator Rob McColley (R-Napoleon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,6,11],"tags":[14742,14738,4747,14741,14743,14736,14739,14744,8835,14740,12545,14745,2648,5160],"class_list":["post-36458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-community","category-community","category-government-legal","tag-camp-libbey","tag-capital-budget","tag-craig-riedel","tag-girl-scouts-of-western-ohio","tag-holly-kobee-memorial-splash-pad","tag-house-bill-687","tag-kingsbury-riverfront-park","tag-leila-mcguire-jeffrey-park","tag-paulding-county-park-district","tag-penny-nature-center","tag-rob-mccolley","tag-van-wert-niswonger-performing-arts-center","tag-village-of-antwerp","tag-village-of-paulding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DJI_0670-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-9u2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 10:18:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}