Subject: SB 161, more appointed positions, additional monetary losses, and will the will of a few affect the wallets of many Ohioans?

From John Curry, June 17, 2007
Subject: SB 161, more appointed positions, additional monetary losses, and will the will of a few affect the wallets of many Ohioans?
Ohio Senate Bill 161 also includes the proposal below. So much for controlling state government costs! The sponsors of SB 161 want created a new advisory "Council" which also includes their actual and "necessary" expenses incurred in the performance of their duties!! Can anyone say g-l-o-b-e-t-r-o-t-t-i-n-g, e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e m-e-a-l-s, and f-a-n-c-y a-c-c-o-m-o-d-a-t-i-o-n-s? We retirees of STRS know exactly how this can happen, don't we?

Misery does love company however and - this bill also applies to just more than state retirement funds. Will the good intentions of a few uninformed individulas in high places cause Ohio's citizens AND governments hundreds of millions of dollars - if not more? It kinda' looks that way, doesn't it?

John

Sec. 137.02. There is hereby created the Sudan council consisting of nine members. The governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each appoint three members to the council and shall make initial appointments to the council within thirty days after the effective date of this section.

Council members shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as council members. If any event described in section 137.10 of the Revised Code occurs, the council shall be abolished thirty days after the event occurs.