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Governor Signs Capital Budget

Jo Ingles

Ohio Governor John Kasich has signed the 2.6 billion dollar capital budget bill, which covers state spending on infrastructure, colleges and universities, and community projects for the coming two years. 

Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports.

 

Kasich says this capital budget provides needed money for roads, bridges, schools and the opioid crisis. He says this budget is fiscally solid and the state is better off than when he took the helm in 2011.

We were a fiscal wreck. A fiscal wreck. We were $8 billion in the hole.”

Many Democrats argue that number. Kasich’s first capital budget didn’t include money for community projects. But this one includes 150 million dollar for local projects, along with funding for a state park in Eastern Ohio, improvements to Lake Erie, and a new mental health hospital in Columbus.

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