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Hello folks. I'm Fairfield [music]
County Commissioner Steve Davis. This is
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another an opportunity for me to share
some information with you about what's
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going on [music] in the county.
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>> The honors that the county receives,
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I think 21 [music] or so over the last
10 years, and that's just the national
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ones.
Most recently, [music] we've been
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recognized for having a strategic plan.
I think the current plan we're in right
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now goes from 25 [music] to 28. Probably
one of the more interesting things about
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that plan is it's full of stuff that
county commissioners [music]
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aren't required to do under the Ohio
Revised Code.
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You know that Commissioner Lavasci's out
there on workforce [music] development.
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You know Commissioner Fix's out there
trying to get some plan development in
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terms of residential and and
multi-residential housing that that can
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help change that [music] supply and
demand situation that our community's
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been dealing with. You know, I've been
trying to be helpful [music] on transit.
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There's just a tremendous amount in
there in our effort to plan for the
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[music] future and to see that
nationally recognized is really cool.
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The other award we got has to do with
our stop-loss [music] program. One of
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our primary responsibilities to be good
fiscal stewards, and we've all seen the
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[music] 15 and 20% increases in health
insurance costs over the years. And so
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we've worked with our consultants and
our staff in an effort to try to control
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those costs. [music]
Been very successful over the last many
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years in doing that. And this adjustment
to our stop-loss process is [music]
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really helpful fiscally. Employees share
in the cost of their health insurance.
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[music] All of our employees pay 15% of
the total cost of of their health
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insurance. [music] And so keeping those
costs down is also helpful to our
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employees, who by the way have
recognized us as one of the finest
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places [music] to work five years going.
But anyway, we're very sensitive to the
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cost and exposure of our employees for
for that health insurance. So, [music]
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very beneficial to them as well. One of
the things that we've tried to figure
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out in our strategic plan [music] is
there are so many ways that the county
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can be a facilitator
to to enable communication between
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disparate [music] governments. Where our
strategic plan comes in is we've got a
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formal mechanism, an opportunity to
bring these people together [music] and
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to facilitate conversations, to promote
development, to promote plan
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development, [music] and to do the job
for the taxpayers as a whole instead of
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well, this township does this and this
township does that and the county's
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nowhere to be [music] found. We're
trying to put that all together and
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we've been nationally recognized for
doing that. I think one of the reasons
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we [music] we have attacked that
strategic plan issue is you'll see
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things where this state of [music] New
York or this state of California is
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losing population, even some cities in
Ohio losing population. [music]
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Fairfield County, not so. For almost two
decades now, we've been the fourth or
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fifth fastest growing county in the
state of Ohio and accounting for that
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growth and the consequences of that
growth and and trying to deliver for the
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taxpayers, [music]
you need a plan to do that. We got one.
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Well, one of the things that that you
haven't heard from the county [music]
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commissioners and I'm always talking to
people about this, but you cannot go
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back one time in the [music] last 10
years where a county commissioner or Fix
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or Levisy or Davis said, "Hey, we're
[music] going to X, Y, or Z." and then
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you never heard anything about it again.
We generally [music] don't come out and
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say, "Hey, we have an idea." unless we
see our way through to an exciting
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conclusion and a finish. We've been
doing [music] that for years now and
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that's our plan to keep on doing that.
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