As Gov. Mike DeWine prepares his second state of the state address, we look back at the pledges he made in 2019.
Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
DeWine will deliver his state of the state address Wednesday. We reviewed DeWine's pre-pandemic plans to see which initiatives succeeded, which ones remain in progress and how COVID-19 impacted his agenda. DeWine started his 2019 speech by telling lawmakers Ohio's roads and bridges had been neglected for too long.
. The pandemic pushed prices down to $1.44. But now Ohioans are paying around $4 per gallon because of the war in Ukraine.–at least temporarily–but the governor says local governments still need those dollars. Lawmakers seeded this fund with a modest amount of state dollars before the pandemic, but H2Ohio got a"The focus wasn't on where the funding comes from," Tierney said."But on an agreement to tackle the issue." DeWine asked for millions of wraparound service dollars for K-12 children.
Lawmakers liked the idea. They allocated money for it in the 2020-2021 budget, but those dollars were folded into the new school funding formula for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.