Manning: State efforts rescuing jobs

By Becky Brooks

Man­ag­ing Editor

news@gazettepublishingco.com

State Sen­a­tor Gayle Man­ning (R-13th Dis­trict) recapped the first years of activ­ity after Gov. John Kasich took office dur­ing the annual Belle­vue Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion lun­cheon on Thursday.

“The first thing we did was vote on Job­sO­hio,” she told the nearly 50 peo­ple attend­ing the event at the Meilen­stein Hall, 600 South­west St. Her dis­trict includes Huron County.

Man­ning added that Lt. Gov­er­nor Mary Tay­lor then became involved with the Com­mon Sense Ini­tia­tive to elim­i­nate exces­sive or duplica­tive rules.

Man­ning said she was requested to aid a busi­ness in her dis­trict in remov­ing old reg­u­la­tions that were caus­ing an employer to con­sider mov­ing to another state.

Tay­lor received a call from the Mayor of Avon, a city in Manning’s dis­trict, and she con­tacted Manning.

The State Sen­a­tor said that a food busi­ness that pro­duced sauces needed to use a Chadonne wine in a sauce. They were hin­dered by a 1935 Ohio law that required the busi­ness to pur­chase the wine by the bot­tle, and it needed 128 gal­lons of the wine to make its sauce.

“They were going to pull out of Avon,” Man­ning said. She said the proper lead­ers met with her and within two hours they fig­ured out how to cor­rect the prob­lem for the business.

Man­ning said leg­is­la­tors have heard from other com­pa­nies which also have encoun­tered reg­u­la­tions that are ham­per­ing their oper­a­tions as well.

“If you con­tact your leg­is­la­tor, you can get things done,” she stressed. “We can take away a lot of regulations.”

Man­ning added that the state is encour­ag­ing county and local gov­ern­ments to con­sol­i­date ser­vices and con­duct oper­a­tions more effi­ciently by work­ing together.

The state sen­a­tor said May was a good month of Ohio, which reported the cre­ation of 20,000 new jobs and being sec­ond in the nation for job cre­ation that month. In 2011, she said Ohio rated fourth in job creation.

“Huron County is one of the ones with the high­est unem­ploy­ment rate,” she still admit­ted. Man­ning said there is a com­mon con­cern that there are jobs avail­able, but com­pa­nies can­not find the qual­i­fied workers.

She pointed out that three issues are hin­der­ing com­pa­nies: Find­ing peo­ple who test clean for alco­hol and drug use; find­ing those who will work the needed hours and week­ends; and get­ting peo­ple to work instead of being paid unem­ploy­ment to sit at home.

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