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Friday 5pm hour 05/01/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, so this guy's telling me that in Ashtabula
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: they're leasing all this acreage to put up windmills. Is
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: that accurate?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's what's going on currently?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's going on currently now. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: buzz with the farm community is that they're going around
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  Speaker 2: trying to lease property on these farms with the bigger
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  Speaker 2: acreages and stuff. And I was just doing some research
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: on the company and about the windmills and stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: I talked to my local zoning guy, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: see if we could put some zoning restrictions on them.
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  Speaker 2: And they're trying to keep up with it. And then
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing more research to come and find out that
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  Speaker 2: the state can override the zoning and the townships. But
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  Speaker 2: this Ohio Revised Code... 519 and 303. Are people opposed
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  Speaker 2: to it? Right now, it's kind of a mixed bag.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kind of starting off. I was just talking
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  Speaker 2: to a guy a little bit ago, and he said, no,
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  Speaker 2: not all the farmers are signing on and not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the residents know what's coming. And right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of back and forth. My thing is that
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  Speaker 2: really what's coming because It just seems like this company
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  Speaker 2: just got a grant for $ 2. 7 billion.
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  Speaker 1: From the government. There you go. Government money.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: In Texas, Ohio, and Illinois. So, you know, and with
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  Speaker 2: them changing the setback law and then being able to
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  Speaker 2: use this 519, the revised code, they kind of got
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  Speaker 2: the beat. You know what I mean, Ron?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. It doesn't surprise me
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  Speaker 1: to hear. It's making more sense the more you talk
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  Speaker 1: to me. They got a big chunk of money or
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  Speaker 1: a grant, if you will, from the government to put
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff up, and that's why they're proceeding
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  Speaker 1: with it. And I'm sure they'll make a boatload of
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  Speaker 1: money off of that grant.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the thing about it is I try to look
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  Speaker 2: in to see how they're going to transport the power.
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  Speaker 2: And they have to dig right away, and they have
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  Speaker 2: to put the power lines underground. And what I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of interpreting from this, I'm not a lawyer, but it
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  Speaker 2: looks like it almost sounds like intimate domain, like a right-of-way,
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  Speaker 2: to people that don't even want anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: About the only thing I see that I found is
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  Speaker 2: the senators a few years ago put in a, a
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  Speaker 2: bill who's called Local Control SB 52, and it gives
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  Speaker 2: the commissioners the power to come in and kind of
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  Speaker 2: stop these guys or regulate them or stop them. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think that, I guess, see what
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  Speaker 2: the local residents think and try to go to the commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting once they put up the windmills,
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  Speaker 1: and then that's when people will start paying attention. When
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  Speaker 1: they start putting those things up and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You would almost think that they would have to put
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  Speaker 2: that to a vote or something first, wouldn't they?
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  Speaker 1: Based on what you said, it doesn't appear to be so, right?
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  Speaker 2: No. No.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first I've heard of it. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: read anything about it. I'm sure you're more on top
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  Speaker 1: of it than the rest of us because you live
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  Speaker 1: there and you can see what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just trying to look into it now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who puts it up? Who maintains it? Who
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  Speaker 1: maintains the windmills? It's not like you put them up.
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  Speaker 2: That APAC company is going to put them up, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a sister company called Aries Management Corporation. They're out
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they're supposed to take care of them once they're up.
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  Speaker 2: And our question was, what happens then? If this company
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  Speaker 2: loses all their money, go under and read a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more that they have to pay into an escrow
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  Speaker 2: to the state to take them down, I guess, when
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  Speaker 2: they're done or if they go bankrupt, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: Well, keep me in the loop. I appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. I think this is an interesting
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  Speaker 1: email that I received. I noticed this the other day.
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  Speaker 1: when I was driving gang to the radio station and
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  Speaker 1: it's a, it's a great email. Have you seen the
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  Speaker 1: overgrown grass at the Southern park mall? That's what my
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  Speaker 1: emailer says. My answer to them is yes, I have.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so if you're driving down a two 24
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  Speaker 1: and you go by the Southern park mall, it's clear
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  Speaker 1: that I mean, the financial problems, I guess, continue for
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  Speaker 1: them all. Because it doesn't appear that they have paid
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  Speaker 1: the mowing company or they... I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: situation is there, but the grass is all overgrown at
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Park Mall. And so they say the potholes
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  Speaker 1: are dangerous. And all of that is true. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's really sad because the Southern Park Mall is really
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the community. And to see... Let
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  Speaker 1: me just give you a contrast. I was last weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I went to the Summit Mall. That's where the Apple
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  Speaker 1: store is. Many of you probably go to the Summit Mall,
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  Speaker 1: but they still have Dillard's and Apple and Eddie Bauer.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's closing down, but they have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of stores in the Summit Mall. So when I went
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  Speaker 1: to the Summit Mall, the first thing you notice is
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  Speaker 1: They're ripping up all the tile in the entire mall
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  Speaker 1: and putting down new tile. I mean, what a massive
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  Speaker 1: project this is. So, you know, they had half of
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  Speaker 1: it done. So when you're walking down the hallway, you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at a mall that is being reinvested in as
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  Speaker 1: far as the flooring is concerned. Just all new tile.
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  Speaker 1: And I must confess, when I was there last time,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago, I didn't think the tile was
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  Speaker 1: that bad. Sure, you had some broken tiles and stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I thought, well, you could fix those. But needless
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  Speaker 1: to say, here's the difference. You have the Summit Mall
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  Speaker 1: in Akron, Fairlawn, I should say, and they're redoing the
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  Speaker 1: entire tile in the mall, throughout the mall. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be a massive expenditure. And I mean, they had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it done, but it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a massive expense. So they're putting money into that facility now.
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  Speaker 1: And then you look at the Southern Park Mall, which
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  Speaker 1: is in the heart of Boardman. And as my emailer says,
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  Speaker 1: the grass is overgrown. The potholes in the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: aren't getting addressed. And it's really sad to see it
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  Speaker 1: deteriorate like that on the outside. Now, sometimes they pay
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  Speaker 1: their property taxes and sometimes they pay them late. seems
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  Speaker 1: like they were due and then they paid them late.
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  Speaker 1: They're significant. I mean, the property taxes are huge and
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  Speaker 1: that's probably part of the problem. I mean, it's so
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  Speaker 1: such a huge burden to pay that amount of property tax,
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  Speaker 1: but you look at the facility and you say, is
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  Speaker 1: the ownership willing to put any money into fixing the
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  Speaker 1: potholes in the parking lot? Is the ownership concerned at
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  Speaker 1: all that the grass is getting long? And, uh, and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Where's the investments to try to keep the thing operating
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  Speaker 1: and going? I mean, it's really something because Boardman is
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  Speaker 1: the economic hub of Mahoning County. It is the economic hub.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people go to the mall for
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  Speaker 1: any number of reasons, the food court, to walk and
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  Speaker 1: exercise on days like today, Christmas shop or whatever. And
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  Speaker 1: it's sad to see it deteriorate like this And is
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  Speaker 1: that going to be the future? Is it just destined
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  Speaker 1: to fail? You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Ron?
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  Speaker 1: Speaking.
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  Speaker 3: How are you? You've had some good calls today.
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  Speaker 1: I've had some good calls. And then there's yours.
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  Speaker 3: You've had a little..
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  Speaker 5: And then you've had a couple of crazies and a
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  Speaker 5: couple of good ones, but it's pretty good today. That
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  Speaker 5: last caller who was talking about the need for, you know,
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  Speaker 5: strong leadership in the County. I thought he had some
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  Speaker 5: pretty good points.
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  Speaker 1: He was the one thing that I think he's talking
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  Speaker 1: in Ashtabula though.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Well, I'm talking Mahoning County now, but, but
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  Speaker 3: he still had the same good points. And one of
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  Speaker 3: the points that I thought he made, and I, and,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure everybody in all your listeners know this, right. But,
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  Speaker 3: You know how we, you know, quarter percent for the roads,
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  Speaker 3: you've got the bus, the WRTA and all of this, right?
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  Speaker 3: All of these baked in, they get a percentage of
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  Speaker 3: the sales tax. Well, what's very interesting is, is when
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  Speaker 3: sales tax runs above projection, all of these departments get,
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  Speaker 3: by default, more money.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And it takes a strong commissioner to start, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you say, no, we need roads. We
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  Speaker 3: need these things. Right. But like when they're getting money
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  Speaker 3: above and beyond in abundance to what they've projected or budgeted,
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  Speaker 3: it's not necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like if you say at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 3: I need, I don't know, we'll just throw $ 10 million.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody says, yep, you get it. Well, if sales
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  Speaker 3: tax runs above projection, and you're getting a quarter percent,
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  Speaker 3: and that equates to $ 10 million, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: now you get $ 12 million, as a commissioner, you should
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  Speaker 3: have questions, right? Or are you just going to give
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  Speaker 3: them the $ 12 million even though they didn't need it? No,
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  Speaker 3: a mental midget would do that. Like somebody intelligent thinking
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  Speaker 3: would start to ask questions. Well, but we set your
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  Speaker 3: budget at $ 10 million. So all these things are important,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why you need somebody who's thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but hold on a second, Eric. Right, but here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem with some of that. For example, when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the sales tax, the citizens of Mahoning County
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  Speaker 1: voted WRTA a forever tax. They passed, not with my vote.
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  Speaker 1: I never supported it. I didn't vote for it. I
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  Speaker 1: told people it was a bad idea, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: listen and they voted for it anyway. So they voted
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  Speaker 1: a quarter percent sales tax for WRTA forever. which is
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  Speaker 1: insane because who knows what you're going to have 10
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  Speaker 1: years from now in transportation. So you are correct. So
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  Speaker 1: they voted this in. The quarter percent generates about $ 9
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  Speaker 1: million a year, but it can generate less and it
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  Speaker 1: can generate more. And as prices have gone up, guess
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  Speaker 1: what else goes up? As you're paying more for stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the sales tax goes up. So it generates more money.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why I say here, WRTA has more
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  Speaker 1: money than they know what to do with. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: problem at WRTA is how do we spend all of
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  Speaker 1: this money? Make no mistake. But there's nothing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's anything you can do because it was voted on.
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  Speaker 1: As a sales tax.
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  Speaker 3: But it would take, it would take, it takes a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, it was, how dumb are voters to
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  Speaker 1: vote for it?
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  Speaker 3: Very, very, very dumb.
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  Speaker 1: To vote for it.
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  Speaker 3: Very dumb.
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  Speaker 1: A quarter percent. Now you take, I would rather see,
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  Speaker 1: I always thought, shouldn't we use, if they got more
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  Speaker 1: money than they know what to do with, why shouldn't
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: we be having discussions on whether or not they can
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  Speaker 1: use some of that money for a countywide ambulance service?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely correct absolutely i mean.
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  Speaker 1: Is it legally possible i can we can we discuss.
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  Speaker 5: No it's not you cannot it's not legally possible but
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  Speaker 5: that's why honestly i started working on my own suggestions
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  Speaker 5: and actually reached out to one of our uh elected
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  Speaker 5: officials to meet with me because i have a suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: What's your suggestion i want to hear that.
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  Speaker 5: Well These guys are the only ones who can change
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  Speaker 5: anything at the Statehouse, and as long as we have
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  Speaker 5: the majority, they need to start working on some legislation
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  Speaker 5: that allows monies that come in above and beyond projection
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  Speaker 5: to be moved and used and reallocated to whatever best
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  Speaker 5: suits the taxpayer, rather than getting held hostage in a
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  Speaker 5: fund that can only fund something that's already freaking fully funded.
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  Speaker 3: It does..
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  Speaker 2: I mean..
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  Speaker 3: Those guys have the power to do that, and they
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  Speaker 3: have the majority. So this money's locked up.
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  Speaker 2: And it's insane.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. There's another example. I mean, just to bounce
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  Speaker 1: around on you, you take a look at, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the citizens of Poland were totally ignored. It was clear
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  Speaker 1: to me from sitting here that the people who live
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  Speaker 1: in Poland wanted to fix the existing library. I never
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  Speaker 1: got any calls from people saying, no, rip it down.
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  Speaker 1: Let's build a new one. Everyone seemed to support fixing
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  Speaker 1: that one. And boy, were they totally and completely ignored.
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  Speaker 1: by the library system and totally ignored. And hey, guess what?
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  Speaker 3: It's a private board.
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  Speaker 2: It's a private board.
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  Speaker 3: They make, I think, almost a couple million dollars a year,
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  Speaker 3: this private board, and it's mixed in with taxpayer dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's ludicrous.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thing is disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: The citizens were not listened to at all when it came.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they fake like they listen to them. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to fake like we're going.
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  Speaker 3: To vote for this board. And the board makes over
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars. I think it's like, well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody gave me the number. I'd have to look it up.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be cited or quoted. It's over
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars for the handful of them to sit
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  Speaker 3: on this private board. They're not elected.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? They get paid for being on
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  Speaker 1: the board?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they're getting paid over a million dollars, these people.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Not each, you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: No, collectively, I think it's like one and a half
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  Speaker 5: million dollars for these people to sit on this board.
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: But they're paying themselves that kind of money, and it's
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  Speaker 5: private money.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to.
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  Speaker 3: With public funds. And there's always a cluster.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to know more about that, though. I
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  Speaker 1: would definitely want to verify that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll find out more information. I know people who are
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  Speaker 3: more versed than I am on this.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, so when I'm looking at that situation,
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying the library system basically just crapped on everybody
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  Speaker 1: in Poland by saying, to hell with you. We heard you.
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  Speaker 1: We acted like we cared about what you had to say.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: But stand by. But we're going to make you do
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  Speaker 1: it our way anyway. Stand by.
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  Speaker 6: Back.
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  Speaker 1: With the boss lady after this.
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  Speaker 7: Our radio app.
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570 WKBN. All right, just bear with me
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  Speaker 1: with some time. Because, I mean, I'm seeing here, like,
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  Speaker 1: this is from the Vindicator the other day, Thursday. It says,
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  Speaker 1: the debate is over about the Poland Library branch and
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  Speaker 1: at least many residents of the community unhappy. A majority
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  Speaker 1: of the audience stood up and walked out of the
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  Speaker 1: room after the Board of Trustees of the Public Library
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  Speaker 1: of Youngstown, Mahoning County, voted 9-3 Wednesday evening to relocate
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  Speaker 1: their branch. from existing building on Main Street in Poland.
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  Speaker 1: So they didn't listen to these people. They didn't listen.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to cost them more money.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Just more money. And it says, the decision came after
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  Speaker 1: more than a year of discussion and debate featuring a
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  Speaker 1: massive grassroots campaign led by Save Our Library Committee. The
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  Speaker 1: committee gathered more than 4,100 signatures on a petition. So
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  Speaker 1: all of that effort and all those people were totally
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  Speaker 1: and completely ignored. Totally ignored.
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  Speaker 3: Totally and completely.
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  Speaker 1: And they live there. It's their community, but... And it's
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  Speaker 1: their tax dollars, incidentally.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, they didn't even care what they had to say.
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  Speaker 3: They already made up their decision. They were placating them.
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  Speaker 3: They were just placating them, letting them go through the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: whole circus motion, and knowing the entire time they were
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  Speaker 3: going to move that building.
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  Speaker 1: This has been an ongoing project for almost two years,
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  Speaker 1: so there's been a lot of thought put into this.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of conversation. We've taken all the
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  Speaker 1: comments seriously because there's a lot of passion in that room.
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  Speaker 1: They have passion, and we have passion. But needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: we just decided.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, at this point, if you're going to move it,
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  Speaker 5: there's so many libraries. I mean, you could throw a
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: stick and hit libraries in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 3: You could throw a stick, okay? This is like all
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  Speaker 3: above and beyond. I'd love to see the usage of
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  Speaker 3: how many people even.
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  Speaker 2: Pull a book.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to see the poem library the way that
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  Speaker 3: it is. But if you're going to just close that building,
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  Speaker 3: then what.
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: You're going to put another.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Struthers now all screaming about their library. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you've got one right down the road. You've got another
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  Speaker 3: one in Boardman. You've got libraries everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: There's a library. Nobody brings a book. Nobody brings a
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  Speaker 3: book home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you brought up the point. Here's the reality. I
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  Speaker 1: said it a million times. Folks, the sales tax levy
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: for WRTA is. generates their biggest problem is how do
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  Speaker 1: we spend all this money? It's generating so much money.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It was a foolish dumb thing to vote on. I
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: do not vote in support of the library levy. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: do not. I see that. I love my library. I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: do not vote in support of it because I'm here
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to tell you the library system has more money than
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: it knows what to do with. And they too, their
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: biggest problem is figuring out how to spend all of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: this money every single day.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: And the people are overburdened.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And how much do they have set aside? We have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: these entities now that have huge bank accounts of your
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: tax dollars.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, they have these huge rainy day funds, yet 90%
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of the people living in the county don't have $ 1, 000
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: in their savings account. But all of these.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: People can have millions upon millions upon.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Millions of dollars sitting in their rainy day fund, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: they don't even want to entertain you. They don't want
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: to answer questions. It's a big joke.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: But is everybody supposed to have a rainy day fund? Oh,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the state has to have one. Every entity. I mean,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: what is a rainy day fund? A rainy day fund
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: is more tax dollars coming in than you can spend,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and you put them in an account, and you make
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: money off of the tax dollars on top of it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: And let's be real, anytime you can amass that amount
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: of a rainy day fund for all these entities, the state,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the schools, the WRTA, all of them, the library, you
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: know what that means? They overtaxed you at some point.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So believe me, they're probably happy to be able
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to spend at the high end $ 10 million for this
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: new library in Poland because their biggest problem is how
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: do we spend, once again, all of this money that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: we have coming in? And stand by. I'm coming back
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to you in a minute. It's back right after this.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Stay with us. News Radio 570 WKVN. I mean, so
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: much of this stuff, Boss Lady, is just... It's ridiculous. Folks, why,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: when these places have big savings accounts with all this money,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and that's your tax dollars. It means they're taking more
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: of your money than they need, and they're making huge
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: return on that money. Well, that money belongs in your pocket,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: not in their pocket. It belongs in a savings account,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: your savings account, not theirs. So the library's got more
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: money than it knows what to do with. So there's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: no big deal of putting up a new 10 million
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: dollar building their biggest problem is spending all this money
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: all the time and likewise wrta with that forever sales
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: tax and you bring up an excellent point it can
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: generate $ 9 million, $ 10 million, as prices go up, sales
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: tax goes up, they get even more money. Well, we
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: don't need a church.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: More money and more money.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: But we don't have people asking, this is the problem, Ron.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: This is our whole entire problem. Who is asking the
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: right questions? Who's inserting themselves and saying, hey, maybe I
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: need to meet with... you know, a text Fisher, or
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: maybe I need to meet with a Katrona or maybe I.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Need to wear like, I know there's a lot of
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: great people.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Where's the public outcry from your public officials? Why aren't
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they saying, wait a minute here. What's what's going on here?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: This needs fixed. And that's why I appreciated his comment
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: because he was coming from a place of, we need
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: more assertive, more aggressive people who are going to ask
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: the right questions, get involved, ask these guys to go meet,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: have a coffee, sit down, have conversations, bring up ideas,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: not always drop problems in their lap.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Be participatory.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Come up with solutions. Hey, what do you think about this? They're...
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: It's nauseating because it's the same old, same old, same old.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: But by the way, there's something I need.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: To ask you about.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I heard that your boy Ted said that Christine was
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: talking about me today.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: What did he say? I got a text while I.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Was on with you.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: The Ted, the conservatives, uh, No, his.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Name's Ted DeChristine.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I know he was talking about.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Being passively aggressive and wouldn't say my name, but he
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: was inferring.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I think he squats to pee.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: By the way.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Do you know that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I think he does.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Now, you shouldn't say those type of nasty things about Ted.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I don't like it when the family starts to insult
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: each other. Now, we were all raised better.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He won't let it go.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: He's like a dog with a bone. He's like a
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: little old gossipy woman.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it doesn't. He has every right. He has
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: every right to support the candidate that he views as
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the best choice.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Why is he talking about me?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Why is he still talking about me? He's weird.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: No, he's not. Because you talk about him.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: He talked about him. He says he calls him passively,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: aggressively and says he doesn't.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's over this. He just wants to.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: Let it go.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Well, he's just saying who he likes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: But then every day he keeps calling back in.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I'll defend Ted the conservative because he has
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: been a good conservative caller over all these years. No,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he doesn't. Don't say nasty things like that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Listen, how was Christine in Columbiana County? She was in
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Columbiana County and he met her in the driveway. Why
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: would she be there? Does she know where Mahoning County is?
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: She was campaigning in his yard.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he might have some additional
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: places if I'm not mistaken.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, so he was at house number two and she
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: just happened to roll by?
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I have absolutely no idea. But I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: know his mother lives in Mahoning County and he's trying
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to take care of her as well. I can only speculate.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I think he got beat up by a guy named
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Donnie in his life or something because he's.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Going so hard against him.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: And never had a conversation with him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: He views it differently. He likes Christine Oliver. He likes
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: her stand on those two issues that she supports.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: And he has the same one.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Donnie has the same one.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: And he says, well, what's Donnie's plan to help the taxpayer?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: His plan is real simple. Stop blowing money. It doesn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: take a nuclear scientist's head to understand that the way
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: that you cut taxes is to cut spending. I mean,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Donnie has said that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: We haven't seen her plan. But he just won't stop.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: You'd want to call in every day.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: He likes his candidate. You like yours. Okay, that's America.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I think It is.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to think like you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Why has he continued to argue with me?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: You can't take it that you as a strong, independent
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: woman cannot intimidate a real man like Ted the Conservative.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: That's a real man.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You can't intimidate him. You can't get him to cave.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes. I don't need him to cave.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I need him to stop the zeep.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I tell you this.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Do you know what that means?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you know what that means? I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: don't want to know. I don't speak Italian. All right?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I don't speak it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Well, he needs to stop the beat. Listen.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. So stop saying it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: He's not a bad word, I swear to you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: All right. But everybody's got it right. Listen, I might
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: disagree with what some people say as far as who
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: they want to vote for. But it is America. It
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is your vote. You can vote for whoever you want.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And so can he. Right. And guess what? We live
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: with the outcome. There's many times that I've won some
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and I've lost some. And I sit back and wonder,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: like I say, why would anybody vote for this sales
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: tax for WRTA in the past on a forever tax?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. Just like I can honestly
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: sit here and say to you, you strong, independent woman
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that doesn't intimidate me either, that, well, maybe a little bit.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: But I can say this, is I will vote for
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the renewal of the road tax. I think you'd be foolish.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: You'd be stupid not to vote to renew WRTA. Genetti's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: quarter percent sales tax, which is already there, you don't
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: even notice it, for the roads. It's done a lot
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: of good. In my opinion, it should get a unanimous
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: yes vote because he's done everything he said he would do.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So I'll vote for that tax. It's already there.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not against giving... him the money that he puts
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: aside to budget. If he says, I need $ 10 million
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and we look and open up the book and say, okay, we'll.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: All of the money that comes from that- We need that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: But if it comes in above projection, I disagree that you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? I hope his tax comes in
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: above projections because it means he can pave more roads
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and he can do more things. That's what it means.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Well, as long as there's things that need to be done.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, but you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Still have to be able, you still, you can't just
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: give blind checks. Okay, whatever sales tax comes in at.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: If it doubles this year, you can double the money.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: That's insane. No, it isn't.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: You can't manage that way. Listen, can you imagine if,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: let's say instead of generating $ 9 million, $ 10 million, Then
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: all that money goes to improve your local roads because
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: some goes to townships for their paving and the rest
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: goes to county. I've never seen more roads done in
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Mahoning County in my life. I've never seen more done.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Listen to me.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: What? What?
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: What?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Let's say that there is something else that is much more.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: There's nothing more important than the roads you drive on
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and the potholes. There's nothing more important.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: There could be.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: No, there isn't. There isn't. What could possibly be more important?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: We're going to give your boy his quarter percent when
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: he sets the budget.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: But if the budget continues, you can't just in perpetuity
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: give blind money out.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: It has to be..
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: It's a five-year... Everybody should be asking questions.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Listen, Pat Giannetti is..
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: And if he's good, he's going to come with the
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: right answers.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: He's done everything he said he would do with that tax,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and we've sent the benefits. And if it generates more money...
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of that because it means he can do
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: more roads. And when you're driving around in whatever rich
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: car you're in, you won't be hitting the potholes and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: have to get your Mercedes tire fixed, okay?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: What?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just about done.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: But you do understand that you have to manage.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: The budget, right? You know that. And even though we
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: like him, you like the work that he's doing?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: That's appreciative, but you can't just give blind budget.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: You can't give blind budget. No company would do that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: You have to manage it like you would a company.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I wish he had a half a percent because the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: roads around here are terrible. All right, I'm done with you.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: Okay, but listen.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I've had enough of you. Goodbye. You're on the air. Hello, Ron? Yes.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm listening to you today, and I'm listening to people,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: and I'm still completely confused on this commissioner's race.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why you're so confused, sir. It's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: quite simple. It's a primary.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but who are you picking? The primary's got to be...
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: pick who's got to beat the person on the other side.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I was reading Skolnick's column. Actually, you brought up an
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: excellent point. Because here, I was reading Skolnick's column in
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the Vindicator. This is for today's. Today's Friday, May 1st,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: in case you didn't know. And Skolnick actually made a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: good point. He said, national politics play a role. Listen
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to this. I'm going to educate you. First, I've got
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to get my reading glasses on here. National politics play
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a role in the change. When Joe Biden... The Democrat
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: president during the 2022 election not having many fans in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Trumbull County. And then the return of Republican Donald Trump
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to the 2024 ticket, which helped several county Republican candidates
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: win that year. Like when Trump won, he carried a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: bunch of Republicans on his coattails, which is absolutely true.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And with a number of close races in 2024, there
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is no doubt that the county Republican candidates greatly benefited
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: from having Trump at the top of the ballot. That
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: won't be the case this year. With gas prices soaring
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and dissatisfaction with Trump growing, Democrats have an opportunity to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: prove they can win again in Trumbull County. So Skolnick's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: saying if Trump doesn't get his act together, you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: if gas prices stay high and people are upset with
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the war and everything, you can get a lot of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: people turning out to vote Democrat and then they'll vote
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: for the Democrat candidate just as they did when they
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: were Republicans and they voted for the Republican candidate. That's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: what Skolnick says.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: I've been projecting that all year.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: But let me ask you this, though. Does anybody in
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: their right mind think the Democrats would do anything better, really,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: economically or anything?
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Right. But everybody was pissed off at the Democrats, so
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: the Republicans showed up in droves and won the agenda.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: That's how we got some of the disasters that are
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: in office. Look at our clerk of courts.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: So..
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: They'll show up in droves because they're all pissed off
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: at the Republicans right now, so it'll give them the
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: edge in the fall. But I go back to my question.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I look at the cards they send me, the TV ads.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: One's claim to fame seems to be he owns a
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: business and was a prison guard. Another one, I was
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: in the Navy. Another one was, I'm in charge of
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: a city. But none of them seem to have any
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: real credentials, and when they get there, all they do
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: is Every time something on the agenda comes up, let's
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: spend money. Sure, spend more money. Nobody's reduced my tax burden.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to you, and I'm in agreement with you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I'm listening to you, and I agree 100%.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I look at some of the other political things, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I go, some of them... I liked their message until
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: they went negative, and that kills me for a candidate
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: when they start picking on the other candidate because if you...
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Tell me what you're going to do, not what you
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: hate about the other guy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I agree with that as well. Although they say negative
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: advertising seems to work, seems to be effective. Yeah, but
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Tell me what you're going to do. Well,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I say this. I say, you know, when it comes
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to Monning County, you've got to support the... If you're
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a commissioner, you have the power, once again, for the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: homestead exemption for our poor seniors, income-based, and you also
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: are able to reduce taxes through the owner-occupancy credit percentage there.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: So if you don't support those two things, then I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: can't vote for you because your emphasis isn't on the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: burden of the taxpayer. It's on government spending money.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: Spending.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You're taxing people out of their houses.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So you can't say, I mean, Christine Oliver's mailer
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that came yesterday at my house said she supports both
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: of those, and the Dragish supports both of those. Unfortunately,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Bruce Shepis does not. I don't get it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: It's still kind of confusing, and it's like we're trying
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: to pick.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: The best of the worst.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty much your choice. Yes, I would agree
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: It's a challenge. And then I look at the conversations
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: on Poland Library. Yes. The person who decided that in
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: the first place, they put it in a hole right
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: next to a river. I mean, realistically, you really think
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: that was going to be a good idea in the
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: long term? But we also have a library on every corner.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: They're almost like Starbucks or something.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Like Dollar Generals.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: People get all their books through electronic means and everything else.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many libraries do you need to go
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: get a book from? Right. I haven't walked in the
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: door of a library in 20 years.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Folks, are you listening to this guy? Because he's making
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me. I mean, I'm sitting
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: here taking this guy in going, this guy's really smart.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Might be the first one to say that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: No, I'm agreeing with everything you're saying. You have common sense.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: And I look at other things we do. When this
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: government was set up in this county, Canterville was central
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: to the county. But what we move everything to the
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: northeast side of the county, as far away as you
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: can get from Sebring.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Why not have a government center centrally located within the county? Right.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Take over part of the Southern Park Mall parking lot
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: and build it there.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's easy to get to.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to go to the northeast part of
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  Speaker 4: the county to do it. It just baffles me at times.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, aye aye, Captain. You ought to run. I'll
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  Speaker 1: vote for you because you make more sense than any
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of them.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for your time.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your call. Now, see, that guy, that
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: guy was pretty sharp. I agreed with everything that guy said.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Are you there?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Caller sounds like you're on his cell phone.
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, come in. Over.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Ron, just wanted to let you know on the WRTA,
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  Speaker 8: they are building a Annex edition right now that's going
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: to be about $ 9 million.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank God. Aren't you glad about that? Their biggest
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: problem now, keep in mind, that's $ 9 million plus coming
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  Speaker 1: in every year. Yeah. Every year. So how do we
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: spend the $ 9 million the following year? I mean, I'm
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: serious with all of you. This is their biggest problem
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: at WRTA and the library. It's not a big deal
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  Speaker 1: to spend $ 10 million building another library because they've got
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a bunch of property tax money coming in the following year.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is just another add-on to the garage down
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  Speaker 8: there for $ 9 million.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank God. Just what we need. Then we can
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: put some more. Then we have a place to park
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: more electric buses that fail to work, like that trolley
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: or whatever doesn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 8: Yep, they're going to put a car washer there for it, too,
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: so they can have it back to clean.
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  Speaker 1: Well, isn't that great? Good God help us. All right, sir.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ron Burt.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, I need to ask you and try to convince
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: you somehow in some way to apologize to all us
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: correction officers across the whole entire United States. All right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: You and the boss lady yesterday made references to that
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: correction officers are not law enforcement, that they're possibly glorified
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: security guards.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: No, she said that. I didn't say that. Here's what
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm saying to you. If you put yourself out there
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: as retired from federal law enforcement, no, you're retired from
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the corrections. You're part of the corrections system. You're a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: corrections officer. There's a big difference between police officers. You're
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: not an FBI agent. You're not a... U.S. Marshal, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you're not a police officer that's on the road making
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: arrests and putting handcuffs on people. Take pride in what
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you do. Stand by. I want to come back to you.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Hang on, okay? Bear with me. Let me do my break.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I want to come back to him. Because when I'm
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in a joint, that guy could have power over me.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. 570 WKBN. All right, let me
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: go back to the caller. He's talking about being a
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: corrections officer. Go ahead.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: Hey, Ron, I'll tell you what. My experience, I was
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: a military police officer in the United States Army from
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: 2007 So whenever 2000, you know, and I was a
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: correction officer in the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department from 2000
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  Speaker 6: to 2012. And as you could probably guess or imagine
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: what my occupation is right now for security purposes, I
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: won't include that. But you can call me CEO because
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: I tell you what, CEO stands for correction officer. And
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: that's the hardest job I ever had in my life.
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  Speaker 6: I learned the most. I needed to know the most.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: I worked the hardest, and the job I have now
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: as a suburban blank is the easiest thing I've ever
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: experienced in my life. When I was a correction officer,
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: I dealt with the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, SWAT,
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: Sheriff's Department, probation officers, bounty hunters, PIs, bailiffs, reporters, people's family, everything.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: I watched 96 inmates at one time. I worked on
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: an eight-hour shift and got a forced double to work
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: 16 hours. Then we went to 12-hour shifts, and I
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: got forced to work four more hours, 16 hours. And
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: then you'd have, if you're a rookie, you'd have back-to-back
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: 16-hour shifts. I did more paperwork as a correction officer
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: in one day than I do as a suburban blank
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  Speaker 6: in a whole entire week. Let me just bring you
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: up an example. If you're in suburbia and there's a
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: possible rape, you could have a situation where an 18-year-old
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: boy Yeah, I might get a little fresh with his
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: 17-year-old daughter, and the mother wants to charge rape. When
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: you're in corrections, nobody talks. Nobody tells you anything. But
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: you've got three sweaty guys over there that are bloody,
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: and you've got one guy that's beaten to all hell,
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: and he's actually been. raped by those three guys. You
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: have to figure it out. As a suburban guy, if
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: you go into a bar fight, you've got eight cameras,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: you've got 43 cell phones recorded, and you've got about
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: 100 witnesses that can tell you what's happened. When you're
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: in a jail, not only do you got to watch
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: and protect those 96 inmates, You've got to find out somehow,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: some way, you've got to investigate the situation, and you've
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: got to write serious reports. What I'm basically saying is,
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: as an MP, I was the king cop. I was
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: the only officer of the law, and I do say
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: that I was in law enforcement, that could arrest the
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: president of the United States. I could arrest a general.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: These city cops around here today, they can't arrest anybody.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: They think that the toughest part of the thing about
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: their job is pulling over an 80-year-old woman that can't
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: present her ID.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Do you really blame him? That's really sad to hear
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: you say how dangerous it is as a police officer
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: on the road or a state trooper. Stand by. Stand by.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I want to come back to you. I want to
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: spend some more time with you. I'll get him to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: stand by. Then I'll take more calls, maybe G2 this
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: hour as well. We're here until 7. Ron Verp, NewsRadio 570.
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: From ABC News, I'm Brian Clark. Two messages from the
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: White House. First, the military action in Iran has been terminated.
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: That was in a letter to Congress on the same
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: day where the president's required to seek congressional authorization to
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: continue military force under a law that he described today
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: as unconstitutional. He also said, though, that he's considering a
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: new round of military strikes.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: On a human basis, I prefer not, but that's the option.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Do we want to go in there heavy and just
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: blast them away? Or do we want to do something?
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: He said he's not satisfied with Iran's latest proposals. He
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: told a friendly audience in Florida that even as oil
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: prices remain high, the stock market is still in good shape.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I am surprised. I thought the stock market would go
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: down by 25%. I thought that oil prices would be
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: at much higher than they are right now. They're not
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: nearly as high as I thought. And we're going to look,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: we're winning so big.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: But ABC's Jim Ryan says polling shows that Americans are
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: affected financially by the war.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: A new ABC News Washington Post Ipsos poll shows.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Americans by and large agree with Brenda, who lives in Texas.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: It's a struggle every day for everybody.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Food is ridiculous.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: That's utilities.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: The survey of 2,560 adults finds that 23 percent are
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: falling behind financially.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Up from 17 percent in February.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Another casualty of higher prices could be Spirit Airlines. The
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: Wall Street Journal reports the budget carrier is preparing to
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: cease operations. Higher fuel costs have added to its pre-existing
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: financial woes, and Spirit travelers like Lada Landren say.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: It's pretty sad, and I don't want the government to
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: take over to build it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: President Trump said he was still considering a government bailout.
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: Immediate fallout from the Supreme Court decision to invalidate Louisiana's
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: congressional map as two groups have now filed a lawsuit
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: over the governor's plans to postpone next month's primary in
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: order to redraw the map.
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