According to organizers, the petition drive has come to a hault. The petition was to add three citizen initiatives on the upcoming fall ballot that would make rule changes in the Findlay city government.

 

The drive is led by the Findlay Area Apartment Association and the initiative would require changes to the city's building and zoning code to be placed on the ballot, mandate more public speaking time for citizens at Findlay City Council meetings, and stop the city from turning off the water for property code violations. 

 

Paperwork to start the initiatives was filed to the city auditor, Jim Staschaik, on June 5. The organizers had until July 21 to collect 1,278 signatures from city registered voters and that they had recently voted in the govenors election. They would then file them with the Hancock Board of Elections on August 9. This would then be placed on the November ballot. 

 

Haydee Sadler, initiatives committee memeber, states that they talked with a few neighborhoods and discovered that voters wanted to discuss the August election. Sadler furthers that they are going to reorganize and focus on next year's election now.

 

The special election coming up on August 8 will be on Issue 1. To learn more about what you will be voting on go to issuereport.pdf (ohiosos.gov).