“My vision with this legislation is to create an army of citizen auditors throughout Ohio.” Something Mandel said State Auditor Dave Yost supports. This idea faced some “no” votes during the House’s vote, something Mandel said can be attributed to the idea that many legislators want to continue to “hide the state’s spending,” he said. The database would provide data from the past five years, forward. Mandel said taxpayers have the right to know how their money is being spent, and should have access to it any time they choose. The Ohio House of Representatives has passed the bill and it awaits consideration in the Ohio Senate. “Open Ohio,” or House Bill 175, was initially introduced by state Rep. The ultimate goal of the idea is to make legislators “think twice” before spending copious amounts of tax money on dinners out on the town, or trips to conferences in Hawaii, or other expenditures that may be deemed unnecessary, according to Josh Mandel. LIMA - Ohio’s treasurer visted Lima on Wednesday to pitch his vision of creating a transparent database for the public to use that shows how local and state governments are spending money.
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