Ohio Department of Aging
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (Excerpted with permission)
Published Date: 2003
Introduction
In the late 1970s a retiree named Lois Brown Dale was looking for financial support to build and operate a senior center in a small county in Southwest Ohio. She believed the public would support such an effort through local taxes but was informed that placing such a referendum on the ballot would require special legislation. Undeterred, she successfully lobbied the Ohio legislature to allow counties to earmark local funds for elder services. It is safe to say that neither Ms. Dale nor the members of the legislature envisioned that twenty-five years later, 58 of Ohio's 88 counties would have property tax levies raising nearly $85 million for services for older people.
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Ohio Department of Aging