City of Lancaster v. Fairfield County Budget Commission

This appeal presents two legal issues: (1) whether, pursuant to R.C. 5747.53 and 5747.63, the budget commission must secure annual approvals from all the participants in order to allocate the ULGF and the ULGRAF pursuant to the alternative formulas, and (2) whether the budget commission must secure approval from all participants for succeeding years if one of the participants in these funds initially limited its approval, of the alternative formulas to one year, but thereafter approved use of an alternative formula without *140limiting it to a specific time period. We answer both of these…