Board of Trustees v. Williams County Budget Commission

R.C. 5705.32 empowers the budget commission to initially allocate the library and local government support fund. R.C. 5705.37 authorizes the BTA to modify any action of the commission; its findings replace the commission’s findings. Thus, the budget commission first resolves all questions of fact and, on appeal, the BTA reexamines the facts in a trial de novo. Cleveland Pub. Library v. Cuyahoga Cty. Budget Comm. (1986), 28 Ohio St.3d 390, 392, 28 OBR 448, 450, 504 N.E.2d 421, 423 (“Cleveland 1986 ”). The budget commission and the BTA, in their turns, must determine that the needs of the…