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...) There is hereby created within the development services agency an office to be known as the office of small business and entrepreneurship. The office shall be under the supervision of a manager appointed by the director of development services. (B) The office shall do all of the following: (1) Act as liaison between the small business community and state governmental agencies; (2) Furnish information and tech...

...business and entrepreneurship in the development services agency shall prepare and publish a "small business register" or contract with any person as provided in this section to prepare and publish the register. The small business register shall contain the following information regarding each proposed rule recorded by the office of small business and entrepreneurship: (1) The title and administrative code rule num...

...The department of development shall provide for low-interest loans to small businesses, as defined by rules adopted pursuant to the "Small Business Act," 72 Stat. 384 (1972), 15 U.S.C.A. 632, as amended, that are engaged in the export of goods produced in this state. In carrying out the purposes of this section, the department shall develop operating procedures that are essentially the same as those of the United Sta...

...ny or all of the following: (1) Acquisition of property, including options; (2) Preparation of sites, including brownfield clean-up activities; (3) Construction of road, water, telecommunication, and utility infrastructure; (4) Payment of professional fees the amount of which shall not exceed twenty per cent of the grant amount for a project. (B) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 11...

...ts related to the following: (a) Acquisition of land and buildings; (b) Building construction; (c) Making improvements to land and buildings, including the following: (i) Expanding, reconstructing, rehabilitating, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, modernizing, equipping, and furnishing buildings and structures, including leasehold improvements; (ii) Site preparation, including wetland mitigation. (d) Plann...

...de grants to pay for allowable costs of eligible applicants for eligible projects. The program shall be administered by the department of development. All grants shall be awarded through one of the following two processes: (1) The annual competitive process under sections 122.087 to 122.0811, 122.0814, and 122.0815 of the Revised Code; (2) The discretionary process under sections 122.0812 to 122.0815 of th...

...The director of development shall establish an annual competitive process for making grants described in section 122.086 of the Revised Code in accordance with rules adopted under that section. At least two-thirds of the amounts that may be distributed as grants each year under the job ready site program shall be distributed under the annual competitive process.

...nder the annual competitive process, an eligible applicant shall fill out an application provided by the department of development and shall file it with the district public works integrating committee with jurisdiction over the area in which the eligible project is located.

...An eligible applicant shall provide all of the following on the annual competitive process application: (A) Contact information for the eligible applicant; (B) A legal description of the property for which the grant is requested; (C) A summary of the proposed eligible project that includes all of the following: (1) A general description of the eligible project, including individuals, organizations, or other ...

...ether the application for the proposed eligible project is complete and whether the project meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code. If the application is complete and the eligible project meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code, the executive committee shall prioritize the eligible project pursuant to section 122.0816 of the Revised Code and pursuant to local prio...

...The department of development shall evaluate each eligible project selected pursuant to section 122.0810 of the Revised Code to determine whether the application for the proposed eligible project is complete and whether it meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code. If the application is complete and the project meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code, the department shall n...

...The director of development shall establish a discretionary process that permits the director to make grants described in section 122.086 of the Revised Code in situations that include those in which the timing of a proposed eligible project is such that the annual competitive process is not suitable. The director, as part of the guidelines established for the discretionary process for the job ready site progra...

...or an eligible project, the director of development shall evaluate it to determine whether the application for the proposed eligible project is complete and whether the eligible project meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code. If the application is complete and the project meets the requirements of section 122.0815 of the Revised Code, the director shall make a recommendation to the controlling...

... discretionary process, the director of development shall enter into an agreement with the eligible applicant to provide the grant for the project. The agreement shall be executed prior to the payment or disbursement of any funds under the grant and shall contain the following provisions: (A) A designation of a single officer or employee of the eligible applicant who will serve as the manager of the eligible ...

...application for the grant is made by an eligible applicant. (2) The project for which the application is made is an eligible project. (3) The eligible applicant commits to all the following: (a) To use the grant to pay only allowable costs for the eligible project; (b) Not to use the grant to fund more than seventy-five per cent of the total cost of the eligible project; (c) Not to use more than ten per cent of ...

...The department of development and the executive committees of district public works integrating committees shall apply the following factors to eligible projects under the annual competitive process to determine a priority order for the eligible projects subject to that process: (A) The potential economic impact of the eligible project; (B) The potential impact of the eligible project on economic distress; (C) The...

...In accordance with the guidelines established to govern the discretionary process and the rules adopted to govern the annual competitive process for the job ready site program, the director of development shall publish an annual report that includes the following: (A) Details on each grant awarded pursuant to the program; (B) The status of projects funded in previous years; (C) The amount of grants awarded fo...

...or the job ready site program may provide for recovery of the costs, or a portion thereof, incurred by district public works integrating committees and executive committees in conducting their duties under the program.

...The job ready site development fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of the net proceeds of obligations issued and sold by the issuing authority pursuant to sections 151.01 and 151.11 of the Revised Code. Investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used to make grants for eligible projects pursuant to sections 122.085 to 122.0820 of the Rev...

... use development project including acquisition costs and all costs incurred before the project is certified by the director of development. (2) "Eligible expenditures" means certain expenditures paid or incurred by the property owner in completing a certified transformational mixed use development project after the project is certified by the director of development, including architectural or engineering fees, due...

...equest, furnish to the department of development any information it has available. The department of development shall cooperate with each department, bureau, institution, agency, commission, or office of the state government and shall furnish any information it has available to such departments, bureaus, institutions, agencies, commissions, or office upon their request. The department shall coordinate its services...

...The director of development may employ and fix the compensation of technical and professional personnel, who shall be in the unclassified civil service, and may employ other personnel, who shall be in the classified civil service, as necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 122.011 to 122.11, 122.17, and 122.18 of the Revised Code.

...y" means a county that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (B) "Endorsing municipality" means a municipal corporation that contains a site selected by a site selection organization for one or more games. (C) "Game support contract" means a joinder undertaking, joinder agreement, or similar contract executed by an endorsing municipality or endorsing county and a site se...

...into a joinder undertaking with a site selection organization may apply to the director of development services, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the director, for a grant from the sports event grant fund created under section 122.122 of the Revised Code with respect to a game to which either of the following applies: (1) The organization accepts competitive bids to host the game. (2) The game is a one...

...ing municipality, or endorsing county under section 122.121 of the Revised Code. Except for amounts refunded under division (E) of section 122.121 of the Revised Code, money may not be credited or transferred to the fund if the credit or transfer would cause the balance of the fund to exceed ten million dollars.