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THE ‘R-WORD’ Is receivership the answer to our budget woes?

Who pays? pays? What does it mean to you?

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‘Sharing the responsibility’ responsibility’

by Toledo Mayor Mike Bell Bell,, Page A A77

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‘Only Toledoans can save Toledo Toledo’’

by City Councilman D. Michael Collins, Page A A4

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OPINION

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Blast off, splashdown

Revisiting a capital idea

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n September, Toledoans were asked to change the rules governing the Capital Improvement Program to help balance the city budget. Then-mayor Carty Finkbeiner rallied union money and mounted a loud campaign to defeat the proposal. Like a lot of short-sighted things Finkbeiner did, that effort has hindered Toledo.

As Toledo City Councilman George Sarantou told Toledo Free Press in September, “We are in a fiscal emergency, and we would like permission from voters to use capital improvement funds for safety.”

I again believe Toledo voters should give council that permission by voting “yes” on the CIP issue on May 4. The current division of funds from the three-quarter percent income tax spread money equally among police and fire resources, the general fund and the CIP, which is used for infrastructure such as streets and bridges. The Thomas F. POUNDS proposed change to this system would increase the general fund to one-half of that, with onethird remaining with police and fire and one-sixth going to CIP. As explained by City Councilman Joe McNamara, “The three-fourths percent income tax is governed by a specific formula mandating how the money may be spent. The formula for the three-fourths percent for years 2004-08 was more flexible than the formula for years 2009-12. The previous flexible formula allowed city council to move funds from the CIP to the public safety budget. This flexibility was repeatedly needed to balance the budget.”

Mayor Mike Bell sees the value in this move and is supporting it as it goes before voters. With more focused and rational leadership on the 22nd floor of One Government Center, reworking the CIP is a tough but viable option to bring the city’s budget into line.

E-mail president and publisher Thomas Pounds at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Clothing drive brought community together event, that helps make our community strong. And, of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t recognize all of the organizations that helped make the collection and distribution a success.

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

TO THE EDITOR, We live in a great community!

Once again people from around this great city came together to donate more than 85 tons of clothes and goods to those in need during the Clothing Your Community drive. We should all be proud to know that 6,000 individuals — our neighbors and friends — were given a hand up with clean, gently used clothing and goods.

I have no doubt that a good number of the folks who donated have experienced some level of financial strain recently, but it’s that very sense of community and helping one another that makes the Toledo area so special.

It is outstanding community members such as Gary Resnick of LaSalle Cleaners, who had the vision for this

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s our son Evan speeds toward zine I need to get through writing his fourth birthday, the par- about Evan’s daredevil exploits).

Those parameters were fully tested enting challenges are piling up faster than torn Trojan wrappers back- during a recent visit to the Splash Universe waterpark in Dundee. We spent stage at a Lady Gaga concert. the weekend at the park Standards of approwith friends of ours priateness are a daily who have two wonstruggle, as you can tell. derful children a few What we used to be years ahead of ours. able to slip by Evan’s During the first day sharp little eyes and ears at the park, Evan went now fills a minefield of from a tentative expotential bad examples. ploration of the Little I used to be able to get Squirt Pool slides to a away with having “The Simpsons” on in the Michael S. MILLER full-on assault of the Water Adventure Tree background if Evan was playing, coloring or otherwise House slides, allowing his slender distracted, but now he seems to be frame to be whipsawed around the radar-tuned to every expletive, act of corners and twists and shot into the violence and scene showcasing child troughs of water. By the end of the first day, escorted on each trip by one of our endangerment. D’oh.

We recently invested in a new vehicle friends’ kids at the top of the slide and from our friends at Monroe Dodge, and me at the bottom of the slide, Evan was during an innocent demonstration of a veteran of the orange, yellow and blue the satellite radio system, a quick sta- mid-size slides.

At some point during the day, he tion scan found a rap song that cheerily invoked a word that describes inappro- became aware of the big boy slides in priate maternal fornication (not that the corner of the park.

A wooden staircase winds to near there is an appropriate kind, although I understand it’s a useful tool for Greek the top of the 60-foot-high ceiling, tragedies and daily newspaper general ending in two Goldmine Adventure Slides. Both are monster corkscrews managers). D’oh.

In addition to behavioral and that hurtle the body on an inner tube at role model issues, Evan is testing the high-rush speeds up and down the sides boundaries of his physical limits. The of the slide (at one point the yellow slide toddler who needed to hold my hand tunnel leads outside the building and to descend the stairs now wants to see twists back in; those few seconds are in how many stairs he can leap from to pitch black. The green slide is entirely the floor before mommy or daddy encased in blinding darkness).

The whole ride is over in a minute, burst a blood vessel.

Evan’s thrillseeking has been but it takes a while for one’s lungs to modest. He’s not chasing cars or huffing catch up with the rest of one’s body as fresh Play-Doh. The balance for us as it exits into a wide receiving pool 60 parents is to let him experiment with feet below, life guards on duty. Evan pain and consequence without letting finally noticed the monster slides and him cripple or kill himself. We do not asked if he could go on them.

“You’re not tall enough yet,” I said. want him to ever be afraid to try new things, but until he learns to fully ap- “Maybe next year.”

But as it turned out, Evan was tall preciate gravity, transfusions and fullbody casts, we need to help him set enough, by about an inch and a half. parameters (Evan’s little brother Sean We discovered that on the second day is showing signs of being even more when Evan ran up to a wooden cutout aggressive, but I am unable to contem- of a cartoon beaver (there is a lot of plate that while processing the Thora- beaver on display at Splash Universe) Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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and stood against its outstretched arm to show me he did make the cut.

I ride the Goldmine Adventure Slides every chance I get, but I could not imagine taking Evan on the ride.

Me on an inner tube hurtling behind Evan would surely make him feel like Indiana Jones being chased by the giant boulder. I figured once we made the actual climb, Evan would see the heights and change his mind.

He did not. So, I put him in the front of the inner tube, wrapped my shins around him and told him sternly that he had to hold on no matter what.

“Blastoff!” he shouted, and we did.

But at the halfway point, cascading down the yellow slide, I changed my mind. I doubted Evan could hold on when we hit the bottom, so as we began to exit the chute, I lunged forward to grab him in my arms. That graceful maneuver ended up flipping the inner tube upside down, and Evan was torn from my grasp as we went under water.

I had him in hand and back in the air before he knew what hit us, but he wasn’t happy we “sunk,” as he put it.

And that was the end of that.

Until an hour later, when Evan asked if we could go again.

“We sunk last time,” I said.

“That’s because you didn’t let me hold on,” he said.

So, we climbed the staircase again, looked down 60 feet and climbed into the inner tube. This time, fighting every fiber of instinct, I kept my lower legs wrapped around Evan but trusted him to hold on, and did not try to grab him as we shot off the slide. The inner tube took air from the chute, hit the pool ... and calmly sailed to a stop without so much as an errant ripple.

Having learned a lesson in trust and letting go just a little bit, I pulled Evan out of the inner tube. He did not quite have the temerity to say, “I told you so,” but I could see it in his eyes as he took my hand and started pulling me back to the foot of the giant slide. D’oh.

Michael S. Miller is Editor in Chief of Toledo Free Press. E-mail him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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GUEST COLUMN

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

TOLEDO, INK

CHAD-MICHAEL SIMON

Reinventing Toledo

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The charlatans who operate beoledo’s future will be determined within the next 24 hind the scenes are ever present. months. The opportunity to There are certain personalities who save our city is before us, and if we thrive on their ability to manipulate Toledo residents fail to take the nec- the visible leaders. They operate essary steps to save our city, we will “under the radar” and leave no evilose it. The long-term consequences dence of their presence. Their comfort zone is playing both of fiscal emergency would sides against each other be an embarrassing legacy. and never being identiThere exists no simple or fied. painless solution. We did Perhaps the worst not get into this fiscal root cause is that we are a nightmare overnight and city where hardly anyone we will not get out of votes. Only 16 to 22 perit instantaneously. Our course must be long-term D. Michael COLLINS cent of the registered voters determine who with measured steps and discipline. If we have the will to see will lead us. The outcome in too it through, I honestly believe Toledo many cases is cronyism and sophocan rise to even greater heights than moric political gamesmanship.

But it is not too late for Toledo we have ever experienced.

Let us begin with the root to recover. I have confidence that causes for our current state of af- Toledoans can “connect the dots” fairs. Toledo residents lost pride in as to the root causes of the decline our city and for the past 50 years and rise above the problems. First, have been moving to the suburbs, let’s remember our identity as thus relinquishing their identity Toledoans. We must now capture as Toledoans. The Toledo city a sense of pride in our community government looked down on the and commit to the goal that failure suburban communities as small is not an option.

Toledoans must take an active and unworthy of respect and recognition. The population of Toledo part in selection of elected officials declined from a peak of 383,818 by “speaking with their feet” and in 1970 to an estimated 310,000 going to the polls.

The leadership in Toledo, public in 2005. My question is: “Does this sound like the identical path and private, must step up and have Cleveland took in the 1970s and the vision to see Toledo’s potential.

In a world of international comDetroit is following now?”

The political process in Toledo merce, we must compete by having has been stifling and both political the insight to reinvent Toledo and parties are to blame. Our city has partner with our sister communities. experienced and continues to ex- This can be done if we have honest perience a political dominance that communication built on respect serves the officeholder first, the party and relationships built on trust. No second and lastly, if there is room, responsible business will come to the constituents. I have seen how Toledo until there is stability in the some of the elected officials from To- municipal government.

We must see a new level of buyledo have an attitude that the citizens are fortunate to have them as office in from the local news institutions. holders, and believe the constituents Toledoans deserve fair and balanced must give them the respect and adu- reporting; that is, news that is free of sensationalism and political bias. lation they deserve.

Toledoans will determine the Toledo has lost its major manufacturing base, which was estab- future of Toledo; if we lose our city, lished in the early 1900s when we the failure will be on us. To save Totransitioned from an agriculture- ledo, all of the stakeholders, private based society. Toledo blossomed and public, must commit to a disbecause of this transition, in which ciplined and ego-free strategy. The the corporate giants took a direct outcome can be a Toledo our chilhand in shaping Toledo as a stable dren and their children’s children will be proud to call home. municipality.

Today, the corporate giants are gone and we are struggling to D. Michael Collins is a Toledo City representing Distransition to a new paradigm: tech- Councilman nology-based and knowledge-based trict 2. E-mail him at dmichael. collins@toledo.oh.gov. paradigms in a global economy.

SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

Cutting to the heart of the problem

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s I ruffled through the pages, these sentences caught ticing. I’m surprised at the green lawns and the water features at business, residential and shopping entrances since my attention: “I hope the council would publicly state that this is a desert region. We have heard so much about our they support the tax increase because we can’t afford to cut water needing to be sold to the West at some point.

“It’s a sign of affluence,” my oldest daughter any more public-safety officials.” said, as I point out water display after water dis■ “It’s really hard to listen to people explay. She is quick to point out her employer does pressly advocate when they are not really not have such a display and does the opposite. talking to council. They are campaigning.”

They have a water reclamation facility that re■ “He’s hired cronies rather than qualified turns water to the City of Chandler, Ariz. people. He’s wasted money.”

The visit to Arcosanti, an experimental ■ “The agency’s deputy director immedimodel of how urban environments of the future ately called a staff meeting and warned that no could be, a community without cars, energy one was to talk to this newspaper.” efficient with a focus on self sufficiency, gives ■ “Records show the agency’s waiting list (for housing) has thousands of names on it Lisa Renee WARD a first impression of hope that quickly turns to disappointment. Arcosanti is barely alive in part — that list is only growing.”

These clips were taken from Gilbert Republic and due to mismanagement. Only 18 percent of its power is self generated. The rest they have to buy from the power grid. The Phoenix New Times, in Arizona, not Toledo, Ohio.

While the climate may be completely different, the chal- bakery is closed, leaving their main source of income being lenges shared in the pages of these weekly papers are strik- the sale of chimes with bells made from clay and metal.

It’s normal to rail against the local system — it is what ingly familiar. Dinner conversations at local eateries fixate on personalities involved in local issues, laying blame on impacts us most in our daily lives. People often threaten to move to a different area out of frustration. people rather than the process.

It may seem easier to just move someplace else, but There is a lack of transparency and delays in getting public information requests, with those involved being many problems being faced by communities all over our nation are similar, differing only on the degree of the afwarned to not talk to certain media outlets.

Tax increases are discussed for May ballots, with the fectation. We need to find solutions to the shared problems community divided on the issue of where cuts should be communities are facing.

Focusing on the process instead of the personalities made. Revenue streams for education and additional cuts would be a start. are being sought.

Most of those in power have been for some time; the Toledo Free Press contributor Lisa Renee Ward operates the lack of fresh perspective is lamented.

As an outsider to the Phoenix area, the weather is en- political blog Glass City Jungle.

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CITY OF TOLEDO

Bell considers receivership a last-ditch option

By Michael Brooks TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

On a day when most Toledoans were digging out from a foot of snow, Toledo City Councilman George Sarantou worked on another form of excavation: the mountain of municipal debt that threatens Toledo’s financial stability.

“There is no question that SARANTOU the city faces a fiscal emergency,” said Sarantou in a meeting Feb. 9 in his 21st floor office at One Government Center. “What we need to be concentrating on is finding long-term solutions and not just shortterm fixes to the budget.”

The City of Toledo faces a projected $48.2 million budget deficit for 2010, a figure that includes approximately $12.77 million in deficits inherited from 2009, the last year of the Carty Finkbeiner administration. The deficit represents approximately onefifth of the projected revenues in the 2010 budget.

While publicly Mayor Mike Bell and his staff discuss the need for budget cuts and tax hikes to solve the city’s budget woes, behind closed doors there is increasing talk that the only solution to the budget deficit is to have the state step in and put the city into receivership. Toledo Free Press obtained a copy of an eight-page internal memorandum from acting law director Adam Loukx to deputy mayor Stephen Herwat outlining the processes and conditions by which Toledo might make use of insolvency mechanisms to address its budget woes.

The memo details the background, definitions and possible resolutions of Fiscal Watch and Fiscal Emergency.

Bell reiterated in an interview that he considers receivership a last resort.

“Our expectation is that cooler heads will prevail,” the mayor said in reference to ongoing discussions with

city unions. “It is in no one’s best interest for the state to become involved in Toledo’s financial difficulties, and to focus on doom-and-gloom scenarios might cause unwarranted panic that Toledo will run out of money.”

When cities go broke Though infrequently used, there exists a legal mechanism by which municipalities might declare bankruptcy.

Under the United States Bankruptcy Code Chapter 9 Title 11, municipalities can file for bankruptcy protection with provisions similar to those found in the forms of bankruptcy filed by individuals and corporations.

An important consideration for Bell will be the fact that an attempt by the City of Toledo to file for bankruptcy would necessitate approval by the State of Ohio. Chapter 9 requires that any municipality seeking bankruptcy protection must first secure “specifically authorized” before commencing the process. This clause is because states retain considerable authority over municipalities within their borders due to restrictions under the 10th Amendment and the so-called contract clause in the U.S. Constitution.

Ohio Revised Code 118 provides an additional mechanism by which the state can intervene and prevent a municipal bankruptcy. Under this law, which was adopted in response to the 1979 financial collapse of Cleveland, the state can place a municipality in one of two categories: “fiscal watch” or “fiscal emergency.”

Sarantou indicated that state intervention to help a struggling municipality is preferable to bankruptcy.

“Investors are reassured when the state steps in to help municipalities restructure debt,” he said. “It would be disastrous for the city’s credit rating to file bankruptcy.”

For a municipality to fall under fiscal watch status, the existence of one of a number of possible scenarios must be confirmed. In Toledo’s case, fiscal watch status would occur if the projected general fund deficit exceeds one-twelfth of the previous year’s rev-

enues. Toledo could be declared a fiscal emergency if the projected general fund deficit exceeds one-sixth of the previous year’s revenues.

The current projection of a $48.2 million deficit exceeds both criteria, Sarantou said.

“There will have to be a lot of changes — some of them painful — to get through the current crisis,” Sarantou said.

“While the city has not yet defaulted on any major obligations, it is clear that this will not be the case by the middle of the fiscal year.”

Bell called “speculative” any attempt to project a date as to when cash flow problems would occur for the city.

“If we found that the city did not have the ability to raise the necessary revenue, we would make adjustments,” he said. “It will never get to the point where the City of Toledo would not be able to pay its bills.”

Insolvent municipalities There is a lengthy history of American municipalities and other government entities whose financial woes exceeded their ability to solve shortfalls through normal budgetary measures. Most noteworthy of these is the 1994 case of Orange County, a wealthy California region that was overwhelmed by the sudden collapse of an investment scheme created by its county treasurer.

The losses from the implosion of the investment pool totaled $1.64 billion, and Orange County officials chose Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection to avoid a run on the available revenues that had not been lost in the scheme.

In 2008, the city of Vallejo, Calif., joined a list of municipalities choosing bankruptcy protection to solve their budget woes. At the time of filing for bankruptcy, this city of more than 120,000 people spent approximately 80 percent of its general fund revenues on salaries and benefits to public safety employees. Since the bank-

ruptcy, the city has been forced to cut hundreds of jobs and slash services, and the number of police officers has been reduced by almost 50 percent.

Dozens of Ohio municipalities have made use of state provisions under ORC 118 to avoid filing bankruptcy and to take advantage of the state’s power to assist in debt restructuring. One of the most noteworthy examples was Cleveland, which remained in the category of fiscal emergency from 1980 to 1987. The largest Ohio municipality to fall under the category of fiscal watch was the city of Youngstown, which remained in fiscal watch from 1996 through 1999.

Sarantou noted the advantages of bringing in the state to help solve Toledo’s budget crisis.

“The state can step in and unilaterally restructure union contracts,” he said. “As it stands now the city has

to rely on the unions to make any concessions.”

Sarantou bristled at the suggestion that the city has been financially irresponsible in prior fiscal years.

“There is a perception that Toledo has somehow been spending money like drunken sailors,” he said. “But I have been working on every budget since 2002, and every year we have been faced with cutbacks — the focus the last seven years is on ways to cut the budget.”

Sarantou said that contract agreements with city unions in the 1990s have come back to haunt Toledo.

“The city convinced unions to take increased pension payments in place of wage increases,” he said. “This made short-term financial sense, but in the long run the city is now paying a steep price for this negotiating tactic.”

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“In these cases the state acts more like an advisor than anything else,” he said. “The local government is still in charge of its day-to-day operations.”

Avoiding receivership The preferred outcome for the City of Toledo, according to Sarantou, is that the city is able to solve its budget woes at the local level, and he praised Bell for his efforts to bring attention to and solve the financial crisis the city faces.

“This mayor has been very transparent, and this mayor is trustworthy,” he said. “Mayor Bell has been working diligently to generate ideas on how to fix the situation.”

Sarantou outlined a number of

proposals that will reduce the city’s budget shortfall, including more stringent collection efforts on tax receipts.

“We have $21 million on the books in uncollected city income taxes,” he said, adding that some of these debts date back to the late 1970s. “Realistically, $6 million of this debt is collectable.”

Another potential source of revenue for the city is the sale of cityowned properties, such as The Docks and land in Monclova Township.

“This might represent $7 million in revenue,” Sarantou said, adding that these funds would revert back to the capital improvements budget and would also need approval to shift these funds to general revenues.

Sarantou also pointed to the city’s red light camera system as another source of uncollected revenue.

“Violators currently owe the city about $5 million in fines for red light camera infractions,” he said, noting that the compliance rate on paying these tickets is only 44 percent.

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Sharing responsibility for the future

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great deal of discussion has taken place in the media and economic development. Pursuing these long-term about Toledo’s current budget situation. Since taking goals will help not just to solve this current problem, but office on Jan. 4, my administration has worked to ex- also put the city on the right track for future fiscal health.

Our working group comprised of council members, amine, line by line, the expenditures and revenues that make up the city budget. We’ve looked for places to cut costs, to city directors, transition team and citizen task force members continues to meet on Wednesday mornings and our improve efficiency and collect revenue that is owed us.

Working with the transition team, our union leaders, citizen task force continues to meet on Wednesday aftercity council and the citizen’s task force, we have identified noons to continue determining the feasible options for resolving the immediate budget deficit and more than $25 million in budget reduction setting in place a long-term system of finanmeasures — without increasing taxes. These cial planning. measures include greater employee contriFinally, citizen input is just as imbutions to health insurance, eliminating portant as the professional and expert pension pickups, pursuing delinquent taxes voices we hear each day and I welcome and fees so that everyone is contributing the constructive ideas that you have to their share, reducing nonpersonnel costs in improve our city. There are multiple ways all departments and more. These measures to submit your thoughts on the budget: are rarely covered in mainstream media be■ E-mail your suggestions to cause they’re not as emotional as taxes and budget2010@toledo.oh.gov; fees, but they are equally important to getMayor Mike BELL ■ Call the city at (419) 245-3212; or ting our fiscal house in order.

■ Participate in an online forum at www.futureoftoSome of these ideas are unpopular, but they are necessary. I have likened the city budget situation to a sinking ledo.org, where you can find background information ship. We are all in this together, so when people tell me about the budget, surveys rating the importance of city that I’m facing one heck of a dilemma with the budget, I services and areas where we can make cuts, and opportuliken it to telling the captain of a sinking ship that he has nities to offer direct suggestions. Comments from each of one heck of a dilemma — when the water is rising around these outlets are directed to my office.

I pledged to you that as mayor I would apply good manall of our feet. We must all play a role in bailing water and agement principles to get our budget under control while patching the leak if we are to survive this crisis.

Resolving a budget with a potential $48 million short- preserving our city services and we are working not only fall in revenues is a delicate balancing act, especially for a to change how we manage operations, but the mindset new mayor. I don’t want to pay more taxes, so I imagine of the people who do the work of the city. Increasingly, the citizens of Toledo don’t, either. And we do our commu- employees are encouraged to take initiative in finding sonity a disservice by cutting vital services for which they are lutions to resolve the problems within their own departalready paying. Eliminating some of our optional services ment, provide more efficient service to our residents, and can also do harm as we look to make Toledo an attractive be accountable for goals that they have helped to set. All of these changes will develop a better, more responsive local location for business growth and development.

My goal is to preserve a quality of life that does not government for the community we serve along with real alienate the people who currently call Toledo home or dis- pride in being a Toledoan.

This is a difficult time in our city’s history, but we have suade potential employers from relocating here. But as I have admitted all along, the mayor cannot do it alone. This an opportunity now to work together in the same direcjob requires constructive advice and input from stake- tion to change the look of our own future. I ask not just holders around the community. It is with these thoughts for your patience and trust, but also for your participation as we work through this challenge. We are all affected by in mind that we are driving the 2010 budget process.

Our short-term focus is balancing the 2010 budget by the success or failure of this community and we can all be March 31, and I have pledged to send council by March 1 a part of the solution. multiple balanced-budget scenarios for their consideration.

Long term, we continue to examine opportunities for re- Mike Bell is Mayor of Toledo. gional collaboration, increased efficiency, reduced costs E-mail him at mayor.toledo@toledo.oh.gov. .'#&(#&-)'8

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Bell agreed that enhanced collection efforts on tax receipts and traffic fines is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;key component of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy to address the budget deficit.â&#x20AC;?

Yet ultimately the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget problems revert back to personnel costs, Sarantou said. He outlined approximately $14 million in sav-

COMMUNITY ings that could be achieved through items like having city employees pay 20 percent of health care costs, an elimination of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pickup of employee pension contributions, and deferring payouts for one year from the comp time accrued by police and firefighters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roughly two-thirds of the annual budget is consumed by components like salaries and benefits,â&#x20AC;?

Sarantou said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can achieve some budget reductions through deferring purchases of items like police cars, but the most significant savings can only be achieved in personnel expenditures.â&#x20AC;?

The mayor described initial conversations with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unions as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an amenable situation.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have removed employee salaries off the table, and this makes any contract changes an easier sell for the unions,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that changes to pension and benefit contributions will meet less resistance by city employees than across the board wage cuts.

Sarantou said he believes that a combination of budget cuts and a temporary increase in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s income tax can balance the budget, but he added that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all sides have to sacrifice in order to make this work.â&#x20AC;?

Mayor pulls income tax proposal

By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell asked Toledo City Council to remove his proposed one-fourth percent income tax increase from consideration during a committee of the whole meeting Feb. 16.

Instead of a proposed tax increase, Bell urged council to approve measures that would allow Toledoans to vote on how funds are currently allocated between the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and General Fund. Under city charter, a set amount of incoming taxes are placed in the CIP. If placed on the ballot, citizens can vote to allow city council and the mayor to allocate that funding to the general fund, creating a balanced budget without raising taxes.

The proposal was on the ballot in September but was staunchly opposed by then-Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and was defeated.

Additionally, Bell presented city council with a new

2010 budget that contained significant revisions.

The revised plan includes concessions from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unions, an elimination of pension pickups and employees covering 20 percent of medical costs.

Bell suggests an elimination of the tax credit for those who live in Toledo but work elsewhere.

The plan also includes sales of assets estimated a $5 million and implementation of an event tax and eliminates the budget for the annual July 4 fireworks.

The mayor has withdrawn his request for unions to concede a 10 percent pay cut.

The new plan does not address the $12.77 million carryover deficit from 2009, but proposes a $1.17 million surplus between income and cost for 2010.

With that surplus, the city still has a $11.6 million deficit from 2009 to address.

In a letter to council, Bell stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are no easy solutions to this budget crisis. I am confident that by working together we can meet this challenge and continue to provide the services our citizens expect and deserve.â&#x20AC;?

Council must pass a balanced budget by March 31.

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Reynolds Corners Rotary donates to Haiti relief

By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

The Rotary Club of Reynolds Corners (RCRC) donated $10,000 to Rotary International to help with relief efforts in Haiti. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always looking for people in need. Rotaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motto is service above self.

Under that motto, we want to be able to give it to people who need it the most,â&#x20AC;? said Tamara Riggs, president of RCRC. RCRC member, Ford B. Cauffiel, gave a $5,000 donation, which the club of 45 members then matched, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all humans and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re human. If children were starving to death in this room, how could you stand to have a nice lunch and not help the starving children? This is a terrible calamity,â&#x20AC;? Cauffiel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have feelings because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re human and this was something we should do quickly. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m willing because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been successful in life, and have everything I need to donate $5,000 and I asked the club to match me.â&#x20AC;?

The donation provided funds for tents, food rations and other aid in Haiti that was dispersed by Rotary International.

Cauffiel has a history of giving through the 20-year program Students for Other Students (SOS), which he founded. SOS pays students $8 an hour to tutor other â&#x20AC;&#x153;at-riskâ&#x20AC;? students. Rotaries around the state are matching funds to help fund the project that helps 15 school districts throughout Ohio, he said.

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By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

It has been one year since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the “stimulus bill,” was signed into law and area Congress members think there is still work to be done.

The bill granted $787 billion in spending throughout the United States to KAPTUR jump-start the economy and create jobs. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo) voted to pass the bill, while Congressman Bob Latta (RBowling Green) voted against it.

According to recovery.gov, Ohio has been awarded approximately $6.4 billion in funding for loans, grants and contracts. The state has received about $1.7 billion, as of Feb.17.

Congressman Latta said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed too quickly by Congress and has failed to create jobs. President Barack Obama promised the unemployment rate would not rise to more than 8 percent if the bill was passed, but the unemployment LATTA rate reached 19 percent nationally, Latta said.

“A lot of the money flowed to the state instead of helping to create jobs.

States used the funding to balance their budget,” Latta said. “This money did not do anything it was supposed to do. They raced it through, they spent the money and now we’re in a situation that they can’t give us an accurate figure if they’ve created jobs or if they’ve saved jobs.”

With interest, the stimulus bill is costing the American people more than $1.2 trillion, Latta said.

“We have a situation out there that the money is gone and now we’re stuck having to figure out how we’re going to pay this back,” he said.

Kaptur said while the bill didn’t address the problems in the economy, it helped the United States from falling further apart: “Nationally, we have saved or created 2 million and 2.4 million jobs. Is it sufficient? No. Did it help us from falling further into the recession? Absolutely.”

Kaptur said stimulus money helped

the district, which has unemployment rates above the national average, by providing unemployment checks and funding COBRA. The stimulus bill included funding $250 to senior citizens for cost of living, the first-time home buyer tax credit and maintained Medicaid, she said.

The stimulus also assisted with “lifeline programs,” by maintaining police, firefighters and teachers. In Toledo it helped rehire approximately three dozen police officers, Kaptur said.

Kaptur, however, criticizes the administration for not addressing the true problem that caused this recession; Wall Street irresponsibility and the housing crisis.

“Their programs in housing and banking aren’t working. Across the country there is a huge down draft on what the stimulus can do as a result,” she said.

The banks inflated the housing market and took risky investments.

When they failed, the government bailed them out, Kaptur said. The banks need to be held responsible for the role they played, she said.

Additionally, banks have stopped lending to small business and small businesses can’t grow and create jobs, she said.

Kaptur has proposed a bill in the house, H.R.4377 Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2009, that would hold banks accountable for their actions and prevent events like those of 2008 from happening again.

much, borrowing too much, taxing too much and regulating too much, he said. All of these things spell “impending doom” for businesses in the United States.

Kaptur said under Obama, the interest paid on debts is a smaller percentage of the gross domestic product than under Bush, but thinks America should eliminate its foreign debt.

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If things continue on the track they are going it is possible to be $25 trillion in the hole by 2020, Latta said.

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“We need to run the federal government like you do a household. You don’t spend it if you don’t have it,” Latta said.

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Wake Up Youth nonprofit closing

By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

The board of directors for Wake Up Youth Inc., a nonprofit crisis prevention and intervention program for at-risk women and girls, voted on Feb. 11 to close its doors.

“It’s really hard in today’s economy to get fundraising,” said Paula Brown, board president. “It was a hard decision we really believe in the mission.

The trafficking of women and children is major in Toledo.”

The board’s decision to close follows the resignation of EleSondra DeRomano, executive director, for personal reasons, Brown said.

DeRomano led the street outreach and was out from 11p.m. to 5 a.m. in the areas where women were most at risk, Brown said. Wake Up Youth Inc. has notified its partners, Toledo Community Foundation and Shared Hope International of the closing.

“It’s a perfect storm right now.

In this particular case some leadership issues facilitated by some financial issues,” said Keith Burwell, president of the Toledo Community Foundation. “We have a problem in Toledo with our nonprofits in the sense we have the nonprofit infrastructure that equals Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, but a population base that is much smaller. We’ve been asking people to support something that is much larger. We’ve gotten away with it in the good times but now when times are tough it’s harder.”

Brown did not know the annual operating budget for the nonprofit. A I-990, a tax form, for the organization in 2004 listed total assets as zero.

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Kids Unlimited is hosting a Haiti Relief Benefit from noon to 7 p.m. Feb. 20 at Englewood Peace Academy, 1120 Horace St. near the corner of Bancroft and Detroit Avenue. Guest speakers include Toledo Mayor Mike Bell, along with live music, step shows and concession stands. All proceeds from the event will go to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti, according to a news release. For information, call program coordinator Chantel Clariett at (901) 275-7979.

Hope Church and the Oregon Area Pastors Fellowship are hosting Prime Time Live 2010, a community event for seniors, Feb. 26 and Feb. 27.

“There is value in letting seniors know they are still appreciated. They need to know they are still an important part of our community,” said Thom Sneed, Hope Church administrative pastor.

Prime Time Live 2010 will feature three different events at Hope Church, 5650 Starr Ave. “I think sometimes we’re the forgotten era. There are a lot of things going on for teens and the youth,” said Betty Metz, 64, member of the steering committee. “This whole weekend centered around and planned for 50, nice to know someone is planning things that would interest and entertain us.”

On Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. Hope Church will host a dinner and comedy theater with the Covenant Players Drama Group. The event is open for individuals ages 50 and up and is free of charge.

On Feb. 27 a health and wellness fair will be held at 1 p.m. The event will host more than 20 exhibitors and will feature two breakout sessions with doctors discussing common health problems seniors face. At 4 p.m. the same day, a concert featuring Kate Jordan & Soul Venture and Sojourner Quartet, will take place. The Sojourner Quartet is southern style gospel music and Kate Jordan &Soul Venture is more new age and contemporary, Jordan said. Tickets for the concert are $5 and can be purchased at the door or ahead of time at WPOS radio station, Lifeway and Family Christian bookstore or Hope Church. Reservations for the evening should be made in advance by contacting (419) 724-HOPE.

‘Heroes of Diversity’ The Toledo Area Human Resources Association (TAHRA) is hosting the fifth annual Diversity Symposium, “Heroes of Diversity,” on March 5.

“The goal of our program is to raise awareness of diversity and promote diversity initiatives in the workplace and community,” said Elizabeth Bergman, TAHRA diversity chair. “Our presenters and emcee will offer a fresh perspective on current diversity issues that human resources professionals face.”

The symposium will feature keynote speaker Victor Antonio, discussing new diversity perspectives.

Two additional speakers, Mark Butler and Linda Mansour, will discuss diversity in the workplace and seeing beyond someone’s religion.

The event is geared towards human resource professionals but is open to everyone, Bergman said.

The event will take place 7:30 a.m. to noon at the Pinnacle, 1772 Indian Wood Circle. Registration fees are $75 for TAHRA members, $90 for nonmembers and $50 for students. Discounted rates are available if registered before Feb. 26.

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She said that the influx of casual gamers can be witnessed in the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s larger focus on video games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progressed with gaming as a whole. It went from the whole classic, you know, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dungeons and Dragons,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Magic: The Gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; card set, to including the likes of the MMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (massive multiplayer online games) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;World of Warcraft,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;RuneScapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and others. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really incorporated the digital age,â&#x20AC;? Porter said.

Porter said the smaller size of an event like BashCon makes it a more personal experience than larger events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conventions like Gencon, or DragonCon or ComicCon are so big you really can get lost in it, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to, as an individual, really get in touch with things,â&#x20AC;? Porter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With a smaller convention, you can sample games easier, you can see games easier. You can be a bystander or participant a lot easier.â&#x20AC;?

Local gaming stores will also be represented at the event. Darryl E. Dean, owner of The Game Room on Sylvania Avenue, said he has been involved in BashCon for 20 years, as a retailer and as a player.

One of the positive side effects of BashCon, Dean said, was that â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re basically helping out the university, and it gets maybe even some of the kids that might even think about going to the university, it gives them a chance to see the place when you get there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And you get to meet all kinds of new people.â&#x20AC;?

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Toning & Natural Health offers an alternative workout for those individuals who need a nontraditional work out.

The facility has 10 therapeutic exercise tables that help tone and stretch the muscles. Each treatment, or class, is five machines for 10 minutes each.

“The therapeutic exercise machines move in a repetitive systematic movement, which exercises the appropriate range of motion for the body, whether it’s the arms, the legs or the trunk. It’s just very health promoting,” said Linda Ott, managing director of Toning & Natural Health.

The company serves clients from a broad spectrum, Ott said. There are customers who are 88 years old to people who are in their 30s; there are people who are thin and people who are trying to lose weight, she said. “[The tables] really help, especially, during the second treatment that I came

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Class sizes are small, with a maximum of 10 individuals at once.

“I really enjoy the stretching and the benefits. It doesn’t look like you’re doing a workout on a lot of them, but you are,” said Ema Jaimez, another customer. “I really enjoy coming here, I’ve seen a good benefit. I want to lose some pounds but mostly just toning up.”

Manufacturer studies have found that the tables assist those who have debilitating health problems, such as stroke patients and individuals with multiple sclerosis, Ott said.

Additionally, the studies found that two sessions a week was the equivalent of 14 hours working out.

“What intrigued me about this is the time issue. The sales point of being able to get in 14 hours worth of exercise in two hours each week,” said Jeff Wenzlick, who was at his first

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Sponsors are needed to get the product to the public free of charge, Jones said. Additionally, funding is needed for upcoming WIN newsletters as well as an inaugural event in October. The Toledo chapter of WIN was formed three months ago to provide services to women and children in the community, Jones said.

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Opened in December, Toning & Natural Health will eventually offer other natural health services, such as bach flower remedies, aromatherapy and reflexology, said Ott, who is a doctor of Naturopathy.

Toning & Natural Health offers a free introductory class so individuals can see what the tables have to offer.

The first class offers five minutes on each table.

“We assume they are coming from the couch, so we do not put them on for a full 10 minutes,” Ott said. “After the first week of placing individuals on for the full 10 minutes and people saying they were sore, we changed it.

You’re not supposed to be sore after using the machines.”

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The UT Medical Center (UTMC) opened its new inpatient orthopedic wing, the UT Mobility Disorders, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Inpatient Center, on Jan. 21.

The wing will provide patients and their families a “state of the art facility” to deal with mobility and orthopedic issues, said Mark Chastang, vice president and executive director of UTMC. “The wing was designed for patients and their families to participate in the recovery process,” Chastang said. “It’s like no other treatment program in the area.”

“We have a whole comprehensive service menu necessary to treat patients and support them through evaluation, the surgical process and proceed to recovery and daily lives,” he said. “We have a comprehensive, organized team of professionals who are devoted and knowledgeable on these kind of mobility problems.”

The inpatient center features an education room with computers that allow doctors to illustrate surgical procedures and mobility disorders for patients, Chastang said.

“The education room allows doctors to break down what each problem means, how it happens, what surgery may have to take place and how the recovery process will be,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gold, provost and executive vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine. “There’s a large focus on education.”

In addition to an education room, the wing features a family space with a TV and Internet access, 30 new patient rooms with state of the art computers and larger showers, a conference room and space for patients to walk around without having to go to the rehab center, Gold said.

“This is a highly patient centered unit. We spoke with patients and families to see what makes a better

UTMC and the university receive lots of orthopedic cases because it can provide additional service the patients may need. Since it’s located inside a hospital, we can provide all services, vascular, trauma and neurology.”

— Dr. Nabil Ebraheim center,” Gold said.

UTMC’s new orthopedic center opened in 2007, which eventually led to the expanding of services that makes the center so popular, said Dr. Nabil Ebraheim, professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopedics.

“UTMC and the university receive lots of orthopedic cases because it can provide additional service the patients may need. Since it’s located inside a hospital, we can provide all services, vascular, trauma and neurology,” Ebraheim said. “The center is a hospital within a hospital. It is not a free-standing unit with limited services.”

The inpatient center’s location on the sixth floor with the rehabilitation services is also convenient for patients, he said.

UTMC Orthopedics Department treats a large number of out of state patients, Ebraheim said.

The new inpatient center will provide 24-hour access for families who may want to be transferred to the hospital from instate or out of state.

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According to the Centers for Dis- autoimmune diseases, such as rheuease Control, more than 40 million matoid arthritis, systemic lupus and people have reported being told by a fibromyalgia.

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As the joint surfaces continue to erode, under-layers of raw, exposed bone become sources of increased pain. There may even be episodes of the joint feeling as if it wants to “give out” due to surface irregularities, with the risk of falling.

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In the milder forms of osteoarthritis, symptomatic relief is the first line of treatment; this is ice, activity modification and anti-inflammatory medications.

As the condition worsens, treatment options such as narcotic pain medications, cortisone injections, “gel” injections and, perhaps, even outpatient arthroscopy to “clean out” the joint (in the case of knee and shoulder arthritis), may be needed.

When the arthritic condition becomes too severe for lesser treatment options or what is routinely described as “end-stage,” joint replacement may be the treatment required.

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Huntington Bank has made a commitment to infuse $360 million into the Toledo and Northwest Ohio economy through loans to small businesses in the next three years.

“The ability for small businesses to access credit is vital for economic recovery and the future vitality of our region,” said Sharon Speyer, Northwest Ohio regional president for Huntington Bank.

“We have made a commitment to help small businesses grow and directly create jobs in our community that will have a positive impact on the economy in Northwest Ohio.”

The bank will provide loans averaging $150,000 to as many as 2,500 small businesses with working capital to expand, add employees, or invest in new equipment to jump start their success and the economy.

“Huntington has made small business lending a top priority,” Speyer said, confirming the bank’s current ranking as the top Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in Ohio.

The small business program is part of a major $4 billion initiative involving all of Hungtinton’s markets in several states. It is a result of the bank’s strong partnership with the SBA, according to James Phares, vice president of business banking at Huntington.

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Aktion Associates Inc. of Maumee is one local company that already has benefited from Huntington’s SBA loan program. The company received a $1.8 million loan from the SBA through Huntington, closing in January after a process in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Aktion needed capital for some acquisitions, a partner retiring and the mortgage renewal on the building it owns and occupies, said Scott Irwin, president of Aktion Associates.

The firm’s five-year term on the building with Fifth Third Bank was due to expire.

“With the current banking situation, our years of profitability and cash flow, we had limited conventional banking options,” Irwin said.

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Aktion had no previous experience working with the SBA before becoming involved with Huntington.

Irwin said the firm learned a lot in the process, primarily that SBA funds come through the bank, but are guar-

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couple of years ago, an elderly lady came in to talk about her estate plan and have her documents reviewed. She had set up a living trust years ago and wanted to make

sure everything was up-to-date. We looked over her documents for her and began to ask her questions about how her accounts were titled. She said that her accounts were all titled in her name.

Mark asked her if she knew that if she died that all of her accounts would go through probate? She was shocked and almost in tears to find this out since the purpose of her living trust was to

avoid probate. She said “you mean to tell me that if I died, my living trust would do nothing to help my assets avoid probate? What good is it?” We then explained how important it is to take the final step and actually fund the trust by changing the title of accounts and real estate to the trust.

This lady was smart enough to take the step to set up a trust with the goal of more of her Mark money getting into Nolan the hands of her children, rather than going to lawyers, courts, fees, etc. The problem was that she did not take the important final step. Making sure the accounts were properly titled. Perhaps no one told her what to do. Maybe they did and she neglected to take these steps. This is the biggest mistake people make when setting up a living trust. To avoid probate certain accounts should be titled with the trust as owner. We helped her get things corrected very quickly, but what a shame it would have been if she had paid good money to set up a trust and it ended up not helping her a bit.

Here is something else to consider.

If you own a 401(k), IRA, annuity,

403(b), life insurance or any other account that has a named beneficiary, listen very closely. A huge percentage of people do not have a correct updated beneficiary form on all of their financial accounts kept at home that they have quick access to. Most trust that the correct information is on file with their custodian. Unfortunately, many will be wrong about this and it will CLAIR be too late.

BAKER Here is another story. Mary had been a teacher for 30 years when she suddenly passed away from a heart attack. She had remarried and had been with her current husband for many years. They were truly a loving couple. Some time after Mary’s death, her husband Todd started the process of addressing their financial affairs.

He went to the school district and got the paperwork to file a claim on her teacher’s retirement only to find out he was not the beneficiary.

Mary had started teaching prior to being married to Todd. When Mary filled out the original paperwork, she listed her brother as beneficiary of her account.

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Unfortunately, with Mary gone, all the court had to rely on was her written instructions. You can guess what happened.

Think it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen to you and your family? Think again. Here are just a few examples of potential pitfalls. Naming your trust as beneficiary, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;divided equally among childrenâ&#x20AC;?, forgetting per stirpes language (bloodline), unintentionally disinheriting grandkids and assuming your financial institution has your form on file.

Here is what to do. Review each and every financial, insurance and asset you own and review the titling and the beneficiary designation. For our clients, we use a checklist call our B.O.S.S. system.

This system is designed to review the beneficiary, owner, survivor, and spouse of each account. This step-by-step checklist helps provide peace of mind by significantly increasing the odds that the forms are up to date and filled out correctly.

Can you put your hands on your beneficiary forms and are they correct? You can get a copy of this helpful checklist by going online to www.retirementguysradio.com and requesting the beneficiary form checklist.

When someone passes away, there is no second chance, no â&#x20AC;&#x153;do over,â&#x20AC;? so get it right now before something happens.

Do it today. It is one more step to take that will lead to a happy and relaxing retirement.

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The Society of Engineers (SAE) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) established guidelines years ago for oil flow performance.

Today we simply refer to these established standards as an oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s viscosity index rating. Most modern engine oils have a number that looks some-

thing like this: 10W30. The first number before the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? indicates the oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flow characteristics at zero degrees and the number after the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? indicates the oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flow characteristics at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? itself simply means that the oil was tested at zero degrees Fahrenheit and often is referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;winter weightâ&#x20AC;? oil. If there is only one number and no â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? is present then the oil was only tested at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

The lower the number is before the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? the better flow characteristics that oil has at low temperatures.

The higher the number after the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wâ&#x20AC;? the better flow characteristics the oil has at operating temperatures. Most

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your oil is at temperature you are more likely to purge the engineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crankcase of unwanted sludge and dirt particles.

I have briefly discussed engine oil this week. There is much more to engine oil than I was able to cover in this short piece.

I am always available to field any

ommend that the engine oil should be changed every 7,500 miles.

Of course, if you operate your vehicle in dusty environments or at extreme temperatures, then you should change your engine oil more regularly.

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TECHNOLOGY

TechTown prepares Detroit expansion with ‘TechTwo’ DETROIT (AP) — A former Cadillac dealership will be the second home for a research and technology park that aims to boost job growth and small-business creation, with the first new tenants expected this spring.

Wayne State University’s TechTown business incubator is calling it “TechTwo.’’ The 130,000-square-foot Dalgleish Cadillac building is 30,000 square feet larger than TechTown’s current home “TechOne,’’ which opened nearby in 2004.

“Several start-up companies are expected to move into the old building,’’ Randal Charlton, TechTown’s executive director, wrote in a blog post about the project. “These

12 city blocks ... will soon be home to new companies in the arts, alternative fuels, life sciences, education, information technology and automotive spinoffs.’’

The school last year agreed to buy the building for $1 million. TechTown expects the building to be handed over March 1.

The building was constructed in 1902 to build Cadillacs and the Dalgleish family had been selling Cadillacs there since 1964.

It was closed last year as one part of General Motors’ dealer consolidation plans.

The “TechOne’’ facility ran out of space earlier this year and has reportedly kept a waiting list of potential tenants.

TechTown deferred plans to renovate another large former Cadillac building nearby as “TechTwo’’ that was known more recently as the

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EDUCATION

Career Expo helps engineering students meet employers

By Duane Ramsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

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The UT College of Engineering’s Spring 2010 Career Expo will match engineering students seeking cooperative internships with participating companies Feb. 24.

The Spring 2010 Career Expo will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Nitschke Hall on the main campus.

The semi-annual event is conducted by the Career Management Center for the College of Engineering. Another Career Expo will be held Sept. 29.

The Career Expo is open to UT College of Engineering students seeking co-op positions and alumni looking for full-time positions. More than 9,530 students have participated in the co-op program since it was initiated in 1999 with 932 students involved in 2009.

More than 40 companies will participate in the Spring Career Expo, including major corporations such as General Electric, Kimberly Clark, Sunoco, Marathon Oil, Cooper Tire & Rubber, DTE Energy, First Energy and local firms such as SSOE, Inc. and Plastic Technologies, Inc. All engineering students at UT are required to complete a minimum

of three semesters of co-op education work experience for a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology. One-hundred percent of engineering undergrads graduate with at least one year of co-op experience.

“The program gives students an opportunity to learn about companies in their field while getting paid for the work and the firms have a chance to check out engineering students,” said Vickie Kuntz, director of the Career Management Center for the College of Engineering.

“Many firms hire co-op students full time after graduation. Choosing to employ a co-op allows a business to select from a well-prepared pool of employees,” Kuntz said.

The students usually begin the coop work in the spring or summer semester of their sophomore year. Once they start with a firm, they continue to rotate working there for one semester and going to school for a semester until they graduate, said Kuntz.

Jaryd Motsinger, a UT sophomore from Bowling Green studying civil engineering, is looking forward to his first career day. He hopes to land a co-op position with a company to gain some experience in structural design and project management, his main areas of interest.

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ited to the Toledo area or Northwest Ohio. UT students have worked with hundreds of companies in 40 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and 34 foreign countries.

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By Chris Schmidbauer TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPORTS EDITOR news@toledofreepress.com

Dave Dravecky’s life story is composed of all the things that would make a great Hollywood movie. The former major league baseball pitcher has experienced it all in his 54 years on this earth.

“I have been on quite an amazing journey throughout my DRAVECKY life,” Dravecky said, from his home in Denver, Colo.

“It is my hope that my experiences will bring comfort and peace to those going through rocky times in their lives.”

In 1988, Dravecky was a talented left-handed pitcher with the San Francisco Giants. But in October of that year, doctors discovered Dravecky had a tumor on his deltoid muscle in his left arm. Many medical experts felt that the southpaw’s playing days were over.

“When you hear that you have cancer, you are faced with such a different range of emotions,” he said. “I was confronted with my mortality at the age of 32, and it makes you realize you aren’t invincible anymore.”

Despite the doctors’ grim prognosis, Dravecky was determined to try and continue to play baseball, a game he has loved ever since he was a boy in Youngstown, Ohio.

“I couldn’t allow myself not to try and come back,” he said. “I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself always wondering whether or not I could have pitched again.”

On Aug. 10, 1989, just ten months

after doctors had discovered his tumor, Dravecky made a highly publicized return to the major leagues, and he began pitching for the Giants again.

He pitched eight solid innings in his first game back, and helped the Giants defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-3.

“There were so many people who helped me get to that day in 1989,” Dravecky said. “It was such a cool thing, and with God’s help, I was able to do an amazing thing.”

However, just five days later in Montreal, Dravecky’s comeback came to a heart breaking end. While facing the Expos, the southpaw broke his left arm, while throwing a fastball to former player Tim Raines. Dravecky collapsed on the field in agonizing pain.

“I remember lying on the ground and being in tremendous pain, and I almost went into shock,” he said. “As I began to collect my thoughts, all I could remember was my teammate, Bob Nepper’s words replaying in my head. He told me that it wasn’t my comeback that was the miracle, but the position that God had put me in, so that I could spread his love and message to the rest of the world because of my comeback. Bob’s words have really defined what my wife Jan and I have done with the rest of our lives.”

Dravecky’s arm and shoulder had to be amputated in 1991, but that has not stopped him from sharing his story as a motivational speaker.

“I have felt that by sharing my story, it gives others comfort and hope, and that is my way of paying it forward to those who are in need,” Dravecky said.

It is largely that message that led the Make-A-Wish foundation of Northwest Ohio to select Dravecky as its keynote speaker for the 16th annual Celebrity Sports Auction to take place

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Dravecky to offer message of hope at Make-A-Wish dinner

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FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PITCHER DAVE DRAVECKY WILL SPEAK IN TOLEDO FEB. 24.

Feb. 24 at the SeaGate Convention Centre in Downtown Toledo.

“Having Dave Dravecky as our keynote speaker is exciting and sobering,” said Eric Slough, Executive Director, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northwest Ohio. “His experiences with hope, perseverance and realizing dreams are very similar to what our wish children experience on a daily basis.”

Dravecky is excited to come to the Glass City to share his inspirational story and help raise money for such a special cause.

“I am honored and privileged to help the foundation to make a wish come true for a family that is suffering,” Dravecky said. “The foundation’s mission is such a great cause, and anything that I can do to help

encourage the community to see the value in an organization that works hard at putting a smile on a person’s face in their hour of need is an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

On the web visit www.northwestohio.wish.org and click on links for more information.

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Styx rocks on tour with REO Speedwagon, .38 Special Exclusively online at www.toledofreepress.com: An in-depth interview with REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronan on the band’s past and future.

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“Can’t Stop Rockin’ ” — it’s the name of the tour and a single featuring

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corny for the rest of us, but he came up with ‘Can’t Stop Rockin,’ ’ and he said to Tommy [Shaw from Styx] and Kevin Cronin from REO, ‘Why don’t you guys write a song with that title?’ And

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that sounded even more Spinal Tap to me, but we actually embraced it,” said Styx bass player Ricky Phillips.

“The song, we didn’t take it too seriously; we just went in and cut it kind of old school, nice and quickly like you used to do records, and it came out sounding great,” he continued during a call from his home in Austin, Texas.

“It’s been a lot of fun to close the shows with that song and both bands getting up on stage.”

Fans can look forward to that finale when Styx, REO Speedwagon and .38 Special play the Lucas County Arena at 7 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets range from $37.50 to $57.50.

“When you’re doing the big rock show and you’ve got your staging with the drop screens, the LED screens and the big lighting and the big staging, there’s just something about that. It’s something that was awe-inspiring to me when I was a kid, and I used to see bands in the big arena setting like that,” Phillips said. “Some bands aren’t set up to do that, but Styx music and a lot of other bands from that genre cater well to the huge PA system and thousands of people in one big room together.”

According to Phillips, the opening band usually plays a shorter set, and Styx and REO each take the stage for about 70 minutes.

“You can’t get real deep into the catalog like you would if it was just an evening with Styx, but in 70 minutes, we can play a lot of hits,” he said.

And Styx is known for its string of hits in the late ’70s and early ’80s: “Lady,” “Crystal Ball,” “Blue Collar Man,” “Renegade,” “Come Sail Away,” “Fooling Yourself,” “Babe,” “The Best

of Times” and “Too Much Time on My Hands.”

In 1979, Phillips was playing bass in The Babys when the band opened for Styx.

“I’ve actually known the guys, geez, 31 years now,” he said. “We had a blast; they were in their heyday, in their prime, and we were kind of the opening act for everybody back in those days. But it was something that turned out to be prophetic, and I never would have imagined at this point in my career I would actually be in Styx.”

After four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America — “The Grand Illusion,” “Pieces of Eight,” “Cornerstone” and “Paradise Theater” — Styx broke up in 1984.

The group has reformed with different lineups, including its current one with Phillips, singer and guitarist Shaw, original singer and guitarist James Young, drummer Todd Sucherman and keyboardist and singer Lawrence Gowan. Original bassist Chuck Panozzo makes occasional appearances.

Phillips said that since he joined the band in 2003, there’s been no talk about reuniting with singer and keyboardist Dennis DeYoung.

What about a reunion of The Babys?

“It would be so much fun to get together and do that catalog of songs again,” Phillips said. “That was when rock ‘n’ roll was rock ‘n’ roll, man.”

On the web visit www.styxworld.com and click on links for more information.

PHOTO COURTESY STYX

By Vicki L. Kroll

■ TOP ROW, FROM LEFT, JAMES YOUNG, RICKY PHILLIPS AND CHUCK PANOZZO, FRONT ROW, FROM LEFT, TODD SUCHERMAN, LAWRENCE GOWAN AND TOMMY SHAW.

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TMA exhibition to highlight Whistler works, influences

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The Toledo Museum of Art will soon showcase the work of one of the art world’s most celebrated figures. Its latest exhibition, “Whistler: Influences, Friends and the Not-So-Friendly,” is set to open Feb. 26 in the Works on Paper Gallery. The show examines a number of etchings and lithotint prints by famed painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler, as well as works by those who greatly influenced his life and artistic style.

The exhibit, which features 60 of Whistler’s works, is drawn from the museum’s private collection, and of-

fers patrons a rare treat.

“This is the first time, since I think around the 1960s, that we as an institution have offered an exhibit that highlights Whistler. We had acquired a piece by another artist of Whistler and that’s one of the things that got us thinking about a show of his work,” said Assistant Curator, Tom Loeffler. “It was just time. We have around 100 pieces of his work in our private collection. We chose the pieces in the exhibit, first because of the quality of the prints, certain pieces had been damaged over the years, and secondly, because of how they relate to the other artists on display. To fully understand Whistler’s work, the viewer must consider the impact of

the people — both friends and those he alienated — around him.”

The exhibit also features by artists such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Charles Emile Jacque, Alphonse Legros, Charles Meryon and Joseph Pennell.

“One of the things Whistler’s printmaking work offers patrons that his paintings do not is the line work, you simply won’t get the same quality of line,” Loeffler

said. “Whistler etched, rather than painted, when his finances were in trouble because he was more successful in selling his etchings.

Working on this exhibit helped me take something new from Whistler’s work, I don’t think I ever really understood before what he was trying to get across in his work the way I do now. I really would like everyone to know that if they’re coming in expecting pieces like Whistler’s Mother, they are in for

a surprise, this show is something very different.”

Whistler was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1834. He died in London in 1903 at the age of 69.

He is known today for his association with Tonalism.

“Whistler: Influences, Friends and the Not-So-Friendly” will remain on display through May 30, and is free and open to the public.

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Grown-up music fans may consider this summer’s Lollapalooza tour, with its rumored lineup of Lady Gaga, Green Day and Soundgarden, to be 2010’s hottest ticket, but the preschool set has its own superstar tour to look forward to.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America have teamed-up to present “Storytime Live!” a stage show that unites DADAP Dora the Explorer, The Wonder Pets!, The Backyardigans, Kai-lan and hosts Moose A. Moose and Zee. The show will stop at Toledo’s Stranahan Theater at 7 p.m. Feb. 22 and 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 23.

The 70-city tour is described as a stage performance that “takes kids and their families on brand-new adventures, from leaping into FaiMELE rytale Land with Dora and Sleeping Boots, journeying through Filthingham with The Backyardigans, hopping into Wonderland with the Wonder Pets! or jumping on clouds with Kai-lan and the Monkey King.”

In anticipation of the show, Dora will be at Imagination Station from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and at Books-AMillion in Levis Commons from 2 to 3 p.m. on Feb. 20.

Two of the shows actors, Peej Mele, who plays host Moose A. Moose, and Laura Dadap, who portrays Kai-lan, took a break from rehearsals Feb. 12 to speak by phone with Toledo Free Press from a York, Pa., coffee shop.

Both young actors have appeared in several regional theater productions, and were excited about embarking on

their first national tour.

Toledo Free Press: Kai-lan is a pioneering character for Chinese culture, much like Dora was for Hispanic culture. Moose is the main teacher on Nick Jr. How familiar were you with the impact of these characters when you took the role?

Laura Dadap: I have a lot of little friends who love Kai-lan, friends’ kids who are so excited to see it. This format is like a rock concert that brings all the kids’ favorites together. You can’t make an exact replica of what you see on TV, but it’s close. Chinese was my first language, so I know how authentic the show is with the Mandarin language and culture. My grandmother loves that I am using my Chinese skills.

Peej Mele: I am starting to realize how big a star Moose is. Kids just jump up and down for him. Moose is a wonderful, unique character. The role is exciting and funny for kids and parents.

They do a great job with the songs.

TFP: It must be a physical challenge, acting, dancing and singing as you work through the choreography with actors in full costume and the puppets.

Dadap: We are very aware of their presence; a lot of the actors communicate through their voices and body language. It is amazing how intricate the costumes are. My parents say I’ve been singing since I came out of the womb, so this is my love.

Mele: Most of the animal characters are wearing suits perfectly adapted from the cartoons; the engineering is amazing. It’s not as overwhelming as one would think, because it’s so well choreographed. As actors, we assimilate into the characters and it becomes real while we are on stage.

TFP: Kai-lan is a preschool age girl.

How do you inhabit that on stage and still play to parents in the audience?

Dadap: There’s something in the show for everyone. This is important, because it will be the first many of these kids have seen any kind of theater, and we want to inspire them to go again. We are careful to be real with the kids; we don’t talk down to them. Parents know we are trying to

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Dadap: Everyone in the show has been wonderful. There haven’t been any backstage issues; we all know the

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Tickets for “Storytime Live!” in Toledo can be purchased by calling (419) 4741333, visiting the Stranahan Theater Box Office or ordering online at the Web site www.ticketmaster.com.

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