Charter challenged
Residents fear speeding if traffic lights removed / B6
Public health
Section B • The Columbus Dispatch • Wednesday, July 8, 2015
State agency / Background checks
By Mark D. Somerson
Help set for faulty security system By Randy Ludlow THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has awarded a nearly half-milliondollar contract to a consultant
West Nile detected in mosquitoes in Linden
to plan the replacement of the office’s aged and flawed criminal-background-check system. The Controlling Board on Monday approved DeWine’s request to give a $474,224 contract for the coming year to
MTG Management Consultants of Seattle after soliciting proposals from consultants. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification criminal-background system has been denounced by employees as
“cobbled together” and “running on borrowed time,” with DeWine saying he is moving to replace system hardware and software. See Help Page B2
City government
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus will begin spraying for mosquitoes in the Linden area after a pool tested positive for West Nile virus, according to health officials. The mosquitoes were collected last week and tested by the Ohio Department of Health, which reported the results on Tuesday morning. “Our concern is the steady rain we have had in the past two weeks,” said Jose Rodriguez, spokesman for Columbus Public Health. “Some of the heavy rains can flush away (mosquito larvae), and that helps. But the steady rain is causing standing water all over the place,” in which mosquitoes can breed. West Nile virus was confirmed in mosquitoes in early June in Grandview Heights. After that See Mosquitoes Page B3
Ongoing coverage
Burial of veterans’ cremains upsets kin By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
on Tuesday that, if passed, would restructure the city council. The council would expand to 11 members, with seven from districts drawn by a nonpartisan board and
Michael Stone Tangeman has something he wants the world to know: the cremains of his father and grandfather, both military veterans who died in central Ohio, had not gone unclaimed. Someone in Tangeman’s family (his grandmother in the case of his grandfather, and his aunt in the case of his dad) had designated, he said, that those cremated remains stay in permanent storage at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus. But the Missing in America Project, a national volunteer organization that finds the remains of previously unclaimed veterans and gives them a military funeral and
See Charter Page B12
See Burial Page B4
BROOKE LAVALLEY
DISPATCH
Jonathan Beard, left, carries a box of signed petitions into City Hall after speaking on the steps about his passion for city council districts and campaign finance reform. Beard is chairman of the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government.
Charter challenged Ballot petition seeks to alter city council and election financing
By Zack Lemon THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus has grown over the past 100 years, but the Columbus City Council has not, remaining at seven members elected at large since 1916.
A group of community activists wants to change that, although chances are low that their petition for changes to the city charter will make it to the ballot. The Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government submitted a petition
NOW OPEN ON WEST BROAD STREET Join any area location for just $1 down! $ 15 2015 1 DOWN DOWN. $10 0 A MO MONTH ONT TH* – EXPIRES JULY 15, Columbus (Indianola Ave.), OH •
(614) 262-6004
Worthington, OH
Pickerington, OH
Hilliard, OH
Columbus (Bethel), OH
(614) 844-6100 (614) 863-9100 (614) 771-8900 (614) 538-1200 For franchise info or to join online visit planetfitness.com
Columbus (W. Broad St.), OH
(614) 279-8100
*Home Club only. Billed monthly to a checking account. Subject to OH sales tax. Subject to $29 annual membership fee. With a $1 One Time Start Up Fee. Includes T-shirt.
B12
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
METRO&STATE WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015
Daily report
Today’s weather
OHIO
TUESDAY’S OBSERVATIONS
More showers are expected across the southern half of Ohio today with highs in the mid-70s. Showers and thunderstorms are possible for the next week with temperatures rising this weekend. Highs by Sunday will reach the upper 80s to near 90.
For breaking weather news, visit Dispatch.com/weather.
Today’s fronts and temperatures
Today’s forecast
Central Ohio roundup
Yesterday’s national extremes: 110˘ Needles, Calif.; 36˘ Bodie State Park, Calif.
Afternoon/overnight forecast Cleveland
72/59
71/62
˙
Showers likely.
74°
T-Storms Rain
Extended forecast Wednesday Scattered showers and a bit cooler.
Thursday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Friday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Saturday Chance of more scattered showers and storms.
Sunday Scattered showers and storms possible.
Monday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Tuesday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
74° 67° 79° 65° 80° 63° 86° 66° 88° 69° 88° 69° 82° 64°
For a more detailed forecast, visit 10TV.com.
Charter FROM PAGE B1
•
the other four elected at large. Now, all seven serve at large. Coalition activists say Columbus is alone among America’s 50 largest cities in not having districts. The amendment would also create some public funding of elections, require televised candidate debates and give candidates access to low-cost city-controlled TV time. Paid petitioners gathered nearly 30,000 signatures for the charter issue, well more than the 8,956 required to make it to the ballot. But the city attorney’s office has said that the petitions are in the wrong format. The city attorney’s precirculation review of the
˙
˙
Showers
65°
74/66
74/68
Overnight Partly cloudy.
HIGH
Lake Erie forecast Winds: northeast at 5 to 15 knots Waves: 1 to 3 feet Water temp: Toledo 68˘; Cleveland 69˘
Fronts Cold Snow
Stationary
Ice
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
Weather information provided by WBNS-10TV and AccuWeather.com.
National cities CITY
TODAY (THU.)
Albuquerque, NM 85/65ts (85/62ts) Anchorage, AK ...64/54pc (65/54pc) Atlanta ................92/71pc (92/72pc) Atlantic City, NJ .. 89/73ts (88/70ts) Austin, TX ...........92/74pc (92/72pc) Baltimore ............. 85/71ts (88/68ts) Birmingham, AL..93/73pc (93/73pc) Bismarck, ND ........79/53ts (86/61s) Boise, ID .............. 91/68ts (85/65ts) Boston................. 84/65ts (71/63pc) Brownsville, TX ....92/76s (91/76pc) Buffalo, NY ......... 74/59pc (71/57ts) Burlington, VT ....76/56sh (78/59pc) Casper, WY ......... 72/51ts (79/53pc) Charleston, SC ... 92/74ts (92/74pc) Charleston, WV ... 77/69ts (86/64ts) Charlotte, NC......94/71pc (99/70pc) Chicago ...............69/60pc (75/61pc) Columbia, SC ......95/74pc (97/74pc) Concord, NH .......83/56sh (79/57pc) Dallas .................. 87/76ts (93/75pc) Denver .................71/53ts (78/57ts) Des Moines, IA ..73/55pc (78/63pc) Detroit................... 73/60pc (75/59r) Duluth, MN .........74/55pc (80/61pc)
El Paso, TX .........94/72pc (91/70pc) Fairbanks, AK .....70/50sh (71/52pc) Flagstaff, AZ ....... 74/45ts (71/42pc) Fort Myers, FL..... 92/72ts (92/72ts) Hartford, CT ....... 85/64ts (78/61pc) Helena, MT .........83/54pc (87/59pc) Honolulu..............89/77pc (89/77pc) Houston ..................92/76s (93/75s) Indianapolis......... 70/65ts (75/64ts) Intl. Falls, MN ....73/46pc (80/56pc) Jackson, MS.........93/73pc (93/73s) Jacksonville, FL... 88/71ts (89/70ts) Juneau, AK ...........65/54sh (67/51c) Kansas City, MO ....65/55r (75/66ts) Las Vegas .............99/76s (94/72pc) Little Rock, AR.... 90/74ts (91/73pc) Los Angeles ........74/60sh (70/58sh) Louisville, KY ....... 82/72ts (83/70ts) Madison, WI.......72/53pc (78/56pc) Memphis, TN .........89/75c (91/74ts) Miami .................. 91/79pc (90/79ts) Milwaukee ..........67/57pc (74/59pc) Minneapolis ........74/59pc (81/62pc) Myrtle Beach, SC 90/76ts (90/77pc) Nashville, TN ....... 89/71ts (90/70ts) New Orleans .........93/76ts (91/75s) New York ............. 84/70ts (79/68ts) Norfolk, VA .........93/75pc (94/77pc) Oklahoma City.... 78/68ts (89/70pc)
80s
90s
100s
110s Ø2015
Locally drenching showers and gusty thunderstorms will extend from central Texas to New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland today. Both dry and drenching thunderstorms will dot the West. A narrow zone of showers and storms will extend from Wyoming to northern Minnesota.
Omaha, NE............76/57pc (78/63c) Orlando, FL .......... 92/73ts (93/73ts) Philadelphia ......... 87/74ts (86/71ts) Phoenix ...........105/79pc (100/77pc) Pittsburgh ............ 77/65ts (78/60ts) Portland, ME.......81/58sh (73/59pc) Portland, OR .........92/65s (92/63pc) Providence, RI.... 87/67ts (74/64pc) Raleigh, NC .........93/70pc (95/73pc) Richmond, VA ..... 92/72ts (95/74pc) Sacramento, CA .85/59pc (77/58pc) St. Louis.................71/63r (79/69ts) Salt Lake City ..... 83/65ts (88/67pc) San Antonio........92/76pc (92/76pc) San Diego ...........70/66sh (72/65sh) San Francisco ....69/60pc (69/59pc) San Jose.............71/59pc (71/58pc) Santa Fe, NM ...... 79/54ts (79/56ts) Sault Ste. Marie...73/51s (75/55pc) Seattle ..................89/62s (89/60pc) Sioux Falls, SD ...74/54pc (79/59pc) Spokane, WA........94/67s (97/72pc) Tallahassee, FL.....91/72pc (90/73s) Tampa, FL ............ 90/75ts (92/76ts) Tucson, AZ ........... 99/75ts (95/70ts) Tulsa, OK................79/70r (90/76ts) Washington, DC .. 88/74ts (92/73ts) Wichita, KS............77/64r (85/69ts) Wilmington, DE ... 84/72ts (85/69ts)
World cities CITY
TODAY (THU.)
Acapulco ....................91/77ts (91/78ts) Amsterdam..............66/54sh (63/50sh) Athens.......................... 90/70s (92/70s) Baghdad...................110/83s (111/83s) Beijing ........................ 94/68s (94/68pc) Berlin........................74/54sh (66/52sh) Cape Town................. 63/48pc (66/46c) Cairo............................. 93/74s (93/72s) Copenhagen ............67/55sh (61/54sh) Hong Kong ................... 92/81c (91/81c) Jerusalem.................... 83/64s (85/65s) Lima.......................... 72/65pc (73/66pc) London ..................... 70/51pc (71/52pc) Madrid......................103/68s (103/70s) Mexico City................72/50ts (71/49ts) Moscow ....................75/60pc (79/59ts) Mumbai ....................89/83sh (89/81sh) Nassau....................... 90/78pc (90/78s) Oslo .............................57/46r (50/44sh) Paris ......................... 73/55pc (75/53pc) Rome............................ 87/72s (87/70s) Seoul .......................... 84/70pc (87/70c) Singapore .................88/78ts (89/79pc) Sydney ....................... 57/45sh (63/45s) Tokyo.............................78/68r (73/68r) Toronto .................... 72/57pc (73/57pc)
Forecast abbreviations: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, ts-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, tr-trace
petitions found an argumentative title, a defect in the circulator’s statement and the combination of multiple issues in one petition. Petitions must address a single issue, but this one considers the council’s size, public funding for elections and public television access, the city attorney’s review says. Jonathan Beard, the coalition’s chairman, responded with a letter to the city council, city clerk and city attorney, arguing that reforming the city council is one subject, which all of the proposed changes seek to do. He also pointed to the 21 subjects addressed by three charter amendments on the ballot last November, asking the city attorney to consider the “lack of consistency any
BROOKE LAVALLEY
DISPATCH
From left, Cheryl Austin, Aparna Donthi, Grant Ames and City Clerk Angie Blevins count petitions from the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government. rejection for this argument would exhibit.” The circulator-statement issue was corrected before submission, according to Beard’s response, in which he described the title of the petitions as “clear and
65% 12 p.m. MO. SEASON
TIME
NORM REC. YEAR
Hi ........84 4 p.m. 85 101 2012 Lo........64 7 a.m. 65 43 1972 Reservoir levels Alum Creek ..0.11 Hoover................-0.12 Griggs...........0.36 O’Shaughnessy ...0.17 Levels represent feet above or below normal Source: Columbus Division of Water
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Today’s air-quality index Main pollutant: particulates
NATIONAL
Flurries
Warm
LOW
Precipitation ...............0.49 0.49 23.35 Change from norm ...+0.34 -0.53 +2.75 TEMP
Marietta
Cincinnati
Afternoon
NORM REC. YEAR
Relative humidity ........ 90% Time ............................4 p.m.
74/65
67°
TIME
MONDAY’S OBSERVATIONS
Columbus
Morning More clouds than sun.
TEMP
Hi ........84 12:44 p.m. 85 101 2012 Lo........69 2:25 a.m. 65 48 1983
DAY
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Toledo
BY CHRIS BRADLEY DOPPLER 10 CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
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encompassing.” Petitions must be submitted to the city clerk before they are circulated. Beard did this in January, before templates showing petitioners how to comply with new petition rules had been prepared.
Source: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Pollen report Predominant pollen: poplar, pellitory
Source: Regional Air Pollution Control Agency
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Today ................... 6:11 a.m. Thu. ..................... 6:11 a.m.
9:03 p.m. 9:03 p.m.
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Today .................12:47 a.m. Thu. ..................... 1:24 a.m.
1:38 p.m. 2:45 p.m.
It was not until May 20 that the petition was evaluated and these concerns were raised, after the signatures already had been gathered. Petitions must be in strict compliance with the law, Joshua Cox, chief counsel in the city attorney’s office, said. That means every letter of the law must be followed, including minute details such as print color and size. The templates were designed to make that process easier. This is not Beard’s first time heading to City Hall with a petition in hand. He filed a petition opposing the public purchase of Nationwide Arena and a petition to provide public funding for city elections. Neither of these petitions made it to the ballot because of formatting
issues, Cox said. Beard said he is prepared to fight any city ruling throwing out this petition. “We don’t want any games with this,” he said. Willis Brown, a coalition activist and Bronzeville Neighborhood Association president, said previous attempts to reform the city council have been stopped before discussion begins. He said the current system is “effective in keeping power in the hands of the powerful.” Now that the petition has been filed, the city attorney’s office will determine the petition’s legal sufficiency, and the signatures will be verified. If approved, the charter amendment will be on the November ballot. [email protected] @zack_lemon
Public health
Section B • The Columbus Dispatch • Wednesday, July 8, 2015
State agency / Background checks
By Mark D. Somerson
Help set for faulty security system By Randy Ludlow THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has awarded a nearly half-milliondollar contract to a consultant
West Nile detected in mosquitoes in Linden
to plan the replacement of the office’s aged and flawed criminal-background-check system. The Controlling Board on Monday approved DeWine’s request to give a $474,224 contract for the coming year to
MTG Management Consultants of Seattle after soliciting proposals from consultants. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification criminal-background system has been denounced by employees as
“cobbled together” and “running on borrowed time,” with DeWine saying he is moving to replace system hardware and software. See Help Page B2
City government
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus will begin spraying for mosquitoes in the Linden area after a pool tested positive for West Nile virus, according to health officials. The mosquitoes were collected last week and tested by the Ohio Department of Health, which reported the results on Tuesday morning. “Our concern is the steady rain we have had in the past two weeks,” said Jose Rodriguez, spokesman for Columbus Public Health. “Some of the heavy rains can flush away (mosquito larvae), and that helps. But the steady rain is causing standing water all over the place,” in which mosquitoes can breed. West Nile virus was confirmed in mosquitoes in early June in Grandview Heights. After that See Mosquitoes Page B3
Ongoing coverage
Burial of veterans’ cremains upsets kin By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
on Tuesday that, if passed, would restructure the city council. The council would expand to 11 members, with seven from districts drawn by a nonpartisan board and
Michael Stone Tangeman has something he wants the world to know: the cremains of his father and grandfather, both military veterans who died in central Ohio, had not gone unclaimed. Someone in Tangeman’s family (his grandmother in the case of his grandfather, and his aunt in the case of his dad) had designated, he said, that those cremated remains stay in permanent storage at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus. But the Missing in America Project, a national volunteer organization that finds the remains of previously unclaimed veterans and gives them a military funeral and
See Charter Page B12
See Burial Page B4
BROOKE LAVALLEY
DISPATCH
Jonathan Beard, left, carries a box of signed petitions into City Hall after speaking on the steps about his passion for city council districts and campaign finance reform. Beard is chairman of the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government.
Charter challenged Ballot petition seeks to alter city council and election financing
By Zack Lemon THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus has grown over the past 100 years, but the Columbus City Council has not, remaining at seven members elected at large since 1916.
A group of community activists wants to change that, although chances are low that their petition for changes to the city charter will make it to the ballot. The Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government submitted a petition
NOW OPEN ON WEST BROAD STREET Join any area location for just $1 down! $ 15 2015 1 DOWN DOWN. $10 0 A MO MONTH ONT TH* – EXPIRES JULY 15, Columbus (Indianola Ave.), OH •
(614) 262-6004
Worthington, OH
Pickerington, OH
Hilliard, OH
Columbus (Bethel), OH
(614) 844-6100 (614) 863-9100 (614) 771-8900 (614) 538-1200 For franchise info or to join online visit planetfitness.com
Columbus (W. Broad St.), OH
(614) 279-8100
*Home Club only. Billed monthly to a checking account. Subject to OH sales tax. Subject to $29 annual membership fee. With a $1 One Time Start Up Fee. Includes T-shirt.
B12
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
METRO&STATE WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015
Daily report
Today’s weather
OHIO
TUESDAY’S OBSERVATIONS
More showers are expected across the southern half of Ohio today with highs in the mid-70s. Showers and thunderstorms are possible for the next week with temperatures rising this weekend. Highs by Sunday will reach the upper 80s to near 90.
For breaking weather news, visit Dispatch.com/weather.
Today’s fronts and temperatures
Today’s forecast
Central Ohio roundup
Yesterday’s national extremes: 110˘ Needles, Calif.; 36˘ Bodie State Park, Calif.
Afternoon/overnight forecast Cleveland
72/59
71/62
˙
Showers likely.
74°
T-Storms Rain
Extended forecast Wednesday Scattered showers and a bit cooler.
Thursday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Friday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Saturday Chance of more scattered showers and storms.
Sunday Scattered showers and storms possible.
Monday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Tuesday Scattered showers and thunderstorms.
74° 67° 79° 65° 80° 63° 86° 66° 88° 69° 88° 69° 82° 64°
For a more detailed forecast, visit 10TV.com.
Charter FROM PAGE B1
•
the other four elected at large. Now, all seven serve at large. Coalition activists say Columbus is alone among America’s 50 largest cities in not having districts. The amendment would also create some public funding of elections, require televised candidate debates and give candidates access to low-cost city-controlled TV time. Paid petitioners gathered nearly 30,000 signatures for the charter issue, well more than the 8,956 required to make it to the ballot. But the city attorney’s office has said that the petitions are in the wrong format. The city attorney’s precirculation review of the
˙
˙
Showers
65°
74/66
74/68
Overnight Partly cloudy.
HIGH
Lake Erie forecast Winds: northeast at 5 to 15 knots Waves: 1 to 3 feet Water temp: Toledo 68˘; Cleveland 69˘
Fronts Cold Snow
Stationary
Ice
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
Weather information provided by WBNS-10TV and AccuWeather.com.
National cities CITY
TODAY (THU.)
Albuquerque, NM 85/65ts (85/62ts) Anchorage, AK ...64/54pc (65/54pc) Atlanta ................92/71pc (92/72pc) Atlantic City, NJ .. 89/73ts (88/70ts) Austin, TX ...........92/74pc (92/72pc) Baltimore ............. 85/71ts (88/68ts) Birmingham, AL..93/73pc (93/73pc) Bismarck, ND ........79/53ts (86/61s) Boise, ID .............. 91/68ts (85/65ts) Boston................. 84/65ts (71/63pc) Brownsville, TX ....92/76s (91/76pc) Buffalo, NY ......... 74/59pc (71/57ts) Burlington, VT ....76/56sh (78/59pc) Casper, WY ......... 72/51ts (79/53pc) Charleston, SC ... 92/74ts (92/74pc) Charleston, WV ... 77/69ts (86/64ts) Charlotte, NC......94/71pc (99/70pc) Chicago ...............69/60pc (75/61pc) Columbia, SC ......95/74pc (97/74pc) Concord, NH .......83/56sh (79/57pc) Dallas .................. 87/76ts (93/75pc) Denver .................71/53ts (78/57ts) Des Moines, IA ..73/55pc (78/63pc) Detroit................... 73/60pc (75/59r) Duluth, MN .........74/55pc (80/61pc)
El Paso, TX .........94/72pc (91/70pc) Fairbanks, AK .....70/50sh (71/52pc) Flagstaff, AZ ....... 74/45ts (71/42pc) Fort Myers, FL..... 92/72ts (92/72ts) Hartford, CT ....... 85/64ts (78/61pc) Helena, MT .........83/54pc (87/59pc) Honolulu..............89/77pc (89/77pc) Houston ..................92/76s (93/75s) Indianapolis......... 70/65ts (75/64ts) Intl. Falls, MN ....73/46pc (80/56pc) Jackson, MS.........93/73pc (93/73s) Jacksonville, FL... 88/71ts (89/70ts) Juneau, AK ...........65/54sh (67/51c) Kansas City, MO ....65/55r (75/66ts) Las Vegas .............99/76s (94/72pc) Little Rock, AR.... 90/74ts (91/73pc) Los Angeles ........74/60sh (70/58sh) Louisville, KY ....... 82/72ts (83/70ts) Madison, WI.......72/53pc (78/56pc) Memphis, TN .........89/75c (91/74ts) Miami .................. 91/79pc (90/79ts) Milwaukee ..........67/57pc (74/59pc) Minneapolis ........74/59pc (81/62pc) Myrtle Beach, SC 90/76ts (90/77pc) Nashville, TN ....... 89/71ts (90/70ts) New Orleans .........93/76ts (91/75s) New York ............. 84/70ts (79/68ts) Norfolk, VA .........93/75pc (94/77pc) Oklahoma City.... 78/68ts (89/70pc)
80s
90s
100s
110s Ø2015
Locally drenching showers and gusty thunderstorms will extend from central Texas to New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland today. Both dry and drenching thunderstorms will dot the West. A narrow zone of showers and storms will extend from Wyoming to northern Minnesota.
Omaha, NE............76/57pc (78/63c) Orlando, FL .......... 92/73ts (93/73ts) Philadelphia ......... 87/74ts (86/71ts) Phoenix ...........105/79pc (100/77pc) Pittsburgh ............ 77/65ts (78/60ts) Portland, ME.......81/58sh (73/59pc) Portland, OR .........92/65s (92/63pc) Providence, RI.... 87/67ts (74/64pc) Raleigh, NC .........93/70pc (95/73pc) Richmond, VA ..... 92/72ts (95/74pc) Sacramento, CA .85/59pc (77/58pc) St. Louis.................71/63r (79/69ts) Salt Lake City ..... 83/65ts (88/67pc) San Antonio........92/76pc (92/76pc) San Diego ...........70/66sh (72/65sh) San Francisco ....69/60pc (69/59pc) San Jose.............71/59pc (71/58pc) Santa Fe, NM ...... 79/54ts (79/56ts) Sault Ste. Marie...73/51s (75/55pc) Seattle ..................89/62s (89/60pc) Sioux Falls, SD ...74/54pc (79/59pc) Spokane, WA........94/67s (97/72pc) Tallahassee, FL.....91/72pc (90/73s) Tampa, FL ............ 90/75ts (92/76ts) Tucson, AZ ........... 99/75ts (95/70ts) Tulsa, OK................79/70r (90/76ts) Washington, DC .. 88/74ts (92/73ts) Wichita, KS............77/64r (85/69ts) Wilmington, DE ... 84/72ts (85/69ts)
World cities CITY
TODAY (THU.)
Acapulco ....................91/77ts (91/78ts) Amsterdam..............66/54sh (63/50sh) Athens.......................... 90/70s (92/70s) Baghdad...................110/83s (111/83s) Beijing ........................ 94/68s (94/68pc) Berlin........................74/54sh (66/52sh) Cape Town................. 63/48pc (66/46c) Cairo............................. 93/74s (93/72s) Copenhagen ............67/55sh (61/54sh) Hong Kong ................... 92/81c (91/81c) Jerusalem.................... 83/64s (85/65s) Lima.......................... 72/65pc (73/66pc) London ..................... 70/51pc (71/52pc) Madrid......................103/68s (103/70s) Mexico City................72/50ts (71/49ts) Moscow ....................75/60pc (79/59ts) Mumbai ....................89/83sh (89/81sh) Nassau....................... 90/78pc (90/78s) Oslo .............................57/46r (50/44sh) Paris ......................... 73/55pc (75/53pc) Rome............................ 87/72s (87/70s) Seoul .......................... 84/70pc (87/70c) Singapore .................88/78ts (89/79pc) Sydney ....................... 57/45sh (63/45s) Tokyo.............................78/68r (73/68r) Toronto .................... 72/57pc (73/57pc)
Forecast abbreviations: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, ts-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, tr-trace
petitions found an argumentative title, a defect in the circulator’s statement and the combination of multiple issues in one petition. Petitions must address a single issue, but this one considers the council’s size, public funding for elections and public television access, the city attorney’s review says. Jonathan Beard, the coalition’s chairman, responded with a letter to the city council, city clerk and city attorney, arguing that reforming the city council is one subject, which all of the proposed changes seek to do. He also pointed to the 21 subjects addressed by three charter amendments on the ballot last November, asking the city attorney to consider the “lack of consistency any
BROOKE LAVALLEY
DISPATCH
From left, Cheryl Austin, Aparna Donthi, Grant Ames and City Clerk Angie Blevins count petitions from the Columbus Coalition for Responsive Government. rejection for this argument would exhibit.” The circulator-statement issue was corrected before submission, according to Beard’s response, in which he described the title of the petitions as “clear and
65% 12 p.m. MO. SEASON
TIME
NORM REC. YEAR
Hi ........84 4 p.m. 85 101 2012 Lo........64 7 a.m. 65 43 1972 Reservoir levels Alum Creek ..0.11 Hoover................-0.12 Griggs...........0.36 O’Shaughnessy ...0.17 Levels represent feet above or below normal Source: Columbus Division of Water
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Today’s air-quality index Main pollutant: particulates
NATIONAL
Flurries
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encompassing.” Petitions must be submitted to the city clerk before they are circulated. Beard did this in January, before templates showing petitioners how to comply with new petition rules had been prepared.
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It was not until May 20 that the petition was evaluated and these concerns were raised, after the signatures already had been gathered. Petitions must be in strict compliance with the law, Joshua Cox, chief counsel in the city attorney’s office, said. That means every letter of the law must be followed, including minute details such as print color and size. The templates were designed to make that process easier. This is not Beard’s first time heading to City Hall with a petition in hand. He filed a petition opposing the public purchase of Nationwide Arena and a petition to provide public funding for city elections. Neither of these petitions made it to the ballot because of formatting
issues, Cox said. Beard said he is prepared to fight any city ruling throwing out this petition. “We don’t want any games with this,” he said. Willis Brown, a coalition activist and Bronzeville Neighborhood Association president, said previous attempts to reform the city council have been stopped before discussion begins. He said the current system is “effective in keeping power in the hands of the powerful.” Now that the petition has been filed, the city attorney’s office will determine the petition’s legal sufficiency, and the signatures will be verified. If approved, the charter amendment will be on the November ballot. [email protected] @zack_lemon
