10,000 ballots cast; Opportunity for Northeast Ohioans to vote for EfficientGovNow finalists ends July 31
The EfficientGovNow leader board is changing as the “get out the vote” campaigns across Northeast Ohio are heating up.
The Westshore Regional Fire District Project keeps moving up the ladder, and it is now in second place.
The nine finalists for the $300,000 in grant money are pulling out all of the stops to attract votes. We’ve seen mayors send out thousands of e-mails, a lot of local media coverage, web sites, Twitter tweets, Facebook posts and manned tents at the region’s many summer festivals.
And inn response, we’ve received more than 10,000 EfficientGovNow ballots so far.
With only a couple hundred votes separating the leaders, the current standings of the nine EfficientGovNow finalists are:
- Mahoning River Corridor Web site: “Rollin’ on the River”
- Westshore Regional Fire District Project (Cuyahoga and Lorain counties)
- Mahoning / Youngstown Regional Information System (MYRIS)
- Rittman and Orrville Schools Administrative Compact
- “Sustain a Greener Ohio” A collaboration to map the Storm Water Conveyance System in Stark County
- Master Plan for the Western Reserve Joint Economic Development Zone of the Cities of Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson and Stow
- Creating Efficiencies and Cost-Savings through Consolidation of Public Health Services in Summit County
- Combined Dispatch to Use New Technology to Save Lives and Money (Ashland County)
- City/Township/School District Fleet Management Collaboration Project (New Russia, Oberlin)
The top three vote-getters, which will be announced in early August, will share as much as $300,000 total in grant money from the Fund for Our Economic Future, which organized the program to promote government efficiency and collaboration. Details on the nine competing projects can be viewed at www.EfficientGovNow.org.