{"id":74027,"date":"2025-01-16T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/?p=74027"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:49:39","slug":"commissioners-vote-to-hand-county-files-over-to-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/commissioners-vote-to-hand-county-files-over-to-sopa\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners Vote to Hand County Files Over to SOPA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scioto County Commissioners voted 2 to 1 to transfer files pertaining to county economic development and the Southern Ohio Port Authority from county systems over to the systems of the embattled SOPA agency.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThere are some things I\u2019d like to say, but I think it falls under executive session,\u201d Commissioner Scottie Powell said. \u201cSeeing how it aligns with some current litigation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Commissioners went into an executive session to discuss the matter, so what they discussed was not made public. Commissioners returned to public session about thirty minutes later. They appointed Donna Daniels to fill a vacancy on the SOPA board.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Commissioner Cathy Coleman said that, \u201cI\u2019d like to make a motion to release the Port Authority files and economic files as requested. Due to their needs to continue the work of SOPA and the repercussions it could create for the board of commissioners and the county.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Commissioner Bryan Davis seconded the motion. Coleman and Davis voted in favor of transferring the files. Commissioner Powell said, \u201cDue to the opinion of our legal counsel, I will be voting no.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Southern Ohio Port Authority and County Economic Development Director and SOPA head Robert Horton are at the center of an investigation by the Ohio State Auditor\u2019s Office that saw search warrants served at county offices last year. No charges have been filed.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scioto County Commissioners voted 2 to 1 to transfer files pertaining to county economic development and the Southern Ohio Port Authority from county systems over to the systems of the embattled SOPA agency.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThere are some things I\u2019d like to say, but I think it falls under executive session,\u201d Commissioner Scottie Powell said. \u201cSeeing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":74028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_subtitle":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[303,317,302,301,94,305,1595,159,27980,97],"yst_prominent_words":[12154,871,866,353,27187,27186,10342,1685,19543,4756,377,13794,13792,3975,13793,12970,26495,1121,13791,13790],"class_list":["post-74027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bryan-davis","tag-cathy-coleman","tag-county-commissioners","tag-investigation","tag-newsletter","tag-ohio","tag-opinion","tag-scioto-county","tag-scottie-powell","tag-southern-ohio"],"yoast_meta":{"yoast_wpseo_title":"Commissioners Vote to Hand County Files Over to SOPA\u00a0 - Scioto County Daily News","yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"\u201cThere are some things I\u2019d like to say, but I think it falls under executive session,\u201d Commissioner Scottie Powell said.","yoast_wpseo_canonical":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/commissioners-vote-to-hand-county-files-over-to-sopa\/"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74027"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciotocountydailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}