#Butler county weather drivers#

#Butler county weather drivers#

'There is always that fear of ice and the freezing on the road we’d much rather be on snow than we would ice.'īressler also had some advice for drivers if they have to be on the roads at the same time as the county drivers who are clearing snow and ice. 'Some of the trucks, they can go to some of the township facilities that we’ve made agreements with, so they don’t have to drive all the way back here to reload, it’s faster they can get reloaded get back on the road,' Bressler said. They're responsible for covering about 266 miles of county roads from the Montgomery County line to the north to the Hamilton County line to the south. If drivers have to replenish twice or three times, there's more than 10,000 tons of salt waiting for them in its two salt domes.īressler said 16 drivers are reporting to work around midnight. The county's trucks are loaded with about $1,000 worth of product for one trip. they’re loaded up, ready to get the drivers to go home get some sleep and be ready to go for tonight,' said Scott Bressler, operations deputy for the Butler County Engineers Office. 'The drivers are all ready, the trucks are prepared. On Tuesday afternoon, crews were preparing their trucks with a salt-brine mix and preparing to work overnight into Wednesday morning. Heavy snow and potentially dangerous conditions on the road are not out of the question.īutler County is one of the areas expecting some of the most snow. Gehres, who worked with an eviction task force formed by city leadership, said evictions have long-lasting health impacts on families and children and unfortunately this is a complex problem with no easy solutions.HAMILTON, Ohio - Much of the Tri-State is under a winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service until Wednesday. Marty Gehres, clerk of court for Dayton Municipal Court, said the increase in evictions is very concerning. Nearly half of Montgomery County’s new eviction filings (45%) were filed in Dayton Municipal Court, even though the city only accounts for about one-quarter of the county’s population.ĭayton saw a 35% increase in new eviction filings last year, and landlords in the city already have filed about 1,900 eviction cases so far this year.

Roth agreed with Sheets that eviction rates are likely to continue to increase because of the loss of this kind of emergency rental aid and rising rental prices. That means “it only takes a few frequent evictors to drive up a community’s eviction rate,” he said.Ĭourt procedures and local tenant protection policies also play a role in the number of evictions in a community because it is harder and more expensive to evict tenants in some jurisdictions than in others, Roth said. Roth, however, also said studies have found that a small number of landlords often are responsible for a large share of evictions in their communities.

New filings last year in Butler, Champaign, Greene and Miami counties fell short of 2019 totals, while eviction cases in Warren County did not exceed the 2018 tally.Įviction rates vary from county to county partly because different areas have different costs of housing relative to household incomes, said Marcus Roth, director of communications and development with the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. Sheets said unfortunately there could be even more evictions once SELF runs out of rental assistance funds.Įlsewhere in the Miami Valley region, eviction filings last year increased 27% in Warren County 25% in Clark County 13% in Greene County 9% in Miami County and 5% in Champaign County, according to Ohio Supreme Court data.ĭespite these sizable increases, Montgomery County was the only local county where the number of new filings surpassed pre-COVID levels.

SELF has used COVID-related grants to help people pay their rent and utilities for the last couple of years, and the organization has about $1.8 million available to help struggling individuals and families.īut there’s high demand for the aid, and SELF had a wait list of about 91 requests for assistance as of mid-August.