Top Columbus Zoo and Aquarium executives have allowed relatives to live in houses owned or controlled by the zoo, and sought tickets for their family members to attend various entertainment events, a Dispatch investigation found.
For several years, President and CEO Tom Stalf s in-laws rented a home that had been donated to the zoo, and Chief Financial Officer Greg Bell s daughter is a tenant of another home controlled by the zoo. The properties were never advertised for rent or offered to outsiders or other zoo employees, The Dispatch learned.
Questions by The Dispatch about the personal use of zoo resources have sparked an internal review by the zoo’s board of directors.
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A local place for growing vegetables and herbs, building community and healing social wounds could be in peril because a developer wants to build affordable housing on the land.
Kossuth Street Garden occupies roughly 11,700 square feet at the southwest corner of Kossuth and East 17th Street in the Southern Orchards neighborhood east of German Village and Schumacher Place.
In documents filed with the city of Columbus, East Kossuth LLC wants to build 10 affordable-housing units with detached garages on the entire 0.9-acre property that is bounded by Kossuth, East 17th, an alley and Ann Street.
The address of the lot is 641 E. Kossuth St.
With the delivery of fraudulent checks across Franklin County, Auditor Michael Stinziano warned residents about a scam that s taken shape throughout the country.
These checks, which appear to come from the auditor and treasurer s offices in the amount of $2,950.99, have been sent across the county to defraud local residents. The auditor s office has contacted the Franklin County sheriff s and treasurer s offices and US Postal Office to coordinate an effort, according to a news release Tuesday.
“I take consumer protection seriously, and will assist in prosecuting would-be scammers to the fullest extent of the law,” Stinziano said in the release. “Keeping the residents and businesses of Franklin County safe from fraud while being a good steward of public dollars remains a top priority of this office.”
Nine people, including the current elections director in Lorain County and a couple of employees in Franklin County Auditor (and former county elections director) Michael Stinziano’s office, have applied to become the next director of the Franklin County Board of Elections.
The deadline for applications was Friday from individuals interested in replacing Ed Leonard, who resigned from the post earlier this month to become an assistant to incoming Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack.
Applicants being considered for the position include:
• Zach Manifold, deputy chief of staff in the Franklin County Auditor’s Office. He served as interim director of the Franklin County elections board for several months in 2016 and was manager of absentee ballots in that office from March 2015-March 2019.