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This morning, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners launched a redesigned website, enhancing their online presence and highlighting a revised set of core principles. 

On Tuesday, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved $50,000 in funding for a new GreenCorps jobs program for local Franklin County youth.

During the Commissioners General Session meeting on May 24, Franklin County Commissioners presented a resolution to the Franklin County Office on Aging in recognition of Older Americans Month.

During Tuesday‟s General Session meeting, Franklin County Commissioners accepted the HOME Program‟s 20th Anniversary Door Knocker Award for the Commons at Buckingham project.

This morning, Franklin County Commissioners rejected a Fact Finder’s report concerning the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge # 9 and the deputies of the Sheriff’s Office.

Today the Franklin County Commissioners dedicated and renamed the Franklin County Annex Building (410 S. High St.) in honor of Franklin County Sheriff James A. Karnes.

April is Fair Housing Month in Franklin County and this year, Franklin County Commissioners and the Columbus Urban League are partnering to remind the community that the Federal Fair Housing Act, signed into law on April 11, 1968, makes it unlawful to discriminate in housing transactions based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability, or family status.

During Saturday’s Earth Day celebrations at Franklin Park Conservatory, Franklin County Commissioner John O’Grady and Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman announced the organizations selected to receive support for community gardening projects this spring.

Today, Franklin County Commissioners joined Consider Biking’s 2 by 2012 initiative and encouraged employees to start biking to work, school or for errands twice a month by Columbus’ Bicentennial in 2012.

Nationally, three million reports of child abuse and neglect are made every year. In Ohio, every ten minutes a child is abused and here in Franklin County, 8,562 cases of child abuse and neglect were reported in 2010.