Mayor Jeff Gore

05/19/2026

By now I’m sure you’ve seen that Dave’s Hot Chicken is remodeling the Arby’s building at 202 and Merily Way.

I just want to let everyone know that we are happy another business has chosen to locate to Huber Heights.

I would like to make a point of clarity though. I have seen a few people upset that we’re allowing another business into the city. This is one of those examples where we as a city didn’t have to allow it. Arby’s was zoned commercial restaurant use …and …so is Dave’s Hot Chicken. All they had to do was apply for a permit with Montgomery County and start working on the building. I didn’t know what business was going there until our senior staff told me they knew the building permit was applied for.

The only time city council or city staff is involved in a business locating to the city is when the property the business wants requires a zoning change. If the current zoning matches the needed zoning… Council and Staff never see it.

Hope everyone is off to a great week

Mayor Jeff

04/27/2026

On another note …. I have been taking media calls for the last week wanting to know why and if I was fired from my teaching position. Several news agencies have gotten anonymous tips that I’ve been fired. The news agencies have called my employer and former employer asking for verification of my termination.

I know several news agencies follow this page so before you call my employer to verify this garbage…. I’m still happily employed and there is no truth to the accusations being made.

On top of being accused of condoning the murder of cats in our community, this is just one more type of thing I deal with.

Some people really need to get a hobby.

Still Happily Serving also
Mayor Jeff

04/27/2026

In October of 2023, the city manager reinstated the community cat program in partnership with the Humane Society. The following is the money the city has spent in 2023, 2024, and 2025 for spaying and neutering stray cats.

2023 - $4,865
2024 - $13,400
2025 - $17,435

The humane society has applied for a grant on our behalf every year which has helped lower the cost.

317 cats were taken to be spayed or neutered in 2025 from our program and of those 317 evaluated, 203 were moved into their adoption program.

The Bissell Grant paid $6,985 of our fees which covered the cost of 127 of the 317 cats.

It’s important to note that the humane society doesn’t have enough staff to respond to physically come to the city to get the cats when you call. If you get a stray, you need to call them to make an appointment and take the cat there and they will take care of it and bill the city.

Mayor Jeff

04/25/2026

The cat is currently at MedVet, where it will be tested for rabies, so if there is any other concerns as it relates to other stray animals in the area, we will know about it and can pass along the proper information to those who want or need it. MedVet will take care of the cats body as they do all other animals that are left in their care. I have asked our City Manager to look into whatever TNR programs are available around or through the county and I’ll have some further information on that in the coming days to see if it’s a viable option to implement throughout the city.

Mayor Jeff

04/14/2026

I think we all knew That Buc-ee’s was going to be a huge success. We’re their northern most store at this point and pretty much at the intersection of 70 and 75.

What happened opening day was crazy though. Buc-ee’s has told us that the grand opening day numbers were better than any store they had ever opened on day 1! Buc-ee’s sales volume was over $1,000,000 on opening day.

All the hotels from Huber to Miller Ln. were sold out over opening day weekend. There’s no true way to understand the overall economic impact this early, but there’s no doubt it’s going to be huge!!

03/29/2026

This is a structural problem all over Ohio.
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I'm a mayor and a high school business teacher. I've spent months being measured and careful about how I talk about Ohio's school funding crisis. Letting the data speak. Keeping it nonpartisan.

I'm still nonpartisan. But I'm done being quiet.

595 Ohio school districts are projecting deficits by 2029. That's not a typo. That's 595 out of 660.

The legislature passed the fix in 2021 — the Fair School Funding Plan. Bipartisan. Unanimous. Then they funded it for two years and walked away. In the same budget cycle, they found a billion dollars for income tax cuts and a billion dollars for private school vouchers. But finishing the plan for public schools? They said they couldn't afford it.

Meanwhile, districts like Franklin are in fiscal emergency. Huber Heights cut $4.5 million this month.

And if you think this only hits struggling districts, think again — Olentangy is projecting a $114 million gap. Dublin, $38 million. Mason, $21 million. Beavercreek, $15 million. Kettering, $18 million. These are some of the most traditionally successful districts in Ohio, and they're all headed for the same cliff.

This isn't about mismanagement. This is structural. The revenue is frozen by a 1976 law and the state won't replace it.

I just spoke at a town hall in Franklin. I've written letters to the editor. I'll keep showing up anywhere people want to hear the truth about what's happening to Ohio's schools.

Your district is on the list too. Look it up.
Share this if you think 990,000 kids deserve better.

03/27/2026

Did any of you vote to have your public tax dollars used to fund private school vouchers. It costs the typical household here in Ohio $20 month to send someone elses kid to a private school.

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Ohio is one of only three states in America spending over a billion $1,000,000,000 dollars a year on school vouchers, and it's the only one of those three where 595 school districts are simultaneously headed for insolvency. Ohio State republicans found a billion for vouchers but said they couldn't find the money to fund the schools 90% of Ohio's kids actually attend.

You read that right! #1 Florida, #2 Arizona, #3 Ohio in order of spending public money on private schools.

Beyond that... I never voted to approve my state income tax to send wealthy families kids to private school, did you? I kid, because we were never given the opportunity to vote for that. Our legislators approved that $2.2Billion in this biennium budget HB96 without giving a second thought to what you thought.

This should fire you up - In 2024 69,000 new vouchers were issued in Ohio now that the income caps were removed. A family earning $150,000 year now qualifies for a full scholarship. The bigger issue is that private school enrollement only increased by 3,700 students. What that means for you and your family is that the state decided to pick up the tab for 65,000 families who already made their choice and were already paying for their kids to go to private schools. That equates to close to $20 per month that every houshold in ohio is paying to send someone elses kid to private school, and you were never given the choice to agree or disagree, and here's why!

From 1970 to 2024 there have ben 14 states that placed funding vouchers on the state ballot to be approved by the voters and EVERY SINGLE TIME it FAILED.... Michigan's voters went even further in 1970, proactively banning vouchers through Proposal C, which prohibited "payments, credits, tax benefits, exemptions or deductions, tuition vouchers, subsidies, grants or loans of public monies" for nonpublic schools.

Our state legislators know and are confident you wouldn't approve them either, so they took it out of your hands and replaced public school funding that supported 90% of ohio students to fund private school that supports only 10% of ohio students.....and didn't ask you if you cared!!!

03/26/2026

For anyone interested in the work happening with FixOhioSchools, a separate page has been set up now. Please follow the page and share it with everyone who cares about their public schools. Once you see the numbers, you can't unsee them and it's going to take a true grassroots movement to make the legislators in Columbus to do what the constitution demands, and what they promised to do!
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03/24/2026

They told you gambling would fund your schools. Let me show you what actually happened.

In 1987, Ohio voters amended the constitution to send 100% of lottery profits to education. In 2009, voters approved casinos with 34% of the tax going to schools. In 2021, the legislature legalized sports betting and promised 98% of the tax revenue would go to education.

Sounds like schools should be swimming in money, right?
Here's the reality:

The Ohio Lottery sent $1.51 billion to schools last year. That's real money. But it makes up only about 12% of the state's education budget. The other 88% comes from the General Revenue Fund — the main pot of tax dollars the legislature controls. And here's the part nobody tells you: every time lottery money goes up, the legislature quietly pulls general fund money out. The gambling dollars go in the front door. The regular funding walks out the back.

Don't take my word for it. Olentangy Local Schools — one of the highest-performing districts in the state — says it right on their website: "The Ohio General Assembly generally uses Lottery profits to offset other general funding that would be provided to Ohio school districts."
Your schools don't get a single extra dollar. The legislature just freed up $1.5 billion to spend on something else.

Casinos? The constitutional amendment said 34% of casino tax revenue goes to schools. Sounds significant. It works out to about $66 per student per year. That doesn't cover a single textbook.

Now let's talk sports betting — because this one should make you angry.
When the legislature passed HB 29 in December 2021, the law said 98% of sports betting tax revenue would go to education. That was the deal. Ohioans have wagered over $26 billion on sports since January 2023.

But here's what happened next:
Six months after launch, they doubled the tax rate from 10% to 20%. Fine — more money for schools, right?
Then, quietly, in the state budget, the allocation was restructured. Instead of 98% going to the education fund, now roughly half goes straight into the General Revenue Fund — the same pot the legislature uses for everything else. The dedicated education share dropped to about 36%.

Then Governor DeWine proposed doubling the tax again — to 40%. Not for schools. For professional sports stadiums. The House rejected that idea, but instead approved raiding $600 million from Ohio's unclaimed funds pool — money that belongs to ordinary Ohioans from dormant bank accounts and forgotten deposits — to build the Cleveland Browns a new stadium.
Then, in February 2026, DeWine said publicly that he regrets legalizing sports betting entirely.

So let's get this straight:
→ They sold it as education funding
→ They doubled the tax
→ They redirected most of it away from the education fund
→ The governor tried to use the next increase for stadiums
→ They raided $600 million from Ohioans' forgotten bank accounts for the Browns

→ And now the governor says he wishes he'd never done it
Meanwhile, 595 school districts are projecting deficits and 139 will be insolvent within three years.
This is why we built fixohioschools.org. Because a dedicated school sales tax — constitutionally earmarked, in a separate fund the legislature cannot touch — is the only way to fund schools without the shell game.

A penny on the dollar. $20 a month. No property tax increase. No legislative games. Every school funded.

They've been telling you gambling pays for schools since 1987. It doesn't. It never has. And it never will — unless we build a system they can't manipulate.
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