Attorney's Office.Įxplore PHOTOS: Former Butler Co. Schuler have been charged with conspiracy "to improperly benefit from Butler County contracts involving a (fiber optics) company doing business with the county," according to the U.S. Courthouse in downtown Cincinnati after a hearing on Thursday, Oct.
He resigned in March 2009 months before the federal indictment. The move, which was initially criticized by some, was praised by the commission and much of the public for the reforms he put in place at the agency, which included increased background checks for foster parents. The board had been dispensed and the director fired. In 2007, Fox stepped down from the Butler County Commission to take over the Butler County Children Services after the agency was spiraling downward following the death of 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel by his foster parents. Bob Taft ended it toughened laws on crimes committed with firearms put a victim’s advocate on parole boards created the Ohio School Facilities Commission moved a developmental disabilities center to Fairfield established a missing children’s registry created the Butler County Juvenile Court and enacted numerous bills dealing with children services.įox told the Journal-News in 2009 that “it’s very difficult to go through a day in Butler County, and not be touched directly or indirectly by something that I did as a legislator or commissioner in my career.” Other things Fox did include: started a computer program where the $500 million annual program put computers and Internet in every Ohio elementary school until Gov. The highway, which opened in December 1999, paved the way for the Bridgewater Falls Lifestyle Shopping Center in the mid-2000s, and the countless business developments surrounding it The 11.5-mile four-lane, limited-access, divided highway connects the city of Hamilton to Interstate 75 through Fairfield and Liberty townships, and opened scores of acres of land for development. GREG LYNCH/FILEįox’s name was removed by the state from the Ohio 129 highway ― the reason given was a highway should not be named for a living politician ― an action that irritated him, he previously expressed to the Journal-News. Mike Fox served nearly 23 years in the Ohio Statehouse, a decade as a Butler County commissioner and two years as Butler County Children Services’ executive director. As a county commissioner, he helped secure $3 million for the removal of the downtown Middletown mall.
“Mike Fox was a man of action.”įox, the youngest (at 24 years old) and longest-serving state lawmaker in Butler County history (serving 23 years), also directed more than $100 million to Miami University, allocated money to help build the Government Services Center in Hamilton, and secured $11 million for the Jack Kirsch underpass in Hamilton. No other politician could do that,” he said. He pushed it through within one year and got it done. Trustee Lee Wong said his community would not be what it is today without Fox pushing for the Union Center interchange. He told the Journal-News in 2009 it was “a vision I had to claw my way and fight my way through.” Fox Highway and the Union Center Boulevard Interchange. He was the driving force behind some of the area’s largest local transportation projects, like the once-named Michael A.
Fox Highway) connecting Hamilton and Interstate 75. It was Fox who founded the county transportation improvement district, which led the construction of Ohio 129 (formerly known as the Michael A. “He certainly left a legacy of achievement.”įox’s political legacy is unmatched, filled with numerous projects he spearheaded at the state level and then within the county. “Mike did a lot for this community,” he said. Long-time friend Joe Statzer said Fox “could be a genius, frustrating, comical, serious, irritating, and all in the same conversation ― heck the same sentence.” “I regret the time that I cheated my family out of,” Fox said in December 2015. extention.įox told the Journal-News in December 2015, days before he was released from home incarceration, the work he dedicated his life to was “important work,” but was often at the expense of spending time with family and friends. Greg Lynch/Journal-NewsButler County Commisioner Mike Fox, Vice Chairman, Butler County TID Jim Blount, Fairfield delagate to the TID board, Wendell Judd, and Fairfield Mayor Robert Wolpert along with others, cuts the ribbon marking the opening of the new Union Centre Blvd.
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