Phillip M. Robinson, Jr. News

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) announced Monday the state Controlling Board approved another round of federal funding to support Ohio’s efforts to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, including $300 million in federal funding to offset Ohio’s K-12 schools and colleges and university’s costs of keeping students and staff safe in the fall.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) issued a statement today following Gov. DeWine’s executive order yesterday to require facemasks in several Ohio counties, including Butler, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Huron, Montgomery, and Trumbull. Each of the counties falls within Level 3 of the state’s new Public Health Advisory System, which was unveiled July 2. Level 3 indicates very high exposure and spread of coronavirus.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) today issued the following statement on the passage of Joseph Regano, superintendent of the Solon City School District, who died of cancer Sunday morning.

COLUMBUS –State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) yesterday evening held a virtual community town hall as part of the 2^nd Ohio Promise Virtual Town Hall Tour, a series of digital events this summer where local lawmakers provide a Statehouse update on issues including COVID-19, police reform, education, jobs and the economy, election reform, racial justice and systemic racism, and gun safety.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) today announced the beginning of the second Ohio Promise Town Hall Tour. The first District 6 Virtual Town Hallwill be held Tuesday, June 30, at 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Facebook Live from his official Facebook pageto give updates and discuss the COVID-19 emergency response, police reform and systemic racism, and other Statehouse and legislative updates.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) today joined Dem lawmakers to urge House Republican leaders to call the chamber back into session to address several critical issues facing the state, including health and the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic racism and police brutality, questions surrounding the November election, and looming state budget shortfalls.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) last week signed onto a concurrent resolution urging Congress to designate June 19^th a paid federal holiday. This date is to be known as Juneteenth Independence day in recognition of June 19, 1865, when news of the end of slavery reached the southwestern states two months after the end of the American Civil War.

COLUMBUS – Yesterday, Ohio Democratic state legislators called on members of the Ohio Congressional Delegation to support and approve an increase in funding for local school systems in the next Covid-19 supplemental appropriations bill.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) issued a statement today as Republican lawmakers voted to fast-track legislationthat does little to prepare the state’s Boards of Elections to safely conduct a presidential election amid the worst global pandemic in more than a century.

COLUMBUS— State Rep. Phil Robinson (D-Solon) released a statement today following the recent protests throughout the state: