Here are the 28 southwest Ohio villages under threat of dissolution from new law

Failure of that audit automatically puts a question on the local ballot to dissolve that village’s government and fold its assets and territory into the nearest township. A simple majority of voters will seal a village’s fate, one way or the other.

Here’s a list of those villages, sorted by population:

Nine area villages in the area have successfully fielded a candidate for every village opening in 2021, 2023, and 2025.

But they could still face a dissolution vote if they can’t prove that they provide at least five out of the 10 following services: police protection, firefighting services, emergency medical services, garbage collection, water service, sewer service, road maintenance, parks or recreation services, human services, or a village-operated library.

Those villages are:

Here’s an interactive map comparing the two datasets: