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Re-Elect
Delaware County Commissioner
Jeff Benton.

Dedicated to Delaware County

7th Generation Delaware County Resident

Keeping Our Economy Strong and Growing

Planning for Smart Growth

Vision

Jeff Benton’s Vision
for Delaware County

The best place in Ohio to live, work, grow a business and raise a family...

Jeff Benton’s vision for Delaware County is to make it the best place in Ohio to live, work, grow a business and raise a family. To achieve that goal, we need careful long-range planning to ensure our strong economic base and pro-growth policies provide attractive opportunities for all to prosper.

Jeff Benton will ensure that we make key strategic investments in sewer, transportation and safety services while maintaining a lean, responsive County government for Delaware County constituents.

More about Jeff Benton

New Jobs for Delaware.

Celebrating the grand opening of the new OWU Entrepreneur Center, along with partners Rock Jones, President of Ohio Wesleyan University, and Tom Homan, Delaware City Manager. Through this unique collaboration of Delaware County, OWU and the City of Delaware, we have created a business incubator on the OWU campus that will provide long-term job growth in our community.

Accomplishments

Vision & Accomplishments as County Commissioner

 Our growing, vibrant community needs its Commissioner to have excellent strategic thinking, management, and people skills.

Rare Triple A
County Debt Rating

Delaware County’s debt received a rare Triple A rating from both Moody’s and S&P, the highest rating possible (only 80 counties in the country have that dual rating).

Long-Term Sewer Plan

We have finalized a long-term sewer plan so that we can ensure smart growth in the County going forward. Where sewers go, growth follows.

Rare Triple A Sewer
District Debt Rating

Our Sewer District’s debt also received a rare (less than 1% of the country’s sewer districts) Triple A rating from S&P thanks to the excellent leadership, finances and plan in place.

Long-Term
Facilities Plan

We recently finished a long-term facilities plan to more efficiently manage the County’s buildings and provide better service to our customers.

Improved Roads

Very important to our residents are improved roads. In 2018, we set up planned spending of $191 million over a five-year span on key projects like two new interchanges on 71 (Big Walnut Rd, 36/37) and completion of a southern east/west thoroughfare connecting Home Rd, Lewis Center Rd, and Big Walnut Rd.

Long-Term Economic
Development Plan

A long-term economic development plan was finalized in 2017. Its priorities include developing a 36/37 corridor plan so that it becomes the County’s main driver of smart economic growth in the County in the coming decades. This plan will also work to attract more targeted business development to help reduce the County’s over-reliance on the residential tax base to fund schools.