Ohio Rev. Code § 3735.30: County commissioners may appropriate and loan funds for initial construction expenses.

The board of county commissioners of the county in which a metropolitan housing authority has been created may appropriate and loan to such authority a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying expenses of organizing and supervising the work of the authority during the period of initial construction of the proposed projects. Such loan is to be authorized by a resolution of the board, which shall set forth the terms and time of repayment thereof.