Under HB 331, every village in Ohio will be evaluated after each U.S. Census. To remain on solid footing, a village must provide at least five of ten core services — things like police protection, fire, EMS, water, sewer, road maintenance, parks, or a library. These are not luxuries; they are the basics that justify having a separate level of government. When villages can’t meet that threshold, services are often contracted out piecemeal, leaving residents paying for inefficiency.