CLEVELAND, Ohio – Last year, Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and most of the county council agreed they needed to extend the 0.25% sales tax to fund the construction of a new jail and possibly new courthouse, and now they are locked into that promise.
Council on Tuesday voted to put all collections from the sales tax into a special Justice Center Capital Projects Fund that can only be spent on property for or building, rehabilitating, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, improving, furnishing and equipping a jail and courthouse facility – nothing more.
