Roger Bundy combs the CuyCo budget, summerizes it:
On August 24, 2007, the day before the deadline for Put It On The Ballot to turn in our petitions to force a vote on the sales tax increase, the Cuyahoga County Commissioners released their 2007 Midyear Financial Report that you can find in its entirety here.
I’ll share some highlights of the report with you and let you judge whether the real reason for the urgency of this sales tax increase was a medical mart or whether the Commissioners desperately needed to prop up their General Fund. Recall the the sales tax increase is not specifically earmarked for the convention center/medical mart, but is just dumped in to the General Fund.
As is clear from the following excerpts of the Midyear Financial Report, the county is already hinting that it will need the revenue from this sales tax increase to support/offset and expected general fund operating deficit…
