Sonia Winner, president and CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, spoke Tuesday May 28, 2024 at the Cuyahoga County Council Committee of the Whole. She advocated a proposal to put a measure increasing Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts on the November ballot.
If approved, the measure would replace the existing excise of 1.5 cents per cigarette to 3.5 cents, or from 30 cents for a pack of cigarettes to 70 cents. Voters renewed the tax in 2015 by a margin of 75% in favor. But since its earliest days, tax revenues have dwindled by nearly 50%. Johnson said the replacement levy will also give arts advocates “breathing room’' to seek additional resources in the future, when it is expected that fewer county residents will be smoking.
“Wow,’' Schron said, referring to the “breathing room,’’ and “health’' language. He called the language “two terms I don’t think belong in a cigarette smoking request.’’ “There’s going to be some major hand grenades in the mailboxes of our taxpayers in the next 60 days or so,’’ Gallagher said. “I think it was a huge error at this time to be asking for this increase.’’
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