You won’t be seeing a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority tax levy on your ballot this fall. The transit authority's board of trustees decided the financial need is there, but the time isn’t right.
Despite concerned comments from all present board members, board member and Newburgh Heights Mayor Trevor Elkinsintroduced a resolution that would put a sales tax levy to benefit RTA on the November ballot.
The motioned failed to garner support from board members.
Several board members, including Karen Gabriel Moss, said they were not ready to put the tax increase before voters.
"To put it before the whole county, I think we need to have our house in order. To be honest, I don’t think we have our house in order," she said.
Marvin Ranaldson, of Clevelanders for Public Transit, worries about RTA’s funding future.
"We’re just disappointed. Disappointed that after all this time and all this talk, that they decided to do nothing, which is basically what they have been doing for the last two years," he said.
But Ranaldson remains hopeful. Both he and RTA anticipate a tax levy on the ballot in 2019.
