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Mayors balk at state intrusion Change in muny taxation viewed as latest threat to home rule By JAY MILLER jmiller@crain.com
Mayor David Anderson stood at the podium in the Red Room at Cleveland City Hall to protest the latest assault by legislators in Columbus on his city’s well-being. “These reductions in income,
when added to the reductions we’ve all experienced over the last couple of years in local government fund receipts — and reductions we’ve yet to experience as a result of the elimination of the estate tax — would severely hamper our ability to provide the basic services our businesses and residents have
come to rely on,” he told the gathered reporters. Mayor Anderson has been a mayor for 21 years, but not the mayor of Cleveland. He and two dozen other mayors and city managers, Republicans and Democrats, representing communities from Westlake to Eastlake,
were gathered Feb. 28 in the Red Room to protest legislation that may prove to be, Mayor Anderson would say later, “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” The mayors fear House Bill 5, a municipal income tax reform bill, would take away millions upon millions of dollars in revenue from the 600 cities across the state that tax income.
INSIDE Relief could be on way Neuros Medical CEO Jon Snyder, right, believes his company has found a way to significantly reduce or eliminate chronic limb pain. The device is on its second clinical trial. PAGE 3
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DONORS AUGMENT HOSPITAL PROFILE
Hiring consultants, tax breaks among plans used to draw businesses to town By JAY MILLER jmiller@crain.com
University Hospitals has transformed itself into a fundraising behemoth that is almost on par with the Cleveland Clinic By TIMOTHY MAGAW tmagaw@crain.com
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ver the last decade, University Hospitals has built up not only its physical footprint but also its philanthropic muscle, morphing from a
sleepy enterprise that raised about $13 million annually in the 1990s and early 2000s into a giant that now brings in more than $100 million a year in donations. University Hospitals’ transformation into a philanthropic powerhouse was fueled by a $1 billion
fundraising effort the health system quietly launched in 2004 — the year its fundraising chief, Sherri Bishop, joined the system’s ranks. University Hospitals reached the $1 billion milestone last December, but with its donors showing no signs of See HOSPITAL Page 6
What’s does a city need to do to get expanding businesses to notice it? That’s a question that prompted public officials in Hudson to hire a marketing consultant to boost the suburb’s business attraction efforts — Currin and it’s one that’s being asked by other cities across the region, too. “Many times we don’t get looked at as we’d like to be looked at,” Hudson Mayor William Currin told Crain’s. “We felt we needed to have a stronger base of communication with site selectors,” he said.
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