CLEVELAND, Ohio - The city of Cleveland will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to sort out the legal issues over whether a referendum on use of city tax money for improvements at Quicken Loan Arena can proceed.
Mayor Frank Jackson and City Council President Kevin Kelley said today that the city's law director would file an action with the state's high court today asking it to rule on whether the city must accept the petition and begin the process toward verifying the signatures they contain.
The city refused to accept the petitions last month, saying that an attempted referendum would unconstitutionally interfere with a contract the city already had entered into over The Q agreement with Cuyahoga County.