{"id":27982,"date":"2026-11-04T15:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/cuyahoga-countys-health-and-human-services-levy-passes-news-5-cleveland-wews\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:33:25","slug":"cuyahoga-countys-health-and-human-services-levy-passes-news-5-cleveland-wews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/cuyahoga-countys-health-and-human-services-levy-passes-news-5-cleveland-wews\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuyahoga County\u2019s health and human services levy passes &#8211; News 5 Cleveland WEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Voters went to the polls and approved Issue 11, a levy for the Cuyahoga County Department of Health that sought to increase funding to keep essential services running.<br \/>Issue 11 renews the existing 4.2-mill levy and adds a new 2.5-mill levy for 10 years. The increase will cost property owners an additional $87.50 for every $100,000 of assessed property value.<br \/>The funding will go directly toward health and human services programs that support many of the 1.3 million residents across the county, including seniors, children and the unhoused.<br \/>Health and Human Services served approximately 500,000 county residents last year. The programs are funded in part by federal dollars and the county levy.<br \/><b><i><u>WATCH MORE about the levy:<\/u><\/i><\/b><br \/><b>RELATED:<\/b> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/oh-cuyahoga\/cuyahoga-county-asks-voters-to-approve-health-and-human-services-levy-increase\"><u>Cuyahoga County asks voters to approve Health and Human Services levy increase<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPU2VyZnhkU1BqNTFMakNHTzVWbmNVRWxRbkZweFdyUi00WnRMM2FmZzJyb2J5dFhQS3RyazRXNmZUNHBLeVU4UEFweUs0MFJkZzNra0FzN0FNMXpLOVFQUkpVUnVuN1FnR21XS1dBSk0zbnY4dVcxQlZfVDhoc21iMzdqM19FRGNlcFFnVUliSzZrTGdfX2pDOXI0ay0wTVoyaXIyYVZ6eHhGTW5SX2twVVMxUQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Voters went to the polls and approved Issue 11, a levy for the Cuyahoga County Department of Health that sought to increase funding to keep essential services running.Issue 11 renews the existing 4.2-mill levy and adds a new 2.5-mill levy for 10 years. The increase will cost property owners an additional $87.50 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}