​Hamilton County parks chief: City broke off talks on joint parks tax

The city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s Great Parks negotiated into the spring over whether to do a joint tax levy campaign in 2016 or 2017, but the city ultimately decided to pursue Issue 22, Great Parks executive director Jack Sutton said Wednesday. The talks could not have resulted in a merger of Cincinnati’s park department and Great Parks because state law does not allow it, Sutton said. Any agreements between the two park entities would have had to be similar to pacts in place now:…