Cuyahoga County Council is reversing a proposed cut to the county’s publicly-funded hospital, MetroHealth System, and portions of cuts to three other social service programs.

County Executive Chris Ronayne’s budget for 2026 and 2027, submitted to council in October , proposed trimming $4.5 million of the county’s $35 million-per-year subsidy to MetroHealth.

The Department of Health and Human Services segment of county government, which funds child and family, education and homeless services countywide, is funded through a property tax levy, and faced a total of more than $40 million in reductions in Ronayne’s proposed budget.

Councilmember Meredith Turner said during a budget hearing Monday that council could not reverse all of the cuts to the county’s social safety net.

“We are not

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