Minnesota’s largest level-one trauma hospital is in need of a transfusion of money.
Leaders with Hennepin Healthcare and Hennepin County went before a Senate Committee Tuesday to ask the state to approve a one cent sales tax for Hennepin County that they say could cover the cost.
“It’s a source of revenue that’s stable,” says Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley. “We can’t rely on property taxes to do it. In fact, we wouldn’t be able to levy high enough to do it, and we can’t put that burden on the backs of property taxpayers. So we are very limited in the amount of revenue or income that comes in.”…