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The agency that funds arts activities through a Cuyahoga County cigarette tax continues to search for a new leader more than a year after the departure of former executive director Karen Gahl-Mills.  A (CAC) committee tasked with the hunt is still sifting through candidates.  At CAC鈥檚 latest meeting Wednesday, board chair Charna Sherman predicted a decision in the coming months.

鈥淲e certainly hope to get this done before the end of the year,鈥� she said.

A Boston-based head-hunter company is conducting the search, and a high profile group of community leaders is keeping an eye on the process.  The CAC board's Wednesday public meeting was the last before a summer hiatus.  The next meeting is scheduled for September 11.

Meanwhile, a much bigger decision on the future of arts funding looms just down the road.  Revenues from the cigarette tax continue to decline.  Charna Sherman said that a political action committee composed of community members separate from CAC is discussing ways to find a new source of revenue.

鈥�There is a sense that we really need to move quickly,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e are now operating on almost half of what we had originally, and what we want to find is: what鈥檚 that stream that鈥檚 going to bring us back to where we started?鈥�

County voters renewed the cigarette tax for 10 years in 2015, so there is still time to consider alternate forms of funding.

In other CAC news, Marc Avsec has finished a three-year term on the agency鈥檚 board of trustees.  A replacement is expected to be named by county executive Armond Budish within a month.  Avsec will serve until then.

CAC also released its to the community, which highlights examples of several grant recipients and cites total attendance at CAC-supported events at 6,833,880.

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