COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group wants Columbus residents tovote on whether the city should be paying
for its professional hockeyteam’s home arena, and it has collected enough signatures to get theissue on the
May ballot.That means voters will be asked whetherto end the city’s purchase contract for Nationwide Arena,
home of theColumbus Blue Jackets.The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1gpzRVp ) reports elections officials
confirmed the citizens group collectedmore than the roughly 5,000 verified signatures needed to put
theinitiative on the ballot.The president of the group says itdoesn’t object to the arena but thinks the
public should have had a sayin the purchase agreement. The city and county agreed in 2011 to usecasino tax
revenue to help buy and maintain the facility for decades.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten
orredistributed.COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group wants Columbus residents tovote on whether the city should be
paying for its professional hockeyteam’s home arena, and it has collected enough signatures to get theissue
on the May ballot.That means voters will be asked whetherto end the city’s purchase contract for Nationwide
Arena, home of theColumbus Blue Jackets.The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1gpzRVp ) reports elections officials
confirmed the citizens group collectedmore than the roughly 5,000 verified signatures needed to put
theinitiative on the ballot.The president of the group says itdoesn’t object to the arena but thinks the
public should have had a sayin the purchase agreement. The city and county agreed in 2011 to usecasino tax
revenue to help buy and maintain the facility for decades.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.