CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and County Council President Dan Brady propose raising the bed tax on hotel stays from 5.5 percent to 6.5 percent beginning in January 2020 to in part pay for improvements to sports facilities.

If approved, the tax hike also would free up money for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, primarily to cover the cost of induction ceremonies held in Cleveland every other year, the county announced Monday in a news release.

As proposed, the Rock Hall would receive an extra $1.6 million a year and $3 million a year would go into a professional sports facilities fund, the news release states.

Budish and Brady are expected to introduce the tax-hike legislation, which they are co-sponsoring along with Councilman Dale Miller, at Tuesday’s council meeting.

If approved, the tax increase is expected to generate an additional $4.6 million per year, the release states. The bed tax in 2018 generated $25.9 million. In 2017, it generated $23.9 million.

The additional revenue would be used to help operate and maintain the county’s Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland and would free up revenues in the same amount from the county sales tax to primarily support Rock Hall induction ceremonies and the sports facilities fund.

A sports facilities fund also would be created to pay for capital improvements to Progressive Field and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

The county must pay for improvements per its leases with the Cleveland Indians and Cavaliers. The costs for such work have far outpaced the taxes on alcohol and tobacco that were intended to pay for capital improvements at both facilities.

The proposed increase comes three years after county and city leaders struck the $185-million deal to overhaul Quicken Loans Arena, now known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The deal called for diverting bed tax money from the region’s tourism bureau, Destination Cleveland.

The Rock Hall receives one-quarter of the money Destination Cleveland receives from the bed tax for tourism-related capital improvements.

After the Q deal was announced, Destination Cleveland President and CEO David Gilbert acknowledged the Rock Hall could receive less money for induction ceremonies and other things as a result of the $44 million being diverted to the Q.