The tax rate which may be levied without a vote of the people for the current operating expenses of the City, including therein the levies for police and fire pensions, is hereby limited to eight and thirty-five hundredths (8.35) mills per dollar of assessed value upon property listed and assessed for taxation according to value upon the duplicate of property in the City of Cleveland; provided that said limitations may be exceeded for current operating expenses in each of the years 1968, 1969, and 1970, by not more than five and eight-tenths (5.8) mills. This limitation shall apply only to taxes levied against property so listed and assessed.
(Effective November 21, 1967)