Sentences with phrase «approved holding a referendum»

Although the board approved holding a referendum to raise the money, no decision has been made on exactly how large a tax increase would be requested from voters.

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His idea is that each party would hold a referendum on whether to approve the union before a new party was formed.

Before it goes into effect, however, the plan must be approved by producers in a referendum that will be held from April 2 through May 5.

Trustee John Mazzorana noted that the referendum in which voters turned down a tax increase to finance a recreation center was held in the spring of 1996, but that voters later that year approved a tax hike to buy Yunker Farm.

The first referendum to be approved was held in 1936, in the middle of the Great Depression.

The Park Board voted last week to hold a referendum asking voters to approve a $ 6 million bond issue to pay the district's share of a building to be constructed in partnership with Joliet - based Provena St. Joseph Medical Center.

Village trustees suggested Monday night that a referendum be held to see whether the public would approve of spending village tax revenue on a project that benefits mostly the Park District and local businesses that participate in the Taste and Touch of Palatine.

The Tories have nevertheless been highly critical of Mr Brown's refusal to hold a referendum, although have been less certain in clarifying what they would do with the treaty if it was approved by parliament but not the public.

Fourth, Parliament held a national referendum on the bill in 2012 where the bill was accepted by 67 % of the voters and its individual key provisions were approved by 67 % to 83 % of the voters.

The fear, in part, is the convention is baked in or going to be rigged somehow in favor of holding one (a referendum for a con con as it's known has not been approved in 50 years).

If approved, it will initially require public hearings in the proposed referendum to be held Dec. 6 in Riverside and Dec. 20 in Hauppauge.

Hereafter, no new form of county tax maybe imposed, and the County of Erie's three per centum sales and use tax and fees or charges established by the County Legislature shall not be increased except by a resolution approved by: (a) the affirmative vote of two thirds of the whole number of the membership of the County Legislature, or, (b) the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of the membership of the County Legislature submitting a proposition for such imposition or increase to a mandatory referendum to be held pursuant to article three of the County law.

If Gordon Brown refuses to hold a referendum and the constitution is approved we should pledge to still hold that referendum and to be bound by the result.

The Constitution was approved in a series of referendums held over 1898 — 1900 by the people of the Australian colonies, and the approved draft was enacted as a section of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp), an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

In a speech in London, he announced that a referendum on changing the longstanding Westminster voting system could be held by the «end of October 2011» if the idea was approved by MPs.

In response Labour said that it would introduce AV then hold a public referendum to approve it.

Following a special general meeting where members of the Law Society resolved to direct the Benchers to not approve TWU's law school, the Law Society held a referendum in September 2014 where more than two - thirds of voting members voted again, but in a binding fashion, against approving TWU's law school.