Sentences with phrase «approved referendum»

The city council will meet Tuesday to discuss whether to permanently ban alcohol on the beach or allow voters to have their say via an approved referendum in November.

In another act of direct democracy, 52.9 % of the Swiss voting public yesterday approved a referendum proposal to automatically expel foreigners convicted of various crimes.

One clear opponent has been the United Teachers Los Angeles — whose members approved a referendum expressing no confidence in Deasy, who succeeded Ramon Cortines in 2011 — and gave him failing grades last summer.

The $ 440 million facility is one of several casinos opening in upstate after after New Yorkers approved a referendum in 2013 that allows for the creation of four non-Indian casinos upstate.

Almost three years ago, New York voters approved a referendum pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to alter the state constitution and allow up to seven Las Vegas - style, non-Indian run casinos to be sited statewide.

Judy Jacobs (D - Woodbury), who was presiding officer of the legislature in 2000 when voters approved a referendum requiring legislative approval of all personal services contracts of $ 25,000 or more, said the county executive's authority to approve lower - cost agreements «is being abused.»

Any expansion would mean a constitutional amendment, which requires approval from two separately elected Legislatures and a voter - approved referendum.

Voters in New York approved a referendum on Tuesday to expand casino gambling in the state and rejected a referendum to allow judges to serve until age 80.

The County Legislature had approved the referendum in July, which would have been voted on this November.

In an effort to protect fertile soils, prevent permanent structures and maintain scenic vistas, Suffolk voters in 2007 approved a referendum authorizing county officials to pay farmers not to develop their property.

The Legislature approved a referendum last year but must do so a second time in a new session under state law.

Recently there was a parliamentary decision in Portugal that approved a referendum to the co-adoption and adoption by homosexual couples (already allowed to marry).

As a result of the approved referendum issue, the owner of a home with a market value of $ 200,000 is expected to pay another $ 22 annually in park district taxes.

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, 2,305 Wheeling voters approved the referendum proposal to save the Chevy Chase clubhouse versus 1,435 people who voted against it, said Karop Bavougian, director of parks and recreation for the Park District.

With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, 1,300 Wheeling voters approved the referendum to save the Chevy Chase clubhouse versus 900 people who voted against it, according to Tom Busby, superintendent of finance for the Park District.

In 1955, Park District voters approved a referendum to issue $ 675,000 in bonds for land acquisition and park development.

Board Members approved a referendum question, stating that the Park District wanted the «will of the people» to prevail.

1946 also saw Park District residents approve a referendum to establish the corporate tax rate at.125 % and the recreation tax rate at.0625 %.

Lake Bluff Park District officials will ask voters in November to approve a referendum request for $ 3.1 million, a move they hope will be more palatable than the $ 10.1 million referendum request rejected in 2010.

When I'm elected I'll eliminate this office by having it absorbed by the town clerk, after voters approve a referendum in this year's election.»

If voters approve the referendum, the casinos would be built in the Albany region, likely near Saratoga, the Southern Tier and in the Catskills.

Observers say one chance of its passage would be to have a figure like the governor push for approving the referendum, but Cuomo has been hesitant so far.

Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada this fall approved referenda on recreational marijuana, joining Oregon, Washington and Colorado in allowing for adult possession of recreational cannabis.

• Voters appeared ready to approve a referendum that would allow the state to create a 250 - acre land bank in the Adirondacks and the Catskills while giving local communities more flexibility in making infrastructure improvements.

Approving Referendum 55 will allow local communities to convert persistently failing public schools into tuition - free, charter public schools.

Next month, Washington voters will have the opportunity to help improve our public schools by approving Referendum 55.

But Steve Mullin, president of the Washington Roundtable, a business group that's part of a pro-charter coalition called Approve Referendum 55, expects to have no trouble raising a significant amount of in - state money.

State residents should approve Referendum 55, a law already passed by the Legislature to allow charter schools.

On Nov. 2, Washington voters will be asked to approve Referendum 55, a measure that would help improve our public schools.

Property taxes collected from taxpayer - approved referenda are not subject to the tax caps.

Voters became part of the collaborative effort by approving a referendum to fund a study to assess potential educational improvements and administrative efficiencies.

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At least 60 percent of voters would need to approve the referendum for it to take effect.

A majority of voters nationwide, plus a majority of voters in a majority of States (four out of six) must approve the referendum.

Not exact matches

Once approved in parliament they will be put to a referendum in the spring.

GW Pharmaceuticals: «My problem with GW Pharma is that every time we seem to have a referendum on marijuana, the voters approve it.

Never before in Canada have voters been asked to approve transportation investments and funding through a referendum.

Stonecrest, which includes about 53,000 residents in southeast DeKalb, incorporated as a city this year after voters approved it in a November referendum.

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

Will it direct the Merkel administration to return the issue to the Bundestag for approval of the new enhanced ECB «bailout» or will it suggest that the entire Maastricht Treaty needs to be approved by the entire citizenry through a REFERENDUM?

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

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.

These could be located only in counties in which the voters, by referendum, approved pari - mutuel betting.

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.

Dundee Township bought the land, known as the Bartels property, last year with $ 2.1 million of the $ 18 million approved in a November 1996 referendum.

The district wants to build a park on the property, a plan voters approved in a 2002 referendum.

Cary voters approved the purchase in a 1996 referendum, but a condemnation suit, which set $ 3.3 million as the fair market price for the property, just concluded a few weeks ago.

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