The Bartlett Park District board has awarded a $ 2.1 million contract to a Mt. Prospect company to build a water park
authorized by referendum.
As we reported in the July 18 WEAC Legislative Update, referendum restrictions included in the Senate GOP plan would exclude from «shared cost» any amount levied by a district in a prior year for either operating or debt service costs that were
authorized by a referendum if doing so would not increase the district's equalization aid entitlement.
Under the cautious pilot program
authorized by Referendum 55, no more than five schools would be allowed in each of the first three years.
Not exact matches
Before it was recast
by Cuomo and the Legislature, the
referendum stated simply: «The purpose of the proposed amendment to section 9 of article 1 of the constitution is to allow the Legislature to
authorize and regulate up to seven casinos.
The proposal floated
by Krueger and Samuels would use licensing fees of approximately $ 8 million a year from each of the seven casinos
authorized under the constitutional amendment, assuming, of course, that's it's given second passage
by the Legislature this year — not a foregone conclusion — and also passes muster with the public in a
referendum vote.
But voters in a 2016 permissive
referendum rejected
authorizing $ 2 million in bonds to repurpose the building
by a 3 to 1 margin.
According to an order for declaratory judgment which was sent
by Rosenblum to a New York state Supreme Court judge on Oct. 17, the mayor will seek to nullify a decision
by the Democratic majority of Leon Potok, David Finch and Ilissa Miller on the village board to
authorize a ballot
referendum that — if passed
by public vote on Election Day — would restrict Rosenblum's ability to appoint a village attorney as well as certain land use board members.
Driven
by a shared goal of creating jobs, increasing funding for schools and lowering property taxes, a broad coalition of business leaders, labor unions, economic development professionals and educators announced the formation of NY Jobs Now in support of
Referendum # 1 on ballots in November, which would
authorize up to four new casinos in upstate New York.
This is a
referendum on a bill already approved, a procedure
authorized by a related part of the constitution and triggered
by a similar means: the collection of enough voters» signatures to put it on the ballot.