Sentences with phrase «failed referendum»

The tax cap, along with failed referendum attempts in 1995 and 1997, have limited the district's ability to generate new revenue for improvements, he said.

Cartsens, who also serves as director of facilities for the Illinois Park and Recreation Association, predicted that Cary residents soon could face shortages in recreation opportunities, particularly in children's programs, because of failed referendums over recent years.

It was only in the run - up to the ultimately failed referendum in 2014 that support for both the SNP in the House of Commons and their raison d'etre of independence soared to the crucial 50 per cent mark.

The premier forced an expensive, made - to - fail referendum on voters, she picked fights with Lower Mainland mayors over funding, and she has stalled and dithered and blocked the way forward for years now.

Dr. John Hutton, Superintendent, Gurnee School District 56, IL Dr. John Hutton's vision for student - centered learning and his ability to articulate that vision to the community, in partnership with the district's school board, garnered passage of a comprehensive building referendum after seven previous failed referenda attempts.

This is the district's second failed referenda to counter decreasing enrollment in recent years.

The board decided to take advantage of a $ 2.5 million matching grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources despite some community concern about two failed referendum attempts in 2012 that would have paid for the Park District's share of the costs.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

During the failed referendum campaign earlier this month to build an aquatic park, Zirk said he heard residents say the money would be better spent on fixing the village's water and street problems.

«(A referendum) was not seen as an option, due to the failure of previous referendums, «said board Vice President Andrew Johnson, referring to two failed referendums to create a citywide Park District board.

Part of the failed referendum proposal would have raised funds to build the 26 - mile trail system all at once.

Steve Scholten, the park district's executive director, said a second pathway at Lake Arlington would cost $ 875,000 and was included in the improvement plans for both failed referendums in 2012.

Whether this is a consequence of the failed referendum, I don't know, but I guess it might be, and I wouldn't be surprised if a failed independence referendum in Scotland (or, for that matter, Catalonia) would have similar consequences.

In the decade after the failed referendum, Parti Québécois dropped from 45 % to 28 % of the vote.

And then, thanks to boundary changes demanded by Nick Clegg as the price for a failed referendum, you find the goalposts are shifted.

Of the107 school districts that would be eligible under this bill, nine had failed referenda.

School board members and superintendents appearing before the Assembly education committee questioned why Republicans want to inject themselves in local affairs during a public hearing on a bill that would prohibit school districts from bringing a failed referendum back to voters for two years.

The most well - known attempt to incorporate a reference to Indigenous Australians was the failed referendum of 1999, when Australians, in addition to voting on whether Australia should become a republic, voted on whether to adopt a new preamble to the Australian Constitution.