Sentences with phrase «need voter approval»

To go as high as $ 1.17, the maximum allowed tax rate in the state, districts would need voter approval.

His proposal, which would need voter approval, stems from the panel's argument that students» access to high - tech devices is crucial for long - term success.

But the Park District doesn't need voter approval because the center's construction won't require a tax increase.

The proposal needs voter approval because the new court would be located about 800 feet outside of Kingston, the county seat, on Ulster Avenue.

He is proposing a casino at the Meadowlands, which needs voter approval.

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He noted that it took the Algonquin Area Public Library two tries to gain voter approval to build a sorely needed new facility.

County Executive Steven Bellone and members of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society and Group for the East End announced the deal — which still needs approval from county legislators, as well as a voter referendum in November — on Wednesday.

While the other reforms simply need to pass the legislature, the pension changes must come with a constitutional amendment and voter approval in 2017.

With the low approval ratings of both the State Senate and Assembly, it's not surprising that voters think major changes are needed in the way things are done in state government in Albany.

But an amendment would need to be passed by both this year's and next year's Legislatures and wouldn't appear on the ballot for voter approval until the same day in 2017 that the convention vote will be held.

The legislature approved first passage of a constitutional amendment to permit gambling earlier this year, but it needs the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures, plus the voters, so the earliest casinos could be allowed would be late in 2013.

Cuomo is pushing legalization of casino gambling through a constitutional amendment that would need approval by two separately elected state legislatures before going to voters.

In order to change the state's constitution, the amendment needs the approval of two consecutively elected state legislatures and then must go before the voters.

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.