Sentences with phrase «place ballot questions»

It will mark the last time school boards will be able to place ballot questions before voters on a date that doesn't coincide with a regularly scheduled election under new restrictions enacted as part of the 2017 - 19 state budget.

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If her question is placed on the November ballot and enough voters are in favor of dissolving the district, Fiddyment and other like - minded Gurnee residents plan to ask the voters in the March primary if they want to re-establish a park district.

On August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issue.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

The Park Board voted unanimously last week to place a referendum question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters to approve purchase of the land and construction of playing fields and a facility.

Plainfield Park District officials said the three advisory questions were placed on the ballot to help gauge community feelings on the issues.

Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

SIlosky shrugged off suggestions that the questions were a way to avoid any recall questions, saying the board voted to place the questions on the ballot several months ago.

The Orland Park Village Board this week unanimously approved a request from the Orland Park Library Board of Trustees to place the question on the March 19 primary election ballot.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

The board majority wanted to place the question about term limits on the ballot.

The Cary Park District, having only $ 300,000 in its land acquisition fund, voted to place a question on the April ballot asking voters for the money needed for the purchase.

The park board of commissioners has decided to place two questions on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Glen Ellyn — A Nov. 2 referendum asking Glen Ellyn voters if they want to fund a new library cleared a final hurdle when the Village Board unanimously approved placing the question on the ballot.

The board of commissioners has until August to decide whether to place the question on the November ballot, the next time a referendum could be presented to voters.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

The residents gathered more than 5,400 signatures on petitions to persuade the Wilmette Park District to place a $ 25 million tax referendum question on the March 19 ballot to buy the land.

With 25,000 voters in the park district, 2,500 signatures were needed to get the question placed on the March ballot.

It's too late to place another referendum question on the November ballot, so the board has plenty of time to consider how to proceed, he said.

Barring a sudden change of heart, a referendum question would be placed on the November or April 2009 election ballot.

The questioner doesn't go on to explore questions such as when and how the vote would take place, what should be on the ballot paper, and whether abandoning Brexit altogether should be an option.

Mayor Bill de Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

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Evan Davis, head of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention, files suit against the New York State Board of Elections to obtain a court order requiring the question whether to call a state constitutional convention to be placed on the front rather on the back of the ballot this November.

De Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform Party that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

The concern is that voters would miss referendum questions if they are placed on the back of the ballot.

A former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo is suing the state Board of Elections in order to require the upcoming ballot question on whether to hold a constitutional convention be placed on the front of the ballot presented to voters.

At a joint press conference Lords Clarke, Heseltine, Mandelson and Patten complained that Britain's place in Europe and not Labour's record was the question on the referendum ballot paper.

A former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo is suing the state Board of Elections to require the question of whether to hold a constitutional convention be placed on the front of the ballot this November.

The poll had a «who would be your first preference as leader» question with a very long list of candidates in which Corbyn got less than a majority of support, but on a mock ballot paper against Hillary Benn, Dan Jarvis, Lisa Nandy, Angela Eagle and Tom Watson he wins comfortably on the first round (62 % support, with Benn in second place on 15 %).

The question that will appear on the ballot is: «Shall the Constitution of the state be amended to remove restrictions concerning absentee ballots and to permit a person to vote without appearing at a polling place on the day of an election?»

The State Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that a ballot question to repeal the law can be placed on the statewide ballot on election day in November.

It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.

After it passes the legislature, the amendment question is placed on the next general election ballot, which will be in November 2012.

Last spring, Republican lawmakers placed an alternative question on the ballot, known as Initiative 42A — which essentially nullified 42 by asking voters to keep Mississippi's school funding system as it is.