Sentences with phrase «public a referendum on»

Some residents opposed to the project had organized a petition drive and gathered more than 1,000 signatures asking for a public referendum on the tax increase that would be needed to pay for the building.

She said it was «premature» to consider whether the county might initiate a public referendum on a city - county merger without support from the city council.

What you call British influence sounds more like suffering British effluence to me You also opine as a wistful afterthought... «but I expect one day we will have another public referendum on this» You think?

Why do they need to use blackmail, why not hold a public referendum on charters like MA did?

With the public referendum on casino gaming just weeks away, new polls indicating New York voters are keen on building more state - run casinos are being questioned by anti-gambling groups.

A Quinnipiac poll out today shows voters overwhelmingly in favor of a public referendum on term limits, and increasingly against a third Bloomberg term.

They will vote on the items in a public referendum on November's ballot if approved by the County Executive.

Owen Smith has broken ranks with Jeremy Corbyn to reopen the question of whether Brexit is «the right choice for the country», and urge Labour to offer the public a referendum on the final deal.

That message presumably would ask for special legislation approving the creation of a new city - county government and to authorize a public referendum on a new county charter.

The state's enabling legislation would likely describe the general outlines of how the city - county government would operate and would call for a public referendum on the merger during the next general election.

If another petition drive is mounted and is successful to force a public referendum on borrowing $ 1.9 million, the report said the town could:

He said the plan by some political and civic leaders to seek a public referendum on metropolitan government this year should be postponed to allow for at least 18 months of discussion.

Two powerful groups representing young people have joined forces to pile pressure on the Labour leader over his refusal to offer the public a referendum on the final EU deal.

Pausing the financing for the project was prompted by residents filing petitions forcing a public referendum on borrowing $ 5.1 million, which was approved by the board in January.

Senator Reverend Diaz supports a public referendum on legalizing same - sex marriage.

As Idaho Republicans faced a public referendum on their online course requirement rule last summer, Bush arrived in the state to show his support.

The rift deepened last year, after Sweeney reneged on a pledge to allow a public referendum on constitutionally guaranteeing that the state regularly contribute to its public employee pension funds.»

Not exact matches

One year on from the EU referendum, it is difficult to tell whether this number is shaping up to be correct: too many firms have not made public announcements, numbers have been vague and, with the terms of Brexit unclear, there are too many hypotheticals.

The Vancouver Board of Trade welcomes yesterday's announcement that a referendum on transit funding in Metro Vancouver could be delayed, and urges the provincial government to push back the referendum date to June 30, 2015, in order to give the public ample time to consider the referendum question and its implications.

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.

Arnott said that the manifesto, which was launched less than an hour before the national silence to remember the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, states that the public would be able to call a referendum on different issues.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

They say what they feel they must say to get our support when they want our support, but on so many issues - on modernising our politics, on the recall of MPs, on controlling our borders on less government, on bank reform, on cutting public debt, on an EU referendum - they never actually make it happen.»

Medard Narko, the Park District's attorney, told the board the pool site on Park Avenue could be sold, though public hearings and a referendum proposal would be needed to see if citizens supported the move.

In the first Illinois test of public opinion on the handgun issue, Arlington Heights residents said «no «Tuesday to an advisory referendum proposal that guns be banned from the northwestern suburb.

Village trustees suggested Monday night that a referendum be held to see whether the public would approve of spending village tax revenue on a project that benefits mostly the Park District and local businesses that participate in the Taste and Touch of Palatine.

After two hours of public comment Thursday, park board members at a special meeting voted 3 - 3 on a referendum measure, meaning the motion failed.

Public feedback on the referendum thus far has been positive, commissioners noted.

The Lisbon Constitution already has no democratic legitimacy in the eyes of most of the public after Labour reneged on its promise to give them a referendum.

We're slowly learning, following the rejected referenda on elected mayors and the electoral voting system, that when you give the public a choice on a specific issue the decisive battleground is never the actual issues.

The governor reversed himself on the timing of a casino public referendum, saying he would like it to go before the voters this fall even though there are no statewide elections scheduled, and not in 2014.

That's hardly surprising; having been promised in Labour's 2005 election manifesto a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and having seen other member states hold one, the public is eager to have its say.

Stevens called on the government to recognise the strength of public commitment to the NHS and make good on the EU referendum battle bus commitment of # 350m a week for the service.

Many Tories feel the party has lost out to voters because of eroded levels of public trust in former promises on European referenda.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

Last month he masterminded a letter of his own on the EU referendum, getting nearly 100 Tories to sign up to his proposal for the coalition to legislation on giving the British public a vote at some time in the next parliament.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

Public voting on referendums, as such, requires that said referendums be fairly static and limited in scope.

Cahill has sought to make the election a referendum, in part, on Schneiderman's efforts to combat corruption, as well as his involvement in the Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption.

A poll released yesterday by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday newspaper showed the «no» campaign ahead but with a little over last two weeks before the referendum these events will be key for both campaigns to get their message across to the public.

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For instance, they could develop a red line stance on the public deficit, or on the referendum on EU membership.

It culminated in a public consultation on a draft Referendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish PReferendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Preferendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament.

Onondaga County legislators have scheduled a special session Aug. 31 to vote on a proposed consolidation of jail operations under the sheriff's office in time to get a proposition on the ballot Nov. 7 for a public referendum.

The former prime minister made his first intervention on the issue since the referendum campaign, suggesting that the public could yet change their mind on Brexit as the picture becomes clearer.

The Lib Dems are eminently placable opponents of an in / out referendum on the EU: they know Cameron's backbenchers won't accept it being dropped, and besides, ruling out the public having a say on Europe isn't such a good look for a party with the word «Democrat» in their name.

The right - wing option would see it rely on the votes of UKIP and the unionists — perhaps offering concessions on the EU referendum and public spending in Northern Ireland.

Senior European public affairs professionals have delivered withering verdicts on Brexit, as lobbyists across Europe try to get to grips with the referendum result.

He wrote to the Smith Commission: «The argument some use to justify our exclusion on the grounds that we currently have no «parliamentary representation» fails to appreciate that the referendum was not a parliamentary process, but an unprecedented public debate that resulted in an extraordinary level of engagement from all sections of society.»

The state constitution itself requires a public referendum every 20 years on whether to hold a constitutional convention.