Sentences with phrase «referendum measure»

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.

Park District Executive Director Barbara Heller said Friday that some board members were still considering placing an advisory referendum measure on the April 17 ballot and may reconsider the issue at a future meeting when all board members are present for a vote.

Park commissioners plan to put a referendum measure on the ballot in April seeking financing for the proposed two - story building, which is to include a gymnasium, weight room, aerobic room, locker rooms and meeting rooms.

Lake in the Hills officials plan to ask voters for permission to build an indoor pool and community center in the fall or following spring via a referendum measure, officials said.

Regarding his resignation, Simeone cited frustration with lack of funding and of support from voters for a referendum measure.

It would be the first referendum measure to raise taxes since the Park District was created 32 years ago, Brissa said.

Another option is doing nothing, in the hope that citizens will spearhead a referendum measure on whether to create a new park or annex into an adjacent one.

Officials of the Wilmette Park District recently said they are considering asking voters to pass a $ 14 million referendum measure in November to pay for the village's lakefront master plan, encompassing an array of projects including new beach houses at both Gillson and Langdon parks.

An $ 18 million referendum measure to finance capital projects and buy the Maryknoll Seminary was defeated by voters in November.

Noting the three previous failures, Park District Director Kirk Reimer said any effort to pass a referendum measure would be an uphill battle.

Voters in 2000 also passed a $ 20 million referendum measure to support the land preservation initiative.

The Plum Grove Estates Property Owners Association held the seventh and last meeting to answer questions and dispel any misconceptions regarding a referendum measure on Tuesday's ballot on the proposed annexation.

A citizens advisory panel that will work on the April referendum measure is expected to begin meeting in January.

He would like to see more tax incentives to attract new businesses, but he declined to offer details until next Thursday's candidates forum hosted by Save Buffalo Grove, a grass - roots organization which has collected signatures for a referendum measure on plans for a proposed downtown Buffalo Grove.

Another option cited in the report, which Chairman Christopher Smith said a majority of committee members supported, is for the village to wait for citizens to initiate a referendum measure to create a new park district or to annex into an adjacent one.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The Arlington Heights Park District is testing the water to see whether the community will back a tax - referendum measure next spring to repair aging swimming pools and other outdated facilities.

Commissioners next month are expected decide whether to place a referendum measure on the November ballot.

Prior to the November election, Cary Park District officials promised residents that if they voted down referendum measures seeking to fund a proposed swim center and ballfields on 80 acres near Cary - Grove High School, they'd drop a condemnation suit for the land.

The Nov. 7 referendum measures failed.

Two hotly debated «pass the pool» referendum measures were sunk in 1997 by voters who did not want higher property taxes to pay for a proposed multimillion - dollar family aquatic center on Park District land at Hunt Club Park on Hunt Club Road.

It was a clean sweep for North Shore referendum measures, with three school districts winning at the polls Tuesday and Glenview Park District voters approving two new swimming pools.

Not exact matches

I mean, literally not only have they, as a population, been cut to no social safety net, no social security, yet the Syriza government keeps getting supported, elected in referendums, and they seem to be able to maintain power in spite of these austerity measures.

Greek banks are closed all week after news broke that the country will be holding a referendum vote on whether to accept the bailout measures offered by international creditors.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

The controversy goes back to November 1993, when the Library District got a referendum proposal approved to raise money for its share of the Central Park facility, but the Park District did not win approval of a companion fund - raising measure.

Nonetheless, some experts caution that asking voters to consider two referendum questions on the November ballot might not produce the desired outcomes for either organization, in particular, if those casting ballots fear that supporting both measures would mean higher taxes.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

In park district referendum proposals, voters in Naperville and Woodridge agreed to increases that will go toward maintaining current services, but Bloomingdale voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure.

But Wilson said that board members were told after the unsuccessful November referendum proposal for construction of a community center that many people voted against the measure because they did not agree that a fitness center should be included.

The measure comes after Lake in the Hills voters overwhelmingly rejected a spring referendum proposal that would have created a park district in the community.

First, because age and education are the biggest demographic correlates of referendum vote choice, we have weighted the YouGov respondents in each local authority so that their age and education profile matches that for that council as measured by the 2011 Census.

Mahmoud Abbas has been threatening to dismantle the Palestinian Authority over and over since April 2010, saying he would hand over «the keys» for the occupied West Bank to the Israeli government; while in 2011, Greek Prime Minister Papandreou threatened to leave the Eurozone and called a popular referendum on austerity measures, which implicitly questioned membership in the euro zone.

The time - constraint on referendums should, then, be balanced by a second measure.

That the SNP would win a third consecutive victory was never in any doubt but it's a measure of how dominant the nationalists have become in the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum that the party's inability to win a second overall majority - under a proportional representation system designed to prevent just such an outcome - may be considered something of a failure.

After the Houston City Council passed HERO in 2014, activists with the Campaign for Houston ran a referendum to put the wide - ranging measure before voters in an attempt to repeal it.

Opponents of the measure are expected to call for a referendum on the law, putting the final say in the hands of Maryland voters.

If the first passage of such a measure came during a special session, the quickest any referendum could come up is 2017.

I was asking whether any countries have tried to implement measures to restrict the effect that some people say happened in the brexit referendum.

The Tories agreed to virtually all the Lib Dems» demands: fixed - term parliaments, scrapping ID cards, a referendum on electoral reform, measures to tackle climate change.

By a citizen referendum approving the measure, the Legislature was reduced to 11 members in November 2010, with that Legislature reapportionment and number taking effect January 1, 2012.

This measure will give communities the power to take forward development in their area without the need to apply for planning permission subject to meeting certain safeguards and securing 50 % support from the community through a referendum.

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

The last ballot measure that really got voters going was New York City's term limits referendum in 1993 — famously superseded by the 2008 City Council vote allowing Mayor Bloomberg's third term.

Cuomo's proposal requiring counties to hold a referendum on cost - saving measures would, if passed, open the door to a vote on the Consensus plan.

There is no formal initiative - and - referendum option for citizens under state law, but the petition drive could seek support from legislators to repeal the measure.

The bill received strong support in the Commons after most Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, whose parties both oppose a referendum on the prime minister's timetable, declined to support the measure.

But Mr. Caputo said that if the same measure passed in a statewide referendum, Mr. Paladino would uphold the law.

We also welcome measures to reduce uncertainty to business at a time of fragile economic recovery — so a move to only call for a referendum if certain and well understood conditions are not met is helpful.

But last month, a New York Supreme Court judge threw out the measure, saying the county improperly altered the language of the referendum.