Sentences with phrase «referendum proposal»

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

The Du Page Board of Elections maintains that only citizens with petitions garnering 10 percent of the signatures of the local electorate are able to get non-binding referendum proposals on the ballot.

The two districts last year entered into an inter-governmental agreement to build a joint - use facility at Central Park, provided both succeeded in passing referendum proposals in the November 1993 election raising funds for the project.

That could be the scene in Algonquin if the $ 7.6 million aquatic center referendum proposal passes this fall, according to Doug Gotham of Leisure Concepts, who called the center a «place where shared memories will be created.»

This Committee is working to build Parliamentary consensus around the timing, specific content and wording of referendum proposals for Indigenous constitutional recognition.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

Having sacked a multimillion - dollar Naperville Park District referendum proposal last month, a grass - roots group now hopes to change its focus and become a two - pronged organization that will act as a district adviser and watchdog.

«The Forest Preserve District can not buy all open space in the county,» said Fagan, referring to the district's $ 75 million open - space referendum proposal approved by voters in November.

Referendum proposals seeking property tax increases to bolster sagging school, library, municipal and park district budgets will be on the Nov. 4 ballot in more than two dozen towns, villages and cities throughout Will and southern Cook Counties.

The Trout Valley Village Board on Monday night approved a resolution supporting an April 13 referendum proposal by the Cary Park District to raise the money needed to purchase the 260 - acre Hoffman farm.

In other park district funding concerns, efforts have begun to recruit campaign workers to help pass a tax referendum proposal in April.

DUNDEE TOWNSHIP — The Dundee Township Park District will ask voters to weigh in on a $ 14 million bond referendum proposal to build a new recreation center, senior center and indoor pool addition.

The Oak Brook Park District joined the Glen Ellyn Park District this week in suing the Du Page County Board of Elections in an effort to get non-binding referendum proposals on the November ballot.

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.

A $ 7 million bond issue to build a recreation center for the Downers Grove Park District and a binding vote on whether to change Kane County «s form of government top the list of referendum proposals scheduled to be on the ballot in Du Page and Kane Counties on March 20.

Voters in the Plainfield Township Park District will be deciding three advisory referendum proposals in the March 18th election.

If the April referendum proposal is approved, the district would levy a tax rate of 19.5 cents per $ 100 assessed valuation.

Citizens hoping to improve their parks have organized a group of more than 100 residents to promote a spring referendum proposal to enable the district to spend $ 8 million to upgrade and maintain the park system.

Voters in the Horatio Gardens subdivision didn't torpedo the Buffalo Grove Park District's park improvement referendum proposal all by themselves, but they did some damage.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The first opposition to an Arlington Heights Park District tax referendum proposal arose Tuesday when a local tax watchdog group announced it would not support the plan.

Park officials said the proposal for a fitness center, complete with a 50 - meter lap pool, caused the entire referendum proposal to tank, and Brissa conceded the Park District didn't convince residents of the need for a center.

Suits filed by two Du Page County park districts to have non-binding referendum proposals placed on the November ballot could have significance throughout Illinois and provide the basis for similar actions in counties across the state.

Carey said a pool referendum proposal would not pass now because residents already have been asked to approve many school construction bond proposals.

Opposition Leader David Miliband has also been skewered by Cameron's in / out referendum proposal.

Fear that an explicit mention of Indigenous peoples could give rise to new entitlements was the reason the 1999 referendum proposal contained a new section 125A of the Australian Constitution, which would have provided that the new preamble had «no legal force» and that it could «not be considered in interpreting this Constitution or the law in force in the Commonwealth».

Further, we agree with the Joint Select Committee (Interim Report, July 2014), that a successful referendum proposal must:

The board then will decide whether to present the projects to the voters in one referendum question or in two or three referendum proposals on the November ballot.

That is why it asked voters to pass an $ 11.5 million referendum proposal in March to buy the former Jewel Tea Co. property and preserve it for open space.

In recent years, those opponents have helped defeat a long list of Park District referendum proposals that asked for permission to sell bonds to construct a swimming facility.

In the Dundee Township Park District's summer catalog, residents will find a survey seeking their advice on a possible November referendum proposal.

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.

An advisory committee is recommending that the Glen Ellyn Park District ask voters to approve a $ 3.5 million referendum proposal for a new outdoor swimming pool in Sunset Park.

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.

MT. PROSPECT — Just three months after their last tax referendum proposal was defeated, volunteers for the Mt. Prospect Park District were back in action this week, determined to pass a tax increase in April to maintain and upgrade 22 recreational facilities.

Frankfort Square's Summit Hill School District 161 will ask voters in April to support a $ 24 million bond referendum proposal to pay for building a new school and refurbishing five others.

TROUT VALLEY — The Trout Valley Village Board on Monday night approved a resolution supporting an April 13 referendum proposal by the Cary Park District to raise the money needed to purchase the 260 - acre Hoffman farm.

Critics of the referendum proposal say the move is unnecessarily expensive when politicians can vote through the legislation themselves, and the debates surrounding the referendum could be divisive.

Ken Goff, president of the Homewood - Flossmoor Park District, said voters passed a «Keep It Green» referendum proposal in 1997, giving the Park District authority to acquire the Army site and two other parcels to be used as park land.

Voters in April approved a $ 3.5 million referendum proposal to finance capital projects and land acquisition.

The three agencies had planned to share the cost of roads, street lighting and utility extensions, but the defeat last year of a referendum proposal to finance a recreation center left the Park District short of funds to pay its share.

Last week, the district board scheduled a referendum proposal for the April 1 election.

Voters approved the $ 1.8 project in a referendum proposal in March 1996, but the project has been delayed for a variety of reasons.

The referendum proposal will be on the Nov. 3 ballot.

HARVARD — About 20 residents turned out Thursday night to ask questions about next month's referendum proposal to create a park district covering the Harvard area.

If the referendum proposal is approved next month, the new park district would levy a tax of 19.5 cents per $ 100 assessed valuation.

Arlington Heights voters in March rejected a referendum proposal that would have allowed the Park District to upgrade facilities such as pools and gymnasiums.

Frankfort Parks Director Jeff Boubelik said a referendum proposal is in the discussion stages only and is not being considered with a project in mind.