Sentences with phrase «referendum proposal in»

Voters there passed a $ 15 million referendum proposal in November to upgrade swimming pools at Camelot, Frontier and Heritage Parks.

FRANKFORT — Summit Hill School District 161 board members approved the sale of $ 16.4 million in construction and renovation bonds this week, a move made possible by passage of a $ 23.9 referendum proposal in April for school construction and renovation.

Board members will likely make a decision on a referendum proposal in the next few months.

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

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

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

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Meanwhile, Italy's referendum this upcoming Sunday threatens — if Italians reject the reform proposals — to set in motion a chain of events that could result in that country leaving the Eurozone.

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

But Siwinski said voters had turned down a proposal to build a recreation center in an earlier referendum, and the Yunker family wanted the farmland to remain «pristine.»

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.

«Our population has doubled since (the last referendum), «said Ken Hornberg, who worked for the proposal «s passage in 1982.

It was then that Gopon, a retired Allstate systems analyst, 28 - year Air Force reservist and current board member of the Northwest Suburban United Way, suggested the group explore putting the proposal to a referendum, particularly since the golf course was purchased in the 1970s as a result of a referendum.

In early June, the board voted 4 - 1 to hold a referendum on a proposal to restructure the district's corporate fund to spend $ 11 million on the construction of a new recreation center, a senior center, an aquatic center and ongoing park development.

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

«We're thinking about putting it on the ballot in November,» Park District Director William Grady said Thursday after voters had narrowly rejected a referendum proposal on Tuesday.

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.

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.

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.

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

Tinley Park residents decided in November 1998 that the price for the Park District's first recreation center was too high, so voters rejected a referendum proposal seeking a 12.5 cent tax rate increase to fund the project.

But the Park District, which counted on gaining voter support to finance a recreation center at the Commons, has found itself in a financial bind since the proposal was rejected in an April referendum.

The proposal was put to a referendum and was soundly defeated in a campaign led by Gould, whose efforts won her election to the park board in 1993 in a special election.

HARVARD — Just a week after a referendum proposal to form a Park District was defeated at the polls, backers of the idea decided to give it a second shot in the spring.

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 tax proposal, approved by 57 percent of the voters in an April 13 referendum, will add $ 870,000 a year to the Park District coffers, providing the money needed to buy the coveted Hoffman farm and dedicate it to open space and recreation.

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

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 measurIn 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 measurin Naperville and Woodridge agreed to increases that will go toward maintaining current services, but Bloomingdale voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure.

The district's board members have been considering a referendum proposal to begin their comprehensive plan, adopted in 1996.

In April 1999, voters passed a referendum proposal that allowed the district to buy two parcels totaling 178 acres to preserve open space, protect wetland and watershed areas, and create a green buffer between Crystal Lake and surrounding communities.

Within weeks, supporters collected more than 3,000 signatures to get a referendum proposal on the March 2002 ballot to sell $ 25 million in bonds for the purchase.

In another closely watched election in Lake County, voters in Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park districIn another closely watched election in Lake County, voters in Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park districin Lake County, voters in Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park districin Gurnee defeated by nearly a 2 - 1 ratio a referendum proposal that would have dissolved the village «s park district.

«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.

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.

The group has raised $ 14,000 in support of the referendum proposal.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

In March last year in a non-binding referendum, residents voted against a $ 15 million proposal to build an outdoor aquatic center and recreation center on the sitIn March last year in a non-binding referendum, residents voted against a $ 15 million proposal to build an outdoor aquatic center and recreation center on the sitin a non-binding referendum, residents voted against a $ 15 million proposal to build an outdoor aquatic center and recreation center on the site.

During the last year, voters in Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills, Geneva and Downers Grove rejected big - bucks water park proposals in referendums, and the general suburban tax revolt got most of the blame, or credit.

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.

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.

She said the Lake County side of District 220, which in the past opposed the referendum proposal, pulled through for the district.

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.

A referendum was held in 1998 on proposals for the establishment of a new strategic authority headed by a directly - elected Mayor - a concept Labour was at that time keen to promote across the country.

(One could argue that that happens prior to it becoming a referendum proposal, but it's still limited in scope as to how flexible of a process that can be).

In summary, my proposal is that following a «no» vote the Scotland Act be amended to empower the Scottish Parliament to hold a binding referendum on independence, but only if 30 years have elapsed since the last referendum or if two - thirds of all MSPs vote for such a referendum.

At the end of last year, in the run up to the EU referendum, Nigel Farage criticised Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims entering the US.