Sentences with phrase «referendum question»

It has collected an estimated 250 signatures on a petition requesting a binding referendum question on the proposal to create a new downtown.

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

Forty of 65 referendum questions passed, down a bit from previous election cycles but still above historical averages.

Residents who successfully supported a $ 25 million bond referendum question in March to save the former convent site applauded the board's action.

The heated battle over swimming facilities at the Glen Ellyn Park District has taken another turn with a drive by a group of residents to place their own set of referendum questions on the November ballot.

It should be noted that the referendum took place 25 years before the passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 by the then Labour Government of Tony Blair, which introduced into British law a general procedure for the holding of UK - wide referendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendum questions.

In March, Plainfield Park District voters supported a park district advisory referendum question asking if they supported term limits.

The Hampton Roads REALTORS ® Association, along with NAR, have been promoting and supporting a fall advisory referendum question on the proposed expansion.

Peter Duff, who is a Partner at Glasgow - based Morisons LLP, was speaking as the UK200Group, the UK's leading membership association of quality - assured independent chartered accountancy and law firms, published a report detailing the top 30 EU Referendum questions asked by SMEs and the respective answers of the official Remain and Leave campaigns.

Joanne Aggens led a similar charge in 1973 to save 11 acres of adjoining land, also owned by the Sisters of Christian Charity, which was sold to a developer after a citizens - led Park District referendum question failed by 400 votes.

Errol Louis: «I plan to vote yes on this fall's referendum question about whether New York should hold an official constitutional convention to amend some badly outdated parts of the state Constitution.

A new park district committee is dusting off the dormant «lakefront master plan» and pushing it forward, and Wilmette residents could see a bond issue referendum question as early as November 2014.

New Glarus, Jefferson and Marshall are among 11 school districts in the state with referendum questions on the ballot.

Sybil Yastrow, Lake County regional schools superintendent, has 14 days to decide whether to recommend a March referendum question on whether to combine Highwood - Highland Park District 111, Highland Park District 107 and Highland Park District 108.

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.

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.

Chiszar said voters who supported the tax increase referendum question that allowed the Park District to buy the area's last working farm wanted the land developed as a whole «unique piece of property.»

Although the project was meant to be academic, it has led to some real - world results — the survey findings helped to persuade Tinley Park Park District officials to put a community - center referendum question on the ballot this fall.

How to phrase the Scottish independence referendum question?

He is cited successfully arguing for a change in the EU referendum question originally selected by the UK government which the Electoral Commission accepted.

The draft referendum question submitted by the Welsh Secretary to the Electoral Commission on 23 June 2010 was:

On Tuesday in an unrelated case, the state's highest court upheld a lower court in striking down a local referendum question in Nassau County over language that appeared to advocate for passage.

I was research director for the Constitution Revision Commission created by Gov. Mario Cuomo in anticipation of the vote in 1997 on the mandatory convention referendum question.

School referendum questions became a common ballot measure in Indiana back in 2008, -LSB-...]

When students arrive for the 2016 - 17 school year, they will find changes throughout Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 thanks to voter approval of the two Vision One91 referendum questions on Feb. 24.

For the Disunited Kingdom, there is however one clear immediate lesson: that polities should be careful how they manage democratic processes, and in particular resort to ill thought - out and simplistic referenda questions, and also should reflect on the risks and folly in maintaining a much - lauded unwritten constitution, which provides no answers to serious and less predictable questions.

It's Got Legal Problems — the Preamble referendum question is misleading and there is much debate about what the legal effect of the Preamble will be.

This group resolved that a separate referendum question should be put on a new preamble at the same time as any referendum on the republic, and that such a preamble should recognise «Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders as the original inhabitants of Australia who enjoy with all other Australians fundamental human rights».

The prime minister then met with the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to address outstanding areas of disagreement with the SNP including the vote's timing, the number of referendum questions and the wording of those questions.

The proposed referendum question would be advisory only and ask voters whether up to $ 300,000 should be transferred from village coffers to the Park District each year for the next 15 years to help pay for a pool.

Stung by the overwhelmingly negative responses last month by residents to two advisory referendum questions about the $ 12 million health facility, the park board quietly agreed Tuesday to take final action to abandon its role in the project at its April 16 meeting.

The prime minister has flip - flop - flipped over the EU referendum question, by only telling us what the answers are not.

The group, headed by Du Page County Board member Michael Formento, is trying to collect 2,100 signatures in an effort to get three advisory referendum questions on the ballot.

Advertisements by the pro-HST side, for example, offer up accountants testifying to the job - creating benefits of the harmonized federal - provincial levy over the alternative specified in the referendum question, a reintroduction of the 7 % provincial sales tax — hardly the sort of stirring campaign rhetoric likely to rally a silent majority to its side.

Scotland votes «no» on independence: On Sept. 18, 2014, Scottish voters will answer a referendum question more than 300 years in the making: «Should Scotland become an independent country?»

The wording of the referendum question will be determined after a parliamentary committee issues its findings of a report conducted by an assembly of Irish citizens on the issue.

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 park district has decided to mail a four - page fact sheet to every household in the district to inform voters of the three referendum questions on the November ballot.

GLEN ELLYN — The park district has decided to mail a four - page fact sheet to every household in the district to inform voters of the three referendum questions on the November ballot.

Gurnee Park District actions this year made Eileen Fiddyment and others angry enough to circulate petitions to get a referendum question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether the district should be dissolved.

If the voters decide to dissolve the district, Gurnee residents allied with Fiddyment would seek to re-establish a district in a referendum question in next March «s election and simultaneously field a slate of five candidates for a new park board.

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.

The results of the advisory referendum questions will be discussed at the park board's April 1 meeting, board President Peter Hurtado said.

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.

Taxpayers like Wilson screamed betrayal earlier this year when the Park District Board forged ahead with the pool despite voters» disapproval of a referendum question last year on whether to build two aquatic complexes.

But because the April ballots were made final almost two months ago, Horatio Gardens residents will still get to vote on the referendum question and for board candidates.

The deal, which would cost the park district more than $ 20.3 million, would have to be approved by voters through a referendum question in November.