Sentences with phrase «referendum question in»

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

But before the purchase could take place, voters would need to approve the plan through a referendum question in November.

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.

Not exact matches

According to Nomura this risk is not fully priced in and there are big question marks regarding the future of the City of London and the outcome of an independence referendum in Scotland.

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.

The Windrush scandal overshadowed the Commonwealth summit in London and has raised questions about May's six - year stint as interior minister before she became prime minister in the wake of the 2016 Brexit referendum.

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 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.

April 2018 — Zuckerberg agrees to give testimony in front of US politicians — but continues to ignore calls to appear before UK politicians to answer questions about the role of fake news on its platform and the potential use of Facebook data in the UK's Brexit referendum

Many asked for his resignation, furious that his insistence on a referendum had endangered the debt deal and led European leaders to question Greece's treasured participation in the euro, the common currency used by 17 EU nations.

The deal is expected to lead to some job cuts and is likely to face tough questions from politicians in Scotland where there is increasing pressure for a second independence referendum after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

I live in Maryland, where we have a lot of controversial questions on Tuesday's ballot, including referenda on marriage equality, the rights of immigrants and the expansion of gambling.

Former Barca boss Guardiola, who is now in charge of Premier League leaders Manchester City, also called on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to answer questions after violent scenes broke out during Catalonia's unofficial independence referendum.

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.

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.

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.

Incumbent trustees Andy Stein, Beverly Sussman and Lester Ottenheimer along with write - in candidate Jeffrey Battinus have been invited to participate in the forum from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Village Bar & Grill, 48 Raupp Blvd.. The four, who are vying for three seats, will each have 20 minutes to offer a biography and explanation on why they are seeking office, their opinions on opportunities and challenges facing the village, their perspective on the downtown plan and whether they would support a communitywide referendum question on the plan.

Commissioners hope to make clear to voters that despite the wording of the referendum question, which calls for a 15 - cent hike in the corporate fund levy, the board has also promised a 15 - cent cut in the bond fund levy.

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 decision halts an election board hearing scheduled for Thursday to review petitions the group filed with the DuPage County Election Commission in December for a referendum question on the March 16 ballot.

Cary Park Director Steve Cherveny said the referendum question will ask taxpayers to support a «25 - cent increase in the corporate fund,» which translates into an increase of $ 116 in property taxes for the owner of a $ 150,000 house.

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.

The park district's proposed referendum question could appear alongside a November ballot request from New Trier High School asking voters to approve $ 89 million in funding for a major renovation of the aging Winnetka campus.

Challengers in the election that saw the defeat of two incumbents and a tax increase request referendum to build a recreation center questioned the profitability and management of the golf course.

The petitions urge the park district to ask taxpayers in a March 19 referendum question whether the district should kick in about $ 3 million from a 20 - year bond issue to help buy the land.

In a town where voters routinely approve money for new schools and additions, a $ 16 million referendum question to build an indoor recreation center and a new trail system in Naperville seemed like a walk in the parIn a town where voters routinely approve money for new schools and additions, a $ 16 million referendum question to build an indoor recreation center and a new trail system in Naperville seemed like a walk in the parin Naperville seemed like a walk in the parin the park.

Complete implementation of the hot meals could take several years, because the district would need the kitchen facilities at Scullen Middle School, slated to open in fall 2001, and at two other new middle schools that are part of a $ 88.8 million referendum question.

You said, referring to the earlier votes, that, «The Cary district put two referendum questions to the voters in November — an $ 8.1 million bond issue to buy 80 acres of land and build a swim center and ballfields, and a tax - rate increase to operate the facilities.»

The Park District proposed the referendum question after 2,400 Barrington - area residents signed a petition in support of the property's purchase.

Alex Salmond has been hit by a triple - whammy of bad news in the Scottish referendum campaign, with serious questions being raised about North Sea oil, his plans for currency union and Scots» access to the BBC after independence.

In particular, the legislation would set out the date of the referendum, the franchise, the wording of the question, rules on campaign financing, and other rules for the conduct of the referendum.

This, although it was not spelled out in the short text of the agreement, meant the Scottish government could set the date of the referendum (provided it took place before the end of 2014), extend the franchise to 16 - and -17-year-olds (a long - standing SNP, and indeed Liberal Democrat, pledge), decide the wording of the question (subject to Electoral Commission approval) and stipulate campaign financing (again, subject to EC oversight).

Yesterday in Prime Ministers» Questions, Gordon Brown announced that the government would support a referendum to ratify a treaty which had constitutional implications for the UK but that the Lisbon Treaty did not meet this test.

All of which rather raises the question of why Cameron walked on to a stage in January 2013 and called the referendum in the first place.

But there is another and perhaps more important reason to question those who argue that we have embarked upon an inevitable path to staying in the EU — the experience of referendums elsewhere.

As the Conservative in charge of a divisive and controversial area, the question of an EU referendum is never far away.

Examples of the kinds of questions involved in the decision were - does parliament agreeing to hold a referendum, also count legally as its agreement to do what the referendum says?

If we are going to have a referendum on voting reform - bearing in mind other questions, such as Scottish independence, are far more pressing - then let's have one on a more credible system.

In referenda, more even than in general elections, the framing of the question is criticaIn referenda, more even than in general elections, the framing of the question is criticain general elections, the framing of the question is critical.

The complaints varied from questions about political bias in the civil service to the very timing of the referendum itself.

Question: I am wondering what are possible disadvantages of such a political system and has the idea of direct voting in every issue (referendum) ever been implemented or is it even possible to implement?

The bill in question was proposed by Tory John Stevenson, and asked «that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.»

Migration and free movement are among the top questions in the debate about the UK's relationship with Europe and the approaching membership referendum.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

To address your questions in order: It is constitutionally possible for the Westminster parliament to hold any referendum held by the Scottish parliament to be non-binding on itself and thus effectively worthless.

The question of who is entitled to vote in a referendum to create a new region is a complicated question of law.

I suppose the answer to the question is that D Cameron was confident enough of an «In» result when he went for the referendum not to bother with a supermajority.

«The mandate for a referendum is beyond question, and it would be democratically indefensible — and utterly unsustainable — to attempt to stand in the way of it,» Sturgeon said.

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.

White highlighted four crucial questions for any constitutional convention in the UK: 1) Its membership (politicians, the public or both); 2) Its agenda and whether or not it has agenda - setting powers; 3) What happens to its output (whether it goes to parliament or straight to a referendum); 4) How co-ordinated it is across the territories of the UK.