Sentences with phrase «voters approval»

Traditional bonds require two - thirds voter approval for passage.

Measure to require voter approval of benefits could be headed to 2016 ballot.

Most municipalities are not able to raise property taxes more than 2 percent without voter approval.

The district has a right to sell about $ 200,000 in general obligation bonds without seeking voter approval, district officials said.

The law allows a judge to protect an innocent spouse and minor dependent children and goes into effect after a second passage of a constitutional amendment by the legislature and voter approval in 2017.

The district has sufficient bonding authority and will not need voter approval by referendum, he added.

That effort should continue within the traditional school framework and might also benefit from the ideas employed by charter schools, if the initiative wins voter approval.

The amendments must each gain at least 60 percent voter approval to be added to the state constitution.

If that increased level held, it would mean success in passing a housing bond, which officials said would require two - thirds voter approval.

He also said that whatever the cost, the park district will have to go to referendum to get voter approval for the project.

The move requires a constitutional amendment, which includes voter approval.

The law requires taxing bodies to obtain voter approval when issuing bonds.

A convention would be held in 2019, with any amendments approved by delegates appearing on the general election ballot for final voter approval that year.

All decisions, from voter approval to fund allocation, are made at the local - level.

This is the third time in just over a year that the park district has sought voter approval to buy the land and build the athletic fields.

While the other reforms simply need to pass the legislature, the pension changes must come with a constitutional amendment and voter approval in 2017.

Had the group failed to collect signatures from at least 15 percent of the electorate by the end of this week, the park board could have sold the bonds without voter approval.

And most were able to win voter approval, including some that exceeded the property tax cap.

Often temporary, it requires two - thirds voter approval to pass and renew.

Of course, the Dwyer litigation's real target might have been the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), which requires voter approval of tax increases.

Frost said he has hopes of being appointed to the Florida Department of Education, where he plans to work on gaining voter approval for several proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution.

In an article that appeared in the Jan. 21 edition of TribWest, it was incorrectly reported that the Downers Grove Park District is seeking voter approval on March 21 to finance construction of a recreation center and aquatic facility.

During a special legislative session convened on October 23, 2017, the state legislature approved a bill delaying the implementation of RCV pending voter approval of a constitutional amendment to allow for the use of RCV.

But the Park District doesn't need voter approval because the center's construction won't require a tax increase.

There are also 14 states with legislative supermajority (usually three - fifths or two - thirds of the legislature) and voter approval requirements for new taxes.

Blair Horner, executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, acknowledges that establishment of a state constitutional convention, also up for voter approval next week, could not do anything further to revoke pensions retroactively based on past crimes.

That is why Save Our Schools NJ supports legislation to require local voter approval for any new or expanding charter schools in a community.

Amending the State Constitution this year to allow for the legalization of full - scale casinos would require both houses of the Legislature to pass bills this session — both did last year, as well — followed by voter approval in November.

The closest shareholders came to rebellion came from the lower voter approval for re-electing Murdoch's two sons, Lachlan and James.

The venture would eventually require voter approval via a referendum question in November.

The building of the recreation center, which the hospital and Park District would share, depends on voter approval Nov. 7 of a $ 6 million bond issue.

The Park District had planned to build a recreation center on the Commons land, where the New Lenox Library Board and the New Lenox Village Board also have construction plans, but failed to secure voter approval of the project in an April referendum.

The new paradigm of lower tax increases and higher voter approval stems directly from the 2011 property tax cap enacted at Governor Andrew Cuomo's urging.

«NO Party has ever won a post war election when they trailed in voter's opinions on their economic competence AND their Leader trailed in voters approval ratings».

Other districts could be pushed, he said, to raise property taxes higher than they otherwise might, though because of voter approval rules, such a route will be difficult for many districts.

But an amendment would need to be passed by both this year's and next year's Legislatures and wouldn't appear on the ballot for voter approval until the same day in 2017 that the convention vote will be held.

Districts whose proposed spending plans override their individual caps can gain voter approval only by mustering a supermajority of 60 percent or better in the May budget vote.

In some cases, districts are allowed to exceed the mandate without obtaining a supermajority voter approval because some expenses, such as pensions and capital costs, are exempt.

The bond measure passed with 63.9 % support, as it qualified under Proposition 39 for a 55 % voter approval threshold.

TABOR requires that the state and all school districts obtain advance voter approval for any new tax, tax rate increase, mill levy above that for the prior year, valuation for assessment ratio increase for a property class, extension of an expiring tax, or tax policy change directly causing a net tax revenue gain.

Rubin has also supported the concept of requiring voter approval before charters could open in a town.

The issues are: rising electricity bills, energy poverty and polls showing falling voter approval of the Ontario Liberal Party.

Earlier in the evening, when it appeared that 2B would fail, supporters of municipalization gathered at the Hotel Boulderado said that earning voter approval for starting a municipal utility was far more important than having voters pass the companion tax.

KINGSBURG — With a state - level initiative looming that increases voter approval requirements, Kingsburg City Council decided to revamp its pre...

The measure, upon voter approval, would have created a legal presumption that each parent in a child custody case is fit to parent, unless «clear and convincing evidence» demonstrated otherwise.

The cap mandated that bond issues could not be passed without voter approval in Will, DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Kane County, the «collar counties» around Cook County.

Pending voter approval of the constitutional amendment at the ballot box, corrupt politicians will soon no longer be able to collect their taxpayer - funded pensions from behind bars.