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A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 269 OF 2001 - AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW * Eliminate 'straight party' vote option on partisan general election ballots. * Require Secretary of State to obtain training reports from local election officials. * Require registered voters who do not appear on registration list to show picture identification before voting a challenged ballot. * Require expedited canvass if presidential vote differential is under 25,000. * Require ballot counting equipment to screen ballots for voting errors to ensure the accurate tabulation of absentee ballots. Permit voters in polls to correct errors. * Provide penalties for stealing campaign signs or accepting payment for campaign work while being paid as a public employee to perform election duties. Should this law be approved?
A PROPOSAL TO AUTHORIZE BONDS FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS PROJECTS, STORM WATER PROJECTS AND WATER POLLUTION PROJECTS * Authorize the State of Michigan to borrow a sum not to exceed $1 billion to improve the quality of the waters of the state by financing sewage treatment works projects, storm water projects and water pollution projects. * Authorize the state to issue general obligation bonds pledging the full faith and credit of the state for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds. * Provide for repayment of the bonds from the general fund of the state. Should this proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO GRANT STATE CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH BINDING ARBITRATION * Grant state classified employees, in appropriate bargaining units determined by the Civil Service Commission, the right to elect bargaining representatives for the purpose of collective bargaining with the state employer. * Require the state to bargain in good faith for the purpose of reaching a binding collective bargaining agreement with any elected bargaining representatives over wages, hours, pensions and other terms and conditions of employment. * Extend the bargaining representatives the right to submit any unresolved disputes over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement to binding arbitration 30 days after the commencement of bargaining. Should the proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE THE 'TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE' RECEIVED BY THE STATE FROM CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS * Annually allocate on a permanent basis 90% (approximately $297 million) of 'tobacco settlement revenue' received by state from cigarette manufacturers as follows: $151.8 million to nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices, nurse practitioners, school-linked health centers and Healthy Michigan Foundation; $102.3 million to fund programs to reduce tobacco use, Health and Aging Research Development Initiative, Tobacco-Free Futures Fund, Council of Michigan Foundations and Nurses Scholarship Program; and $42.9 million to the Elder Prescription Drug Program. * Guarantee recipients funding at 2001 appropriation levels plus additional state funds on an escalating basis for nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices and nurse practitioners. Should this proposal be adopted?
Shall the tax limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Baltimore Township imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by up to 1 mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2002 through 2008 inclusive for Road Maintenance, and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby, raising in the first year an estimated $35,500.
Shall the voted increase in the 15-mill tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution on general ad valorem taxes within Prairieville Township be increased by .5 mill ($.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2002 through 2005 inclusive for the purpose of providing additional funds for fire protection services for Prairieville Township; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby raising in the first year an estimated $48,146?
Shall the voted increase in the 15-mill tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution on general ad valorem taxes within Prairieville Township be increased by .5 mill ($.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2002 through 2005 inclusive for the purpose of providing additional funds for road construction, upgrading and maintenance within Prairieville Township; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby raising in the first year an estimated $48,146?
Shall that portion of the Authorized Charter Millage for Rutland Charter Township for FIRE PROTECTION and CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS be renewed at 1.5000 mills ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2003 through 2010 inclusive for FIRE PROTECTION; and shall the Township levy such renewal in millage for said purpose, thereby raising in the first year an estimated $140,107.00
Shall the previously voted increase of one (1) mill ($1 per $1,000 of taxable value), as reduced by the required millage rollback which last resulted in a levy of .9872 mills ($.9872 per $1,000 of taxable value), upon taxable real and personal property within the Township of Thornapple, Barry County, Michigan, be renewed at (1) mill ($1,000 of taxable value) for levy in the years 2003 through 2005, inclusive, for the purpose of providing general fire protection services? (If approved, one (1) mill will raise approximately $182,000 in the first year of levy.)
Shall the tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution on general ad valorem taxes within Yankee Springs Township be increased by a 1/2 mill ($0.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2003 through 2006 inclusive for township fire operations, and shall the Township levy such millage for said purpose, thereby, raising in the first year an estimated $73,789.00?
