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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 $42.9 million to the Elder Prescription Drug Program. * Guarantee recipients funding at 2001 appropriation levels plus additional state funds on an escalating basis for nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices and nurse practitioners. Should this proposal be adopted?
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property in Oceana County, Michigan be established for up to .50 mill (fifty cents ($.50) per each $1,000.00 of Taxable Value) for a period of twenty (20) years (2003 - 2022) for the purpose of constructing a sixteen (16) bed Alzheimer's Care Unit, additional office and stoarge space and an Outpatient Terapy Room at the Oceana County Medical Care Facility? It is estimated that this millage will generate $360,858 in its first year.
Shall the previously voted general ad valorem taxes upon real and tangible personal property within the Township of Benona be increased by a levy of one mille ($1.00 per $1,000.00 of taxable value) for a period of five (5) years, commencing in 2003 through 2007, for the sole and specific purpose of obtaining and paying for road improvements within the Township of Benona, and which levy will raise in the first year of levy the estimated sum of $86,775.00?
Shall the tax limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Crystal Township imposed under Article, IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by up to 2.000 mills ($2.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2003 through 2006 inclusive for the purpose of improving public roads in Crystal Township, and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby, raising in the first year an estimated $22,012.00?
Shall taxes be increased against all taxable real and tangile personal property within the Hesperia Community Library District in an amount not to exceed .25 mill ($.25 on each $1,000.00 of taxable value) for a period of four (4) years, beginning in 2002 through 2005 inclusive, for the purpose of providing funds for all District Library purposes authorized by law; and shall the District Library levy such additional new millage for said purpose; the estimate of the revenue the District Library will collect if the millage is approved and levied by the District Library in the 2002 calendar year is approximately $24,530.00?
Shall Hart Township increase the millage limitation imposed, Under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution on general ad valorem taxes, with the Township asking 1/2 mill (.50 cents per $1000 of taxable value) for the period of 15 years (2003 thru 2017) for the operation and improvements of cemeteries within the township, and shall the Township levy such millage for the said purposes, thereby, raising in the first year an estimated $2l,695?
Shall the City of Hart, commencing in 2003, for a period of fifteen (15) years, be authorized to levy an amount not to exceed 1/2 mill ($0.50 per $1,000.00 of taxable value for the sole purpose of opterating and maintaining the Hart Cemetery? The total estimated revenue to be raised for the year 2003 would be $16,794.00.
