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A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REQUIRE THAT MONEY HELD IN
CONSERVATION AND RECREATION FUNDS CAN ONLY BE USED FOR THEIR
INTENDED PURPOSES
The proposed constitutional amendment would:
* Create a Conservation and Recreation Legacy Fund within the Constitution and establish existing conservation and recreation accounts as components of the fund.
* Use current funding sources such as state park entrance and camping fees; snowmobile, ORV and boating registration fees; hunting and fishing license fees; taxes and other revenues to fund accounts.
* Establish the current Game and Fish Protection Fund and the Nongame Fish and Wildlife Fund within the Constitution.
* Provide that money held in Funds can only be used for specific purposes related to conservation and recreation and cannot be used for any purpose other than those intended.
Should this proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO BAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
PROGRAMS THAT GIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS
BASED ON THEIR RACE, GENDER, COLOR, ETHNICITY OR NATIONAL ORIGIN FOR
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION OR CONTRACTING PURPOSES
The proposed constitutional amendment would:
* Ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes. Public institutions affected by the proposal include state government, local governments, public colleges and universities, community colleges and school districts.
* Prohibit public institutions from discriminating against groups or individuals due to their gender, ethnicity, race, color or national origin. (A separate provision of the state constitution already prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin.)
Should this proposal be adopted?
A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 160 OF 2004 -- AN ACT TO ALLOW THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A HUNTING SEASON FOR MOURNING DOVES
Public Act 160 of 2004 would:
* Authorize the Natural Resources Commission to establish a hunting season for mourning doves.
* Require a mourning dove hunter to have a small game license and a $2.00 mourning dove stamp.
* Stipulate that revenue from the stamp must be split evenly between the Game and Fish Protection Fund and the Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund.
* Require the Department of Natural Resources to address responsible mourning dove hunting; management practices for the propagation of mourning doves; and participation in mourning dove hunting by youth, the elderly and the disabled in the Department's annual hunting guide.
Should this law be approved?
A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO PROHIBIT GOVERNMENT FROM
TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY BY EMINENT DOMAIN FOR CERTAIN PRIVATE
PURPOSES
The proposed constitutional amendment would:
* Prohibit government from taking private property for transfer to another private individual or business for purposes of economic development or increasing tax revenue.
* Provide that if an individual’s principal residence is taken by government for public use, the individual must be paid at least 125% of property’s fair market value.
* Require government that takes a private property to demonstrate that the taking is for a public use; if taken to eliminate blight, require a higher standard of proof to demonstrate that the taking of that property is for a public use.
* Preserve existing rights of property owners.
Should this proposal be adopted?
A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO ESTABLISH MANDATORY SCHOOL FUNDING LEVELS
The proposed law would:
* Increase current funding by approximately $565 million and require State to provide annual funding increases equal to the rate of inflation for public schools, intermediate school districts, community colleges, and higher education (includes state universities and financial aid/grant programs).
* Require State to fund any deficiencies from General Fund.
* Base funding for school districts with a declining enrollment on three-year student enrollment average.
* Reduce and cap retirement fund contribution paid by public schools, community colleges and state universities; shift remaining portion to state.
* Reduce funding gap between school districts receiving basic per-pupil foundation allowance and those receiving maximum foundation allowance.
Should this proposed law be approved?
Parks Operation, Improvement and Development (This authorization will allow the County of Allegan to levy an additional 0.19 mills for operating, improving, and developing County Parks for a period of six (6) years beginning in 2006.)
This proposal would allow the City Council to enter into contracts which will be fuly executed within a period of more than ten years without first obtaining the approval of a majority of the qualified electors of the City at a regular or special election. LIMITATION ON CONTRACTUAL POWERS CHARTER AMENDMENT Shall Section 13.11 (a), Chapter XIII, of the Charter of the City of Allegan be amended to provide that the City Council shall have power to enter into contracts which by the terms thereof, will be fully executed within any period of time?
Shall the City of Allegan expend an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) from the accumulated assets of the City's capital reserve sinking fund to make improvements to the Regent Theater, including, but not limited to renovation of the marquee?
Shall Allegan Township impose an increase of 1/4 mill ($.25 per $1,000 of taxable value) in the tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution and levy it for four years, 2007 through 2010 inclusive, for support and maintenance of the Allegan Public Library, raising an estimated $28,742.25 in the first year the millage is levied?
Shall the 15-mill tax limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Dorr Township imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by one (1) mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2006 through 2007, inclusive, for the improvement and maintenance of public roads and streets within the Township of Dorr; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby raising the first year an estimated $202,000.00?
Shall the tax limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Ganges Township imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by 1.5 mills ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2007 through 2010 inclusive for Road Improvement; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for said purpose, thereby, raising in the first year an estimated $204,825?
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be imposed on taxable property within the Charter Township of Gun Plain be increased by one (1) mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable valuation) for (3) three years, 2007 through 2009 inclusive, as new additional millage to provide funds for the purposes of (maintaining and improving roads within the township.) The township would receive an estimated $188,000.00 for the township in the first year the millage is levied.
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all non-exempt real and personal property (both homestead and non-homestead) in the district of the Macatawa Area Express (
Shall the Township millage rate of 1.07 mill, reduced to 0.8635 by the required millage rollbacks, be increased by 0.2065 mills ($0.2065 per $1,000 of taxable value) to recover that reduction and be levied by Martin Township for years for 2006 through 2025, inclusive, for general operating purposes raising an estimating $14,132.00 in the first year the millage rollback amount is levied.
Amendment 1-Shall Chapter 111, Sectin 3, Officers. be amended by having the following sentence added to it:
Shall Chapter III, Section 4. Election of Officers. be amended by deleting the following sentence from it:
Shall Chapter III, Section 14. Appointed Officers. be amended in its entirety so to read:
Shall Chapter III, Section 17. Compensation. be amended in its entirety so to read:
Shall Chapter III, Section 23. Commissions. be amended in its entirety so to read:
Shall Chapter VIII, Section2. Purchase and Sale of Personal Property. be amended so to raise the cost of the purchase and sale of personal property requiring publication and competitive bidding from $500.00 to $25,000.00.
Shall Chapter VIII, Section 3. contracts for the Construction of Public Improvements. be amended so to raise the cost of a public improvement contract requiring publicaton and competitive bidding from $1,000.00 to $25,000.00, be it the Village letting the contract or the village's Department of Public Works letting a contract in a fiscal year.
Shall Chapter XII, Section 1. Franchises. be amended in its entirety so to read:
Shall the 15 mill tax limitation on general ad valorem taxes within Salem Township imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution be increased for said Township by .50 mills ($.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for the period of 2006 through 2010 inclusive for community police services, maintenance, equipment, and operations; and shall the Township levy such increase in millage for such purpose during such period, which increase will raise in the first year of such levy an estimated $58,487.00?
Shall the Saugatuck-Douglas District Library be authorized to levy a new additional tax annually upon all property subject to ad valorem taxation within the District in an amount not to exceed 0.1 mills ($0.10 per $1,000 of taxable value) for a period of ten (10) years, 2006 through 2015, inclusive, on the taxable value of such property to provide funds for any District Library prupose permitted by law, including both general operating and capital expenditures? This millage is estimated to provide revenues of $41,944 in the first year of the levy. To the extent required by law, a small portion of the total revenues from the tax levy (approximately 0.08% in the first year of levy) will be captured within the district of and disbursed to the City of the Village of Douglas Downtown Development Authority.
This proposal will enable the school district to levy the statutory rate of 18 mills on all property except principal residence and qualified agricultural property required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance. Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, exempting therefrom principal residence and qualified agricultural property as defined by law, in South Haven Public Schools, Van Buren and Allegan Counties, Michigan, be increased by 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000.00 of taxable valuation) for the year 2007, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2007 is approximately $2,032,000 (this millage is to restore millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and will be levied only to the extent necessary to restore that reduction?
