Proposal Text

State Proposal - 14-1 -- Hunting Season for Wolves

A REFERENDUM OF PUBLIC ACT 520 OF 2012, ESTABLISHING A HUNTING SEASON FOR WOLVES AND AUTHORIZING ANNUAL WOLF HUNTING SEASONS

Public Act 520 of 2012 would:

• Designate wolf as game for hunting purposes and authorize the first wolf hunting season.
• Allow the Natural Resources Commission to schedule annual wolf hunting seasons.
• Provide criminal penalties for the unlawful possession or taking of wolves, but shield a person who lawfully captures or destroys a wolf from prosecution.
• Require a person who wishes to hunt wolves to obtain a wolf hunting license.
• Create a Wolf Management Advisory Council for the purpose of making nonbinding recommendations to the legislature regarding the proper management of wolves.

State Proposal - 14-2 -- Authority to Designate Game Animals

A REFERENDUM OF PUBLIC ACT 21 OF 2013, GRANTING THE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION THE POWER TO DESIGNATE WOLVES AND CERTAIN OTHER ANIMALS AS GAME WITHOUT LEGISLATIVE ACTION

Public Act 21 of 2013 would:

• Allow the Natural Resources Commission (NRC) to designate certain animals as game for hunting purposes and establish the first hunting season for game animals without legislative action.
• Continue the NRC's designation of wolves as game and allow the NRC to set a wolf hunting season.
• Grant the Legislature sole authority to remove a species from the list of designated game animals.
• Eliminate the $1.00 hunting and fishing licensing fee for members of the military, whether stationed inside or outside of Michigan, subject to any lottery.
• Give the NRC sole authority to regulate fishing.

Dowagiac Union Schools-Operating Millage Renewal Proposal -- Operating Millage Renewal Proposal

This proposal will allow the school district to levy the statutory rate of 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance and renews millage that will expire with the 2014 tax levy. Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Dowagiac Union School District, Cass, Van Buren and Berrien Counties, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 4 years, 2015 to 2018, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2015 is approximately $4,619.393 (this is a renewal of millage which will expire with the 2014 tax levy)?

Marcellus Township Police Millage Renewal Proposition -- Millage Renewal Proposition

Shall the Township of Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan, renew the one and one half (1.50) mill tax levy ($1.50 on each $1000.00) on the assessed taxable value, as equalized, of all property in Marcellus Township (approved at the election of November 2, 2010, set to expire with the 2014 tax levy) for a period of six (6) years, 2015 through 2020 inclusive, for the purpose of providing funds for continuing police and law enforcement services coverage, operating expenses related to said services, as well as the care, maintenance and operations of vehicles, apparatus, equipment, property and buildings incident to said services as permitted by statute? It is anticipated that the revenue collected by the Township as a result of this proposal will be approximately $102,000.00 in the first calendar year of the levy.

Silver Creek Township Police and Fire Millage Renewal Proposal -- Police and Fire Millage Renewal Proposal

Shall the expired previously voted increase in the tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution in Silver Creek Township of 1 mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value), reduced to 1 mill per ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) by the required millage rollbacks, be renewed at up to 1 mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value) and levied for five years, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, inclusive, for the purpose of providing funding for police and fire protection in Silver Creek Township, raising an estimated $213,548 the first year the millage is levied.