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A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 269 OF 2001 - AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW

Public Act 269 of 2001 would:

• 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 lists 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?

Yes 9068 No 17203

A PROPOSAL TO AUTHORIZE BONDS FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS PROJECTS, STORM WATER PROJECTS AND WATER POLLUTION PROJECTS

The proposal would:

• 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?

Yes 16814 No 8575

A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO GRANT STATE CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH BINDING ARBITRATION

The proposed constitutional amendment would:

• 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 this proposal be adopted?

Yes 16530 No 8705

A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE THE “TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE” RECEIVED BY THE STATE FROM CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS

The proposed constitutional amendment would:

• 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?

Yes 11376 No 14405

Shall the Southfield City Charter be amended to provide that the powers and responsibilities of the Civil Service Commision with regard to the Employee Retirement Plan be transferred to a seven (7) member Employees Retirement Board, three (3) of whom shall be members of the Civil Service Commission, one (1), excluding any member of the retirement system, appointed by the Mayor with confirmation by Council, two (2) elected by active employee members of the retirement system from their own number, and one (1) elected by retired employee members of the retirement system from their own number for terms of office established by ordinance.

Yes 13619 No 9321

PROPOSAL K - METROPOLITAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL - Arts, Parks, and Kids Millage Proposal

COUNTY of OAKLAND and COUNTY of WAYNE

The Metropolitan Arts and Culture Council (the "Council") will support nonprofit regional history, science and arts institutions and local arts and recreational programs within its operating area of Oakland County and Wayne County. As provided in Public Act 292 of 1989, as amended, the Council may levy a .5 mill ad valorem tax (50 cents per thousand dollars of taxable value) on the taxable value of taxable real and personal property located within Oakland County and Wayne County for ten years, 2003 - 2012, inclusive. If approved and levied, this new additional millage will generate approximately Forty Six Million Dollars ($46,000,000) in 2003.

Two-thirds of the revenues collected will be disbursed to non-profit regional cultural institutions to support programming for children, families and seniors in Oakland County and Wayne County.

One-third of the revenues collected in each of the following cities, villages, and townships within Oakland County will be returned to that city, village or township to fund local cultural and recreational programs and facilities:

One-third of the revenues collected in each of the following cities, villages, and townships within Wayne County will be retained by that city, village or township to fund cultural and recreational programs and facilities:

Should this millage proposal be adopted?

Yes 15503 No 7146