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Election Commission Packet June 11, 2014 CITY OF GROSSE POINTE WOODS 20025 Mack Plaza Drive Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan 48236-2397 NOTICE OF MEETING COMMISSIONS: COMMITTEES: BOARDS: Beautification Advisory Building Authority Board of Canvassers Citizens' Recreation Cable TV Ad Hoc Board of Review Community Tree Compensation & Evaluation Construction Board of Appeals Election X Construction Community Enhancement Fund Historical Finance Downspout Board of Appeals Local Officers Compensation Fireworks Pension Planning Judicial Liaison Subcommittees Senior Citizens' Mack Ave Business Study Public Relations PUBLIC INVITED: IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLIC ACT 267 OF 1976 (OPEN MEETINGS ACT), ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP SELECTED ABOVE, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE FOLLOWING MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014, AT 9:00 A.M. IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT CITY HALL, 20025 MACK, GROSSE POINTE WOODS. AGENDA OF MEETING 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Acceptance of Agenda 4. Review/Approve Draft Ballots 08/05/14 5. New Business 6. Immediate Certification of Minutes 7. Adjournment cc: Bryant Hathaway Post Berschback File Submitted by: Lisa Hathaway Office Held: Chair Telephone: 313 343-2440 VOTER: PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE STUB IF STUB DETACHES, PLEASE RETURN WITH BALLOT Grosse Pointe Woods Pct 1 I MAI I Mal I Me z Official Ballot ▪ • Primary Election Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Wayne County, Michigan City of Grosse Pointe Woods, Precinct 1 #PARTISAN SECTION VOTE ONLY 1 PARTY SECTION 4 PROPOSAL SECTION ▪ • ',,Ta;" REPUBLICAN 0,....0 DEMOCRATIC STATE PARTY PARTY — SECTION .1% SECTION PROPOSAL 14-1 STATE STATE APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF AMENDATORY ACT TO REDUCE STATE USE TAX AND REPLACE WITH GOVERNOR GOVERNOR A LOCAL COMMUNITY STABILIZATION Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 SHARE TO MODERNIZE THE TAX SYSTEM TO HELP SMALL Rick Snyder 0 Mark Schauer CD BUSINESSES GROW AND CREATE JOBS NE 0 0 The amendatory act adopted by the CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESSIONAL Legislature would: UNITED STATES UNITED STATES 1.Reduce the state use tax and replace SENATOR with a local community stabilization share SENATOR of the tax for the purpose of modernizing ME Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 the tax system to help small businesses grow and create lobs in Michigan. Terri Lynn Land 0 Gary Peters 0 I= 0 c=:,, 2.Require Local Community Stabilization Authority to provide revenue to local I= 45 governments dedicated for local purposes, REPRESENTATIVE IN REPRESENTATIVE IN including police safety, fire protection, and CONGRESS CONGRESS ambulance emergency services. 14th DISTRICT 14th DISTRICT I= 47 3.Increase portion of state use tax Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 dedicated for aid to local school districts. Christina Conyers CD Hansen Clarke 0 4. Prohibit Authority from increasing taxes. 11111 0 Burgess D. Foster CD 5.Prohibit total use tax rate from exceeding existing constitutional 695 IN 52 LEGISLATIVE Rudy Hobbs 0 limitation. Brenda Lawrence 0 STATE SENATOR Should Ihis law be approved? 2nd DISTRICT CD YES CD Vote for not more than 1 LEGISLATIVE NO CD 1 1.11 Mark Ashley Price C D COUNTY STATE SENATOR CD 2nd DISTRICT WAYNE COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY MILLAGE RENEWAL REPRESENTATIVE IN Vote for not more than 1 STATE LEGISLATURE Georgia Lemmons 0 If approved, this proposal will renew and increase the .59 mills formerly authorized 1st DISTRICT Taras P. Nykoriak 0 to 1.0 mills for the years 2014 through Vote for not more than 1 2017, and will allow continued support to John Olumba 0 the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) fora John Hauler 0 Bert Johnson 0 public transportation system serving the ME 0 ,:-., elderly, handicapped, and general public in Wayne County. 11. COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE IN For the purpose of providing funds in COUNTY EXECUTIVE STATE LEGISLATURE support of public transportation serving the 1st DISTRICT elderly, handicapped and general public, Vote for not more than 1 shall the millage be renewed and Vote for not more than 1 John Dalton 0 increased from .5910 1.0 mills on all taxable property located within the Wayne Daniel K. Wenderlich CD Corey Josef Gilchrist 0 County Transportation Authority area, and be imposed for a period of four (4) years, Fred A. Bolden CD Taryn Jones 0 being years 2014 through 2017? It is estimated that if approved, this millage 0 Michael Koester 0 would raise approximately 517,080,998 in the first year. Harry Scott CD YES CD Rebecca Thompson 0 NO CD Brian Banks 0 Paul Fillmore CD CD COUNTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE MN Vote for not more than 1 NM William R. Wild CD I•1 Christopher Wojtowica 0 Adam Salem Adamski CD NM Phil Cavanagh CD Cindy Darrah 0 NE Warren C. Evans 0 Robert A. Ficano CD Russell George Leviska CD MI Kevin M. McNamara 0 NM Bettie Cook Scott CD Sigmunt John Sacvepkowski, Jr. CD CD L I ME n Typ:01 Seq0526 sp1.01 I -a I • .-,, VOTE BOTH FRONT AND BACK OF BALLOT Grosse Pointe Woods Pct 1 1 M°1 I ME 1 MN° • U 4 PARTISAN SECT ON - CONTINUED 1 PROPOSAL SECTION VOTE ONLY 1 PARTY SECTION CONTINUED ' .1," REPUBLICAN IT[I,..0 DEMOCRATIC CITY :, PARTY ...',...121 PARTY SECTION _ +t) SECTION — - _ CITY OF GROSSE POINTE WOODS ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM COUNTY COUNTY BONDING PROPOSITION COUNTY COMMISSIONER COUNTY COMMISSIONER Shall the City of Grosse Pointe Woods, 1st DISTRICT 1st DISTRICT County of Wayne, Michigan, borrow the principal sum of not to exceed Ten Million Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 Dollars (S10,000,000), payable in not to exceed ten (10) years from the date of John W. Steininger (C> Frank Accavitti, Jr. CD issue, and issue its unlimited tax general ‘CD Latisha Johnson 0 obligation bonds, in one or more series, to pay the cost of acquiring and constructing DELEGATE yin,Killeen cz) road improvements in the City together with curb and gutter improvements and all O related costs? The estimated millage to be DELEGATE TO COUNTY levied in 2015 is 0.3555 mills (50.36 per CONVENTION DELEGATE S1,000 of taxable value) and the estimated Vote for not more than 12 simple average annual millage rate DELEGATE TO COUNTY required to retire the bonds is 1.3612 mills ($1.36 per S1,000 of taxable value). Annette Feldpausch c"-=, CONVENTION Vote for not more than 4 Mar0 K. Miller 0 YES ''' Lisa Montpetit 0 Ross C. Gardner C=1 NO cD Judith Sheehy Cp C=> Robert Sheehy C:I1 CZ, INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL C:, CZ) DISTRICT C, <Z) WAYNE COUNTY REGIONAL 0 EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY REGIONAL ENHANCEMENT MILLAGE C=3 PROPOSAL C> Pursuant to state law, the revenue raised by the proposed enhancement millage will C> be collected by the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency and C=> distributed to local public school districts C:=> within the boundaries of the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency C> based on pupil membership count. C7> Shall the limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes which may be imposed on 0 taxable property in the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, C> Michigan, be increased by 2.00 mills (52 per thousand dollars of taxable value) for a period of six (6) years, 2014 to 2019, inclusive, as new additional millage to provide operating funds to enhance other state and local funding for local school district operating purposes? It is estimated that 2 mills would raise approximately 580,000,000 when first levied in 2014. The revenue from this millage will be disbursed to the hollowing school districts: Allen Park Pubec Schools. Crestwood School District, Dearborn City School District, Dearborn Heights School District I17, School District of the City of Detroit, Ecorse Public School District, Flat Rock Community Schools. School District of the City of Garden City, Gibraltar School District. Grosse Ile Township Schools, The Grosse Pointe Public School System, Hamtramck Public Schools, City of Harper Woods Schools, School District of the City of Highland Park. Huron School District, School District of the City of Uricoln Park. Livonia Pubbc Schools, MeNindale - Northern Allen Park Schools. Nonlwele Public Schools. Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Redford Union School District, River Rouge School District, Riverview Community School District. Romulus Community Schools, Southgate Community School District, South Redford School District, Taylor School District, Trenton Public Schools, Van Buren Public Schools, Wayne-Westland Community School District, Westwood Community Schools, Woodhaven.Bmwnstown School District, Wyandotte City School District. YES CD NO CD -Ma I ME I ME, VOTE BOTH FRONT AND BACK OF BALLOT 1•1-11111-= VOTER: PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE STUB IF STUB DETACHES, PLEASE RETURN WITH BALLOT Grosse Pointe Woods Pct 2 I I .."1 I Mel I Me Official Ballot Primary Election Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Wayne County, Michigan City of Grosse Pointe Woods, Precinct 2 PARTISAN SECTION PROPOSAL SECTION VOTE ONLY 1 PARTY SECTION 4 ..",,,-,"' REPUBLICAN il...rti.... DEMOCRATIC STATE PARTY PARTY ii~iC— SECTION TT, SECTION PROPOSAL 14-1 APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF STATE STATE AMENDATORY ACT TO REDUCE STATE USE TAX AND REPLACE WITH GOVERNOR GOVERNOR A LOCAL COMMUNITY STABILIZATION Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 SHARE TO MODERNIZE THE TAX SYSTEM TO HELP SMALL Rick Snyder CD Mark Schauer 0 BUSINESSES GROW AND CREATE JOBS CD 0 The amendatory act adopted by the CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESSIONAL Legislature would: UNITED STATES UNITED STATES 1. Reduce the state use tax and replace with a local SENATOR SENATOR community stabilization share of the tax for the purpose of modernizing Vote for not more than 1 Vote for not more than 1 the tax system to help small businesses grow and create jobs in Michigan.
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