LOCAL PROPOSALS on NOV 6 BALLOT

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1 Kalamazoo County LOCAL PROPOSALS on NOV 6 BALLOT CITY OF GALESBURG AUTHORIZATION AND LEVY OF MILLAGE FOR FIREFIGHTING APPARATUS Shall the Galesburg City Council be authorized to levy 1 mill above constitutional limitations ($1.00 for each $1,000 of taxable valuation) against all property (real and personal) in the City of Galesburg for the next 10 years ( ) for the purpose of purchasing firefighting apparatus to be used by the Galesburg/Charleston Fire Board. It is estimated that 1 mill would equal approximately $27, in 2012.CITY OF CITY OF KALAMAZOO CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #1 Section 8(a) of the City Charter requires the City Commission to meet at least once every two weeks. The proposed amendment would require regular meetings of the City Commission to occur twice each month. Shall Section 8(a) of the City Charter be amended to provice that the City Commission meet in regular session not less than twice each month? CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #2 Section 8(a) of the Charter requires the City Commission to meet at 8 P.M. the first Monday after the November regular municipal election at the usual place for holding meetings. The proposed amendment would require the City Commission meet at 7 P.M. the first Monday following the odd-year November election at a place open to the public and sworn into office. Shall Section 8(a) of the Charter be amended to provide that the City Coimmission meet at 7 P.M. the first Monday following the odd-year November election and sworn into office at a place open to the public? CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #3 Section 14(b) of the City Charter requires publication of an ordinance after adoption in a newspaper printed and published in the City or posted in two public places. State law requires that a summary of the ordinance be pubished; publication in a newspaper of

2 general circulation in the city or by other means prescribed by the City Commission satisfies this requirement. Shall Section 14(b) of the City Charter be amended to provide for publication of a summary of an adopted ordinance in a newspaper of general circulation and authorize the City Commission to prescribe additional methods of publication? CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #4 Section 32 of the City Charter which provides that City Commissioner nomination petitions be circulated no earlier than sixty days, and filed no later than thirty days, prior to the election was abrogated by changes in state law. The proposed amendment would limit the circulation of nomination petitions to sixty days prior to the required state law filing deadline. Shall Section 32(c_ of the City Charter be amended to limit the gathering of nomination signatures for the office of City Commissioner to the sixty day period prior to the state imposed filing deadline for nomination petitions? CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #5 Section 37 of the Charter requires the City Commission to appoint a board of Elections for each precinct comprised of City residents. State election law requires that the City Election Commission appoint for each precinct a Board of Election Inspectors; requires appointees to be county electors; and permits under certain conditions, the appointment of sixteen and secenteen year old persons as election inspectors. Shall Section 37 of the charter be amended to acknowledge the State law requirement for the appoointment in each precinct of a Board of Election Inspectors be by the City Election Commission? CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL #6 Shall Sections 54 and 187 of the City Charter refer to the office of Health Officer. This position has bot been filled for many years because those duties have been largely taken over by State and County agencies and officials. Shall Section 54 of the City Charter be deleted and Section 187 amended to eliminate references to a Health Officer?

3 KALAMAZOO TRANSIT AUTHORITY PROPOSAL Shall the City of Kalamazoo Transit Authority Board, County of Kalamazoo, Michigan levy a new millage, an amount not to exceed Sixty Cents ($0.60) per thousand dollars ($1,000) (0.6 mills) of the Taxable Value of all taxable property in the City of Kalamazoo for a period of three years for 2013, 2014 and 2015, to provide public transportation services? If approved and levied in its entirety in 2013 this millage would raise approximately $1,024,425 for the Transit Authority. CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSAL - ADD NEW SECTION 199 Shall the Kalamazoo City Charter be amended such that three (3) medical cannabis dispensaries are permitted with the city limits? LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSALS GALESBURG-AUGUSTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS millage that will expire with the 2013 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 Galesburg- Augusta Community Schools, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 20 years, 2014 to 2033, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect of the millage is approved and levied in 2014 is approximately $1,525,000 (this is a renewal of millage which will expire with the 2013 tax levy)? GULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance. The remaining.5548 mill is only available to be levied to restore millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the "Headlee" amendment to the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and will only be levied to the extent secessary to restore that reduction. Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of mills ($ 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 Gull Lake Community Schools, Kalamazoo, Barry and Calhoun Counties, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 20 years, 2014 to 2033, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect of the millage is

4 approved and levied in 2014 is approximately $3,234,938 (this is a renewal of millage which will expire with the 2013 tax levy)? PORTAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS millage that will expire with the 2013 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 Portage Public Schools, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 20 years, 2014 to 2033, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect of the millage is approved and levied in 2014 is approximately $11,825,295 (this is a renewal of millage which will expire with the 2013 tax levy)? St Joe County BURR OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS millage that will expire with the 2013 tax levy. Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of mills ($ 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 Burr Oak Community Schools, St. Joseph County, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 5 years, 2014 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 2014 is approximately $154,870 (this is a renewal of millage which will expire with the 2013 tax levy)? CONSTANTINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Constantine Public Schools, St. Joseph and Cass Counties, Michigan, be increased by 18.5 mills ($18.50 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a period of 15 years, 2012 to 2026, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes (.5 mill of the above will be levied only to the

5 extent necessary to restore millage lost as a result of a reduction required by the Michigan Constitution of 1963); the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2012 is approximately $1,557,443? 27 KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE This renewal proposal will permit Kellogg Community College to levy a reduced rate of. 75 mill on all taxable real and tangible personal property, which is lower than the current.85 mill that will expire with the 2012 tax levy, allocated for the sole purpose of making major repairs, reconstruction and construction of college facilities. This renewal proposal does not affect the perpetual operational millage previously approved. Shall the charter tax rate limitation previously approved by the electors of Kellogg Community College District, Michigan, ($0.85 on each $1, of taxable valuation for a period of 15 years, , inclusive) be renewed at a reduced rate of.75 mill ($0.75 on each $1, of taxable valuation) for a period of 15 years, , inclusive, for the purposes of continued funding for major repairs, reconstruction and construction of College facilities and upgrading technology; the estimate of the revenue to the comm