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Under charter amendment number one, voters are being asked to approve .5% of the city’s estimated real property tax revenues to be deposited into a new Climate Resiliency Fund for the purpose of ...
Voters throughout Summit County will have several charter amendments and other issues to decide in the Nov. 5 election. Communities and counties operating under a charter regularly review their ...
Oct. 3—LAST WEEK'S VOTE by aldermen not to place charter amendments on the November ballot that — if approved — would have allowed the school board to set its own budget and override the ...
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
Los Angeles voters are being asked to make decisions on several charter amendments and ballot measures that would significantly change the way government works. Here is what you need to know.
Justice Harlan argued that the concept of due process of law required fair compensation to be given for any private property seized by the state. In responding to the City of Chicago's claim that due process of law was served merely by allowing the railroad company's grievance to be heard, Harlan stated that satisfying legislative procedure alone is not enough to satisfy due process: "In ...
Now, after a string of corruption scandals, Charter Amendment ER, a measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, would strengthen the Ethics Commission by boosting its budget, increasing penalties for wrongdoing ...
Charter Amendment 3 A charter amendment reducing the size of the State Board of Education from eleven members to nine members [30] Passed 20,511 (51.00%) 19,668 (49.00%) [59] 2002 Initiative 62 An initiative to allow some nonviolent drug offenders to go through a treatment program rather than drug courts [60] Passed 86,162 (78.17%) 24,063 (21. ...