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WHEN is an emergency not an emergency?
When it’s a tax, we suppose.
Gov. Martin O’Malley proposed Friday a referendum on slots that would allow up to 15,000 machines in five Maryland locations – including Baltimore – and hand the decision to voters after years of legislative deadlock.
After what Supervisor Keith Carson said was “reluctantly” carrying out their legally-mandated duty to place a $12 million Children’s Hospital special tax initiative on the February ballot, Alameda County supervisors voted to place a second compromise measure on the ballot as well.
A candidate for Douglas County Commissioner asked the sitting commissioners to pass a resolution opposing Ballot Measure 49, the revisions to the Measure 37 land use law that voters passed a couple of years ago.
When Mark Klaiman set out to add a second location for his Pet Camp kennel business, he had to deal with a half dozen offices of San Francisco city government. The City Planning Department. The Public Health Department. The Building Inspection Department. The Fire Department. The Public Works Department. Not to mention the urban forestry bureau within the Public Works Department.
Galt’s police department could get a $400,000 per year funding boost if residents pass a potential ballot measure to increase the city’s sales tax.
The Albany City Council on Wednesday declined Councilor Sharon Konopa’s request to pass a resolution in support of Ballot Measure 49.
The measure in general would limit development allowed under the Measure 37 property-rights law approved by voters in 2004.
The City Council will decide Nov. 5 whether to place a ballot measure before voters in February to protract and continue the city’s utility user tax on telephone service.
The tax, which is threatened by possible court action and changes in federal law, brings in about $10 million a year to the general fund.
Kean supports all nine planks in the state Republican Party’s platform, including stricter ethics laws, tighter caps on spending and initiative and referendum for citizens.
Opponents of Oregon’s new domestic partnership law have asked a county clerk to change her decision about referendum signatures so the law can go to a statewide vote next year.