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Voters to Be Asked Whether To Limit Citizen Initiatives in Polk
Category: City Government · State: Florida · Source: Lakeland Ledger
County commissioners decided Wednesday to ask residents whether they want to squelch themselves. By a 4-1 vote, commissioners agreed to put four proposed charter amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot. The changes, if approved by voters, would make it harder for citizens to change the county charter or enact ordinances commissioners refused to consider. They would also prevent any question regarding citizen initiatives or tax referendums from being considered at any time other than during general elections every two years. Commissioner Jean Reed was the lone dissenting vote on the measures involving charter amendments. The tax amendment proposal passed unanimously.
Activists Push for Term Limits Vote
Category: Florida · State: Florida · Source: Miami Herald
A group of Coral Gables activists seeking term limits for the mayor and commissioners have asked the city clerk to approve language for a petition to get a referendum on the ballot as early as August and no later than November. And they gave City Clerk Walter Foeman until the end of the month to get it approved -- or they will take the matter to court.
Battle Over Amending Florida Constitution Rages On
Category: Florida · State: Florida · Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal
Anyone who thought the long, nasty fight over amending Florida's constitution had ended should think again. Business groups and their traditional adversaries on the issue -- organizations such as the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Florida Public Interest Research Group -- are tangling again this spring. At stake: a proposal in the state Legislature that would require paid petition circulators to register with the state and bar non-Florida residents, non-U.S. citizens and convicted felons who are ineligible to vote from being paid circulators.
Crist lobbies voters for tax plan
Category: Taxes · State: Florida · Source: Herald Tribune
No poll has yet shown enough Floridians are ready to embrace a property tax-cutting initiative on the Jan. 29 presidential primary ballot to make it a reality.
Portable tax relief might carry costly legal baggage
Category: Taxes · State: Florida · Source: Palm Beach Post
To sweeten the property tax relief measure on the Jan. 29 ballot, legislators have embraced a concept known as portability, allowing residents to take their capped tax savings with them when they move. It could be the measure's undoing.
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