City of Zilwaukee November Ballot 2012 - Saginaw County

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PARTISAN SECTION
STRAIGHT PARTY TICKET
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Republican Party
Democratic Party
Libertarian Party
U.S. Taxpayers Party
Green Party
Natural Law Party
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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CONGRESSIONAL
Mitt Romney
Paul Ryan
Republican
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Democratic
Virgil H Goode Jr
James N Clymer
U.S. Taxpayers
Jill Stein
Cheri Honkala
Green
Ross C Anderson
Luis Rodriguez
Natural Law
UNITED STATES SENATOR
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Pete Hoekstra
Republican
Debbie Stabenow
Democratic
Scotty Boman
Libertarian
Richard A Matkin
U.S. Taxpayers
Harley Mikkelson
Green
John D Litle
Natural Law
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
5TH DISTRICT
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Jim Slezak
Republican
Daniel T Kildee
Democratic
Gregory Creswell
Libertarian
David Davenport
No Party Affiliation
LEGISLATIVE
REPRESENTATIVE IN STATE
LEGISLATURE
95TH DISTRICT
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Jeff Baker
Republican
Stacy Erwin Oakes
Democratic
STATE BOARDS
MEMBER OF THE STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION
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Todd A Courser
Republican
Melanie A Kurdys
Republican
Michelle Fecteau
Democratic
Lupe Ramos-Montigny
Democratic
Andy LeCureaux
Libertarian
Karen Adams
U.S. Taxpayers
Gail M Graeser
U.S. Taxpayers
Candace R Caveny
Green
Dwain Reynolds III
Green
OFFICIAL BALLOT
General Election
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Saginaw County, Michigan
City of Zilwaukee Precinct 1
REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN
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Dan Horning
Republican
Robert Steele
Republican
Mark Bernstein
Democratic
Shauna Ryder Diggs
Democratic
James Lewis Hudler
Libertarian
Gregory Scott Stempfle
Libertarian
Joe Sanger
U.S. Taxpayers
Gerald T Van Sickle
U.S. Taxpayers
Eric Borregard
Green
Nikki Mattson
Natural Law
TRUSTEE OF MICHIGAN STATE
UNIVERSITY
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Melanie Foster
Republican
Jeff Sakwa
Republican
Joel Ferguson
Democratic
Brian Mosallam
Democratic
Michael H Miller
Libertarian
Bill Mohr II
U.S. Taxpayers
Stephen J Young
U.S. Taxpayers
Lloyd Clarke
Green
GOVERNOR OF WAYNE STATE
UNIVERSITY
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Michael J Busuito
Republican
Satish B Jasti
Republican
Sandra Hughes O'Brien
Democratic
Kim Trent
Democratic
Robert Gale
U.S. Taxpayers
Marc J Sosnowski
U.S. Taxpayers
Margaret Guttshall
Green
Latham Redding
Green
COUNTY
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
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Matthew L Frey
Republican
John McColgan Jr
Democratic
SHERIFF
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William L Federspiel
Democratic
CLERK
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James F Ormsby
Republican
Susan Kaltenbach
Democratic
TREASURER
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Neil A Hammerbacher
Republican
Tim Novak
Democratic
REGISTER OF DEEDS
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Mildred M Dodak
Democratic
PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSIONER
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Brian J Wendling
Democratic
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
2ND DISTRICT
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Alex Boese
Republican
Chuck Stack
Democratic
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NONPARTISAN SECTION
JUDICIAL
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
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Bob Roddis
Doug Dern
Connie Marie Kelley
Stephen Markman
Justice of Supreme Court
Bridget Mary McCormack
Kerry L Morgan
Colleen O'Brien
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
INCUMBENT POSITION
Partial Term Ending 01/01/2015
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Mindy Barry
Shelia Johnson
Brian Zahra
Justice of Supreme Court
JUDGE OF COURT OF APPEALS
4TH DISTRICT
INCUMBENT POSITION
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Stephen Leopold Borrello
Judge of Court of Appeals
Peter D O'Connell
Judge of Court of Appeals
JUDGE OF COURT OF APPEALS
4TH DISTRICT
INCUMBENT POSITION
Partial Term Ending 01/01/2015
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Amy Ronayne Krause
Judge of Court of Appeals
JUDGE OF CIRCUIT COURT
10TH CIRCUIT COURT
INCUMBENT POSITION
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Janet M Boes
Judge of Circuit Court
Darnell Jackson
Judge of Circuit Court
JUDGE OF PROBATE COURT
INCUMBENT POSITION
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Patrick J McGraw
Judge of Probate Court
JUDGE OF 70TH DISTRICT COURT
DIVISION 1
INCUMBENT POSITION
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Terry L Clark
Judge of District Court
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
DELTA COLLEGE-SAGINAW COUNTY
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R Earl Selby
BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
DELTA COLLEGE-BAY COUNTY
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David Lovely
Michael D Rowley
BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER
DELTA COLLEGE-MIDLAND COUNTY
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Kathy Ellison
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PROPOSAL SECTION
STATE
PROPOSAL 12-1
A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 4 OF
2011 -
THE EMERGENCY MANAGER LAW
Public Act 4 of 2011 would:
•Establish criteria to assess the financial
condition of local government units, including
school districts.
•Authorize Governor to appoint an emergency
manager (EM) upon state finding of a financial
emergency, and allow the EM to act in place of
local government officials.
•Require EM to develop financial and operating
plans, which may include modification or
termination of contracts, reorganization of
government, and determination of
expenditures, services, and use of assets until
the emergency is resolved.
•Alternatively, authorize state-appointed review
team to enter into a local government approved
consent decree.
Should this law be approved?
YES
NO
PROPOSAL 12-2
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE
CONSTITUTION
REGARDING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
This proposal would:
•Grant public and private employees the
constitutional right to organize and bargain
collectively through labor unions.
Invalidate existing or future state or local laws
that limit the ability to join unions and bargain
collectively, and to negotiate and enforce
collective bargaining agreements, including
employees' financial support of their labor
unions. Laws may be enacted to prohibit
public employees from striking.
•Override state laws that regulate hours and
conditions of employment to the extent that
those laws conflict with collective bargaining
agreements.
•Define “employer” as a person or entity
employing one or more employees.
Should this proposal be approved?
YES
NO
PROPOSAL 12-3
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE
CONSTITUTION
TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR
RENEWABLE ENERGY
This proposal would:
•Require electric utilities to provide at least
25% of their annual retail sales of electricity
from renewable energy sources, which are
wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, by
2025.
•Limit to not more than 1% per year electric
utility rate increases charged to consumers
only to achieve compliance with the renewable
energy standard.
•Allow annual extensions of the deadline to
meet the 25% standard in order to prevent rate
increases over the 1% limit.
•Require the legislature to enact additional
laws to encourage the use of Michigan made
equipment and employment of Michigan
residents.
Should this proposal be approved?
YES
NO
PROPOSAL 12-4
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE
CONSTITUTION
TO ESTABLISH THE MICHIGAN QUALITY
HOME CARE COUNCIL
AND PROVIDE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
FOR IN-HOME CARE WORKERS
This proposal would:
•Allow in-home care workers to bargain
collectively with the Michigan Quality Home
Care Council (MQHCC). Continue the current
exclusive representative of in-home care
workers until modified in accordance with labor
laws.
•Require MQHCC to provide training for inhome
care workers, create a registry of
workers who pass background checks, and
provide financial services to patients to
manage the cost of in-home care.
•Preserve patients' rights to hire in-home care
workers who are not referred from the MQHCC
registry who are bargaining unit members.
•Authorize the MQHCC to set minimum
compensation standards and terms and
conditions of employment.
Should this proposal be approved?
YES
NO
PROPOSAL 12-5
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE
CONSTITUTION
TO LIMIT THE ENACTMENT OF NEW TAXES
BY STATE GOVERNMENT
This proposal would:
Require a 2/3 majority vote of the State House
and the State Senate, or a statewide vote of
the people at a November election, in order for
the State of Michigan to impose new or
additional taxes on taxpayers or expand the
base of taxation or increasing the rate of
taxation.
This section shall in no way be construed to
limit or modify tax limitations otherwise created
in this Constitution.
Should this proposal be approved?
YES
NO
PROPOSAL 12-6
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE
CONSTITUTION
REGARDING CONSTRUCTION OF
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES AND TUNNELS
This proposal would:
•Require the approval of a majority of voters at
a statewide election and in each municipality
where “new international bridges or tunnels for
motor vehicles” are to be located before the
State of Michigan may expend state funds or
resources for acquiring land, designing,
soliciting bids for, constructing, financing, or
promoting new international bridges or tunnels.
•Create a definition of “new international
bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles” that
means, “any bridge or tunnel which is not open
to the public and serving traffic as of January 1,
2012.”
Should this proposal be approved?
CITY
YES
NO
RENEWAL OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
MILLAGE
City of Zilwaukee
Shall the City continue to levy a total of one mill
($1.00 per $1,000) on taxable value of property
located in the City of Zilwaukee, Saginaw
County, for five years, 2013-2017 inclusive,
which will raise in the first year of levy, an
estimated revenue of Forty-two thousand-three
hundred forty-three dollars and thirty-five cents
($42,343.35) to provide funds to be used for
purchase of fire extinguishing apparatus and
equipment and housing for the same for said
City?
LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
YES
NO
OPERATING MILLAGE RENEWAL
PROPOSAL
This proposal will allow the School District of
the City of Saginaw 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 and
renews millage that will expire with the 2012
tax levy.
Shall the currently authorized millage rate
limitation of 20.45 mills ($20.45 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 the School
District of the City of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Michigan, be renewed for a period of
ten years, 2013 through 2022, 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
2013 being approximately $6,300,000?
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
YES
NO
DELTA COLLEGE MILLAGE RENEWAL
This proposal will permit Delta College to
continue the current levy of millage for college
purposes by renewing the College's authority
to levy 0.4864 mill previously approved by the
voters, which will expire after the 2015 levy.
Shall the previously approved 0.4864 mill
expiring in 2015 be renewed so that the
limitation on the amount of taxes which may be
levied on taxable property in the Delta College
district (comprised of the counties of Bay,
Midland and Saginaw), be increased by 0.4864
mill ($0.4864 per $1,000 of taxable value) for
eight (8) years, from 2016 to 2023 inclusive, to
provide funds for community college purposes?
If approved, 0.4864 mill would generate an
estimated $5,390,103 for the College when first
levied in 2016.
YES
NO
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