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A Proposal to Amend the Portage City Charter to Establish a Citizens’ Advisory Healthcare Action Board and Require a Healthcare Action Plan
Portage City · Kalamazoo County · on the November 3, 2026 ballot in Portage City.
A Proposal to Amend the Portage City Charter to Establish a Citizens’ Advisory Healthcare Action Board and Require a Healthcare Action Plan
Petition-initiated charter amendment creating a citizen advisory board to draft a local Healthcare Action Plan and recommend ways to lower costs and improve access. The board is advisory only — the city has no authority to implement health policy. Parallel measures appear in Lansing, East Lansing, Kalamazoo and Portage.
Official ballot language
A proposal to amend the City of Portage Charter to establish a Citizens’ Advisory Healthcare Action Board appointed by the City Council to address healthcare affordability and access. The Board would gather public testimony from the community; analyze data; review how federal, state, and local policies have affected healthcare affordability and access; and produce a biennial Healthcare Action Plan. The Healthcare Action Plan must evaluate changes in health insurance and benefit coverage, track actions of federal and state officials, and recommend solutions. The City Council must adopt and publish a Healthcare Action Plan. Shall the proposed be adopted?
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Plain-English summaries and the YES/NO explanations are ours; the ballot language above is the official text from the Michigan Secretary of State sample ballot. Confirm with your clerk if anything differs on your ballot.