What's on the ballot in City of Ferrysburg, Ottawa County

For 10 years beginning with the tax assessments in December of 2027 and ending with the assessments in December of 2036, shall the total taxable property rate limitation in Ottawa County under Section 6 of Article IX of the Michigan Constitution of 1963, be increased up to the amount of 0.20 mills (20 cents per thousand dollars of taxable value) as an increase to the renewed 0.33 mill authorization for the purpose of acquiring, improving, operating, maintaining, restoring, and protecting parks, open space, trails, greenways, water access sites, recreational facilities, and related conservation and educational activities in Ottawa County and if approved and levied in full, this millage will raise an estimated $3,763,230 in the first calendar year it is levied (2027).

Shall the previously voted increase in the tax limitations imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution in the City of Ferrysburg, of 1.5000 mills ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) , reduced to 1.4076 mills ($1.4076 per $1,000 of taxable value) by the required millage rollbacks, be renewed at and increased up to the original voted 1.5000 mills ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) and levied for a period of (5) years, 2027 through 2031 inclusive, for repairs to the City’s Streets, raising an estimated $435,000 in the first year the millage is levied.

Shall the second sentence of the first paragraph of Section 3.7 of the Ferrysburg City Charter be amended to reduce the number of registered electors required for a nominating petition to not less than 6 and by no more than 20 signatures?

A Resolution to Amend the Ferrysburg City Charter to remove the requirement that the City Clerk write the determination of the validity of the nominating petitions on the face of the nominating petition in Section 3.9.

Shall Grand Haven Area Public Schools, Ottawa and Muskegon Counties, Michigan, borrow the sum of not to exceed Ninety-Eight Million Five-Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($98,550,000) and issue its general obligation unlimited tax bonds therefor, in one or more series, for the purpose of: erecting, completing and remodeling school buildings, facilities and additions to school buildings and facilities; equipping, re-equipping, furnishing and refurnishing school buildings and facilities; purchasing school buses; acquiring and installing instructional technology; and preparing, developing, improving and equipping play fields, playgrounds, structures, facilities and sites? The following is for informational purposes only: The estimated millage that will be levied for the proposed bonds in 2027 is 1.95 mills ($1.95 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation). The maximum number of years the bonds of any series may be outstanding, exclusive of any refunding, is twenty-five (25) years. The estimated simple average annual millage anticipated to be required to retire this bond debt is 1.15 mills ($1.15 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation). (Pursuant to State law, expenditure of bond proceeds must be audited and the proceeds cannot be used for repair or maintenance costs, teacher, administrator or employee salaries, or other operating expenses.)