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lines. In addition, the voters are being asked to change charter language for the recall from page 1A and nominating petition process to be in-line with state law. challenged by two write-in Charter candidates including Amendment Proposal the current seat 1 deals with the speholder Debbie cial assessment Marquardt who last process. As the speAugust opted not to cial assessment run again for the process currently position, wanting at stands in Lapeer, it the time to spend cannot be changed by more time with her the elected city comelderly mother. mission. City officials Regretting that deciare asking voter sion and wanting to approval to take the stay involved in city Elaine Gates special assessment government, process out of the city Marquardt, 58, decidcharter and place it ed to get back in the into an ordinance. race though because They contend that it she missed the filing would provide for condeadline would have sistency, flow, and to run as a write-in structure within the candidate. Marquardt special assessment was elected to the process. city commission in A big change would 2002, and was be that the charter reelected in 2005 and 2009. Debbie Marquardt states that any credit by more than 5 perSimilarly, two cent will be made first weeks ago Lapeer by inverse numerical resident and medical order of the remaining marijuana advocate unpaid installments, Jamie Fricke, 33, secondly any remaindecided to jump in ing credit will be the race as well as a applied toward the write-in candidate. payment of the next To vote for a city tax levied against write-in, registered such property until voters need to write the credit is depleted. in their best penThe proposed ordimanship the full Jamie Fricke nance would reflect name of Debbie any credit by more Marquardt or Jamie than 5 percent will be made Fricke on the blank line first by inverse numerical directly under Elaine Gates order of the remaining unpaid name on the ballot and then installments, secondly any complete the arrow across remaining credit will be made the adjacent line. Precinct to the current property owner workers will then document the variations, share there be of record in cash. Other examples include: any, of the write-in candi Charter Amendment dates names. It will then be Proposal 2: City officials are up to the Lapeer County asking the voters to have the Board of Canvassers to verify recalls of all elected officials the write-in votes. to be conducted in the manner prescribed by state law. Charter amendments Lapeer voters will be asked Public Acts 417 and 418 of 2012 changed the state and on a Nov. 5 ballot to amend the city charter as it relates to local recall processes: all local-level recalls (which special assessment districts include all elected city offiestablished within the city, cials) will now be handled by whether its to finance a utility extension or reconstruction the Board of County Elected Commissioners and preof local roads, water/sewer scribes the process to be followed. Charter Amendment Proposal 3: City officials are asking the voters to have the deadline for nominating petitions of all elected officials to be conducted in the manner prescribed by state law. Public Act 276 of 2012 changed filing petition deadlines to be 4 p.m. on the 15th Tuesday before the odd year general election beginning Jan. 1, 2014. Currently, the City Charter requires nominating petitions to be filed by 4 p.m. on the 12th Tuesday prior to the Citys general election date. Once again, this part of the city charter has become obsolete.

Voters to decide millage Election renewal for Mott CC


BY JACOB HUNSANGER 810-452-2609 jhunsanger@mihomepaper.com

LAPEER COUNTY Some voters in five Lapeer County townships will have a special bond proposition on their ballots Tuesday. The Mott Community College Bond Proposition will be, in part, decided by voters in portions of Elba, Hadley, Deerfield, Marathon and Oregon townships those voters who live within the LakeVille school district. Desiree Londrigan, director at Motts Lapeer Extension Center, said she hopes residents will vote in favor of the proposition, which is a renewal of the current millage rage. Mott College is the number one college destination for graduating students from all the high schools in the area, whether Genesee or Lapeer counties, Londrigan said. Also, those portions of Lapeer County voting on this proposal are within the MCC college district, giving their students in-district rates, which are less than half the rate of any other area college or university option. The bond proposition is a renewal of the current millage rate. Londrigan said voters have supported Mott Community College in the past, and hopes they will continue to do so especially in light of the fact that the bond proposition is a renewal, not an increase. If the proposition is passed, she said, taxpayers will not pay a higher rate. It will continue to be at the current rate. If it is approved, the funds raised through the millage will be restricted to capital improvements, not salaries or operational expenses. This strengthens the community asset that is MCC, Londrigan added. MCC students from Lapeer or elsewhere have the benefit of state-of-the-art

equipment, which properly prepares them to enter their career ready to go. While Mott Community College has recently made significant commitments to the Lapeer campus by purchasing its site in Lapeer and dedicating millions of dollars to improvements there, the funds from this millage will not be used at the Lapeer Extension Center. Lapeer County voters rejected a special millage district years ago to support Motts Lapeer campus, so it is only voters living inside the LakeVille school district that will have a say in and reap the benefits from the millage. That includes in district tuition rates and other benefits. Mott Community College has been rated one of the top ten best community colleges in America (out of 1,200), Londrigan said, and operates a University Center that allows students to go on to earn bachelor and master degrees without leaving the area. Voters in the five Lapeer County townships will cast their decision on Tuesday whether to continue supporting Mott. If passed, the sale of bonds will take place, with the maximum number of years each series of bonds may be outstanding set at 20 years. The estimated millage in the first year of the levy is 0.08 mills (equal to 8 cents per $1,000 of taxable property in the district) and the estimated annual millage required to retire the bonds is 0.25 mills (equal to 25 cents per $1,000 of taxable property in the district).

Lapeer Community Schools


Operating Millage Renewal Proposal This proposals calls for a five-year renewal of the nonhomestead property tax that would allow the district to continue to levy 18 mills in the event of future Headlee rollbacks up to three mills. This applies to industrial real property and certain commercial property and rental and seasonal homes. As a renewal request, if passed, there would be no additional cost to taxpayers. Owner-occupied homes and qualified agricultural property are exempt from this levy.

Mott Community College


Bond Proposition This request by MCC is for a 20-year renewal of a $50 million bond that raises money for maintenance and capital improvements to its facilities, including the Lapeer campus. Bond millage funds cannot be used for salaries or operating funds. The only residents this impacts are those that are adjacent to or share school districts in Genesee County, including the townships of Deerfield, Elba, Hadley, Marathon and Oregon. The polls will be open Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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