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Glendale, Arizona, Question 2, Public Safety Projects Bond Measure (November 2023)
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Glendale Question 2 was on the ballot as a referral in Glendale on November 7, 2023. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported issuing $78,000,000 in bonds to fund public safety projects including improvements to police and fire facilities and equipment and authorizing the city to collect an additional property tax to pay for the bonds. |
A "no" vote opposed issuing $78,000,000 in bonds to fund public safety projects and levying an additional property tax to pay for the bonds. |
Election results
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Glendale Question 2 |
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15,000 | 59.27% | ||
| No | 10,307 | 40.73% | ||
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- Results are officially certified.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Question 2 was as follows:
| “ | Shall the City of Glendale, Arizona (the “City”), be authorized to issue bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $78,000,000 for the purpose of providing funds for public safety projects, including, but not limited to the following: • Planning, acquiring, designing, constructing, modernizing, and improving fire stations, police stations, police and fire training academies, police department forensics laboratories, and other public safety facilities; and
• Acquiring additional and replacement fire and police protection equipment; crime prevention, public safety and security systems; and fire trucks, police cars and other public safety vehicles, including providing for other general capital expenses related to public safety or for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for public safety purposes and for paying other costs related thereto, including, but not limited, to all legal, financial, engineering, architectural, project management and administration and other necessary costs in connection therewith and, in connection therewith as necessary, to acquire all necessary and related facilities, equipment, appurtenances and land therefor by purchase or any other method of acquisition and to pay all costs incidental to any of the foregoing and to the sale and issuance of such bonds or any series thereof, to be issued as general obligation bonds of the City, payable from secondary (ad valorem) property taxes levied upon all of the taxable property in the City, to mature not more than 25 years from their date and to bear interest at a rate of not to exceed 8% per annum and may be sold at prices that include premiums not greater than permitted by law? The issuance of these bonds will result in a property tax increase sufficient to pay the annual debt service on the bonds. A “YES” vote shall authorize the governing body of the City to issue and sell $78,000,000 of general obligation bonds of the City to be repaid with secondary property taxes. A “NO” vote shall not authorize the governing body of the City to issue and sell such bonds of the City.Shall the City of Glendale, Arizona (the “City”), be authorized to issue bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $78,000,000 for the purpose of providing funds for public safety projects, including, but not limited to the following: • Acquiring additional and replacement fire and police protection equipment; crime prevention, public safety and security systems; and fire trucks, police cars and other public safety vehicles, including providing for other general capital expenses related to public safety or for liquidating any indebtedness already incurred for public safety purposes and for paying other costs related thereto, including, but not limited, to all legal, financial, engineering, architectural, project management and administration and other necessary costs in connection therewith and, in connection therewith as necessary, to acquire all necessary and related facilities, equipment, appurtenances and land therefor by purchase or any other method of acquisition and to pay all costs incidental to any of the foregoing and to the sale and issuance of such bonds or any series thereof, to be issued as general obligation bonds of the City, payable from secondary (ad valorem) property taxes levied upon all of the taxable property in the City, to mature not more than 25 years from their date and to bear interest at a rate of not to exceed 8% per annum and may be sold at prices that include premiums not greater than permitted by law? The issuance of these bonds will result in a property tax increase sufficient to pay the annual debt service on the bonds. A “YES” vote shall authorize the governing body of the City to issue and sell $78,000,000 of general obligation bonds of the City to be repaid with secondary property taxes. A “NO” vote shall not authorize the governing body of the City to issue and sell such bonds of the City. | ” |
Path to the ballot
The Glendale City Council voted to place the measure on the ballot.
How to cast a vote
- See also: Voting in Arizona
See below to learn more about current voter registration rules, identification requirements, and poll times in Arizona.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Arizona Revised Statutes, "Title 16, Section 565," accessed July 18, 2024
- ↑ Arizona generally observes Mountain Standard Time; however, the Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time. Because of this, Mountain Daylight Time is sometimes observed in Arizona.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Arizona Secretary of State, "Voters," accessed July 18, 2024
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Arizona Voter Registration Instructions," accessed July 18, 2024
- ↑ Supreme Court of the United States, "No. 24A164," accessed August 22, 2024
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Supreme Court allows Arizona voter-registration law requiring proof of citizenship," August 22, 2024
- ↑ Bloomberg Law, "Supreme Court Partly Restores Voter Proof-of-Citizenship Law ," August 22, 2024
- ↑ Reuters, "US Supreme Court partly revives Arizona's proof of citizenship voter law," August 22, 2024
- ↑ Under federal law, the national mail voter registration application (a version of which is in use in all states with voter registration systems) requires applicants to indicate that they are U.S. citizens in order to complete an application to vote in state or federal elections, but does not require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the application "may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to prevent duplicate voter registrations and permit State officials both to determine the eligibility of the applicant to vote and to administer the voting process."
- ↑ ArizonaElections.gov, "What ID Do I Need to Vote Quiz," accessed March 14, 2023
- ↑ Arizona State Legislature, “Arizona Revised Statutes 16-579,” accessed July 19, 2024
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