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San Antonio, Texas, Proposition A, Referendum Process (November 2018)
| Proposition A: San Antonio Referendum Process |
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| The basics |
| Election date: |
| November 6, 2018 |
| Status: |
 Defeated
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| Topic: |
| City governance |
| Related articles |
| City governance on the ballot November 6, 2018 ballot measures in Texas Bexar County, Texas ballot measures Local charter amendments on the ballot |
| See also |
| San Antonio, Texas |
A city charter amendment was on the ballot for San Antonio voters in Bexar County, Texas, on November 6, 2018. It was defeated.
| A yes vote was a vote in favor of amending the city charter to expand the types of ordinances that may be subject to referendum. |
| A no vote was a vote against amending the city charter to expand the types of ordinances that may be subject to referendum. |
Election results
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San Antonio, Texas, Proposition A, Referendum Process (November 2018) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 164,690 | 45.78% | ||
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195,036 | 54.22% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot question
The ballot question was as follows:[1]
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Shall the City Charter be amended to expand the types of ordinances that may be subject to referendum including appropriation of money, levying a tax, granting a franchise, fixing public utility rates, zoning and rezoning of property; increase the number of days within which a petition may be filed seeking a referendum on an ordinance passed by council from forty to one hundred eighty days after passage of the ordinance; and to provide that no more than twenty thousand signatures of registered voters are required for a referendum petition instead of ten percent of those electors qualified to vote at the last regular municipal election?[2] |
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Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing officials of San Antonio, Texas.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Bexar County, Texas, "Sample Ballot," accessed October 17, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
