No referenda for Orangetown; at least, not yet
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- October
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Over the past several weeks, members of the Orangetown Civic Association have hit the pavement to try and collect signatures to get two propositions on the November ballot. The organization wanted a public vote on measures to require term limits and to require mandatory referenda on any bonding over $1 million. But two things got in the way.
First, the Civic Association learned that term limits can’t be imposed through a referendum. Only a town board can vote to impose term limits, state officials told Civic Association co-founder Carol Silverstein.
Second, the group didn’t get enough signatures on the bonding referendum to meet the Oct. 1 deadline.
Silverstein said members had collected close to 500 names in support of each measure and would keep collecting. They will sumbit signatures to the Town Board on term limits to deliver a message from the public.
On the bonding issue, they will try to get enough names to force a special election so the public can decide.
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on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm by Hannan Adely.
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I Believe in term limits, personally many other higher governmental offices have term limits.. why can't we have local elections with term limits? often incumbants in orangetown stay far too long and ill informed residents continue voting for incumbants without knowing all of the facts about issues they have supported and positive or negative work they have done for members of the town during their tenure. Term limits will encourage more to be active in local government and will drum up support and new candidates that might otherwise have obstained due to incumbants continuing to run limitlessly till they decide they want to move on. term limits and bonding for every item over 1 million dollars are two important things in orangetown that has their elected officials stay in office far too long, and also recently ran up a bonding spree which now has indebted the town to more than $60 million dollars of debt. time for change is now, we can see this with a new list of town board members and a new direction overall of the board. I am thuroughly pleased the people of orangetown decided to vote for change and a new direction.