UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) – Voters will be asked to go to the polls in several Ottawa & Allegan County communities today (May 4, 2021).
Ballot proposals will be before electors living in the Holland, West Ottawa, Zeeland, Hudsonville and Grand Haven school districts, as well as among those living in the border school districts of Fruitport and Ravenna. There are separate bond issues of $74.6 million in Holland and $75 million in Zeeland, as well as $8 million in Fruitport, and two requests totaling $17.1 million in Ravenna; Grand Haven, Hudsonville, West Ottawa and Zeeland have 18-mill non-homestead tax renewal proposals.
The Macatawa Area Express is seeking a five-year, four tenths of a mill renewal levy in Holland and Holland Township. Other municipal proposals are a 10-year, half-mill increase for motorized equipment in Ferrysburg; and in Grand Haven Township, a $6.1 million bond proposal for park improvements, a nearly one-mill renewal for harbor transit and streets, and a quarter-mill renewal for the Four Pointes Center for Successful Aging.
In Allegan County, the City of Fennville was seeking to amend its charter ” to change the maximum authorized levy on taxable property in the City for municipal purposes from 15 mills to 20 mills,” according to the proposal language. However, nearly a month ago (Apr. 5, 2021), the city council agreed to withdraw that proposal.
Allegan Public Schools has a $87.5 million bond proposal, seeking funding for a variety of district improvements and upgrades in a request similar to those in the Ottawa County districts listed above.
Polls will be open from 7 AM to 8 PM, and those wishing to vote absentee can drop off their ballots at their local clerk’s office until 8 PM on Tuesday.
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