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CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
AUGUST 12, 2002
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PRESENT: Payne, Cotton, Devine, Tobias, Yaw, Stefanes, Roncelli
ABSENT: None
MOTION WAS MADE by Cotton and supported by Devine to ACCEPT the canvass of
votes for the August 6, 2002 Primary Election, as certified by the Township Board of
Canvassers on August 7, 2002:
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BALLOT LANGUAGE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
APPROVAL OF POLICE AND FIRE MILLAGE
SHALL THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD BE AUTHORIZED TO
INCREASE THE LEVY OF TAXES UP TO TWO AND ONE-HALF (2.50) MILLS FOR A
PERIOD OF 10 YEARS (2003-2012), TO STAFF, EQUIP AND OPERATE THE
111, BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS? APPROVAL OF
THIS PROPOSAL WOULD APPROVE A TAX LIMITATION INCREASE OF
APPROXIMATELY $2.50 PER $1,000. OF TAXABLE VALUE ON ALL TAXABLE
PROPERTY IN THE TOWNSHIP. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD
RESULT IN THE AUTHORIZATION TO COLLECT APPROXIMATELY $7,788,300. IN
THE FIRST YEAR IF APPROVED AND LEVIED.
Yes 6168
No 6715
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BALLOT LANGUAGE
LIBRARY MILLAGE PROPOSAL — RENEWAL AND INCREASE
SHALL THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD BE AUTHORIZED TO LEVY
UP TO 0.7874 OF ONE MILL FOR THE BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY
TO ASSIST IT IN CONTINUING OPERATION? THIS AUTHORIZATION WOULD
COMMENCE WITH THE DECEMBER, 2003 LEVY, AND PERMIT THE TOWNSHIP TO
MAKE SUCH LEVY EACH YEAR IN PERPETUITY. THIS MILLAGE SHALL BE
REDUCED FOR 2003 AND THEREAFTER AS REQUIRED BY LAW. APPROVAL OF
THIS PROPOSAL WOULD RENEW THE AUTHORIZATION EXPIRING IN 2002
• ($0.2874 PER $1,000 TAXABLE VALUE) AND WOULD AUTHORIZE A NEW
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
AUGUST 12, 2002
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ADDITIONAL MILLAGE ($0.5000 PER $1,000 TAXABLE VALUE), ON ALL TAXABLE
PROPERTY IN THE TOWNSHIP. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THIS COMBINED
PROPOSAL FOR A MILLAGE RENEWAL AND INCREASE WOULD RESULT IN THE
AUTHORIZATION TO COLLECT $2,452,982 IN THE FIRST YEAR IF APPROVED
AND LEVIED.
Yes 6727
No 6059
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BALLOT LANGUAGE
LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS BOND PROPOSITION
Shall the Charter Township of Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan, borrow an
amount not to exceed Twenty-Two Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand
Dollars ($22,875,000) and issue its general obligation unlimited tax bonds for the
purpose of paying the costs of acquiring, constructing, furnishing and equipping an
expansion and improvements and renovations to the Bloomfield Township Public
Library building and improving the site therefore? The maximum number of years the
bonds may be outstanding, exclusive of refunding, is 20 years; the estimated millage
that will be levied to pay the proposed bonds in the first year that the levy is authorized
is $0.55 mills (which is equal to $0.55 per $1,000 of taxable value of real and personal
property in the Township); and the estimated simple average annual millage that will be
required to retire the bonds is $0.47 mills.
Yes 5784
No 7062
YEAS: Payne, Cotton, Devine, Tobias, Yaw, Stefanes, Roncelli
NAYS: None
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
• BOARD OF TRUSTEES
AUGUST 12, 2002
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RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.
WILMA S. COTTON, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of
Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and
correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on
August 12,2002.
WFLMA S. COTTON
TOWNSHIP CLERK
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