YORK COUNTY — Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has drawn the order for bond questions appearing on November’s ballot.
The referendum portion of the ballot for voters will include one citizen’s initiative question and four separate bond questions.
Ballot questions listed by category, with the placement of citizens’ initiatives before bond issues:
• Question 1: “Do you want to create the Universal Home Care Program to provide home-based assistance to people with disabilities and senior citizens, regardless of income, funded by a new 3.8% tax on individuals and families with Maine wage and adjusted gross income above the amount subject to Social Security taxes, which is $128,400 in 2018?”
• Question 2: “Do you favor a $30,000,000 bond issue to improve water quality, support the planning and construction of wastewater treatment facilities and assist homeowners whose homes are served by substandard or malfunctioning wastewater treatment systems?”
• Question 3: “Do you favor a $106,000,000 bond issue, including $101,000,000 for construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of highways and bridges and for facilities and equipment related to ports, piers, harbors, marine transportation, freight and passenger railroads, aviation, transit and bicycle and pedestrian trails, to be used to match an estimated $137,000,000 in federal and other funds, and $5,000,000 for the upgrade of municipal culverts at stream crossings?”
• Question 4: “Do you favor a $49,000,000 bond issue to be matched by at least $49,000,000 in private and public funds to modernize and improve the facilities and infrastructure of Maine’s public universities in order to expand workforce development capacity and to attract and retain students to strengthen Maine’s economy and future workforce?”
• Question 5: “Do you favor a $15,000,000 bond issue to improve educational programs by upgrading facilities at all seven of Maine’s community colleges in order to provide Maine people with access to high-skill, low-cost technical and career education?”
The State of Maine’s General and Referendum Election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 6.
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