{"id":230,"date":"2017-12-04T00:45:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2017-12-04T00:45:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:45:30","slug":"dec4-debt-exclusion-vote","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/community\/dec4-debt-exclusion-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Information on 12\/04\/2017 Debt Exclusion Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone,<\/p>\n

On 12\/04 Town of Lexington will hold a special election. <\/strong>https:\/\/www.lexingtonma.gov\/sites\/lexingtonma\/files\/uploads\/specimen_ballot.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Voters will be asked to decide whether to raise additional property tax (exempt\/excluded from proposition 2 \u00bd) to fund the following 3 projects individually.
\n<\/strong>1: The new Hastings elementary school
\n2: The new Lexington Children\u2019s Place (for special need preschoolers)
\n3: The new Headquarters Fire Station and reconstruction of the temporary Fire Station<\/p>\n

Helen Yang, a member of town appropriation committee, has given a seminar on 11\/6, which provides background information on debt exclusion. <\/strong>This neutral and informational seminar has received positive feedbacks from audience and some town management members. If you missed it you can
\n1: watch the video on CALex YouTube channel
\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/5p2Sh2Hvjc0
\n<\/a>2: read the PDF slides here
\nhttps:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DebtExclusion_Lex2017_final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

There are currently 3 campaigns (non-neutral) on the issue:
\n<\/strong>1: http:\/\/www.yes4lex.org
\n<\/a>Supports the 3 projects, supports funding of the 3 projects through raising additional property tax (debt exclusion)
\n2: http:\/\/lexvote.org
\n<\/a>Supports the 3 projects, objects funding the 3 projects through raising additional property tax (debt exclusion)
\n3: https:\/\/planbeforepreschool.wordpress.com
\n<\/a>Objects building new LCP through debt exclusion. The current capacity is sufficient for the enrollment number.<\/p>\n

There are 2 LexMedia videos on the topic:<\/strong>
\n1: The Yes (yes4lex) and No (lexvote) debate here:
\nhttps:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uXTdFu3R2I
\n<\/a>2: This one by planbeforepreschool can be found here:
\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/clDBdCTt6Rs<\/a><\/p>\n

The following website provides a lot of data and analysis of the 3 projects as well as the<\/strong> financial status of Lexington.<\/strong> Given future projects such as LHS, the 7th<\/sup> elementary school and the police department etc. it is critical for Lexington to have long term planning and maintain the financial health.
\nhttp:\/\/mylocaltaxes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the link on town website
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/www.lexingtonma.gov\/town-clerk\/pages\/special-election-monday-december-4-2017<\/a><\/p>\n

CALex<\/u><\/strong> \u9f13\u52b1\u83b1<\/strong>\u9547\u5c45\u6c11\u79ef\u6781\u53c2\u4e0e\u9547\u91cc\u4e8b\u52a1\u51b3\u7b56<\/strong>,<\/strong>\u8ba4\u771f\u7814\u7a76\u4fe1\u606f<\/strong>,<\/strong>\u6ce8\u518c<\/strong>\u9009\u6c11\u79ef\u6781\u6295\u7968<\/strong>\u3002<\/strong><\/p>\n

CALex<\/u><\/strong> (calexma.org) encourages individual resident to actively participate in town affairs, and be an educated voter.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone, On 12\/04 Town of Lexington will hold a special election. https:\/\/www.lexingtonma.gov\/sites\/lexingtonma\/files\/uploads\/specimen_ballot.pdf Voters will be asked to decide whether to raise additional property tax (exempt\/excluded from proposition 2 \u00bd) to fund the following 3 projects individually. 1: The new Hastings elementary school 2: The new Lexington Children\u2019s Place (for special need preschoolers) 3: The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9ifFd-3I","rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"Hi everyone, On 12\/04 Town of Lexington will hold a special election. https:\/\/www.lexingtonma.gov\/sites\/lexingtonma\/files\/uploads\/specimen_ballot.pdf Voters will be asked to decide whether to raise additional property tax (exempt\/excluded from proposition 2 \u00bd) to fund the following 3 projects individually. 1: The new Hastings elementary school 2: The new Lexington Children\u2019s Place (for special need preschoolers) 3: The...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/237"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calexma.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}