This week, I’m going through all the ballot proposals to be decided on election day.
The official ballot text for Proposal # 3 reads as follows:
Exclusion of Indebtedness Contracted for Sewage Facilities
The proposed amendment to Article 8, section 5 of the Constitution would extend for ten years, until January 1, 2024, the authority of counties, cities, towns, and villages to exclude from their constitutional debt limits indebtedness contracted for the construction or reconstruction of sewage facilities. Shall the proposed amendment be approved?
What it Means?
The measure would allow municipalities to address sewage needs without impairing their ability to finance other needs. The new date of January 1, 2024 would extend the time period by ten years.
If approved, Proposal 3 would amend Article VIII, Section 5, subsection (E) of the Constitution of New York to read:
E. Indebtedness contracted on or after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two and prior to January first, two thousand fourteen twenty-four, for the construction or reconstruction of facilities for the conveyance, treatment and disposal of sewage. The legislature shall prescribe the method by which and the terms and conditions under which the amount of any such indebtedness to be excluded shall be determined, and no such indebtedness shall be excluded except in accordance with such determination.
The League of Women Voters noted that they could not find any opponents or opposing arguments.