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NYS Proposition 1: CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR, AND GREEN JOBS Environmental Bond Act of 2022

To address and combat the impact of climate change and damage to the environment, the “Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022” authorizes the sale of state bonds up to four billion two hundred million dollars to fund environmental protection, natural restoration, resiliency, and clean energy projects. Shall the Environmental Bond Act of 2022 be approved?

To read more about this Proposition you can follow this link to the New York State Board of Elections website.

Chemung County Prop 2

Shall the Charter of Chemung County be amended by reapportionment of all Legislative Districts as a result of the 2020 Federal Decennial Census, as required by the Chemung County Charter?

Chemung County Proposal 3

Shall the 2023 Library District budget, as submitted by the Board of Trustees of the Chemung County Library District, be approved and shall the Board of Trustees be authorized to expend the sum of $3,398,615 for the year January 1 – December 31, 2023, and further shall the Board of Trustees be authorized to instruct the County of Chemung to levy and collect on its behalf for the financing of library district operations and as prescribed in the Library District’s special legislation as enacted in 2005?

Chemung County Prop 4

Local Law No. 4 of 2021, as adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Van Etten on December 2, 2021, prohibits retail cannabis dispensaries from locating and operating within the jurisdiction of the Town of Van Etten.
Shall Law No. 4 of 2021 be amended to repeal such prohibition, so that state-licensed retail cannabis dispensaries are permitted to locate and operate within the jurisdiction of the Town of Van Etten?

Chemung County Prop 5

Local Law No. 4 of 2021, as adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Van Etten on December 2, 2021, prohibits on-site cannabis consumption establishments from locating and operating within the jurisdiction of the Town of Van Etten.
Shall Local Law No. 4 of 2021 be amended to repeal such prohibition, so that state-licensed on-site cannabis consumption establishments are permitted to locate and operate within the jurisdiction of the Town of Van Etten?

Steuben County Prop 2

Are you in favor of Steuben County Legislature Local Law Tentatively No. Three for the Year 2022 which redraws the Legislative District Boundaries pursuant to the results of the 2020 Federal Census, thereby reducing the number of legislative districts from thirteen (13) to eleven (11) represented by seventeen (17) Legislators?

Town of Caton Prop

SHALL adoption of Local Law No. 2 of year 2022, entitled “Abolishing the position of an Elected Town Highway Superintendent and creating an Appointed Town Highway Superintendent position, effective January 1, 2024,” BE APPROVED?

Town of Jasper Prop

Shall a person be allowed to obtain a license to operate a retail package liquor-and-wine or wine-without-liquor store, to sell “to go” unopened bottles of liquor or wine to a customer to be taken from the store for the customer to open and drink at another location (such as, for example, at his/her home)?

Town of Pulteney Prop

Shall the contribution, of the Town of Pulteney, NY, for the operating budget of the Pulteney Free Library be increased by nine hundred dollars ($900) to the total sum of forty-six thousand and ten dollars ($46,010) annually?”

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