Term limits, red light cameras and a boost in one community’s sales tax rate are among the questions voters in several south and southwest suburbs will see on Tuesday’s ballot.
Hazel Crest voters will be asked whether the community should adopt term limits, with no person holding the office of mayor, clerk or trustee for more than two consecutive four-year terms.
Lynwood will ask residents whether the village should become a home-rule community.
Three questions will be on the ballot in Merrionette Park.
One asks whether the village should use taxpayer money to ask the state to allow an additional gasoline tax for non-home rule communities, and another asks whether the village should place red light cameras at the intersection of 119th Street and Kedzie Avenue. The third asks whether the village should attempt to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation centers in all districts except those zoned industrial.
Voters in Orland Hills will be asked whether the village’s non-home rule sales tax rate, now at 0.75 percent, should be raised to 1 percent to fund infrastructure projects and to provide property tax relief.
Two advisory questions are on the ballot in Orland Park.
One asks whether the village should impose a new monthly charge of no more than $2 on residents’ garbage bills for on-call pickup of waste such as electronics, batteries and other hard-to-recycle items. The second asks whether the village should enter into a public-private partnership to build and maintain an outdoor multi-use sports facility.
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