UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM) – Voters were in an approving mood along the Lakeshore on Tuesday, as all 12 proposals on the May 4, 2021 ballot involving Allegan & Ottawa county-based schools and municipal entities passed.
The only two measures that didn’t get at least 60 percent approval was Zeeland Schools’ $75 million bond proposal, which passed with 59.7% of the vote (2,287-1,545), and Allegan Schools’ $87.5 million bond proposal, which passed with 54.1% of the vote (1,308-1,107).
The other issues went this way:
Holland Public Schools’ $74.6 million bond proposal: 73.4% yes (3,534-1,282)
Macatawa Area Express five-year, .4-mill renewal proposal: 82% yes (5,981-1,311)
Grand Haven Township $6.1 million park bond proposal: 64% yes (1,972-1,110)
Grand Haven Township nearly 1-mill harbor transit/street renewal: 68.2% yes (2,104-980)
Grand Haven Township .25-mill Four Pointes Center renewal: 68.7% yes (2,049-935)
Ferrysburg 10-year, .5 mill motorized equipment proposal: 68.5% yes (387-178)
West Ottawa Public Schools’ 18-mill non-homestead renewal: 72.1% yes (3,998-1,547)
Zeeland Public Schools’ 18-mill non-homestead renewal: 72.8% yes (2,791-1,044)
Hudsonville Public Schools’ 18-mill non-homestead renewal: 70.5% yes (3,489-1,457)
Grand Haven Area Public Schools’ 18-mill non-homestead renewal: 72.5% yes (4,904-1,044)
A planned city charter amendment question for the City of Fennville, which would have raised the tax levy ceiling from 15 mills to 20 mills, was pulled a month ago by the Fennville City Council.
According to the office of Ottawa County Clerk/Register of Deeds Justin Roebuck, 16% of eligible voters in the municipalities staging elections came to the polls. The office of his counterpart in Allegan County, Bob Genetski, said that 17.3% of the eligible voters in the Allegan Public Schools district cast ballots on Tuesday.
The results will be certified by the two counties’ individual Board of Canvassers later this month before they are declared official.
