May 8, 2012 AAPS Technology Millage Special Election
The May 8 Special Election is the next election in the City of Ann Arbor. All City polling places will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
The last day to register to vote for the May 8 Election was Monday, April 9, 2012. Please call the City Clerk at 734-794-6140 for more information or to check the status of your voter registration in the City.
Current Precinct Polling Place Updated List (pdf)
Avoid the lines on Election Day! If you meet one of the following criteria, you are eligible to appy for an absentee ballot:
- 60 years of age or older
- absent from the community on Election Day
- physically unable to vote at the polls without assistance of another person
- unable to attend the polls because of religious beliefs
- appointed a pollworker in a precinct other than your own
- confined to jail awaiting trial or arraignment
Call the City Clerk for more information about absentee ballots or complete the attached request form and return it to the City Clerk at PO Box 8647, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, email: cityclerk@a2gov.org; or fax: 734-994-8296.
Absentee ballot application form (pdf)
All returned absentee ballot envelopes are sent to the precincts on Election Day for processing and tabulation. Your absentee ballot is counted in your assigned ward and precinct, or at an absent voter counting board, along with all of the in-person votes cast on that day!
City residents can check their voter registration status on the web by accessing the Secretary of State's voter information center at www.Michigan.gov/vote.
Ann Arbor Public Schools (1 Proposal)
TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS BOND PROPOSAL
Shall the Public Schools of the City of Ann Arbor, County of Washtenaw, Michigan, borrow the principal sum of not to exceed Forty-Five Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars ($45,855,000) and issue its unlimited tax general obligation bonds for the purpose of defraying the cost of making the following improvements:
• acquiring and installing instructional technology and technology infrastructure and equipment in the School District; and
• associated remodeling, equipping, furnishing, reequipping and refurnishing of existing School District buildings?
The estimated millage to be levied in 2012 to service this issue of bonds is .48 mill ($.48 per $1,000 of taxable value) and the estimated simple average annual millage rate required to retire the bonds of this issue is .51 mill ($.51 per $1,000 of taxable value). The bonds may be issued in multiple series, payable in the case of each series in not to exceed 11 years from the date of issue of such series. The debt millage levy required to retire all bonds of the School District currently outstanding and proposed by this ballot proposal is currently estimated to be at or below 2.60 mills.
(Under state law, bond proceeds may not be used to pay teacher or administrator salaries, routine maintenance costs or other School District operating expenses.)