Elections Division
September 2009 Proposals
Barton Hills Village
1. Shall the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended so that the
language throughout the Charter is gender neutral?
__YES __NO
2. Shall section 1.1 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to state that the Village boundaries shall be those as originally
incorporated subject to any subsequent annexations and detachments and to
provide that the Village Clerk shall keep available in the Clerk's office an
official description of the Village's current boundaries?
__YES __NO
3. Shall section 3.3 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to eliminate the creation of a vacancy in the office of Village Trustee if a
Trustee misses four consecutive Board of Trustees meetings or 25 percent of
the meetings in a fiscal year?
__YES __NO
4. Shall section 3.5 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to reflect the applicability of the Open Meetings Act to the meetings of the
Village Board of Trustees?
__YES __NO
5. Shall sections 3.2 and 4.3 of the Barton Hills Village charter be
restated to reflect the requirements of current state law and Village Board
of Trustees resolution of November 15, 2004, as amended on June 25, 2005,
providing for the election of 9 Village Trustees for the staggered four year
terms with four or five Trustees (depending on the number of terms
expiring) being elected every two years at the Village election in
September of each odd numbered year?
__YES __NO
6. Shall section 3.4 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to provide that the Village Board of Trustees, at its organization meeting
held each September, shall elect from their number a Village President and a
Village president pro tem and to delete the current provision for this
election to take place in May of each year?
__YES __NO
7. Shall section 3.6 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to require the affirmative vote of at least 5 of the 9 Village Trustees to
adopt an ordinance, make an appropriation or incur an obligation?
__YES __NO
8. Shall section 4.4 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to reflect the requirement of current state law that nominating petitions of
candidates for office of Village Trustee shall be filed with the Village
Clerk not later than 4:00 p.m. on the twelfth Tuesday before the September
Village election?
__YES __NO
9. Shall section 4.5 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
by deleting the provision that permits the filing of an amended nominating
petition by a candidate after the filing deadline for the office of Village
Trustee if the Village Clerk finds that the candidate's petitions do not
contain the required number of signatures?
__YES __NO
10. Shall section 4.5 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to reflect the requirement of current state law that a candidate for the
office of Village Trustee may withdraw by filing a signed statement to that
effect with the Village Clerk not later than 4:00 p.m. of the third day
after the last day for filing the nominating petition?
__YES __NO
11. Shall section 4.8 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to reflect the state law provision for the County Board of Canvassers to
canvass Village elections and to delete the section's provision specifying
certain duties of a Village board of canvassers?
__YES __NO
12. Shall section 4.9 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to delete the provision for counting ballots by Village election inspectors,
their reporting of the results to the Village Clerk, and the role of the
Clerk in reviewing the election returns and notifying the prevailing
candidates of their election and to provide instead that the Clerk shall
perform all duties in connection with Village elections as are required by
the Michigan election law?
__YES __NO
13. Shall section 5.1 of the Village Charter be amended to authorize
the Clerk to appoint a Deputy Clerk?
__YES __NO
14. Shall section 5.2 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to reflect the state law requirement for a system of Village accounts of its
receipts and expenditures that conforms to a uniform system of accounts
required by law?
__YES __NO
15. Shall section 5.2 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to delete the requirement that the Village Treasurer obtain the approval of
the Village President to make payments out of the Village treasury of
appropriated funds?
__YES __NO
16. Shall section 6.6 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to authorize the Village Board of Trustees to provide penalties for
ordinance violations of fines up to $500 and/or imprisonment of up to 90
days, or such longer period as permitted by law up to 93 days?
__YES __NO
17. Shall sections 7.2 and 7.4 of the Barton Hills Village Charter
be amended to provide that the proposed annual budget shall be submitted to
the Board of Trustees in March (rather than April) and that the budget be
adopted in May?
__YES __NO
18. Shall section 7.8 be added to the Barton Hill Village Charter to
provide that, except for purchases of supplies and services as permitted by
ordinance, all Village contracts must be approved by the Village Board of
Trustees and signed by the Village President and Village Clerk?
__YES __NO
19. Shall section 8.9 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be amended
to provide that the Treasurer shall turn over to the county treasurer for
collection all taxes that remain unpaid on March 1 of each year?
__YES __NO
20. Shall section 12.3 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be
deleted? (This section which provides that the Village Board of
Trustees shall serve as a Board of Health is no longer enforceable because
that function has been assigned to other agencies by state law.)
__YES __NO
21. Shall section 12.9 of the Barton Hills Village Charter be
amended to increase the fine for violation of provisions of the Village
Charter from $100 to $500?
__YES __NO
22. Shall section 12.10 be added to the Barton Hills Village Charter
to reflect the applicability of the Freedom of Information Act to records of
the Village?
__YES __NO
23. Shall the Village Charter be amended by deleting Chapter 13
which contains only temporary provisions regarding the original
incorporation of the Village?
__YES __NO
