Word: prop
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Many voters are eager Indian-givers, as shown by the overwhelming passage of Prop 2 1/2 state-wide 17 months ago. Now that property owners have taken back a significant portion of their tax contribution, they are not eager to open the way for continued high levies...
Here in Cambridge, voters defied the state-wide trend in 1980 and rejected Prop 2 1/2 by an almost 2-1 margin. If any Massachusetts community is likely to over-ride Prop 2 1/2, it is Cambridge, with its unusually informed electorate and progressive city council...
...despite the total lack of organized opposition to the referendum questions, it will be very difficult for pro-over-ride forces to match the impressive 1980 anti Prop 2 1/2 showing...
Local governments have four different options in asking voters for more money than otherwise allowed by Prop 2 1/2. Some municipalities placed on the ballot money requests for specific outlays, such as land purchase and building maintenance, some have asked voters to modify the terms of bonded indebtedness and others, like Cambridge have asked for a partial or total over ride of the tax cuts mandated by Proposition...
...preliminary budget prepared by the city manager indicates that if the city fails to totally over-ride Prop 2 1/2 cuts, the city would be forced to layoff 55 policemen, 54 firefighters, and 133 public works employees. A separate school budget shows that 91 teachers and 23 administrators would also lose their jobs...