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Former mayor presents petition to curb water bills and property taxes; city cites Attorney General opinion on timing
Summary
Former Mayor Marlon Hawkinson presented an initiated ordinance petition seeking to cap water bills and property taxes at 2018 levels; commissioners heard that an Attorney General opinion finds petition signatures must be gathered within one year and that the petitioners did not meet that deadline.
Former Mayor Marlon Hawkinson told the Bismarck City Commission he and petition organizers gathered roughly 1,600 signatures for an initiated ordinance that would freeze water bills and property-tax and utility rates at their 2018 dollar amounts unless citizens vote otherwise.
"This is an initiated ordinance ... no increases in existing or new taxes and or fees or special assessments shall be permitted unless the vote of the citizens," Hawkinson…
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