Question 1 - Lake County Veterans Affairs Program Millage Renewal Proposal

For the purposes of continuing funding for services and programs for Lake County veterans of United States military service and their dependents, including providing funding for the maintenance and operations of the Lake County Department of Veterans Affairs, and for the payment of eligible indigent veteran claims, shall the previously voter authorized increase of the constitutional limitation imposed under Article IX, Sec. 6 of the Michigan Constitution upon the total amount of taxes which may be assessed in one (1) year upon all taxable property within the County of Lake, Michigan, and that has been reduced by the Headlee Amendment to .0970 mill, be renewed in an amount not to exceed .0970 mill ($.0970 per $1,000 of taxable value) and the County authorized to levy this millage for a period of six (6) years (2025-2030) inclusive? (If approved and levied in full, this millage will raise an estimated $74,920 for veteran's services in the first calendar year of the levy based on taxable value. In accordance with State law, a portion of the revenue collected may be disbursed to the Village of Baldwin Downtown Development Authority)