The board negotiated the price down to $750,000 from $1.5 million, and the village passed a referendum to go forward.

Last year the town had to try three times to pass a referendum on $22 million for renovations at the high school.

Another referendum, passed in 1988, fixed the amount the state must spend for public education from kindergarten through community college.

They petitioned for and passed a referendum on an existing state law.

In 2000, voters passed a referendum that made more than $7 million available for purchasing development rights to farms.

After 2001, the city of Elmhurst passed a referendum to rebuild the school.

It is a dry town, where alcohol cannot be sold, as affirmed by a referendum passed in 1972.

The library district has tried once unsuccessfully to get a referendum passed in 2005 to expand the building and its services.

The township passed a $29 million referendum in 1998 for the new school and renovations to the existing schools.

In 2004, during his second term, 66 percent of the voters passed a referendum for a tax to build the Convention Center.