Area voters to consider propositions Tuesday

Tuesday’s Consolidated Election is quickly approaching and voters in Livingston County have different propositions to consider.

The Cornell Community Consolidated School District 426 will have a proposition to increase the limiting rate asking if the rate under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law be increased by an additional amount equal to 0.27905% above the limiting rate for school purposes for levy year 2023 and be equal to 3.80545% of the equalized assessed value of the taxable property therin for levy year 2025.

Sullivan Township will ask voters to authorize a new tax rate and increase the limiting rate. This is to levy a new tax for cemetery fund purposes and have an additional tax of .05% of the equalized assessed value of the taxable property therin extended for such purposes. The limiting rate questions asks of the rate, under the Property Tax Extension Law, be increased by an additional amount equal to .05% above the limiting rate for purposes of providing control and maintenance of township cemeteries for levy year 2025 and for levy years thereafter.

Voters in the Prairie Central district will decide if the school should build and equip an elementary school building, alter, repair and equip the Prairie Central high School, Junior High School and Upper Elementary buildings, improve sites and issue bonds to the amount of $38,000,000 for the purpose of paying the costs thereof.

There are several other races throughout the county for voters to consider.

Chatsworth will choose a town president. Those running include Richard Runyon and Michael Ifland. In Flanagan, four are running for three spots as village trustee, including Kim Wargo, Allison Gray, Kristy Dodge and Terrance Sullivan. In Forrest, five are running for three spots as village trustee, including Ronald Steidinger, Robert Haab, Brittany Steidinger, Keith Beal and Brad Brucker.

In Reddick, William T. O’Brien and Christopher Smith are running for village president while four are running for three spots as village trustee including Mathew Bollino, Gail Joyce, Ryan Joyce and Jason Alling. In Fayette Township, there is a race between Mark Yoder and Matthew Steidinger for highway commissioner. Long Point Township voters will vote for Jodene Ruff or Shari Berry for township clerk and for township highway commissioner, one of the following: Matthew Mance, Brian Ruff or Randy Finck.

Newtown Township has a highway commissioner race between Jacob Medema and Joseph Donald Highland. Pleasant Ridge Township candidates for highway commissioner include Derek Stephens and Anthony Brown. Robin Bohm and Jeremy Haas are running for Pontiac Township highway commissioner.

Two are running for multi-township assessor in Newtown and Reading townships, including Denetra Grimwood and Sharon Fulkerson. In the El Paso Gridley School District, four are running for three seats, including Nathan Hodel, Theresa Miller, Bradley Wayne Griffin and Benjamin Kingdon. In the PBL district, five are running for four spots on the board, including Jason Dirks, Dawn Bachtold, Jason Rust, Craig Loschen and Christine Johnson.

Nine candidates are running for four spots on the Prairie Central Board of Education, including Amanda Kester, Ashley Fehr, John Wilken, Jared Donley, Brian Plenert, Michael Reiners, Andrew Jolly, Dalton Campbell and Joe Moreland.

Six are running for four seats on the Cornell Community Consolidated School District 426 Board of Education, including Marilea Groves, Mark Wichman, Jacob Jones, Philip Kelly, Troy Hart and Samuel Trainor. For the Dwight Common School District 232, those running for four seats on the board include Ryan Kodat, Timothy Misener, Lori Bowman, Brad Hansen and Marc Ellis.

Five are running for three seats on the Streator Township High School District 40 board including Matthew Blakemore, Gary Wargo, Kimberly Ann Zavada, Richard Tutoky and Megan Black. Three are running for two seats for trustees of Illinois Central Community College District 514 including Gale Thetford, Christine Bare-Kemper, Diana Unes-Lamb and Kim Armstrong.

Six candidates are running for three spots on the Joliet Junior College District 525 board including Maureen Flanagan Broderick, Elaine Bottomley, Nancy Garcia, Timothy John Broderick, Robert Wunderlich and Timothy Bradley. Four are running for three spots on the Heartland Community College District 540 board including David Selzer, Janet Hood, Thomas Whitt and Laurie Bergner.

For anyone not currently registered to vote or who has moved, the registration period is closed, according to the Livingston County Clerk’s Office. In order to vote in the upcoming election, people are still able to cast a vote during the Grace Period if he or she comes to the historic courthouse with two forms of ID, one of which must show the person’s current name and address. No one can be registered without the two forms of ID. The person will first be registered then have them vote at the same time.

Grace period voting is underway through election day itself but officials do not suggest waiting until April 1 because they expect many people may want to make sure of that option and the process takes some time, potentially resulting in lines.

Polling places will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday.