Local voters deciding fate of issues, candidates

Election 97

Phillis Engelbert gets some help from her 2-year-old son, Ryan Shea, placing a ballot into the vote-counting machine at Ann Arbor's Northside Elementary School this morning. At stake are two parks millage issues and City Council races in each ward.

Local voters deciding fate of issues, candidates

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If you haven’t yet voted, you have until 8 p.m. to get to the polls - that is, if there is an election where you live. Today is election day in Ann Arbor, Saline, Milan and Belleville.

Voters also will head to the polls in Livingston County and South Lyon.

Check your voter registration card for your polling location.

Ann Arbor voters will elect five City Council members, one in each ward, from among 10 candidates. The seats are two-year terms paying $8,800 a year. They will also decide two parks ballot issues: Proposal A is the parks maintenance and repair millage at 0.4725 mills for five years; Proposal B is the $1.7 million Leslie Science Center bond, or 0.14 mills for five years.

Milan voters will elect a mayor in an uncontested race and three council members from a field of six candidates.

Saline voters will choose three council members from five candidates.

Belleville voters will elect two city council members from a field of six candidates.

South Lyon voters will elect a mayor, in an uncontested race, and two council members from three candidates.

Livingston County voters go to the polls today to decide on a proposal to fund the 911 program after the county takes over the program from the state police on Jan. 1, 1999. If passed, county residents and businesses would pay a surcharge of up to $3 a month per line on their telephone bill.

In Livingston County, Green Oak Township voters also will decide on a library millage, and city council candidates are on ballots in Brighton and Howell.