News on todays election from the Indianapolis Star

Today's special election is all about ballot questions, not candidates.

All registered voters in Marion County can vote today on whether to give the Marion County Health and Hospital Corp. -- which owns Wishard Memorial Hospital -- the authority to issue taxpayer-backed bonds to build a new $754 million hospital complex on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.

Find your polling location for today's special election
Recap of the debate on the Wishard bond vote

The Wishard question: The three-part ballot question, which was crafted by Health and Hospital Corp. officials, has no references to plans to build a new hospital. It focuses on whether Wishard will be able to continue its mission of providing indigent care and specialized care and serving as a teaching hospital.

Other ballot questions: Voters in the Franklin Township, Beech Grove and Perry Township school districts have referendum questions.

Franklin Township school district
Voters going to 25 of the 590 precincts will answer “yes” or “no” to two separate questions:

Question 1 reads, “For the next seven calendar years immediately following the holding of the referendum, shall the Franklin Township Community School Corporation impose a property tax rate that does not exceed thirty-three and one third cents ($0.333) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation and that is in addition to the school corporation’s normal tuition support tax rate?”

Question 2 reads, “For the next seven calendar years immediately following the holding of the referendum, shall the Franklin Township Community School Corporation impose a property tax rate that does not exceed sixteen and sixty-seven /one-thousandth cents ($0.1667) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation and that is in addition to the school corporation’s normal tuition support tax rate?”

Beech Grove school district
Voters going to 10 of the 590 precincts will be asked “yes” or “no” to this question:

“For the next seven calendar years immediately following the holding of the referendum, shall the Beech Grove City Schools impose a property tax rate that does not exceed thirty-five cents ($0.35) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation and that is in addition to the school corporation’s normal tuition support tax rate?”

Perry Township school district
Voters going to 60 of the 590 precincts will be asked “yes” or “no” to this question:

“Shall the Metropolitan School District of Perry Township, Marion County, Indiana, issue bonds or enter into a lease to finance the Building Futures Project—Initial Phase, which is estimated to cost not more than $98,885,000 and is estimated to increase the property tax rate for debt service by a maximum of $0.2641?”