What Issue 2 means for Portage and Summit counties

What Issue 2 means for Portage and Summit counties

- Staff Report

Millions of dollars in funding for regional public infrastructure projects hinge on the outcome of the May 6 election.

Issue 2 — a proposed constitutional amendment — would allow the state to issue general obligation bonds to help local governments pay for infrastructure improvements. It renews the State Capital Improvement Program, which was created in 1987 and renewed by voters three times.

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