City of Eau Claire Citizens' Advisory Healthcare Action Committee Referendum: Create a citizen healthcare committee by ordinance
What does this measure do?
Creates a city committee to study local health care access and costs and publish advice every two years. It can only make suggestions and cannot change laws or prices; the city has not published any cost to taxpayers.
Proposed by: Citizen petition by Community Action Wisconsin (new local organizing group); sent to ballot by City Council
A new grassroots group that calls itself a partnership of residents, community leaders and organizations. Its funders are not reported. It wants the city to write a plan to make health care cheaper.
Source: wispolitics.com
A YES vote means
The city adds a law creating a 7-member advisory committee, with at least 5 city residents. It studies health care access and costs and issues a report with suggestions every two years.
A NO vote means
No health care advisory committee is created, and the petition's proposed city law does not take effect.
No financial records found for this ballot measure.
Sources: weau.com2 · docs.legis.wisconsin.gov · volumeone.org · communityactionwi.org
Sources: myvote.wi.gov · weau.com