Marotta v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

I respectfully dissent from most of the majority’s holdings, for although the District has evidently succeeded thus far in the delicate political art of obtaining money from the taxpayer without disturbing the voter, I decline the offer to let the matter glide ever so blithely by this court.

The District’s budgeting process takes place prior to the budget year, and the levy of the tax is generally made 18 months later; accordingly, as the majority indicate, the District’s 1983 budget was adopted on December 9, 1982, and amended December 16, 1982, and its 1983 tax levy was extended by the…