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Most parcel taxes defeated this week
- 11-05-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald /Educated Guess
California voters continue to be generous when it comes to renovating and building schools. But at least in the latest election, they refused to spend any more money running them. Only two of 17 K-12 parcel taxes on Tuesday’s ballot got the two-thirds majority needed to pass, although a couple came excrutiatingly close. Even in usually parcel-tax friendly Silicon Valley, voters said no. The big ones that went down were San Diego Unified, with only 50 percent of voters backing a $98, five-year parcel tax; East Side Union High School District in San Jose, with 57 percent of voters backing a $98, six-year tax; and Oakland Unified, where an ambitious $195 tax came within a percentage point of the required 66.7 percent. The two parcel taxes that passed were in Berkeley, with 80 percent support for a $63, 10-year tax; and nearby Fremont Union, with 69 percent behind a modest $53, 5-year tax. If the threshold had been 55 percent, the same as needed to pass a construction bond, a dozen of the 18 parcel taxes would have passed. (more…)
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