Southern California voters reject most local tax increases

11-04-2010

By Jean Merl/Los Angeles Times

Recession-weary voters rejected tax increases and bond proposals in many Southern California cities and school districts Tuesday, but a few measures in cash-strapped local governments defied the odds and won approval. School bond measures failed to muster the required 55% approval in such areas as Baker Valley, Claremont, Lynwood and the Mt. San Jacinto Community College District. But school bond measures passed in Anaheim, Big Bear Lake, Centinela Valley, Duarte, El Rancho, Magnolia, Rialto and Wiseburn. Proposals to increase parcel taxes to better fund schools, which needed a two-thirds vote to be approved, failed in Pomona and Ventura. Irvine voters, however, approved an advisory measure urging the city to continue to help out their school district. Voters in five Southern California counties also sent mixed messages on a variety of municipal spending measures. (more…)

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