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Most of 13 parcel taxes passed
- 05-04-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
If the threshold for passing a parcel tax were 55 percent, as Sen. Joe Simitian and fellow Democrats in the Legislature favor, a baker’s dozen parcel taxes would have passed on Tuesday. Instead, four fell short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage, including two that came within 1 percentage point of winning. Simitian’s SCA 5 would let voters decide whether to lower the threshold for a parcel tax to the same level as required to pass a school construction bond. The proposed constitutional amendment has been in limbo for years, for lack of a handful of Republican legislators willing to agree to place the measure on a state ballot. But districts aren’t waiting for the Legislature to act. (more...)
Also: San Jose Mercury News
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