Monthly Archive for California
California Stories Posted in October 2007
Stamp Out Sprawl alternative on ballot? Board must decide
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
The supervisors are set to decide whether the "Stanislaus County Responsible Planning and Growth Control Initiative" should be put on the Feb. 5 ballot.
Proposed Hemet sales tax increase would boost public safety
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: The Press Enterprise
Voters could decide as soon as Feb. 5 whether to pay an additional 0.5 percent sales tax to hire more police officers, firefighters and paramedics.
Modesto council may change wording of City Hall measure
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
Modesto City Council members today can take another crack at adjusting a ballot measure designed to make them more accountable to voters, but this time with an eye on making the initiative as understandable as possible.
Term limits measure could bring back the past
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Sacramento Bee
A measure on the Feb. 5 ballot to alter term limits for California lawmakers may inadvertently open the door for dozens of termed-out Assembly members to return to their old seats in Sacramento, according to independent legal experts.
Seeking help for schools
Category: Education · State: California · Source: Santa Monica Daily Press
Voters to see parcel tax renewal on ballot
Ballot measure worth mulling
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: SGV Tribune
WHEN is an emergency not an emergency? When it's a tax, we suppose.
New Children’s Hospital Tax Measure Added to Ballot
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Berkeley Daily Planet
After what Supervisor Keith Carson said was “reluctantly” carrying out their legally-mandated duty to place a $12 million Children’s Hospital special tax initiative on the February ballot, Alameda County supervisors voted to place a second compromise measure on the ballot as well.
S.F. ballot measure would create center to help small businesses
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: San Fransisco Chronicle
When Mark Klaiman set out to add a second location for his Pet Camp kennel business, he had to deal with a half dozen offices of San Francisco city government. The City Planning Department. The Public Health Department. The Building Inspection Department. The Fire Department. The Public Works Department. Not to mention the urban forestry bureau within the Public Works Department.
City council's decision on property tax due Nov. 5
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Sierra Madre Weekly
The City Council will decide Nov. 5 whether to place a ballot measure before voters in February to protract and continue the city's utility user tax on telephone service. The tax, which is threatened by possible court action and changes in federal law, brings in about $10 million a year to the general fund.
Public meeting to focus on city hall ballot measure
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: Daily Pilot
A public forum tonight will lay the first bricks for what could be a heated community debate over a February ballot measure that would require Newport Beach’s city hall to be built next to the city’s central library.
Sabatino sues Modesto over voter education
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
Former Modesto Mayor Carmen Sabatino on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming a voter education program describing a November ballot measure was a ploy to undercut a campaign for district elections.
Transportation ballot measure will be a difficult balancing act
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Survey results show that task force members will need very different pitches to sell the measure to different areas of the county. And how they will put together a single measure remains to be seen.
Property-rights debate echoes across nation
Category: Property Rights · State: California Idaho Nevada Oregon Washington · Source: Statesman Journal
When Oregon voters approved Measure 37 three years ago, they sparked similar movements in other states.
Opinion: Mayor V's phone tax has phony ring to it
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: LA Daily News
Under Proposition 218, a unanimous City Council must approve the mayor's request to place an "emergency" ballot measure before the voters. Dennis Zine and Greig Smith were the holdouts until Tony V worked his magic behind closed doors
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