Santa Clara County, CA Ballot

Proposition 32 Veterans� Bond Act of 2000
6,709,560 / 67.2% Yes votes ...... 3,278,248 / 32.8% No votes: This act provides for a bond issue of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) to provide farm and home aid for California veterans. Fiscal Impact: Costs of about $858 million over 25 years (average cost of about $34 million per year); costs paid by participating veterans.
Proposition 33 Legislature. Participation In Public Employees� Retirement System
3,791,715 / 39.0% Yes votes ...... 5,941,814 / 61.0% No votes: Allows legislative members to participate in the Public Employees� Retirement System plans in which a majority of state employees may participate. Fiscal Impact: Annual state costs under $1 million to provide retirement benefits to legislators, with these costs replacing other spending from the fixed annual amount provided in support of the Legislature.
Proposition 34 Campaign Contributions and Spending. Limits. Disclosure
5,903,907 / 60.0% Yes votes ...... 3,933,949 / 40.0% No votes: Limits campaign contributions and loans to state candidates and political parties. Provides voluntary spending limits; expands public disclosure requirements and increases penalties. Fiscal Impact: Additional net costs to the state, potentially up to several million dollars annually, and unknown but probably not significant costs to local government.
Proposition 35 Public Works Projects. Use of Private Contractors for Engineering and Architectural Services.
5,442,138 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 4,428,702 / 44.9% No votes: Amends Constitution eliminating existing restrictions on state, local contracting with private entities for engineering, architectural services; contracts awarded by competitive selection; bidding permitted, not required. Fiscal Impact: Unknown impact on state spending for architectural and engineering services and construction project delivery. Actual impact will depend on how the state uses the contracting flexibility under the proposition.
Proposition 36 Drugs. Probation and Treatment Program
6,199,992 / 60.8% Yes votes ...... 3,991,153 / 39.2% No votes: Requires probation and drug treatment, not incarceration, for possession, use, transportation of controlled substances and similar parole violations, except sale or manufacture. Authorizes dismissal of charges after completion of treatment. Fiscal Impact: Net annual savings of $100 million to $150 million to the state and about $40 million to local governments. Potential avoidance of one-time capital outlay costs to the state of $450 million to $550 million.
Proposition 37 Fees. Vote Requirements. Taxes
4,579,981 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 4,963,684 / 52.0% No votes: Requires two-thirds vote of State Legislature, majority or two-thirds of local electorate to impose future state, local fees on activity to study or mitigate its environmental, societal or economic effects. Defines such fees as taxes except property, development, certain other fees. Fiscal Impact: Unknown, potentially significant, reduction in future state and local government revenues from making it more difficult to approve certain regulatory charges.
Proposition 38 School Vouchers. State-Funded Private and Religious Education Public School Funding.
3,085,457 / 29.5% Yes votes ...... 7,387,753 / 70.5% No votes: Authorizes annual state payments of at least $4000 per pupil for private/religious schools. Permits replacement of current constitutional public school funding formula. Fiscal Impact: Near-term state costs from zero to $1.1 billion annually. Long-term state impact from $2 billion in annual costs to $3 billion in annual savings, depending on how many public school students shift to private schools.
Proposition 39 School Facilities. 55% Local Vote. Bonds, Taxes Accountability Requirements.
5,402,822 / 53.3% Yes votes ...... 4,733,205 / 46.7% No votes: Authorizes bonds for repair, construction or replacement of school facilities, classrooms, if approved by 55% local vote. Fiscal Impact: Increased bond debt for many school districts. Long-term costs statewide could total in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Potential longer-term state savings to the extent school districts assume greater responsibility for funding school facilities.

Local Measures

Measure A Valley Transportation Authority 1/2 Cent Transit Sales Tax
357,866 / 70.6% Yes votes ...... 148,893 / 29.4% No votes

To:

Connect BART to Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara;
Build rail connection from San Jose Airport to BART, Caltrain, light rail;
Purchase vehicles for disabled access, senior safety, clean air buses;
Provide light rail throughout Santa Clara County;
Expand, electrify Caltrain;
Increase rail, bus service;

Shall Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority enact a � cent sales tax for 30 years beginning 4/1/06 when current tax expires, with annual audits published in local newspapers and an independent citizens watchdog committee?

Measure B Clean, Safe Creeks and Natural Flood Protection, Special Parcel Tax -- Santa Clara Valley Water District
322,279 / 66.9% Yes votes ...... 159,548 / 33.1% No votes

Shall the Santa Clara Valley Water District replace an expired program assessment with a special parcel tax, as provided in District Resolution No. 2000-44, to: protect homes, schools, businesses and roads from flooding and erosion; protect, enhance and restore healthy creek and bay ecosystems; provide additional open space trails and parks along creeks; and provide clean, safe water in our creeks and bays?

Measure C Merger of Mountain View and Whisman School Districts -- Proposed Mountain View/Whisman School District
12,698 / 77.2% Yes votes ...... 3,742 / 22.8% No votes

Merger of Mountain View School District and Whisman School District --Yes; Merger of Mountain View School District and Whisman School District -- No.

Measure D School Bonds -- Orchard School District
1,334 / 76.8% Yes votes ...... 403 / 23.2% No votes

In order to eliminate overcrowding resulting from increasing enrollment, accommodate class size reduction, construct, expand and acquire classrooms, modern science labs, high-tech computer labs, and other educational facilities, shall the Orchard School District maintain the current tax rate and issue $16 million in bonds at an interest rate not to exceed the legal limit?

Measure E Parcel Tax -- Los Altos School District
13,577 / 76.0% Yes votes ...... 4,276 / 24.0% No votes

Shall the existing authorization to exceed the Gann Appropriations Limit be continued for four additional years?

Measure F City Ordinance -- City of Campbell
8,294 / 74.5% Yes votes ...... 2,846 / 25.5% No votes

Should an Ordinance adding Section 2.04.160 - Term Limits - to the Campbell Municipal Code be adopted?

Measure G City Ordinance -- City of Saratoga
9,871 / 73.5% Yes votes ...... 3,554 / 26.5% No votes

Shall the City of Saratoga reaffirm and readopt an ordinance prohibiting until March 15, 2002 the approval of residential development projects on lands designated in the Saratoga General Plan as "Retail Commercial", "Professional Administrative", "Gateway Landscaping", or "Planned Development"?

Measure H Advisory Vote for Measure I -- City of Milpitas
9,634 / 73.4% Yes votes ...... 3,496 / 26.6% No votes

Shall Milpitas voters adopt an advisory measure advising the City Council that new funds from a voter approved increase in the Transient Occupancy Tax, which is a tax on the cost of hotel rooms paid only by the person renting the hotel room, be used to support construction of a new library, provide new books and educational software, enhance library services, and to support performing and visual arts programs?

Measure I Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Milpitas
7,515 / 59.0% Yes votes ...... 5,233 / 41.0% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted increasing the City of Milpitas transient occupancy tax, which is a tax on the cost of hotel rooms that is paid only by the person renting the room, from eight percent (8%) of the room rate charged to ten percent (10%) of the room rate charged?

Measure J Charter Amendment -- City of Palo Alto
10,903 / 46.1% Yes votes ...... 12,732 / 53.9% No votes

Shall Article III, Section 22 of the Charter of the City of Palo Alto be amended to permit the City Council to implement the City�s Comprehensive Plan by granting the Planning and Transportation Commission final decision making authority on specified matters; and to permit the City Council to update the City's planning and zoning laws by amending or repealing Initiative Ordinance No. 2090, which was effective July 23, 1962?

Measure K Greenline/Urban Growth Boundary -- City of San Jose
178,340 / 81.4% Yes votes ...... 40,771 / 18.6% No votes

Shall the Greenline/Urban Growth Boundary policies of the San Jose 2020 General Plan, which protect the City�s Greenbelt, hillsides and baylands from urban development, be adopted and affirmed with a requirement that they may only be repealed or amended by the voters of the City of San Jose?

Measure L Amendment to City Charter- Submission of Capital Improvement Program -- City of San Jose
144,312 / 75.3% Yes votes ...... 47,219 / 24.7% No votes

Amend City Charter to change time within which City Manager must submit to City Council a capital improvement program for next five fiscal years to at least thirty days prior to beginning of each fiscal year to allow capital improvement program to be submitted to Council at same time as City�s operating budget for the fiscal year and requiring Planning Commission to submit comments to program at least 10 days prior to Council hearing.

Measure M Amendment to City Charter- Bid Requirements Supplies, Materials, Equipment -- City of San Jose
115,680 / 61.4% Yes votes ...... 72,727 / 38.6% No votes

Shall Section 1217 of the San Jose City Charter be amended to remove the specific requirements for the purchase of supplies, materials and equipment from the charter and instead mandate that such bidding requirements be set forth in the Municipal Code?

Measure N Amendment to City Charter- Bid Requirements for Public Works -- City of San Jose
101,729 / 55.4% Yes votes ...... 81,771 / 44.6% No votes

Shall Section 1217 of the City Charter be amended to raise the limit for the bidding of public works projects from $50,000 to $100,000?

Measure O San Jose Neighborhood Libraries Bond -- City of San Jose
169,041 / 75.8% Yes votes ...... 54,022 / 24.2% No votes

To improve San Jose's neighborhood libraries and expand literacy and learning opportunities for children, families and seniors by: expanding and improving aging branch libraries to reduce noise, add parking, and add space for more books and computers; and building new libraries in neighborhoods throughout the City, shall the City issue $211,790,000 in bonds, at the best rates possible, with guaranteed annual audits, a citizen's oversight committee, and no money for library administrators' salaries?

Measure P San Jose Safe Neighborhood Parks and Recreation Bond -- City of San Jose
177,478 / 78.7% Yes votes ...... 47,926 / 21.3% No votes

To improve San Jose's neighborhood parks' safety and expand recreation opportunities for children, families and seniors, by: installing lighting, reconstructing deteriorating playgrounds and restrooms; preserving open space; constructing trails; constructing new recreational sports facilities; improving Community and Senior Centers; and constructing improvements to regional parks, like Happy Hollow shall the City issue $228,030,000 in bonds, at the best rates possible, with guaranteed annual audits, a citizen's oversight committee, and no money for parks administrators' salaries?

Measure Q Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Gilroy
4,601 / 45.5% Yes votes ...... 5,501 / 54.5% No votes

Shall the ordinance of the City of Gilroy authorizing the increase in the rate of the City�s existing Transient Occupancy Tax from 9% to 10% be approved?

Measure R Admission Tax -- City of Gilroy
2,589 / 25.4% Yes votes ...... 7,599 / 74.6% No votes

Shall the Admission Tax Ordinance of the City of Gilroy authorizing the enactment and imposition of a new general tax in the form of an admission tax of 5% of the Admission charge for certain events held within the City of Gilroy be approved?

Measure S Fluoridated Water -- City of Sunnyvale
25,053 / 65.3% Yes votes ...... 13,284 / 34.7% No votes

Shall the City of Sunnyvale accept fluoridated water from its water suppliers?

Measure T Ordinance No. 1 -- Burbank Sanitary District
415 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 378 / 47.7% No votes

Shall proposed initiative Ordinance No. 1, which would reestablish the position of secretary of the Burbank Sanitary District and would delineate certain duties of the position, be adopted?

Measure U Ordinance No. 2 -- Burbank Sanitary District
485 / 60.1% Yes votes ...... 322 / 39.9% No votes

Should proposed initiative Ordinance No. 2, which would establish specified rules and procedures for operation of the Burbank Sanitary District Cleanup Program, be adopted?

Measure V Ordinance No. 3 -- Burbank Sanitary District
293 / 36.8% Yes votes ...... 504 / 63.2% No votes

Should proposed initiative Ordinance No. 3, which would require the Burbank Sanitary District to reimburse Winfred Powell, a former officer of the District, for services claimed to have been rendered and expenses claimed to have been incurred by Mr. Powell during the 1996-97 fiscal year(s), be approved?

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