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- Measure K.
Maintaining Excellence Act 2004 Tax
-- Petaluma Joint Union High School District
(Parcel Tax - 2/3 Approval Required)
22,119 /
68.0% Yes votes ......
10,386 /
32.0% No votes
21,989
(68.0%) Yes / 10,330 (32.0%) No in Sonoma County
130
(69.89%) Yes / 56 (30.11%) No in Marin County
- To keep school libraries open, restore smaller class sizes
grades 7-12, restore and maintain computer and
technology programs, maintain music and fine art
programs, and provide necessary educational programs
and materials to the extent funds are available, shall the Petaluma Joint Union High School District be authorized to levy a $50
annual parcel tax for four years, beginning July 1, 2005 with
annual citizens' oversight committee, exempting parcels owned
and occupied by persons 65 years of age or over?
- Measure L.
Improvement Bond of 2004
-- Liberty School District
(55% of the Voters Who Vote Approval Required)
618 /
64.4% Yes votes ......
341 /
35.6% No votes
- To provide funds to construct a multi-purpose room for use
by the school and the Liberty Valley community, including
for assembly, dining and athletics, and to upgrade
technology and communications at Liberty Elementary
School, shall the Liberty School District issue $1,920,000 in
bonds at interest rates within the legal limit, with no money for
teacher or administrator salaries or operating expenses, and shall
the District establish a Citizens' Oversight Committee to monitor
all expenditures?
- Measure M.
Quarter Cent Sales Tax
-- County of Sonoma
(2/3 of Voters Voting Aprroval Required)
140,557 /
67.2% Yes votes ......
68,671 /
32.8% No votes
- To
maintain local streets, fix potholes, accelerate widening
Highway 101, improve interchanges, restore and enhance
transit, support development of passenger rail, and build
safe bike/pedestrian routes, shall the Sonoma County Transportation
Authority be authorized to levy a 1/4 cent retail transactions
and use tax for a period not to exceed 20 years, spend money
raised by the tax on the projects proposed, and issue bonds to
finance the projects?
- Measure N.
Article XXXIV Housing
-- Unincorporated Area
(Majority Approval Required)
34,462 /
51.7% Yes votes ......
32,177 /
48.3% No votes
- Without increasing local taxes, and in a manner consistent
with Sonoma County's General Plan and zoning ordinance,
shall public bodies be authorized to develop,
construct, or acquire housing units affordable to low income
persons, including elderly and disabled persons, within
the County's unincorporated area, either directly or by assisting
private projects, in an annual amount not exceeding one-half of
one percent (1/2%) of the housing units existing in the unincorporated
area in that year?
- Measure O.
Quarter Cent Sales Tax
-- City of Santa Rosa
(2/3 Approval Required)
41,315 /
70.2% Yes votes ......
17,513 /
29.8% No votes
- To 1) improve and expand Santa
Rosa Fire, Police and Paramedic services; 2) combat
gang violence, and 3) expand crime prevention and
after-school youth programs, shall Santa Rosa voters approve a
1/4 cent public safety sales tax, expiring in twenty years, with
annual public reports by a citizen oversight committee assuring
that funds are expended only for these purposes?
- Measure P.
Retail Business Uses
-- City of Cotati
(Majority Approval Required)
1,301 /
38.7% Yes votes ......
2,057 /
61.3% No votes
- Shall the voters of the City of Cotati adopt a measure to
restrict retail business uses in Cotati?
- Measure Q.
Transient Occupancy Tax
-- City of Healdsburg
(Majority Approval Required)
3,674 /
71.7% Yes votes ......
1,452 /
28.3% No votes
- Shall the City of Healdsburg be authorized to increase the
existing hotel tax, paid by guests and collected by hotel
operators, from the current rate of 10% of the room rate to
amaximum of 12% of the room rate, with the revenue from
said increase being placed in the City's general fund, approximately
95% of which is allocated to police and fire protection
services in the current budget year?
- Measure R.
Campaign Finance
-- City of Petaluma
(Majority Approval Required)
15,458 /
66.4% Yes votes ......
7,833 /
33.6% No votes
- Shall the Petaluma Municipal Code Chapter 1.30 be amended
to revise existing mandatory limits on campaign contributions
to City Council and City Mayor candidates and revise
the existing mandatory public disclosure requirements?
- Measure S.
Advisory Measure
-- City of Petaluma
(Advisory Vote Only)
17,759 /
72.1% Yes votes ......
6,877 /
27.9% No votes
- Do you support urging the City Council to pursue the
design, environmental analysis, funding and construction
of a cross-town connector and interchange connecting
Petaluma Boulevard North with the intersection of Rainier
Avenue and North McDowell Boulevard?
- Measure T.
Community Sales Tax
-- City of Sebastopol
(Approval of a Majority of the Electorate Required)
2,779 /
68.0% Yes votes ......
1,306 /
32.0% No votes
- Shall the City increase the Sales Tax by 0.125% with the
proceeds of the tax to be deposited in the General Fund, to
be used for all general governmental needs of the City
including, but not limited to, capital equipment requirements,
fire protection, street maintenance, park maintenance,
and police services?
- Measure U.
Special Tax
-- Gold Ridge Fire Protection District
(2/3 Approval Required)
5,489 /
65.7% Yes votes ......
2,864 /
34.3% No votes
- Shall Ordinance No. 04-05-1-R of the Gold Ridge Fire Protection
District (i) authorizing it to impose and levy a new
special tax having a maximum rate of $40.00 per first
dwelling and $20 per additional dwelling for residential
property and $80 per first business and $40 per additional
business for commercial property to assist in meeting costs of
providing services and exercising other rights and powers, and (ii)
increasing appropriations limit to permit spending tax revenues
be approved?
- Measure V.
Special Tax
-- Windsor Fire Protection District
(2/3 Approval Required)
6,342 /
59.1% Yes votes ......
4,384 /
40.9% No votes
- Shall Windsor Fire Protection District Ordinance No.
2004-01 be approved (i) authorizing the District to impose
and levy a new special tax having a maximum rate
(subject to adjustment for inflation) of $112.00 per unit of
risk to assist in meeting the costs of providing authorized services
and exercising other rights and powers of the District, (ii)
increasing the District's appropriations limit to permit spending of
all proceeds of the new special tax, and (iii) repealing the District's
existing special tax?
- Measure W.
Parcel Tax
-- Palm Drive Health Care District
(2/3 Approval Required)
19,614 /
69.4% Yes votes ......
8,659 /
30.6% No votes
- To
ensure survival of Palm Drive Hospital and access to local
emergency, acute care, medical and physician services, and
provide for ongoing expenses, repair and improvements to
equipment and technology, shall Palm Drive Health Care District
repeal its existing tax and levy a special tax of up to $155.00 on each
taxable parcel in the District (excluding low value parcels) while
assuring independent fiscal oversight and financial accountability?
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