Sacramento County, CA Ballot

Proposition 1 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Specified Housing Assistance Programs
Pass: 6,751,018 / 56.2% Yes votes ...... 5,258,157 / 43.8% No votes: Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over the next 35 years.
Proposition 2 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Existing Housing Program for Individuals with Mental Illness
Pass: 7,662,528 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,417,327 / 36.6% No votes: Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay up to $2 billion in bonds. These bonds would fund housing for those with mental illness who are homeless.
Proposition 3 Authorizes Bonds To Fund Projects for Water Supply and Quality, Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Water Conveyance, and Groundwater Sustainability and Storage
Fail: 5,879,836 / 49.3% Yes votes ...... 6,034,991 / 50.7% No votes: Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually over the next few decades.
Proposition 4 Authorizes Bonds Funding Construction at Hospitals Providing Children's Health Care
Pass: 7,551,298 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,494,143 / 37.3% No votes: Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years.
Proposition 5 Changes Requirements For Certain Property Owners to Transfer Their Property Tax Base to Replacement Property
Fail: 4,813,251 / 40.2% Yes votes ...... 7,152,993 / 59.8% No votes: Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar increase in state costs to backfill school property tax losses.
Proposition 6 Eliminates Certain Road Repair and Transportation Funding. Requires Certain Fuel Taxes and Vehicle Fees Be Approved By the Electorate
Fail: 5,283,222 / 43.2% Yes votes ...... 6,952,081 / 56.8% No votes: Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.
Proposition 7 Confirms California Daylight Saving Time to Federal Law. Allows Legislature to Change Daylight Saving Time Period
Pass: 7,167,315 / 59.7% Yes votes ...... 4,828,564 / 40.3% No votes: Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal government.
Proposition 8 Regulates Amounts Outpatient Kindney Dialysis Clinics Charge For Dialysis Treatment
Fail: 4,845,264 / 40.1% Yes votes ...... 7,247,917 / 59.9% No votes: Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of dollars to net negative impact in the tens of millions of dollars.
Proposition 10 Expands Local Governments' Authority to Enact Rent Control
Fail: 4,949,543 / 40.6% Yes votes ...... 7,251,443 / 59.4% No votes: Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions by local communities, revenue losses could be less or considerably more.
Proposition 11 Requires Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Employees to Remain On-Call During Work Breaks. Eliminates Certain Employer Liability
Pass: 7,181,116 / 59.6% Yes votes ...... 4,861,831 / 40.4% No votes: Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year.
Proposition 12 Establishes New Standards For Confinement of Specified Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Noncomplying Products
Pass: 7,551,434 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,499,702 / 37.3% No votes: Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State costs up to $10 million annually to enforce the measure.

Local Measures

Measure C Charter Amendment -- City of Folsom (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 23,364 / 79.05% Yes votes ...... 6,192 / 20.95% No votes: Shall the measure to impose term limits for City Councilmembers by amending the Folsom City Charter to require that after serving 4 consecutive 4-year terms, a City Councilmember is not eligible to run for the City Council or to be appointed to a vacancy unless a period of 4 consecutive years have elapsed since their last service on the City Council, be adopted? No new City powers will result from adoption of the Charter Amendment.
Measure D Campaign Contribution Limit -- City of Folsom (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 14,475 / 49.31% Yes votes ...... 14,881 / 50.69% No votes: Shall the measure to increase the limit on campaign contribution a person may contribute in support or opposition to a candidate for the Folsom City Council in an election, including contributions to candidate-controlled committees supporting or opposing such candidate, from the current amount of $150 to $500 be adopted?
Measure E Sales Tax -- City of Folsom (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 8,825 / 29.49% Yes votes ...... 21,101 / 70.51% No votes: Shall the measure to enact a 1/2 percent transaction and use tax (sales tax) for 10 years, providing approximately $8.4 million annually for general governmental purposes such as capital improvement projects for transportation and traffic improvements, parks, trails, and bike paths; promote economic development, fire, paramedic, police emergency response and crime prevention programs; and expand parks, recreation, senior, library, education, arts, cultural and historical programs, requiring independent audits, with funds remaining in Folsom, be adopted?
Measure G Office of the City Clerk -- City of Galt (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3,435 / 49.36% Yes votes ...... 3,524 / 50.64% No votes: Shall the office of the city clerk for the City of Galt be appointive?
Measure H School Bond -- Robla School District (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 2,678 / 68.35% Yes votes ...... 1,240 / 31.65% No votes: To modernize, construct and acquire classrooms and school facilities, replace portables and older schools with new permanent facilities, improve student safety, modern technology and classroom environments, and qualify for matching State grants, shall Robla Elementary School District issue $46,200,000 in bonds with legal interest rates, estimated annual repayments averaging $2.6 million through maturity, a projected rate of 5.8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, annual audits, an independent Citizens- Oversight Committee and no money for administrator salaries?"
Measure J Bonds -- Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 11,130 / 68.94% Yes votes ...... 5,014 / 31.06% No votes: To improve parks and recreation for children, families and senior citizens; protect open space; improve safety and security; repair park bathrooms; and upgrade, construct, renovate, and expand parks/facilities; shall Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District issue $26.9 million of bonds at legal rates, averaging $1.4 million annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 1.9 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, independent citizens' oversight, NO money for salaries and all money staying local?
Measure K Charter Amendment -- City of Sacramento (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 78,371 / 55.96% Yes votes ...... 61,678 / 44.04% No votes: Shall the measure amending the city charter adding the city auditor as a charter officer; combining duties of the city auditor and the independent budget analyst, as may be further prescribed by ordinance; repealing the city code related to the budget analyst; and amend the charter to allow city council to set an annual meeting calendar by resolution, be adopted?"
Measure L School Bond -- Natomas Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 16,545 / 68.15% Yes votes ...... 7,733 / 31.85% No votes: To enhance quality education in Natomas, increasing student safety/security, upgrading classrooms for 21st century learning and college/career readiness with technology/equipment, upgrading aging infrastructure/utilities and repairing/constructing facilities, shall Natomas Unified School District issue $172,000,000 of bonds with an estimated $11,000,000 in taxes raised annually on average for 32 years at maximum projected tax rates of 6¢ per $100 of assessed valuation with citizen oversight, annual audits and no money for administrators' salaries/pensions?
Measure U Sales Tax -- City of Sacramento (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 86,916 / 56.57% Yes votes ...... 66,725 / 43.43% No votes: Shall the measure to protect and enhance essential public safety services, including 9-1-1 response, fire protection, community neighborhood policing, and other essential services, including homeless supportive services, affordable housing, libraries, park maintenance, high-wage job promotion, and youth programming, by enacting a one-cent sales tax generating $95 million annually that is legally required to stay in the City's General Fund, until ended by voters, with independent annual financial audits and citizen oversight, be adopted?

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