California General Election Ballot, Tuesday November 6, 2018 - Candidate & Ballot Measure Voter Guide

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...

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Proposition 2 — Mental Health Housing Program

Passing7,662,528 votes yes (63.4%)4,417,327 votes no (36.6%)

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...

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Proposition 3 — Water Bonds

Failing5,879,836 votes yes (49.3%)6,034,991 votes no (50.7%)

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...

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Proposition 4 — Children’s Hospital Bonds

Passing7,551,298 votes yes (62.7%)4,494,143 votes no (37.3%)

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.

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Proposition 5 — Property Tax Rules

Failing4,813,251 votes yes (40.2%)7,152,993 votes no (59.8%)

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...

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Proposition 6 — Transportation Taxes and Fees

Failing5,283,222 votes yes (43.2%)6,952,081 votes no (56.8%)

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.

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Proposition 7 — Daylight Saving Time

Passing7,167,315 votes yes (59.7%)4,828,564 votes no (40.3%)

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...

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Proposition 8 — Kidney Dialysis Clinics

Failing4,845,264 votes yes (40.1%)7,247,917 votes no (59.9%)

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...

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Proposition 10 — Local Governments and Rent Control

Failing4,949,543 votes yes (40.6%)7,251,443 votes no (59.4%)

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...

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Proposition 11 — Ambulance Employee Breaks

Passing7,181,116 votes yes (59.6%)4,861,831 votes no (40.4%)

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.

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Proposition 12 — Farm Animal Cages

Passing7,551,434 votes yes (62.7%)4,499,702 votes no (37.3%)

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...

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Measure P

Failing3,983 votes yes (48.82%)4,175 votes no (51.18%)

To allow approximately $2,325,000 annually for unrestricted general revenue purposes such as police, fire, paramedics, parks, and senior services while stabilizing electric utility rates, shall an ordinance be adopted authorizing a transfer not to exceed 7.5% of annual electric utility gross revenues...

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Measure N

Passing5,031 votes yes (61.29%)3,178 votes no (38.71%)

To add between $644,800 and $1,289,600 annually for unrestricted general revenue purposes such as police, fire, paramedics, parks, roads, senior programs, and other municipal services, shall a measure imposing a commercial cannabis cultivation tax (set at $15 per square foot of canopy space and potentially...

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Measure O

Passing5,062 votes yes (61.9%)3,116 votes no (38.1%)

To add between $1,168,800 and $1,558,400 in funding annually for unrestricted general revenue purposes such as police, fire, paramedics, parks and recreation, road improvements, capital maintenance, senior and youth programs, and other general municipal services, shall a measure imposing a 10% tax on...

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Measure Q

Passing13,918 votes yes (76.56%)4,261 votes no (23.44%)

To improve general City services, such as police/emergency response, parks, youth/senior services, and street repair, shall the City of Palm Desert enact a general tax on cannabis businesses of up to $20 per square foot for cultivation; up to 3% of gross receipts for cannabis manufacturing; and up to...

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Measure R

Passing4,768 votes yes (56.55%)3,663 votes no (43.45%)

To keep Norco "Norco," continue protecting Norco's unique animal-keeping lifestyle, avoid further infrastructure deterioration, continue restoring and maintaining local streets, trails, facilities, equestrian amenities and parks, and prevent additional cuts to police, fire and emergency medical services;...

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Measure S

Passing3,507 votes yes (76.86%)1,056 votes no (23.14%)

To continue life safety services/911 emergency response times; preserve local control; prevent cuts to sheriff's deputies, firefighters/paramedics; keep Canyon Lake Fire Station open; and other essential City services, shall Ordinance No. 177 be adopted continuing the existing, voter-approved 3.95% utility...

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Measure T

Passing17,298 votes yes (52.56%)15,616 votes no (47.44%)

To maintain the City of Murrieta's long-term finances, provide funding for general services including faster response times to 911 emergencies, improved fire protection/paramedic services, increase police to strengthen crime prevention, reduce gang activity/ drug crimes, graffiti removal, and parks and...

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Measure U

Failing1,814 votes yes (36.1%)3,211 votes no (63.9%)

Shall the Measure to select the Mayor of the City of Desert Hot Springs City Council annually for a one-year term with the procedure for rotation to be adopted by ordinance of the City Council, and all City Council seats to be a four-year term commencing in the year 2020 be adopted?

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Measure V

Passing2,587 votes yes (51.18%)2,468 votes no (48.82%)

Shall the Measure to have a directly-elected Mayor by the people of Desert Hot Springs be a four-year term, rather than the current two-year term, with the directly-elected Mayor having a term limit of two terms, commencing in the year 2020 be adopted?

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Measure Y

Failing7,726 votes yes (37.16%)13,066 votes no (62.84%)

Shall the privately proposed measure be adopted allowing an unlimited number of non-retail cannabis businesses in manufacturing zones without a city-issued discretionary approval, subject to limited separation requirements, giving certain cannabis business operators priority over others in establishing...

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Measure Z

Passing10,838 votes yes (52.35%)9,866 votes no (47.65%)

Shall the City-sponsored measure be adopted establishing a tax on cannabis businesses at the maximum rates of 25% of gross revenues or $30 / square foot of cultivation space, which will apply to illegally operating businesses and, if action is taken after December 31, 2020 to permit cannabis businesses,...

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Measure AA

Passing5,921 votes yes (58.67%)4,171 votes no (41.33%)

Shall the measure establishing a one-cent sales tax providing approximately $1,700,000 annually until ended by voters; requiring financial audits, citizen's oversight, all funds for Wildomar, be adopted?

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Measure G

Passing8,146 votes yes (71.64%)3,224 votes no (28.36%)

Shall the measure known as the COMMERCIAL MARIJUANA DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS TAX MEASURE, estimated to annually collect approximately $2.3 million from commercial marijuana distribution and manufacturing operations (through a maximum tax rate of ten cents for each $1 of proceeds), to...

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Measure H

Passing8,702 votes yes (76.64%)2,652 votes no (23.36%)

Shall the measure, establishing a lifetime term limit of three (3) terms served as an elected official in the City of Perris, including Mayor, member of the City Council, and City Clerk, in which the terms served by a person elected or appointed to one elected office shall not be aggregated with terms...

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Measure I

Failing12,390 votes yes (44.44%)15,493 votes no (55.56%)

Shall the ordinance providing for (1) the election of an at-large Mayor to two year term in 2020, (2) the elimination of the at-large Mayor office in 2022, and (3) the creation of a fifth City Council district in 2022, be adopted?

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Measure J

Failing8,162 votes yes (28.8%)20,175 votes no (71.2%)

Shall Ordinance 2018-XXX, eliminating term limits applicable to the City Council members of the City of Menifee, and to the Mayor of the City of Menifee, be adopted?

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Measure K

Passing1,625 votes yes (73.1%)598 votes no (26.9%)

To maintain general City services such as police and fire protection, street operations and maintenance, and community activities including Indian Wells Golf Resort, shall the Indian Wells Municipal Code be amended to increase the Transient Occupancy (Hotel) Tax rate from 11.25% to 12.25% of rent charged...

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Measure L

Passing11,214 votes yes (53.9%)9,590 votes no (46.1%)

Shall the ordinance which legalizes retail cannabis sales and commercial cannabis activity in certain zones, imposes operational requirements, and imposes an annual general tax of up to $25 per square foot of space used for retail cannabis sales and up to $3 per square foot for space used for other commercial...

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Measure M

Passing29,286 votes yes (74.1%)10,238 votes no (25.9%)

Shall an ordinance be adopted maintaining safe, clean public areas/improving local services including neighborhood police patrols, fire, 911 response; gang, youth violence prevention, after-school programs; combat robberies/burglaries; repair potholes; unrestricted general revenue purposes; by establishing...

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Measure W

Passing25,924 votes yes (55.89%)20,463 votes no (44.11%)

To contstruct a high school for Menifee, additional classrooms at high schools serving Perris, Romoland, and Nuevo, relieve severe overcrowding, improve our schools, student safety, college readiness, access to math, science, engineering, technology, skilled trades, repair, acquire, construct classrooms/labs/equipment/facilities,...

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Measure X

Passing23,569 votes yes (63.85%)13,345 votes no (36.15%)

To improve neighborhood school safety/security; upgrade academic, science, technology, engineering, math, vocational classrooms/labs; repair deteriorating plumbing, roofs, electrical systems; remove asbestos/lead paint; shall Hemet Unified School District issue $150 million in bonds at legal rates, an...

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Measure BB

Passing44,063 votes yes (80.6%)10,603 votes no (19.4%)

In order to expand access to healthcare providers and services and help connect residents to programs through community-based organizations across all of the Coachella Valley, shall there be an annexation to expand the Desert Healthcare District's service area to include all of the cities of Palm Desert...

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Measure E

Passing1,825 votes yes (62.29%)1,105 votes no (37.71%)

To improve the quality of education; modernize outdated classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; make health, safety, and security improvements; and construct a new barn/agricultural rehabilitation center; shall the Palo Verde Unified School District issue $24,800,000 of bonds at legal interest rates,...

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Measure CC

Passing109,569 votes yes (63.18%)63,850 votes no (36.82%)

To upgrade classrooms, labs, Veterans Center, career counseling/job training facilities for science, engineering, nursing, industrial careers; improve student safety, access to affordable, high quality education; repair, construct/acquire classrooms, facilities, sites, equipment, shall San Bernardino...

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