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Bellflower Utility Users Tax, Measure A (November 2010)
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A City of Bellflower Utility Users Tax, Measure A ballot proposition was on the November 2, 2010 ballot for voters in the City of Bellflower in Los Angeles County.[1] It was defeated.
The utility users tax charged by Bellflower was 5% at the time of the Measure A election. If Measure A had been approved, the tax would have increased to 7%. The new higher tax would have been in effect for five years, generating an estimated $1.6 million a year for those five years.
A simple majority vote was required for approval.
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 6,699 | 50.05% | ||
| Yes | 6,686 | 49.95% | ||
- These final, certified results are from the Smartvoter.org, California, Los Angeles County elections information.
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Measure A: Shall an ordinance to offset severe State cuts to the City of Bellflower by protecting and restoring essential City services including: sheriff patrols/substation hours of operation, school crossing guards, school safety/after-school programs, services for the disabled and drug/gang prevention; by temporarily increasing the City's utility users' tax by 2%, with a 5-year sunset, audits, low-income senior exemptions, citizens' oversight, and local control of funds be adopted?[2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles Wave, "Bellflower to ask voters to increase utility tax," July 1, 2010 (dead link)
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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