City of Tehachapi Sales Tax, Measure F (November 2014)
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A City of Tehachapi Sales Tax, Measure F ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in the city of Tehachapi in Kern County, California. It was defeated.
If approved, Measure F would have authorized the city to impose an additional sales tax of 0.5 percent. This would have raised the total sales tax rate in the city from 7.5 percent - the minimum rate mandated by state law - to 8 percent.[1]
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 973 | 53.82% | ||
| Yes | 835 | 46.18% | ||
Election results via: Kern County Elections Office
Text of measure
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:[1]
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To provide funding that stays in Tehachapi and cannot be seized by the State, to be used for increased street maintenance, improving senior services, enhancing public facilities, and improving other general city services, shall an ordinance be adopted to enact a temporary, one half of one percent sales tax for 10 years, with mandatory audits and annual community reporting?[2] |
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Impartial analysis
The following impartial analysis was prepared for Measure F:[1]
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This ballot measure asks the voters of the City of Tehachapi to approve a transactions and use tax ordinance (the “sales tax ordinance”) that would increase the City’s existing sales tax rate by 0.50% or one-half cent for every dollar of taxable sales of goods in the City, and on the taxable storage, use or consumption in the City of goods purchased. The total sales tax rate currently paid in the City of Tehachapi, which also includes the sales tax rate collected for the State of California and the County of Kern, is 7.50%. If this measure is approved by the voters, the total sales tax rate in the City will increase to 8.00%. The proposed tax is a general tax. The tax revenues will be deposited in the City’s general fund and may be used for any municipal purpose. It is estimated by the City Manager that this measure will raise approximately $1.3 million per year in general fund revenue for the City beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year. The tax is subject to an independent annual financial audit that will review whether the tax is collected, managed and expended in accordance with the requirements of the proposed sales tax ordinance. In addition, the proposed sales tax ordinance requires an annual report to the City Council regarding the amount of revenues collected pursuant to the sales tax ordinance and how the City used such revenues. If adopted by the voters, the tax would be in effect for ten years and terminate on March 31, 2025.On August 4, 2014, the City Council approved Resolution No. 57-14 to place this measure on the ballot. Article XIIIC of the California Constitution, commonly known as Proposition 218, requires that the proposed tax be approved by a majority of the voters voting on the ballot measure. A “yes” vote on the measure enacts the sales tax ordinance.A “no” vote will result in the tax not being adopted.[2] |
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| —Tehachapi City Attorney[1] | ||
See also
- Local sales tax on the ballot
- Kern County, California ballot measures
- November 4, 2014 ballot measures in California
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