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City of Woodland Sales Tax Continuation, Measure J (June 2014)
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A City of Woodland Sales Tax Continuation, Measure J ballot question was on the June 3, 2014 election ballot for voters in the city of Woodland in Yolo County, California, where it was approved.
Measure J authorized the city of Woodland to renew a sales tax increase of 1/4 percent for eight years.[1]
Rather than requesting a tax for specific purposes, the Woodland City Council decided to put Measure J on the ballot as a general tax measure, which meant the revenue it generated was designed to go into the general city fund, and, consequently, the measure only required a simple majority for approval, instead of the two-thirds (66.67%) vote required for a special tax. The city council also put four advisory questions on the ballot asking for voter approval of certain proposed uses of the additional revenue. The measures asked if the new revenue should be divided in the following way:[1]
- 60 percent to youth and teen programs and facilities
- 20 percent to the library to fund educational programs
- 15 percent to crime prevention services
- 5 percent to support water and sewer rate reductions for low-income residents
This method, in which a city puts a simple-majority, general tax measure on the ballot along with advisory questions directing the expenditure of the tax revenue, was also used in the June 3, 2014 primary by the city of Anderson in Shasta County.
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 5,450 | 68.6% | ||
| No | 2,500 | 31.4% | ||
- Election results from Yolo County Elections Office
Text of measure
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:[1]
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Shall Ordinance No. 1558 which would authorize the City of Woodland to continue to collect a one-quarter cent sales tax for general city services, for a period of eight years, and would not increase taxes, be adopted?[2] |
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Similar measures
Measure A: City of Anderson Sales Tax
Measure B: City of Anderson Sales Tax Spending Advisory Question
Related measures
Measure J: City of Woodland Sales Tax Continuation
Measure K: City of Woodland Youth Programs Expenditure of Sales Tax Advisory Question
Measure L: City of Woodland Youth Programs Expenditure of Sales Tax Advisory Question
Measure M: City of Woodland Youth Programs Expenditure of Sales Tax Advisory Question
Measure N: City of Woodland Youth Programs Expenditure of Sales Tax Advisory Question
See also
- City tax on the ballot
- Local sales tax on the ballot
- Yolo County, California ballot measures
- June 3, 2014 ballot measures in California
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yolo Elections Website, "June 3, 2014 ballot questions," archived June 13, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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