Davis, California, Measure Q, Essential Services Measure (November 2024)
Davis Measure Q | |
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Topic Local sales tax |
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Status |
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Type Referral |
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Davis Measure Q was on the ballot as a referral in Davis on November 5, 2024. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported adopting the City of Davis's ordinance to establish a 1¢ sales tax generating $11 million annually for essential services, including public safety, infrastructure, and homelessness, with audits, public disclosure, and all funds staying local until repealed by voters. |
A "no" vote opposed adopting the City of Davis's ordinance to establish a 1¢ sales tax generating $11 million annually for essential services, including public safety, infrastructure, and homelessness, with audits, public disclosure, and all funds staying local until repealed by voters. |
A 50 + 1% majority was required to approve the measure.
Election results
Davis Measure Q |
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Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
19,402 | 64.20% | |||
No | 10,820 | 35.80% |
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Measure Q was as follows:
“ | To support essential City services, such as public safety and emergency response; crime prevention; pothole repair; parks, road, sidewalk, and bike path maintenance; and addressing homelessness, affordable housing, and climate change, shall the City of Davis's Ordinance be adopted establishing an additional 1¢ sales tax providing approximately $11,000,000 annually for general government use until repealed by the voters, subject to annual audits, public disclosure of all spending and with all funds staying local? | ” |
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Davis.
How to cast a vote
- See also: Voting in California
See below to learn more about current voter registration rules, identification requirements, and poll times in California.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Section 3: Polling Place Hours," accessed August 12, 2024
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Voter Registration," accessed August 13, 2024
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 California Secretary of State, "Registering to Vote," accessed August 13, 2024
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Same Day Voter Registration (Conditional Voter Registration)," accessed August 13, 2024
- ↑ SF.gov, "Non-citizen voting rights in local Board of Education elections," accessed November 14, 2024
- ↑ Under federal law, the national mail voter registration application (a version of which is in use in all states with voter registration systems) requires applicants to indicate that they are U.S. citizens in order to complete an application to vote in state or federal elections, but does not require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the application "may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to prevent duplicate voter registrations and permit State officials both to determine the eligibility of the applicant to vote and to administer the voting process."
- ↑ Democracy Docket, "California Governor Signs Law to Ban Local Voter ID Requirements," September 30, 2024
- ↑ Congress, "H.R.3295 - Help America Vote Act of 2002," accessed September 30, 2025
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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