Mount Shasta Fire Protection District Spending Limit Gann Override, Measure E (November 2014)
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A Mount Shasta Fire Protection District Spending Limit Gann Override, Measure E ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in the Mount Shasta Fire Protection District in Siskiyou County, California. It was approved.
Measure E increased the spending limit of the district to $425,000 for four years. This type of measure is called a gann override.
A gann limit is a restriction on how much a local governmental agency is allowed to spend in a year. The gann limits for local governments in California were set by Proposition 4 in 1979. The result of this limit is that sometimes a government will collect more revenue than it can legally spend, forcing it to return some of the money. State law gives voters in a governmental jurisdiction the authority to override a local gann limit for up to four years, allowing the jurisdiction to spend all of its revenue. Measure E does this for the Mount Shasta Fire Protection District.[1]
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 912 | 61.79% | ||
| No | 564 | 38.21% | ||
Election results via: Siskiyou County Elections Office
Text of measure
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:[1]
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Shall the Mt. Shasta Fire Protection District be allowed to increase the spending limit pursuant to Article 13B of the California Constitution to an amount not to exceed $425,000.00 for a period from the last election to set a spending limit for the period not to exceed the next four years?[2] |
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Impartial analysis
The following impartial analysis was prepared for Measure E:[1]
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The Mt. Shasta Fire Protection District currently receives revenue from property taxes and a special tax. If the special tax previously approved by the voters continues to be collected, then the District will collect proceeds of taxes in excess of the constitutionally authorized spending limitation for the four-year period beginning fiscal year 2014. Article 13A of the California Constitution, passed by the electorate in 1978 as Proposition 13, requires approval by the electorate to levy special taxes. The District has obtained such approval and currently levies a special tax. If such taxes are collected, Article 13B requires a majority vote by the electorate to spend any such revenues in excess of the District appropriations limit. This raising of the appropriations limitation on spending is limited to a maximum of four years from the date of the most recent vote creating or continuing such change. Since the special tax being collected will cause the level of revenue to exceed the appropriations limit, this voter approval is necessary to spend such excess revenue. A “Yes” vote is a vote to authorize an increase in the appropriations limit for the four (4) year period starting in fiscal year 2014, in order that the District may spend revenue raised in excess of its appropriations limit. A “No” vote will prohibit the District from spending revenues that exceed its appropriations limit.[2] |
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| —Dana L. Barton, Deputy Siskiyou County Counsel[1] | ||
See also
- Gann overrides on the ballot
- Siskiyou County, California ballot measures
- November 4, 2014 ballot measures in California
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 League of Women Voters California Education Fund, "Measure N ballot information," archived September 24, 2014 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "TEXT" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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