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Penn Valley Fire Protection District Spending Limitation, Measure T (November 2014)
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A Penn Valley Fire Protection District Spending Limitation, Measure T ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in the Penn Valley Fire Protection District in Nevada County, California. It was approved.
Upon its approval, Measure T was designed to allow the district to renew its gann limit 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, at times, a government will collect more revenue than it can legally spend, forcing it to return some of the money. At the time Measure T was approved, state law gave 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 T sought to do this for the Penn Valley Fire District, allowing it to spend the full amount of its revenue in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.[1]
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 3,035 | 63.03% | ||
| No | 1,780 | 36.97% | ||
- Election results from Nevada County Elections Office
Text of measure
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:[2]
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Shall a change be made in the spending limit established for the Penn Valley Fire Protection District under Article XIII B of the California Constitution for a period of four (4) years, in order to allow the District to retain and expend a sum equal to all revenues generated and received by the District during the next four (4) years? (quote) |
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Impartial analysis
The full text of the impartial analysis of Measure T provided by the office of the county counsel is available here.[1]
Full text
The full text of the resolution calling for Measure T is available here.
See also
- Gann overrides on the ballot
- Nevada County, California ballot measures
- November 4, 2014 ballot measures in California
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