Measures Explained

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NOVEMEBER 8TH
, 2016: SANTA CLARA COUNTY’S 2016 MEASURES
MEASURE A: Santa Clara County
A Yes Vote: A No Vote: Notes:
 $950 Million bond for affordable
housing in Santa Clara County:
o $700 million towards
housing for homeless &
low income individuals
family housing
first-time homebuyers
programs
 Money comes from small
increase in property taxes based
on the value of the property
 Will require citizen oversight and
routine audits to make sure the
county sticks to the spending plan
 Property tax will not be raised
and more housing will NOT be
created for Santa Clara County’s
low income, homeless, families
and individuals
 Requires 2/3 majority vote
MEASURE B: Santa Clara County
 Sales taxes would increase by
0.25% for the next 15 years.
 Money from this measure can be
used for any governmental
purpose: including improving
police response; improving 911/
emergency medical/ fire response
times; repairing potholes and
streets; expanding gang
prevention; and more
 Measure includes a built-in
citizen watchdog committee to
keep an eye on spending
 Sales tax would remain at 8.75%
and the city would not receive
extra funds for city maintenance
MEASURE C: Cupertino
 Limits Cupertino’s
redevelopment plan of the Vallco
Shopping District
o Requires voter approval for
changes to mall remodels
 Voter approval will NOT be
required towards Cupertino’s
Vallco Shopping District’s
remodeling plans

MEASURE D: Cupertino
 In Cupertino’s Vallco Town
Shopping Center, Measure D
requires:
o Up to 800 residential units
with a 20% set-aside for
seniors
o 2 million square feet of
office space; 640,000
square feet of retail and
room for a hotel, a park,
and educational uses
o There will be no required land
allotment for housing, office
space, retail, hotel, and/or park
space
MEASURE E: Santa Clara County
 Requires businesses with 35+
employees to offer additional
work hours to current qualified
part-time workers BEFORE
hiring new employees (and/or
additional temps or
subcontractors)
o This excludes government
jobs and allows companies
to apply for a “hardship”
exemption if they can
prove they cannot offer
full-time to their
employees
 There will be NO regulations on
how or when a business must
offer full-time positions to staff
MEASURE F: San Jose
 City of San Jose employees will:
o Lose funding for retiree
healthcare for new
employees
o Potentially reduce costs of
supplemental pension
payments
o Reinstate disability
retirement provisions for
injured police officers,
firefighters and other City
employees
o Continue to require voter
approval for benefit
increases
 Funding for City of San Jose
employees will stay the same
 Voter approval will still be
required for City of San Jose
employee benefit increases

MEASURE G: San Jose
 Increases the minimum tax a
business owner pays based on:
o # of employees
o Sq. footage of leased space
 Measure allows for adjustment of
tax according to inflation
 Nonprofits and smaller businesses
are not affected by this measure
 Money earned from measure will
be put in San Jose’s general fund
for emergency response, road
repair, and city services
 Minimum taxes a business owner
has to pay do not change
MEASURE H: Gilroy
 Limits available land for
commercial and industrial
development
 Will NOT allow housing and/or
business buildings to be created
in certain open spaces in Gilroy
 Changes to this land use measure
cannot be made until 12/2040
 Allows the City of Gilroy to
expand city limits for business
and housing developments
MEASURE I: Milpitas
 Limits development within
Milpitas to the valley floor and
the base of the foothills
 Will NOT allow housing and/or
business buildings to be created
in certain open spaces in Milpitas
 Changes to this land use measure
cannot be made until 12/2038
without voter approval
 Voter approval for city growth
boundaries will expire 12/2018.
This means that the city growth
boundary can be changed at any
time by the City Council of
Milpitas
MEASURE J: Milpitas
 Voters will be asked to vote on
park rezoning, the use of open
spaces, residential vs. commercial
land use and more regarding the
growth boundary lines in Milpitas
 Votes from the public will not be
as intensely required as Milpitas
continues to grow
MEASURE K: Milpitas

 Any attempt to rezone parks,
parklands or open space to
residential, commercial or
industrial, or any proposal for
residential, commercial or
industrial development in parks,
parkland or open space, must be
placed before Milpitas voters and
secure 2/3 voter’s support in the
City’s next general election
 Votes from the public will not be
as intensely required as Milpitas
continues to grow
MEASURE L: Milpitas
 Gives Milpitas voters the power
to confirm or deny the city’s
decision to send its trash to
Guadalupe Recycling and
Disposal Facility in San Jose
starting next year
 The city will continue to send its
trash to Newby Island Resource
and Recovery Park.
 The contract with Waste
Management, Inc., was originally
approved by the City Council
earlier this year but quickly
suspended by a petition from
Republic Services of Santa Clara
County
MEASURE M: Sunnyvale
 Requires a majority vote of
Sunnyvale Voters before the City
Council can approve the sale,
lease, swap or transfer of certain
types of city land which has been
used as either 1) a public park, or
2) a community service amenity
 City Council has the authority to
sell, lease or even trade, swap or
transfer city land with no more
than a majority Council vote. The
residents of Sunnyvale have no
direct control over these
decisions. A “no vote” keeps it
that way
MEASURE N: Sunnyvale
 The measure would NOT raise
tax rates
 Sunnyvale residents already pay a
Utility Users Tax (UUT) this
measure would update the tax
 Funds would be drawn from all
technology and
telecommunication users
 UUT $ goes into the city’s
general funds
 Taxes would NOT rise but the
Utility Users Tax (UUT) will
remain “outdated” and will
continue to apply to electricity,
natural gas, and to telephone calls
made from landline and cell
phones.
MEASURE O: Santa Clara

 Santa Clara will have the option
of giving their part-time mayor a
raise from $1,387 to $2,500 a
month and the City Council
members a pay bump from $832
to $2,000 a month
 Also creates a Salary Setting
Commission to review and adjust
those pay raises every two years
 The mayor and the City Council
will NOT receive a raise
 No Salary Setting Commission
will be created
MEASURE P: Santa Clara
 Limits the Santa Clara City
Council to no more than two full
terms per office
 Designed to prevent council
members taking a two-year hiatus
before running for office again
 There will be no term limit on
Santa Clara City Council
members
 Council members will be allowed
to take a 2 year break and then
run for office again
MEASURE Q: Santa Clara
 Vacancies in any elective office
of the City must be filled by a 4/5
vote of the City Council should a
Council member abruptly leave
their position
 Vacancies in City Council will
continue to be filled based on a
majority vote by City Council
members
MEASURE R: Santa Clara
 Santa Clara would be unable to
sell public parkland or open space
without voter approval
 Any applicable land transactions
would require 2/3 voter approval
before the land is sold
 Currently, the only restriction on
the sale of city owned property is
that the city must follow a
particular bidding procedure. A
“no vote” will keep that rule in
place and nothing else will stand
in the way of selling city owned
property
MEASURE S: Morgan Hill
 Establishes a population ceiling
of 58,200 people
 Improves policies to encourage
the conservation of water and the
preservation of land
 The population ceiling will not be
issued and improvement to land
use, water conservation, and land
preservation will have to be
written and/or voted via a
different initiative
MEASURE T: Los Gatos

 Rental tax paid only by
hotel/lodging guests: Measure T
increases short-term rental tax by
2%
 Could raise up to $400,000 per
year to be used in the city’s
general funds
 Will continue to publish annual
audits & provide fiscal oversight
 All funds spent locally for Los
Gatos
 The 2% increase tax for
hotel/lodging guests in Los Gatos
will not occur
MEASURE U: San Benito High School District (Hollister)
 Issues $60 million in bonds to the
San Benito High School District
strictly for school improvements,
classroom sizes, facility upgrades
 NO money will go to
administrator salaries
 Measure includes citizen
oversight and annual audits of $
 No bond money will be given to
San Benito High School District
MEASURE V: Mountain View
 Measure would tie rental
increases to inflation within the
economy—allowing increases to
range from 2-5% with only one
rent increase allowed a year in
Mountain View
 Applies only to apartments built
before 1996 and certain
affordable housing units
 Landlords can “bank” from years
with no rent increase, but with a
cap of 10% rent increase in any
given year
 Requires that landlords can only
evict a tenant due to “just” cause
 The City of Mountain View does
not currently regulate the amount
of rent a landlord may charge
 A no vote on Measure A would
allow landlords to increase rent
according to CA law and allow
them to evict tenants as landlords
see fit
MEASURE W: Mountain View

 Tenants of Mountain View could
challenge rent hikes over 5% a
year by pulling landlords into
mediation
 If evicted from a Mountain View
rental, Measure W requires
relocation assistance for renters &
includes a binding-arbitration
clause for disputes between
tenants and landlords

 Mountain View residents will not
have access to meditation through
the city
 There will be no city supportive
programs if a tenant feels they are
wrongfully evicted
MEASURE X: San Jose-Evergreen Community College District
 Issues a $748 million bond to
expand and renovate both
community college’s campuses
 No money would go to salaries or
pensions
 All funds would be subject to
citizen oversight
the San Jose-Evergreen
Community College District
MEASURE Y: San Jose Unified School District
 $72 parcel tax, which would raise
$5 million a year for eight years
until it expires.
 independent citizen oversight and
would restrict funds from paying
district salaries.
the San Jose-Evergreen
Community College District
MEASURE Z: East Side Union High School District
upgrade school facilities and
classroom technology
 No money would go to
employees’ salaries or pensions
 All funds would be subject to
citizen oversight
the East Side Union High School
District
MEASURE AA: Campbell Union High School District

upgrade school facilities and
classroom
 District will take on the new bond
debt, which it plans to pay off by
collecting a $30 parcel tax for
every $100,000 in assessed value
the Campbell Union High School
District
MEASURE BB: Sunnyvale Union School District
 Sunnyvale School District will be
authorized to renew its existing
$59 per parcel tax
o The parcel tax will provide
$1 million annually for
seven years beginning July
1, 2018, with exemptions
for senior citizens
 Funds for school improvement
 Money spent will be audited and
reviewed by a citizens’ oversight
committee
 No funds will be spent on
administrators
 The parcel tax will not be
renewed and Sunnyvale Union
School District will not receive
funding in this form
MEASURE CC: Campbell Union School District
 Issues $72 million in bonds to
improve school facilities and
upgrade classroom equipment
 Includes citizens’ oversight and
financial audits of spending
 No funds for administrator
salaries
the Campbell Union School
District
MEASURE EE: Oak Grove School District

 Oak Grove School District will be
$132 per parcel tax
$3.1 million annually for
nine years with exemptions
for senior citizens
 Money spent will be audited &
committee
 Funds spent on school
improvement
renewed and Oak Grove School
District will not receive funding
in this form
 A Parcel tax is a form of property
tax assessed at a rate based on the
characteristics of a "parcel" (aka
one chunk of the land), rather
than on the assessed value of the
whole property, which is the
standard method of levying
property taxes
MEASURE GG: Los Altos School District
 Los Altos School District will be
$223 per parcel tax
eight years with
exemptions for senior
citizens
improvement
committee
 No money spent on
administrative salaries
renewed and Los Altos School
District will not receive funding
in this form
MEASURE HH: Franklin-McKinley School District
 Franklin-McKinley District will
be authorized to renew its
existing $72 parcel tax
nine years with exemptions
for senior citizens
improvement
committee
renewed and Franklin-McKinley
School District will not receive
funding in this form

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