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Taxpayer resistance to local California school bonds grows

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The League of California Cities tracked voting outcomes of the California local tax and bond measures. The brief SACRAMENTO BEE story and a direct link to the League’s results are here:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/06/nearly-two-thirds-of-local-tax-and-bond-measures-pass.html

I found one aspect of the story a pleasant suprise.  It’s refreshing that only 22 of the 34 school bond measures passed — 64.7%. Since the bar for passing school bonds was lowered from 2/3 to 55% voter approval, I seem to recall that over 90% of such “55% majority” bonds usually pass. This growing taxpayer reluctance to be the government’s ATM machine is a hopeful sign.

BTW, for some reason the League didn’t include in their compilation of results our local Mountain Empire school district bond.  This measure barely failed to pass — even though there were NO opposition ballot arguments.

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