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- Measure K.
School District School Bond
-- Loleta Union School District
(Measure K requires 55 percent (55%) YES votes to pass)
 368 /
67.65% Yes votes ......
176 /
32.35% No votes
 - Shall Loleta Union Elementary School District modernize classrooms, including improvements to lighting and heating & air conditioning systems; improvements to classrooms including replacement of windows and cabinetry, abatement of asbestos, new whiteboards; replacement of floor and wall coverings; make health and safety improvements including new restrooms for upper grade wings; upgrade kitchen facilities and improve computer network environment and student access to technology by issuing $456,000 of bonds at interest rates below the legal limit?
  - Measure L.
County of Humboldt Transaction and Use Tax
-- Humboldt County
(Simple Majority)
 16696 /
29.88% Yes votes ......
39180 /
70.12% No votes
 - Shall the Board of Supervisors enact a temporary one percent sales tax, pursuant to County Ordinance No. 2323 and Resolution No.04-51, a general tax, with these restrictions:
>The sales tax can only be used to pay for local services;
>The tax will terminate on June 30, 2009; and
>This Board of Supervisors will immediately repeal the tax if the State attempts to redirect or take the sales tax revenue away from Humboldt County.
 
  - Measure M.
County of Humboldt Anti-GMO Initiative Ordinance
-- Humboldt County
(Simple Majority)
 19137 /
35.10% Yes votes ......
35384 /
64.90% No votes
 - Shall the Humboldt County ordinance titled "Ordinance Prohibiting Growing of Genetically Modified Organisms" be approved?
  - Measure N.
Business License
-- City of Blue Lake
(Simple Majority)
 252 /
49.51% Yes votes ......
257 /
50.49% No votes
 - Shall the City Council of the City of Blue Lake adopt Ordinance No. 474 updating rates for business licenses within the City of Blue Lake to supplement general tax revenues?
  - Measure O.
Election of Mayor
-- City of Ferndale
(Simple Majority)
 148 /
21.17% Yes votes ......
551 /
78.83% No votes
 - Shall the electors eliminate the elective office of mayor and thereby reestablish the procedure of selection of mayor by the City Council?
  - Measure P.
Business License
-- City of Ferndale
(Simple Majority)
 398 /
57.18% Yes votes ......
298 /
42.82% No votes
 - Shall the City of Ferndale increase the business license fees?
 
- The proposed fees are as shown below:
   
Category                  ---                                  Proposed
   Yearly-Retail             ---                               $  60.00
 
   Quarterly-Retail          ---                                   $  15.00
 
   Yearly-no sales tax     ---                                   $  80.00
 
   Quarterly-no sales tax      ---                            $  20.00
 
   Duplicate                               ---                        $    5.00
 
   Location Change                 ---                          $    2.00
 
   Carnival (daily)                    ---                           $100.00
 
   Vendor
 
Service/Product not offered locally   ---  $ 10.00 
Service/Product offered locally       ---  $150.00 
 
   Chamber Sponsored Sales                 ---                $100.00
  - Measure Q.
College of the Redwoods School Bond
-- Humboldt County, except for the Dinsmore area (2MR)
(Measure Q requires 55 percent (55%) YES votes to pass)
 35641 /
63.95% Yes votes ......
20093 /
36.05% No votes
 - To strengthen local job and vocational training programs, and increase academic classes for students with 2-year and 4-year college goals by:
- Adding classrooms and tech labs;
 - Renovating unsafe and deteriorating campus buildings;
 - Repairing, acquiring, constructing, furnishing and equipping college facilities;
   
Shall the Redwoods Community College District issue $40,320,000 of bonds, at legal rates, with tough accountability safeguards, including an independent Citizens Oversight Committee and annual audits -- with no money used for administrator salaries?
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