Measure A. Official Community In Unincorporated Los Angeles County -- Proposed Santa Clarita Annexation 2002-09 (Advisory Vote Only)
Pass: 1,818 / 56.58% Yes votes ...... 1,395 / 43.42% No votes

Do you support having areas in the Santa Clarita Valley including Sunset Pointe, Stevenson Ranch, Southern Oaks, Westridge, Tesoro, Castaic and Val Verde remain as official communities in unincorporated Los Angeles County?

Measure B. Incorporate Into a New Separate City -- Proposed Santa Clarita Annexation 2002-09 (Advisory Vote Only)
Fail: 688 / 22.38% Yes votes ...... 2,386 / 77.62% No votes

Do you support having areas in the Santa Clarita Valley including Sunset Pointe, Stevenson Ranch, Southern Oaks, Westridge, Tesoro, Castaic and Val Verde incorporate into a new separate city?

Measure C. Annex Into the City of Santa Clarita -- Proposed Santa Clarita Annexation 2002-09 (Advisory Vote Only)
Pass: 1,761 / 53.36% Yes votes ...... 1,539 / 46.64% No votes

Do you support having areas in the Santa Clarita Valley including Sunset Pointe, Stevenson Ranch, Southern Oaks, Westridge, Tesoro, Castaic and Val Verde negotiate an annexation into the City of Santa Clarita?

Measure D. Election of City Council by Districts -- City of West Covina (Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3,359 / 36.86% Yes votes ...... 5,754 / 63.14% No votes

Shall members of the City Council of the City of West Covina be elected by districts as described in the proposed ordinance?

Measure E. Utility User Tax -- City of Huntington Park (Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 590 / 52.21% Yes votes ...... 540 / 47.79% No votes

Shall Ordinance No. 840-NS be adopted to increase the existing Utility Users’ and Communication Users’ Tax rates by 2.75% in order to maintain a flow of revenues necessary to fund essential city services?

Measure L. Extend Library Tax -- City of South Pasadena (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 3,031 / 79.99% Yes votes ...... 758 / 20.01% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted extending the Library Special Tax, which is due to expire on June 30, 2011, for an additional 5 years until June 30, 2016, to provide funding for the maintenance and operations of the South Pasadena Public Library at the current level of library services?

Measure M. Control over Fire and Police Services -- City of Montebello (Ordinance - 55% Approval Required)
Pass: 4,101 / 81.55% Yes votes ...... 928 / 18.45% No votes

Shall an Ordinance be adopted to protect and preserve legal control over the City's by requiring an approval of the voters of not less than fifty-five percent (55%) before the services may be performed by any public entity other than the City of Montebello?

Measure P. Mayor Chosen from among Council Members after 2011 -- City of El Monte (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 2,382 / 41.72% Yes votes ...... 3,328 / 58.28% No votes

Shall the City of El Monte reorganize the City Council by replacing the current structure of one elected Mayor and four elected City Council members with a new structure composed of five elected City Council members who will share the title of Mayor on a rotating basis.

Measure S. Increase in Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Artesia (Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 489 / 50.62% Yes votes ...... 477 / 49.38% No votes

Shall Ordinance No. 09-749, which increases the transient occupancy tax from 6% to 12.5%, be adopted?

Measure T. The Classroom Teacher, Student Safety, and Education Measure -- Long Beach Unified School District (Parcel Tax - 2/3 Approval Required)
Fail: 15,939 / 43.87% Yes votes ...... 20,391 / 56.13% No votes

To preserve quality neighborhood schools despite severe state budget cuts by retaining superior teachers, maintaining small class sizes, vocational/job training, college prep, essential academic and after school programs, and protect property values, shall Long Beach Unified School District levy a $92 annual education parcel tax, for five years, requiring senior exemptions, citizens’ oversight, no money for administrators and funding only for neighborhood schools?

Measure W. Recall of Board Member -- West Valley County Water District (Recall - Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 68 / 68.00% Yes votes ...... 32 / 32.00% No votes

Shall J Gaglione Be Recalled As Board Member; West Valley County Water District?

Measure Y. Increase In Business License Tax -- City of Artesia (Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 484 / 49.49% Yes votes ...... 494 / 50.51% No votes

Shall Ordinance No. 09-750, which increases business license taxes, be adopted?

Measure CH. Adoption of a City Charter for the City of Palmdale -- City of Palmdale (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 6,577 / 81.90% Yes votes ...... 1,454 / 18.10% No votes

Shall the citizens of Palmdale restore home-rule and local control by adopting a city charter to allow the City of Palmdale, rather than the State, the flexibility, discretion, and accountability to control local municipal affairs?

Measure EE. New Tax to Support CCUSD Schools -- Culver City Unified School District (Parcel Tax - 2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 3,729 / 74.92% Yes votes ...... 1,248 / 25.08% No votes

To protect the quality of education in Culver City schools from deep State budget cuts by providing stable local funding to maintain: math, science, technology, music and art programs; updated instructional materials; quality teachers; school libraries; and small class sizes; shall Culver City Unified School District levy an annual tax of $96.00 per parcel for 5 years only, with exemptions for seniors, independent oversight, no money for administrators' salaries, and all funds staying in Culver City to benefit our local schools?

Measure Irwindale-T. Adoption of Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Irwindale (Majority Approval Required)
Preliminary results; canvass to be compled by November 11
Pass: 317 / 84.5% Yes votes ...... 58 / 15.5% No votes

To help preserve the safety and character in all neighborhoods in the City of Irwindale through general City services, which may include funding for police, fire protection, street repair, park maintenance, and recreational services, shall an ordinance be adopted imposing a ten percent charge on the room rate paid by persons who occupy hotel or motel rooms within the City?

Measure Irwindale-U. Ratification of Existing Utility Users’ Tax -- City of Irwindale (Majority Approval Required)
Preliminary results; canvass to be compled by November 11
Pass: 305 / 82.0% Yes votes ...... 67 / 18.0% No votes

To help preserve the safety and character of the City of Irwindale through general City services such as law enforcement, fire protection, street repair, park maintenance, and recreational services, shall the City’s existing utility users’ tax be ratified and broadened to apply to changes in technology and laws since it was instituted in 1977, while maintaining an exemption for low-volume utility users?

Measure MS. Acquisition of Property by LAUSD -- City of Maywood (Advisory Vote Only)
Fail: 498 / 26.66% Yes votes ...... 1,370 / 73.34% No votes

Should the Los Angeles Unified School District acquire, by negotiated sale or eminent domain, 10 single family parcels, 29 multi-family parcels, 7 commercial parcels and 1 vacant parcel within a site bounded by Slauson Avenue to the south, 57th Avenue to the north, King Avenue to the west and Mayflower Avenue to the east for the construction of the new South Region No. 8 High School?

Measure PC. Pomona Telecommunications Utility Users Tax -- City of Pomona (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 3,019 / 60.08% Yes votes ...... 2,006 / 39.92% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted to ratify and continue Pomona's existing Utility Users Tax to fund general city services, including essential municipal services such as, police, fire, street repair, parks and libraries, provided that current exemptions remain, and the ordinance is updated to treat taxpayers equally regardless of telecommunication technology used?

Measure RR. Prohibition on Overnight Street Parking -- City of El Monte (Advisory Vote Only)
Fail: 2,230 / 38.90% Yes votes ...... 3,503 / 61.10% No votes

Shall the City of El Monte institute an overnight parking regulatory program that would prohibit overnight street parking on most City streets between the hours of 3:00 A.M. and 5:00 A.M., subject to limited exceptions, including instances where residents and non-residents alike have purchased special street parking permits issued by the City.

Measure SC. Alternate LAUSD School Site Selection -- City of Maywood (Advisory Vote Only)
Pass: 1,320 / 72.05% Yes votes ...... 512 / 27.95% No votes

Should the Los Angeles Unified School District fully and adequately investigate the selection of other sites for the construction of the new South Region No. 8 High School, including alternative sites that were previously recommended by the City of Maywood and the community?

Measure SE. Change in Length of Mayoral Term -- City of South El Monte (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 693 / 57.94% Yes votes ...... 503 / 42.06% No votes

Shall the term of office of mayor be four years?

Measure TOT. Hotel Tax -- City of Rancho Palos Verdes (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3,062 / 48.90% Yes votes ...... 3,200 / 51.10% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted to increase the rate of the City’s existing transient occupancy tax from ten percent (10%) to twelve percent (12%)?

Measure TR. Utility Users Tax Decrease -- City of Pico Rivera (Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 3,119 / 67.61% Yes votes ...... 1,494 / 32.39% No votes

Shall an ordinance be adopted to decrease the existing Utility Users Tax by one half of one percent (0.5%) and to revise the method for calculating and collecting the Utility Users Tax to reflect technological advances and changes?

Measure UU. Redondo Beach Utility Users' Tax Measure -- City of Redondo Beach (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3,601 / 46.80% Yes votes ...... 4,093 / 53.20% No votes

To maintain essential City services shall an ordinance be adopted amending the City’s utility users’ tax to remove an exclusion that currently allows an electrical plant owned by a corporation to pay no utility users’ tax on natural gas, with annual audits, public review of all expenditures and without raising individual taxpayers’ taxes?

Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder-County Clerk

• Measure Information for November 3, 2009 Election - 39-page booklet in pdf format