Imperial County, CA Ballot

Proposition 1 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Specified Housing Assistance Programs
Pass: 6,751,018 / 56.2% Yes votes ...... 5,258,157 / 43.8% No votes: Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over the next 35 years.
Proposition 2 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Existing Housing Program for Individuals with Mental Illness
Pass: 7,662,528 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,417,327 / 36.6% No votes: Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay up to $2 billion in bonds. These bonds would fund housing for those with mental illness who are homeless.
Proposition 3 Authorizes Bonds To Fund Projects for Water Supply and Quality, Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Water Conveyance, and Groundwater Sustainability and Storage
Fail: 5,879,836 / 49.3% Yes votes ...... 6,034,991 / 50.7% No votes: Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually over the next few decades.
Proposition 4 Authorizes Bonds Funding Construction at Hospitals Providing Children's Health Care
Pass: 7,551,298 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,494,143 / 37.3% No votes: Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years.
Proposition 5 Changes Requirements For Certain Property Owners to Transfer Their Property Tax Base to Replacement Property
Fail: 4,813,251 / 40.2% Yes votes ...... 7,152,993 / 59.8% No votes: Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar increase in state costs to backfill school property tax losses.
Proposition 6 Eliminates Certain Road Repair and Transportation Funding. Requires Certain Fuel Taxes and Vehicle Fees Be Approved By the Electorate
Fail: 5,283,222 / 43.2% Yes votes ...... 6,952,081 / 56.8% No votes: Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.
Proposition 7 Confirms California Daylight Saving Time to Federal Law. Allows Legislature to Change Daylight Saving Time Period
Pass: 7,167,315 / 59.7% Yes votes ...... 4,828,564 / 40.3% No votes: Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal government.
Proposition 8 Regulates Amounts Outpatient Kindney Dialysis Clinics Charge For Dialysis Treatment
Fail: 4,845,264 / 40.1% Yes votes ...... 7,247,917 / 59.9% No votes: Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of dollars to net negative impact in the tens of millions of dollars.
Proposition 10 Expands Local Governments' Authority to Enact Rent Control
Fail: 4,949,543 / 40.6% Yes votes ...... 7,251,443 / 59.4% No votes: Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions by local communities, revenue losses could be less or considerably more.
Proposition 11 Requires Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Employees to Remain On-Call During Work Breaks. Eliminates Certain Employer Liability
Pass: 7,181,116 / 59.6% Yes votes ...... 4,861,831 / 40.4% No votes: Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year.
Proposition 12 Establishes New Standards For Confinement of Specified Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Noncomplying Products
Pass: 7,551,434 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,499,702 / 37.3% No votes: Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State costs up to $10 million annually to enforce the measure.

Local Measures

Measure A School Bond -- Heber Union Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 784 / 73.00% Yes votes ...... 290 / 27.00% No votes: To improve the quality of education; modernize outdated classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; upgrade classrooms technology; and make health, safety and security improvements; shall the Heber Elementary School District issue $4,000,000 of bonds at legal interest rates, generating on average $300,000 annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 3 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, citizens' oversight committee, NO money for salaries and all money staying local?
Measure B School Bond -- Westmorland Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 297 / 64.57% Yes votes ...... 163 / 35.43% No votes: To construct a new gymnasium, enhance student safety and security, construct and modernize classrooms and support facilities, and provide the local match for State grants, shall the measure of Westmorland Union Elementary School District be adopted authorizing $10,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, raising an average of $648,000 annually to repay issued bonds through final maturity from levies of approximately $0.091 per $100 of assessed valuation, and no money for administrator salaries?
Measure C School Bond -- Brawley Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 3,699 / 64.66% Yes votes ...... 2,022 / 35.34% No votes: To improve the quality of education, repair or replace leaky roofs; modernize/renovate classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; and construct a new science/STEM building; shall the Brawley Union High School District issue $18,700,000 of bonds at legal interest rates, generating on average $1,090,000 annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 3 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, citizens' oversight committee, NO money for salaries and all money staying local?
Measure D City Clerk -- City of Westmorland (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 233 / 63.49% Yes votes ...... 134 / 36.51% No votes: Shall the office of the City Clerk be appointive?
Measure E City Treasurer -- City of Westmorland (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 227 / 62.36% Yes votes ...... 137 / 37.64% No votes: Shall the office of the City Treasurer be appointive?
Measure G School Bond -- Holtville Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 1,437 / 72.10% Yes votes ...... 556 / 27.90% No votes: To improve the quality of education; modernize outdated classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; and construct a new gymnasium/multipurpose room for school and community use; shall Holtville Unified School District issue $10 million of bonds at legal interest rates, generating on average $617,000 annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 4 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, citizens' oversight committee, NO money for salaries and all money staying local?
Measure H City Treasurer -- City of Imperial (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 1,966 / 51.86% Yes votes ...... 1,825 / 48.14% No votes: Shall the office of the City Treasurer be appointive?
Measure I Cannabis Business Tax -- City of Imperial (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 2,957 / 76.19% Yes votes ...... 924 / 23.81% No votes: To fund general municipal expenses such as police, fire, roads and recreation, shall the City tax cannabis (marijuana) businesses at annual rates not to exceed $10.00 per canopy square foot for cultivation (adjustable for inflation), 6% of gross receipts for retail cannabis businesses, and 4% for all other cannabis businesses; which is expected to generate an estimated $40,000 to $60,000 annually and will be levied until repealed by the voters or the City Council?
Measure J Transient occupancy tax -- City of Calexico (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 4,028 / 58.17% Yes votes ...... 2,897 / 41.83% No votes: To maintain and improve general City services, such as police service levels, street operations and maintenance, as well as parks, community buildings and infrastructure; shall the City of Calexico adopt an ordinance to increase the Transient Occupancy ("Hotel") Tax from 10.00% to 12.00%, and to modernize its Transient Occupancy Tax regulations, generating approximately $230,000.00 annually until ended by voters?
Measure K Cannabis Business Tax -- City of Calexico (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 5,049 / 73.53% Yes votes ...... 1,818 / 26.47% No votes: Shall the City of Calexico adopt an ordinance enacting a tax on cannabis businesses of up to $25 per square foot of space utilized, and up to 15% of gross receipts from the sale of cannabis and related products, generating approximately $700,000 annually for general City services, such as police and emergency response, parks, youth/senior services, and street repair, until ended by voters?
Measure L Recall -- City of Westmorland (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 274 / 75.90% Yes votes ...... 87 / 24.10% No votes: Shall Sally Traylor be recalled (removed) from the office of City Clerk?
Measure M Recall -- City of Westmorland (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 264 / 73.95% Yes votes ...... 93 / 26.05% No votes: Shall Mary Ann Smith be recalled (removed) from the office of Councilmember?

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