Ballot: Overview —Tuesday November 6, 2018 —California General Election
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Superintendent Of Public Instruction, State of California
- 15,198,738 votes (49.1%)
Board Member, Belmont-Redwood Shores School District
- 3
Board Member, La Honda|Pescadero Unified School District
- 2451 votes (23.58%)
Board Member, Ravenswood City School District
- 32,298 votes (13.54%)
1,320 votes (7.78%)
1,295 votes (7.63%)
1,286 votes (7.57%)
1,244 votes (7.33%)
1,211 votes (7.13%)
1,142 votes (6.73%)
Board Member, South San Francisco Unified School District
- 36,466 votes (12.22%)
6,333 votes (11.97%)
4,801 votes (9.08%)
3,664 votes (6.93%)
3,132 votes (5.92%)
City Council, City of East Palo Alto
- 21,327 votes (14.36%)
1,082 votes (11.71%)
997 votes (10.79%)
761 votes (8.24%)
387 votes (4.19%)
City Council, City of Foster City
- 23,562 votes (18.28%)
3,364 votes (17.26%)
2,344 votes (12.03%)
1,244 votes (6.38%)
City Council, City of Half Moon Bay
- 3
City Council, City of Pacifica
- 36,630 votes (15.01%)
6,543 votes (14.81%)
5,465 votes (12.37%)
2,436 votes (5.52%)
City Council, City of Redwood City
- 310,977 votes (15.74%)
9,425 votes (13.51%)
9,028 votes (12.94%)
4,370 votes (6.27%)
City Council, City of South San Francisco
- 3
Council Member, Council District 1, City of Menlo Park
- 1
Council Member, Council District 4, City of Menlo Park
- 1
Commissioner, San Mateo County Harbor District
- 2
Board Member, Zone A, Sequoia Healthcare District
- 1
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Proposition 1 — Affordable Housing Bonds
Passing6,751,018 votes yes (56.2%)5,258,157 votes no (43.8%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 2 — Mental Health Housing Program
Passing7,662,528 votes yes (63.4%)4,417,327 votes no (36.6%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 3 — Water Bonds
Failing5,879,836 votes yes (49.3%)6,034,991 votes no (50.7%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 4 — Children’s Hospital Bonds
Passing7,551,298 votes yes (62.7%)4,494,143 votes no (37.3%)
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.
Learn MoreProposition 5 — Property Tax Rules
Failing4,813,251 votes yes (40.2%)7,152,993 votes no (59.8%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 6 — Transportation Taxes and Fees
Failing5,283,222 votes yes (43.2%)6,952,081 votes no (56.8%)
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.
Learn MoreProposition 7 — Daylight Saving Time
Passing7,167,315 votes yes (59.7%)4,828,564 votes no (40.3%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 8 — Kidney Dialysis Clinics
Failing4,845,264 votes yes (40.1%)7,247,917 votes no (59.9%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 10 — Local Governments and Rent Control
Failing4,949,543 votes yes (40.6%)7,251,443 votes no (59.4%)
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...
Learn MoreProposition 11 — Ambulance Employee Breaks
Passing7,181,116 votes yes (59.6%)4,861,831 votes no (40.4%)
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.
Learn MoreProposition 12 — Farm Animal Cages
Passing7,551,434 votes yes (62.7%)4,499,702 votes no (37.3%)
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...
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Measure W
Passing180,969 votes yes (66.87%)89,643 votes no (33.13%)
To reduce highway traffic congestion (including 101, 280, interchanges); repair potholes, maintain streets, reduce local traffic, improve pedestrian safety in every San Mateo County city; maintain affordable transit services for seniors/people with disabilities; increase Caltrain/SamTrans capacity; reduce...
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Measure EE
Failing2,418 votes yes (43.58%)3,130 votes no (56.42%)
Should the City draft and adopt an ordinance to allow and regulate commercial, greenhouse cultivation of mature cannabis plants on existing greenhouse sites in the City's A-1 (Agricultural/Exclusive Floriculture) Zoning District?
Learn MoreMeasure GG
Passing2,983 votes yes (52.96%)2,650 votes no (47.04%)
Shall the measure, an ordinance to allow and regulate commercial, greenhouse nursery cultivation of immature cannabis plants on existing greenhouse sites in the City's A-1 (Agricultural/Exclusive Floriculture) Zoning District for cannabis nurseries that receive a license from the City Council and comply...
Learn MoreMeasure MM
Failing2,240 votes yes (40.51%)3,290 votes no (59.49%)
Should the City draft and adopt an ordinance to allow and regulate commercial manufacturing of cannabis products on sites in the City's IND (Industrial) Zoning District and/or on existing greenhouse sites in the City's A-1 (Agricultural/Exclusive Floriculture) Zoning District?
Learn MoreMeasure SS
Failing2,423 votes yes (43.67%)3,126 votes no (56.33%)
Should the City draft and adopt an ordinance to allow and regulate retail sales of cannabis and cannabis products at up to two locations within the city?
Learn MoreMeasure AA
Passing3,324 votes yes (60.67%)2,155 votes no (39.33%)
Shall an ordinance be adopted to tax any cannabis business operating within the City at annual rates not to exceed $2.00 to $10.00 per square foot for cultivation (inflation adjustable), and 6% of gross receipts for retail, 2.5% for testing, 3% for distribution, and 4% for manufacturing, levied until...
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Measure FF
Passing14,763 votes yes (74.63%)5,018 votes no (25.37%)
To maintain the quality of life in South San Francisco by providing services and improvements to accommodate visitors and residents, enhance public safety, community development, parks and recreation programs, street repair and traffic circulation, and for unrestricted general revenue purposes, shall...
Learn MoreMeasure LL
Passing14,767 votes yes (75.45%)4,806 votes no (24.55%)
To maintain the quality of life in South San Francisco by providing public safety services to address the impact of commercial cannabis operations permitted within the City and for unrestricted general revenue purposes, shall an ordinance be adopted establishing an ongoing business license tax on all...
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Measure HH
Passing4,366 votes yes (79.58%)1,120 votes no (20.42%)
Shall the measure to impose a parcel tax on commercial office space over 25,000 square feet at an annual rate of $2.50 per square foot, estimated to annually raise $1,675,000, for affordable and supportive housing programs; programs that facilitate access to job opportunities in the S.T.E.M. sectors,...
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Measure II
Failing5,393 votes yes (62.22%)3,274 votes no (37.78%)
Shall a measure to provide a modern recreation center: Meeting current earthquake, electrical, fire safety codes; Providing emergency shelter, disabled access; Restoring space for youth, senior, family fitness/arts/education programs/ classes; by issuing $12 million in bonds, levying $8.70 per $100,000...
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Measure JJ
Passing1,158 votes yes (55.2%)940 votes no (44.8%)
Shall the Brisbane's General Plan be amended to permit within the Baylands a range of 1800 to 2200 residences north of an extension of Main Street, and up to 7 million square feet of new commercial development, subject to these restrictions to protect Brisbane: land for housing must be certified safe...
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Measure KK
Passing8,695 votes yes (75.45%)2,829 votes no (24.55%)
Shall a City of Belmont ordinance providing funding, that cannot be taken by the State, for city services including: Fixing potholes, repairing streets and sidewalks; Maintaining neighborhood police patrols and crime prevention; Maintaining 9-1-1 emergency response times; Maintaining parks, open spaces,...
Learn MoreMeasure WW
Passing5,588 votes yes (51.63%)5,235 votes no (48.37%)
Shall the office of City Treasurer be appointive?
Learn MoreMeasure CC
Passing5,985 votes yes (55%)4,897 votes no (45%)
Shall the office of City Clerk be appointive?
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Measure NN
Passing11,775 votes yes (78.15%)3,292 votes no (21.85%)
To protect the quality of life in San Carlos by providing services and improvements needed to accommodate residents, enhance public safety, community development, parks and recreation programs, street repair and traffic circulation, and for unrestricted general revenue purposes, shall an ordinance be...
Learn MoreMeasure QQ
Passing11,824 votes yes (78.32%)3,273 votes no (21.68%)
To maintain the quality of life in San Carlos by providing services and improvements to accommodate visitors and residents, enhance public safety, community development, parks and recreation programs, street repair and traffic circulation, and for unrestricted general revenue purposes, shall an ordinance...
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Measure OO
Passing20,606 votes yes (77.54%)5,968 votes no (22.46%)
Shall the measure amending the Charter to update certain provisions, including modernizing public notice provisions, establishing terms limits for City boards, requiring the budget to be submitted to Council 30 days before the new fiscal year, having the City Clerk appointed by the City Manager, eliminating...
Learn MoreMeasure RR
Passing19,207 votes yes (67.59%)9,210 votes no (32.41%)
Shall the ordinance to fund essential city services such as protecting rapid 911 emergency response times; preventing the number of on-duty firefighters/paramedics/police officers; continuing after-school/recreation programs for children; and maintaining local library hours/programs by establishing a...
Learn MoreMeasure DD
Passing22,381 votes yes (78.69%)6,060 votes no (21.31%)
Shall the measure funding police patrols, after-school recreation programs and other general city services by imposing a cannabis business tax on all cannabis (marijuana) businesses at an annual rate which shall not exceed 10% of gross receipts of each business, which is expected to generate an estimated...
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Measure PP
Passing337 votes yes (77.12%)100 votes no (22.88%)
To maintain and improve general Town services, such as police service levels, street operations and maintenance, as well as parks, community buildings and infrastructure; shall the Town of Colma adopt an ordinance establishing a 12% Transient Occupancy ("Hotel") Tax generating approximately $319,000...
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Measure TT
Passing8,601 votes yes (74.52%)2,941 votes no (25.48%)
To provide funding for vital city services such as police, fire, parks, and infrastructure maintenance, and for unrestricted general revenue purposes, shall the City of Foster City adopt an ordinance increasing the transient occupancy tax by hotel guests from the current 9.5% to 11% effective January...
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Measure UU
Passing19,723 votes yes (78.12%)5,525 votes no (21.88%)
Shall an ordinance be adopted by the City to establish up to a 10% tax on the gross receipts of all cannabis/marijuana businesses in Daly City if any cannabis/marijuana businesses are allowed in the city in the future, providing approximately $450,000 annually for general public services until ended...
Learn MoreMeasure VV
Passing20,024 votes yes (79.78%)5,076 votes no (20.22%)
To maintain senior, youth/afterschool, parks/recreation, library, disaster preparedness programs, school safety officers, rapid response to burglaries; address homelessness; improve traffic safety; maintain Daly City financial stability and other general services, shall an ordinance by adopted increasing...
Learn MoreMeasure BB
Passing20,178 votes yes (80.64%)4,845 votes no (19.36%)
To maintain police/fire protection, paramedics, 911 emergency response, address homelessness; clean/repair streets/and public areas; retain and attract jobs/businesses; maintain Daly City financial stability and other general services, shall an ordinance be adopted increasing the City's business license...
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Measure U
Passing14,257 votes yes (67.93%)6,730 votes no (32.07%)
To improve student safety/campus security systems/fencing, attract/retain qualified staff, repair/upgrade aging classrooms/facilities, shall Jefferson Elementary School District's measure authorizing $30,000,000in bonds at legal rates, levying 1.5 cents/$100 assessed value, $2,000,000 annually while...
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Measure V
Passing33,875 votes yes (67.88%)16,030 votes no (32.12%)
To provide necessary funding that cannot be taken by the State, attract/retain excellent teachers, enhance math, science, technology, reading/writing programs, support art/drama/music, shall San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District's measure levying a nine year $298, as adjusted, per parcel education...
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Measure X
Passing9,453 votes yes (69.71%)4,108 votes no (30.29%)
To upgrade classrooms, science labs, technology, and school facilities to support student achievement and college readiness, improve student and school safety/security and repair deteriorating roofs, plumbing and electrical systems, shall San Bruno Park School District issue $79 million at legal interest...
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Measure Y
Passing28,750 votes yes (67.25%)14,001 votes no (32.75%)
To improve school safety, protect vital educational programs and attract and retain highly qualified teachers and staff, shall Jefferson Union High School District (including Jefferson, Oceana, Shasta, Terra Nova, Thornton, Westmoor, and Adult-Ed High Schools) levy $58 per parcel for 10 years (raising...
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Measure Z
Passing2,578 votes yes (62.39%)1,554 votes no (37.61%)
To replace leaking roofs, plumbing/electrical systems, repair/replace classrooms for math, science, reading, writing/technology instruction, upgrade outdated safety systems to meet current safety codes, qualify for State matching funds, and acquire equipment/construct facilities, shall this Portola Valley...
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