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Measure KK
City of Hayward, Services and Facilities
To continue providing essential City of Hayward services, including firefighting, emergency-medical response, police protection, pothole repair, street improvements, general City maintenance, and modernization of aging City facilities, including for police, public works, and South Hayward community and library services; shall a City of Hayward measure to continue (without increasing) an existing half cent sales tax for 20 years, providing $20,000,000 annually that cannot be taken by the State, requiring annual audits and public disclosure, be adopted?
Vote Required: 50%+1
SCORE: 4.1
Comments: The score was lowered from the
maximum of five because it is deceptive to provide a long list of popular areas
of expenditures, but as a general tax the proceeds could be spent on any legal
purpose, and not on the popular topics like fire and police protection and
pothole repair which are featured. The claim that the tax proceeds cannot be
taken by the state is gratuitous because the state funds many aspects of city
government, not vice versa. Implicit but not stated is the fact that a measure
that extends an existing tax IS a tax increase, since taxes would decrease
without this measure. Otherwise, the language is relatively straight forward
and accurate.
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