Measure A
Shall the measure providing funding to help maintain City of Oakland programs, services, and facilities such as public safety and police services; neighborhood crime prevention; fire protection; pothole and road repaving; shelter and housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness; library and recreation services; playground and park maintenance; youth, senior, and cultural programs; by enacting a half-cent (.5%) transaction (sales) and use tax for 10 years, providing approximately $29,800,000 annually for general government use be adopted?
Vote Required: 50%+1
SCORE: 3.6
Comments: The score was lowered from the maximum of five because of the failure to provide information on what existing rate the new 0.5% tax was being added to. Additionally, as a general tax, the new revenues could be spent on any city purposes. It is misleading to list the popular topics of police protection, fire protection, pot hole repairs and homeless services, when any of these listed services could receive none of the new revenues.
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