BART passengers can already expect to pay more for fares and parking in the near future, but for the transit agency to meet its colossal long-range needs regional voters likely will need to approve tax increases.
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This coming November, San Franciscans will have the opportunity to vote on a measure that may ultimately lead to the draining and restoration of the Hetch Hetchy Valley and force The City to look elsewhere for most of its water.
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If City College of San Francisco’s efforts to pass a parcel tax in November pay off, eliminated classes could be restored and campuses would remain open.
The $79-a-year parcel tax, known as Proposition A, would raise $17 million annually for eight years for the struggling institution.
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Voters in the Brisbane Elementary School District on Tuesday were close to rejecting a $156 annual parcel tax that school officials say would have closed a $500,000 budget deficit.
Because the measure involved a tax, it was required to pass by two-thirds of the vote. With 1,218 votes cast, 65.7 percent voted for Measure Q, falling short of the threshold.
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MEASURE A: PASSSan Carlos voters approved Tuesday a renewal of the $110-per-year parcel tax that supports the city’s four elementary schools. Measure A extends for another eight years a parcel tax that generates about $1 million annually for the San Carlos School District. Superintendent Craig Baker has said the tax, first passed in 2003, will help cushion the 3,200-student district from expected state education cuts.
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MEASURE C: FAILFor a second time in six months, the Jefferson Union High School District failed to win approval from voters for a new parcel tax that would have generated about $3.5 million per year. Residents in Daly City, Brisbane, Colma and Pacifica rejected Measure C, a $96-per-year tax that would have lasted for four years. The measure needed a two-thirds majority to win. The 5,000-student district narrowly failed to pass an identical tax in November.
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The arts will stay in Brisbane.
In a special election Tuesday night, 68 percent of voters in the small town of 3,600 approved a measure extending and raising a parcel tax for local schools.
Beginning July 1, the tax will increase from $96 per year to $119 per year. It has been extended through 2016.
The approval means music and arts programs threatened with cuts will stay in the district schools.
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A political research firm hired by the San Carlos School District has been working the phones this week to gauge whether residents are willing to stick with a parcel tax that brings in $1 million annually for local schools.
The district is hoping to convince voters to renew the 7-year-old Measure D parcel tax, which costs property owners $110 a year, before it expires in June.
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A five-year tax on parcels in the Cabrillo Unified School District was approved Tuesday.
Measure E will collect $150 per parcel for the next five years to support efforts to increase student achievement and test scores in math, science, reading and writing.
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At the Jan. 9, 2008, ceremony where he was sworn in as mayor for a second term, Gavin Newsom announced, “We will create baby savings bonds to deposit $500 for every new resident born in our city.”
The baby-bond money would be used to pay for college or first-time homeownership. That initiative never made it out of the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee, mostly because, in 2008, San Francisco’s deficit was about $350 million.
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