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VOTER GUIDE - November 2024
Santa Clara County
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association has endorsed these school board candidates in Santa Clara County.
Franklin-McKinley School District Board of Trustees:
Alum Rock Union School District Board of Trustees:
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association urges a NO vote for these measures in Santa Clara County
County Measures ((26)):
Regional Measure 4 - $20,000,000,000 Nine County Bond Debt (2/3 Vote) <withdrawn> - CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TAXPAYERS OF NINE BAY AREA COUNTIES!
K - City of Campbell 1/2% sales tax increase Majority Vote
C - CITY OF GILROY Public Safety Special Transactions and Use Tax ¼ - 2/3 Vote
E - CITY OF SUNNYVALE Main Library General Obligation Bonds $290M 2/3 Vote
J - City of Milpitas - 1/4% sales tax increase
G - CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW Property transfer tax $9.5M Majority Vote
I - City of Santa Clara $400M Bond 55% Vote
P - Campbell Union High School District $747M Bond 55%
BB - Cambrian School District $84 parcel tax 2/3 vote
Z - Cupertino Union School District $347M Bond tax 55% Vote
N - EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Educational Purposes & Establishing the Specification of Election Order $49 Parcel Tax 2/3 Vote
X - EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT $125 Education Parcel Tax 2/3 Vote
W - FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT $192 Parcel Tax 2/3 VotesHH - LAKESIDE JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT Parcel Tax $647.
EE - LOS ALTOS SCHOOL DISTRICT $350M Bond 55% vote
CC - LOS GATOS SCHOOL DISTRICT $163M Bond 55% vote
Q - Milpitas Unified School District $119 parcel tax 2/3 vote
AA - Mountain View-Whisman $1,750 parcel tax 2/3 vote
S - MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT - Science & Technology General Obligation Bond $28M 55% Vote
T - MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT - School Renovations Bond $24M 55% Vote
U - MORELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT Neighborhood Elementary and Middle Schools Renewing Parcel Tax $142 2/3 Vote
GG - Orchard School District $30M Bond 55% Vote
SAN BENITO HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Second High School Vocational, Workforce Readiness & Job Training Classrooms Measure of 2024 General Obligation Bonds $70M 55% Vote
SAN BENITO HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Safe, Functional Second High School Measure of 2024 General Obligation Bonds $70M 55% Vote
R - SAN JOSE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - $1,150,000,000 Bond Measure 55% vote
Y - SUNNYVALE SCHOOL DISTRICT $59 Parcel tax 2/3 Vote
V - UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Education and Local Control $148 Parcel Tax 2/3 Vote
Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters list of all ballot measures with Pro & Con arguments:
List of Local Measures | Registrar of Voters | County of Santa Clara
SAN MATEO COUNTY
The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association endorses a NO vote for these measure in San Mateo County.
County Measures:
Measure _GG_ - Burlingame School District: Parcel Tax
Measure _Q_ – City of San Bruno: Bond Measure
Sant Mateo County Registrar of Voters list of all ballot measures with Pro & Con arguments:
November 5, 2024 Presidential General Election | San Mateo County Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder & Elections - ACRE
In the News
Tax groups sue San Jose over gun insurance law.
Silicon Valley Business Journal, March 17, 2022
Read the full article here.
...In 2020 the SVTA defeated 9 of 17 ballot measures that were tax increase measures.+
$900,000,000
...in savings to Santa Clara taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure I, the $900,000,000 bond measure in the city of Morgan Hill (March 3, 2020)
+
$45,000,000
... in savings to San Mateo taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure V, the $45,000,000 bond measure in the city of San Carlos (Nov. 3, 2015)
+
$ 2,000,000*
* Figure approximated by the authors of Measure G.