SVTA Mission:
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association is dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the over-reaching and over-spending of government.
We invite you to join us in that mission!
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withdrawn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:
School District Tax Increase Measures ((12)):
Measure _HH_ – Bayshore Elementary School District: Bond Measure
Measure _P_ – Belmont-Redwood Shores School District: Bond Measure
Measure _GG_ - Burlingame School District: Parcel Tax
Measure _K_ – Cabrillo Unified School District: Bond Measure
Measure _N_ – Cabrillo Unified School District: Parcel Tax Measure
Measure _Z_ – Jefferson Union High School District: Parcel Tax Measure
Measure _U_ – Menlo Park City School District: Bond Measure
Measure _J_ – Millbrae Elementary School District: Bond Measure
Measure _EE_ – Pacifica School District: Parcel Tax Measure
Measure _S_ – Ravenswood City School District: Parcel Tax Measure
Measure _X_ – San Bruno Park School District: Parcel Tax Measure
Measure _Y_ – Woodside Elementary School District: Parcel Tax Measure
And City tax increases:
City Measures ((10)):
Measure _DD_ – City of Belmont: Business License Tax Measure
Measure _AA_ – Town of Colma: Use Tax Measure
Measure _JJ_ – City of East Palo Alto: Citizen Initiative to Amend Parcel Tax Ordinance
Measure _V_ – City of Foster City: Business License Tax Measure
Measure _R_ – City of Half Moon Bay: Sales Tax Measure
Measure _CC_ – City of Menlo Park: Transient Occupancy Tax Measure
Measure _M_ – City of Pacifica: Transient Occupancy Tax Measure
Measure _BB_ – City of Redwood City: Business License Tax Measure
Measure _Q_ – City of San Bruno: Bond Measure
Measure _W_ – City of South San Francisco: Business License Tax 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
We are pleased to report...
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....in savings to Santa Clara County taxpayers--and counting!
...thanks to our legal victory over the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority, taxpayers saved $65,000,000.
+
$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*
...in savings to San Mateo County taxpayers!
...thanks to our defeat of Measure G, the five-year-long parcel tax, in San Mateo County (Nov. 6, 2012).
* Figure approximated by the authors of Measure G.
