Our 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!
The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association endorses a NO vote:
Measure A: Los Altos Elementary School district $295 parcel tax increase
appearing on the ballot November 7, 2023.
Argument Against Los Altos Elementary School District Parcel Tax - Measure A
The Los Altos Elementary School District says they want “…attract and retain highly qualified teachers” and yet they are already paying an average $99,193 salary plus up to $24,066 in benefits for 195 workdays compared to the U.S. average of 227 days.
The Los Altos Elementary School District has rapidly declining enrollment. Since the 2017-18 school year, they have lost 1,056 students!
(Source: Education Data Partnership, www.Ed-Data.org)
With enrollment declining sharply, presumably they need fewer teachers and fewer classrooms. Why would they need a tax extension, much less a tax increase?
The total revenues for the 2017-18 school year were $63,952,452 which is 123% above the statewide average for elementary schools.
That’s $14,868 per student per year in 2017-18.
Student enrollment for 2021-22 is down to 3,347 students and yet revenues are up to $75,631,298 or $23,117 per student and that’s still 123% above the statewide average.
Has this massive increase in revenues led to improved academics? No, in fact there has been a slight decline. Demand better academic results, and only then reward the District for their efforts.
Please vote NO on Measure _A_.
As parents, we know if you reward bad behavior, you just get more bad behavior.
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.
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$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)
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$45,000,000
... in savings to San Mateo taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure V, the $45,000,000 bond measure in the city of San Carlos (Nov. 3, 2015)
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$ 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.