Oakland Measure W - County Sales Tax
Ballot Measure / Establishes an additional 0.50% sales tax in Alameda County for 10 years to fund programs for people without housing.
Oakland Measure Y - School Repairs Bond
Ballot Measure / Authorizes the Oakland Unified School District to issue $735 million in general obligation bonds for capital improvements and building acquisition.
Oakland Measure V - Utility User Tax
Ballot Measure / Extends to 2033 the county’s current 6.5% utility user tax levied on residents of unincorporated areas.
Oakland Measure S1 - Police Commission
Ballot Measure / Modifies and expands the powers of the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, and creates an Office of Inspector General.
Oakland Measure QQ - Youth Vote in School Board Elections
Ballot Measure / Amends the Oakland City Charter to allow the City Council to adopt an ordinance lowering the voting age to 16 for Oakland Unified School District Board of Education elections.
Oakland Measure RR - Limits on Fines
Ballot Measure / Removes from the charter the $1,000 limit on fines for violating city ordinances.
Bay Area Measure RR - Caltrain Sales Tax
Ballot Measure / Creates a one-eighth percent sales tax in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to fund Caltrain operations and capital improvements.
California Prop 14 - Stem Cell Bond
Ballot Measure / Authorizes the sale of $5.5 billion in general obligation bonds to fund research on stem cells.
California Prop 15 - Commercial Property Tax Changes
Ballot Measure / Taxes most commercial property worth more than $3 million dollars at market value and uses the funds raised from this change to support schools and local government.
California Prop 16 - Affirmative Action
Ballot Measure / Allows public institutions to consider race, gender or ethnicity in decisions around education, employment and contracting.
California Prop 17 - Voting Rights for People on Parole
Ballot Measure / Grants people on parole in California the right to vote.
California Prop 18 - Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds
Ballot Measure / Allows 17-year-olds who will be 18 at the time of the next general election and are United States citizens and residents of California to vote in any primary or special elections.
California Prop 19 - Property Tax Transfers
Ballot Measure / Allows seniors, disabled people and disaster victims to transfer existing property tax assessments to a new home.
California Prop 20 - Rollback of Crime Leniency Laws
Ballot Measure / Makes a number of changes to the state’s criminal justice laws on sentencing, punishments and parole.
California Prop 21 - Rent Control
Ballot Measure / Removes certain state restrictions on what buildings can be rent controlled and whether cities can control the rents charged to new tenants.
California Prop 22 - App-Based Driver Classification
Ballot Measure / Defines some ride-hailing and delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees and establishes minimum benefits and labor protections for those drivers.
California Prop 23 - Private Dialysis Clinics
Ballot Measure / Establishes staffing and other requirements for chronic dialysis clinics.
California Prop 24 - Consumer Data Privacy
Ballot Measure / Establishes new consumer data privacy rights, amends current data privacy law and creates a new state enforcement agency.
California Prop 25 - End Cash Bail
Ballot Measure / Upholds Senate Bill 10 to transform the state’s pretrial system, including ending the use of cash bail. A yes vote upholds SB 10; a no vote repeals SB 10.
Value Driven
SPUR Report / Roads and parking are expensive to build, but they’re mostly free for drivers to use as much as they’d like. This kind of free access imposes serious costs on others: traffic, climate change, air pollution, and heart and lung disease. SPUR’s new report Value Driven shines a light on the invisible costs of driving and offers five pioneering strategies to address them.