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- Measure V.
Utility Users Tax
-- County of Alameda
(Majority Approval Required)
 Pass:
470,627 /
69.08% Yes votes ......
210,633 /
30.92% No votes
- Shall an ordinance be approved to extend until 6/30/2033, with no increase to the current 6.5% tax rate, the existing Utility Users Tax, collected only in the unincorporated areas (Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, Sunol), providing approximately $12 million annually which may fund County Services, including services to unincorporated areas (e.g., Sheriff, Library, Planning, Code Enforcement), retaining current exemptions and exclusions, including exemptions for low income or lifeline utility users, and making clarifying/administrative changes?
- Measure W.
Sales Tax
-- County of Alameda
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
358,123 /
50.09% Yes votes ......
356,812 /
49.91% No votes
- Shall a County of Alameda ordinance be adopted to establish a half percent sales tax for 10 years, to maintain and improve essential County services, including housing and services for those experiencing homelessness, mental health services, job training, social safety net and other general fund services, providing approximately $150,000,000 annually, with annual audits and citizen oversight?
- Measure X.
Fire Safety Bond
-- Alameda County Fire Department
(2/3 Approval Required)
Pass:
38,796 /
66.78% Yes votes ......
19,300 /
33.22% No votes
- Shall the measure authorizing the Alameda County Fire Department to issue $90,000,000 in general obligation bonds to repair / replace outdated stations, thereby maintaining services in unincorporated communities (including medical emergency lifesaving services, fast 911 response, wildfire protection and disaster response) in an estimated levy of 1.6 cents per $100 assessed value, raising on average $5,200,000 annually for approximately 31 years, with oversight and audits, and no funds for salaries, benefits or pensions be adopted?
- Measure Y.
School Bonds
-- Oakland Unified School District
(55% Approval Required)
Pass:
150,115 /
77.65% Yes votes ......
43,212 /
22.35% No votes
- Shall Oakland Unified School District's measure to issue $735 million in bonds for: classroom repair and school safety improvements including upgrading classrooms, science labs, and technology; improving student safety and security; repairing bathrooms, electrical systems, and plumbing/sewers; and improving energy efficiency/earthquake safety; at legal rates, levying about $60 per $100,000 of assessed value, raising an average of $48.5 million annually for approximately 30 years, with citizens' oversight, audits, and no money for administrator salaries be adopted?
- Measure Z.
Multi-Family Housing
-- City of Alameda
(Majority Approval Required)
 Fail:
16,749 /
40.06% Yes votes ......
25,063 /
59.94% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the City Charter to repeal the prohibition against the building of multi-family housing in Alameda and amending the City Charter and the General Plan to repeal the citywide density limitation of one housing unit per 2,000 square feet of land be adopted?
- Measure AA.
City Council
-- City of Alameda
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
28,585 /
73.51% Yes votes ......
10,300 /
26.49% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the City Charter to clarify the prohibition against members of the City Council interfering with City Manager's duties, authorize the City Attorney to prosecute State law misdemeanors, and amend outdated provisions, including utilizing gender neutral language, be adopted? Such amendments will be accomplished by amending Charter Sections 2-9, 2-16, 7-3, 8-2, 10-2, 10-3, 10-4, 10-4.1, and deleting Sections 2-15, 22-7, 22-8, as set forth in City Council Resolution No. 15673.
- Measure BB.
Ranked Choice Voting
-- City of Albany
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
7,155 /
73.27% Yes votes ......
2,610 /
26.73% No votes
- Shall a measure be adopted to change the current method of electing City Council and Board of Education Members from obtaining a plurality of votes to Ranked Choice Voting, in order to make Albany's elections more representative of the votes and preferences of its voters?
- Measure CC.
Real Property Tax
-- City of Albany
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
5,512 /
56.38% Yes votes ......
4,264 /
43.62% No votes
- To support City of Albany general services, with funding that cannot be taken by Sacramento, including: emergency response services, environmental programs, community services and local business programs, shall a measure increasing the City's real property transfer tax rate from $11.50 to $15.00 per $1,000 purchased, providing an additional $392,000 annually, until ended by voters, with all funds remaining local be adopted?
- Measure DD.
Utility Users Tax
-- City of Albany
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
5,737 /
58.05% Yes votes ......
4,146 /
41.95% No votes
- To support City of Albany general services including: disaster and emergency preparedness, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, emergency response and environmental sustainability, shall a measure increasing the City's utility users' tax from 7% to 9.5% for gas and electric service, and applying the tax to water service at 7.5%, providing an additional $675,000 annually until ended by voters, exempting self-generated energy, exempting low-income households, requiring independent audits, with all funds remaining local be adopted?
- Measure EE.
Fire Engines and Ambulance Tax
-- City of Albany
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
5,753 /
58.87% Yes votes ......
4,019 /
41.13% No votes
- To maintain City of Albany paramedic, advanced life support, fire engine and ambulance service, with funding that cannot be taken by Sacramento; shall a measure increasing the annual current paramedic advanced life support fire engine and ambulance service special tax from $23.66 to $68 per assigned residential unit, providing an additional $359,600 annually until ended by voters, exempting very low-income residents, with annual independent audits, with all funds remaining local, be adopted?
- Measure FF.
Parcel Tax
-- City of Berkeley
(2/3 Approval Required)
Pass:
43,756 /
74.19% Yes votes ......
15,221 /
25.81% No votes
- Shall an ordinance enacting a tax at a rate of $0.1047 per square foot of improvements, which is estimated to generate $8.5 million annually for firefighting, emergency medical response, 9-1-1 communications services, hazard mitigation, and wildfire prevention and preparedness, until repealed by the voters, be adopted?
- Measure GG.
Transportation Network Companies Tax
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
34,001 /
58.78% Yes votes ......
23,842 /
41.22% No votes
- Shall an ordinance enacting a tax on users of Transportation Network Companies for prearranged trips originating in Berkeley, at a rate of 50 cents per trip for private trips and 25 cents per trip for pooled trips, regardless of the number of passengers on the trip, which is estimated to generate $910,000 annually for general municipal services in the City of Berkeley until January 1, 2041, be adopted?
- Measure HH.
Utility Users Tax
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Fail:
27,175 /
47.03% Yes votes ......
30,612 /
52.97% No votes
- Shall an ordinance increasing the Utility Users Tax on electricity and gas from 7.5% to 10%, with exemptions for low-income users, for general municipal services, including programs to equitably reduce local greenhouse gas emissions, and authorizing the City Council to increase the gas users tax by an additional 2.5%, with the total tax estimated to generate $2.4 million annually, until repealed by the voters, be adopted?
- Measure II.
Police Accountability
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
50,244 /
84.65% Yes votes ......
9,112 /
15.35% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the Berkeley City Charter to create an independent Berkeley Police Accountability Board and Director of Police Accountability to provide oversight of the Berkeley Police Department (Department) policies, practices, and procedures; obtain access to records; investigate complaints filed by members of the public against sworn employees of the Department; and recommend discipline of sworn employees of the Department, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, be adopted?
- Measure JJ.
Charter Council Salaries
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
35,742 /
64.62% Yes votes ......
19,573 /
35.38% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the City Charter to provide that compensation for the office of Mayor be set at Alameda County's median three-person household income from the California Department of Housing and Community Development and that of Councilmembers maintained at 63% of the Mayor's compensation, with annual increases based on changes in Area Median Income, but which may be lowered for unexcused Council meeting absences or negotiated salary reductions for City employees, be adopted?
- Measure KK.
Charter Admin and City Attorney
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
41,762 /
75.06% Yes votes ......
13,877 /
24.94% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the City Charter to eliminate the residency requirement for sworn members of the fire department, conform the provisions of Article V, Section 9.5 and Section 10 regarding the eligibility requirements for the Redistricting Commission to state law, remove gender-specific language and amend Article VII, Section 28 and Article XVI, Section 113 to update terms and duties of the office of City Attorney be adopted?
- Measure LL.
GANN Limit
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
44,947 /
81.38% Yes votes ......
10,282 /
18.62% No votes
- Shall the City's appropriation limit under Article XIIIB of the California Constitution be increased to allow expenditure of the proceeds of City taxes and income from the investment of those taxes for fiscal years 2021 through 2024? Financial Implications: This measure would not increase taxes or impose a new tax. It would authorize the City to continue to spend the proceeds of already-approved taxes for FY 2021 through 2024.
- Measure MM.
Rent Stabilization Ordinance
-- City of Berkeley
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
32,033 /
56.84% Yes votes ......
24,319 /
43.16% No votes
- Shall the measure amending the Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance to: prohibit eviction of qualifying tenants for nonpayment of rent during state or local emergencies; authorize the Rent Stabilization Board to set registration fees for certain partially exempt units; and limit the Accessory Dwelling Unit exemption to owner-occupied properties with a single-family home and one accessory unit be adopted?
- Measure NN.
Transient Occupancy Tax
-- City of Hayward
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
41,393 /
72.27% Yes votes ......
15,884 /
27.73% No votes
- To support City of Hayward services, including: repairing streets and sidewalks; 911 emergency and firefighter response times; disaster preparedness; extended library hours and after-school programs; and other general City services with revenue that cannot be taken by the State; shall the City of Hayward increase the transient occupancy tax paid only by hotel and motel guests from 8.5% to no more than 14%, providing and estimated $3,000,000 annually, until repealed by voters, all funds benefiting Hayward?
- Measure OO.
Charter Amendment
-- City of Hayward
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
37,696 /
67.04% Yes votes ......
18,530 /
32.96% No votes
- To create more opportunities for residents to volunteer, and to honor Hayward's commitment to diversity, shall the Charter of the City of Hayward be amended to eliminate the requirement of being a qualified elector/registered voter to serve on City Council-appointed advisory commissions, and shall the Charter be amended to eliminate gender-based designations and titles and instead use neutral, gender-free designations and titles?
- Measure PP.
Maintain Critical City Services
-- City of Newark
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
13,419 /
71.77% Yes votes ......
5,277 /
28.23% No votes
- To maintain critical City services, including 911 emergency response/fire protection/public safety; streets/pothole repair; parks/recreation; neighborhood police patrols, crime prevention, drug/gang-prevention programs; and other city services; shall the measure extending the City of Newark's existing voter-approved utility users tax 9 years at the current 3.25% rate, providing $2,750,000 annually, exempting seniors and low-income residents, requiring audits, with no increase in tax rate and no money for Sacramento, be adopted?
- Measure QQ.
Youth Voting
-- City of Oakland
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
131,324 /
67.88% Yes votes ......
62,127 /
32.12% No votes
- Shall a measure amending the City of Oakland Charter to authorize the City Council, by adoption of an ordinance, to authorize persons aged 16 and above, who are otherwise eligible to vote under state and local law, to vote for the Office of School Board Director, be adopted?
- Measure RR.
Charter Amendment
-- City of Oakland
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
108,499 /
58.34% Yes votes ......
77,475 /
41.66% No votes
- Shall the Measure amending Oakland City Charter Section 217 to eliminate the $1,000 limit on fines for ordinance and code violations, be adopted?
- Measure S1.
Police Commission
-- City of Oakland
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
154,314 /
81.27% Yes votes ......
35,566 /
18.73% No votes
- Shall Oakland's City Charter be amended to: (1) create an Office of Inspector General to review and report on the Police Department's and the Community Police Review Agency's ("CPRA's") practices regarding police misconduct, and allow the Police Commission ("Commission") to hire and remove the Inspector General; and (2)change the Commission's and the CPRA's powers and duties, and allow the Commission and the CPRA to hire their own attorneys independent of the City Attorney?
- Measure SS.
Police Commission
-- City of Oakland
(Majority Approval Required)
- Shall Oakland's City Charter be amended to: (1) create an Office of Inspector General to review and report on the Police Department's and the Community Police Review Agency's ("CPRA's") practices regarding police misconduct, and allow the Police Commission ("Commission") to hire and remove the Inspector General; and (2)change the Commission's and the CPRA's powers and duties, and allow the Commission and the CPRA to hire their own attorneys independent of the City Attorney?
- Measure TT.
Conveyance Tax
-- City of Piedmont
(Majority Approval Required)
Fail:
3,703 /
47.82% Yes votes ......
4,041 /
52.18% No votes
- Shall the City of Piedmont, to be in alignment with neighboring East Bay Cities, increase the real estate transfer tax from $13.00 to $17.50 per $1,000 of transfer price, generating $948,462 annually until ended by voters, to provide general tax revenue for city services and to repair and maintain city facilities including police and fire stations, parks, and recreation facilities, and other city infrastructure, be adopted?
- Measure UU.
Pool Bond Measure
-- City of Piedmont
(2/3 Approval Required)
Pass:
5,336 /
68.52% Yes votes ......
2,451 /
31.48% No votes
- Shall the measure to prevent permanent closure of Piedmont's Community Pool by constructing new pool facilities, restrooms and related areas, to conserve energy and water, provide greater community access and safety, and authorize Piedmont to issue $19,500,000 in bonds at legal rates, generating $1,257,950 annually at an average rate of 2.6 cents per $100 of assessed valuation while bonds are outstanding, with all money staying local and independent citizens' oversight, be adopted?
- Measure VV.
Real Property Tax
-- City of San Leandro
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
20,156 /
53.28% Yes votes ......
17,676 /
46.72% No votes
- To maintain City of San Leandro services, with revenue that cannot be taken by the State, including: repairing potholes/streets; supporting seniors, families and local small businesses through COVID-19 economic recovery; preserving 911 emergency response; maintaining youth violence prevention programs; and general city services; shall San Leandro increase the existing real property transfer tax rate, collected when property is sold, by $5 per $1,000 in valuation, generating an additional $4,000,000 annually, until repealed by voters, all funds benefiting San Leandro?
- Measure WW.
Utility Users Tax
-- City of Union City
(Majority Approval Required)
Pass:
17,301 /
56.87% Yes votes ......
13,120 /
43.13% No votes
- Union City Essential Services Protection Measure. To protect essential city services including senior citizen support/ meal programs during COVID-19 crisis/ recovery; 911 emergency/ paramedic response; street/ pothole repair; fire protection; disaster/ health crisis preparedness; youth violence prevention/ drug intervention programs; and other city services, shall the measure establishing a 5% utility users tax on gas, electricity, video, telecommunications services for 8 years, providing $6,100,000 annually in locally-controlled funding, requiring citizen oversight/ independent audits, be adopted?
- Measure XX.
Bond Measure
-- Washington Township Health Care District
(2/3 Approval Required)
Pass:
93,852 /
67.22% Yes votes ......
45,763 /
32.78% No votes
- To complete the construction necessary to make Washington Hospital earthquake safe and ensure the hospital remains open and accessible to provide life-saving care during a major disaster, to provide modern operating rooms, intensive care for infants and modern patient facilities, shall community-owned Washington Township Health Care District authorize $425,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, generating approximately $21,000,000 annually at an average rate of 1 cent per $100 of assessed valuation while bonds are outstanding, with all money staying local?
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