LOS ANGELES — California's historically high tax ballot measure approval percentage Nov. 8 may get higher as seven more measures appear likely to pass now that more votes have been counted.
California voters approved roughly $32 billion in facility bonds including $23 billion for school construction and $7.2 billion for transit, homeless housing and services, and affordable housing.
A record 82%, or 350 of the state's 430 local tax and bond measures, appear likely to pass; and five more are close enough to change as the state continues counting 1.2 million late vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, said Michael Coleman, fiscal policy advisor for the League of California Cities.
All pass/fail result changes since election eve have been from "fail" to "pass," he said.
Measures that now appear to be passing include a 1% general sales tax increase in Temecula, a $120 parcel tax for police services in Parlier, a $4 million general obligation bond for a police station in Selma, and a $91 school parcel tax in Pittsburg. Three school bonds that flipped to the win column are Red Bluff Joint Union High School District's $26 million Measure J, Cajon Valley Unified School District's $20 million Proposition EI, and Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community School District's $139 million Measure J.
Five more measures are close enough to swing to a win column as the final late vote-by-mail and provisional ballots come in, according to
Close measures include Alta Loma School District in San Bernardino's $58 million Measure H, Nevada Joint Union High School District's $47 million Measure B, Shasta Union High School District's $56.9 million Measure I and two northern California city sales tax measures.
