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Uploaded: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 7:45 AM
Updated: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7:55 AM
Transportation tax measure still failing as Oakland Zoo measure loses
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A measure that would double Alameda County's transportation sales tax to a full 1 cent was still narrowly trailing in updated election results released shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Measure B1 has received 65.6 percent of the vote, but that's short
of the 66.6 percent, or two-thirds majority, needed to pass.
However, the results could change because about 85,000
vote-by-mail ballots and 40,000 provisional ballots in Alameda County still
need to be tabulated.
Alameda County Registrar of Voters officials said it will take
several more days to count the remaining ballots.
The county's transportation sales tax was first passed in 1986.
Measure B1 would make the tax permanent and increase it from a half-cent to a
full 1 cent.
It would raise money to increase spending on roads, freeways,
public transit, bicycle and pedestrian improvements and transit-oriented
developments.
Opponents said in their ballot argument that the measure is "a
massive tax increase" that would disproportionately harm working families
because a greater percentage of their income goes to sales taxes.
Measure A1, a countywide measure to raise funds for the Oakland
Zoo, also remains slightly short of the two-thirds margin it needs for
approval. The latest results show 62.75 percent of voters for it and 37.25
percent against.
Measure A1 would generate $112 million over a 25-year period to
pay for the basic needs and care of zoo animals, facility upgrades, staff,
education programs and field trips.— Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Resident, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Nov 7, 2012 at 5:44 pm I voted YES on measure I and am disappointed it failed. I do not understand why propositions only need a majority to pass but measures require 2/3.
That said, I understand why some people may have voted against measure I. Las Positas accepts students from counties other than Alameda, yet the tax would have been imposed only on Alameda county residents, and some people had issues with that.
Too bad it failed, it would have only been 23 dollars per year.
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Posted by Steven , a resident of the Pleasanton Meadows neighborhood, on Nov 8, 2012 at 6:45 am Actually it would have been $28, not $23.
BUT, you know what they say: "$28 dollars here, $12 dollars there, pretty soon it adds up to real money"
Taxpayers are sick and tired of being nickeled and dimed to death!
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