Of the measures voted on yesterday in Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito Counties… Santa Cruz’s City Utility Tax, Measure H. passed with nearly 63-percent of the vote. Measure M passed in The City of Marina. The Measure will impose a 1-percent sales tax in the city, which will expire in 5 years. The measure passed, 62 to 38 percent, with 100-percent of those votes recorded. Measure N, is also a tax-measure in Marina, and that also passed. Measure N will raise the hotel tax in the City from 10 to 12-percent (for a period of 5-years). It received the support of 70 percentrecorded votes. With all the votes counted in King City, Measure O is likely to pass, which will adopt the City Charter that was proposed in June. Measure P was approved with 70-percent voting in favor of the Measure, which will allow the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District to issue 1-hundred-10-million dollars in bonds. Measure Q, in Pacific Grove, was defeated. It would have imposed a parcel tax on property owners in the city, to create funds for the Pacific Grove Public Library. The measure needs 2-thirds of voters to support it for it to pass, and it only garnered 61-percent of the vote. Also in Pacific Grove, Measure R was up for consideration. That measure would amend the City’s charter and Municipal Codes to reflect voter restrictions on retirement benefits for city employees. Measure R easily passed, with 74 voting in favor. Measure Z, which was included on ballots in parts of all-3 counties, passed. That allows the Aromas-San Juan Unified School District to issue 9.7-million dollars’ worth of bonds.
