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Wow, this bit was pretty surprising > The school board had cited declining enrollment, funding issues and voters’ rejection of a parcel tax as reasons for clos
by jxramos 4y ago
Wow, this bit was pretty surprising
> The school board had cited declining enrollment, funding issues and voters’ rejection of a parcel tax as reasons for closing the two schools.
I'm very intrigued that the Cupertino voters rejected a parcel tax, I've seen so many of those in my town and they all pass. They typically go something like "shall the City of Cupertino collect a parcel tax at rate XYZ for the next ZZZ years to replace aging air conditioning and plumbing and other aging building facilities?".
- rcpt 4y agoIt's possibly because of Prop 218. One of Howard Jarvis's more insidious laws which requires that local taxes get 2/3 of votes to pass.
- jxramos 4y agothat's interesting, I wonder why it never changed. Been on the books since the late 90s it sounds like. Ratified November 5, 1996 Date effective November 6, 1996; 26 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_218 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_21...
- rcpt 4y agoHJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.