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The Measure H parcel tax is trailing, but it may not be over for the ballot measure yet. With all the precincts in, the tax is trailing by 115 votes our of nearly 14,000, if my math is right (no guarantee at this hour). The ever-helpful school board Trustee Mike McMahon reports on his site that county elections officials would still have to count another 1,700 to 1,800 provisional ballots and absentee ballots that were carried into polling places on Election Day for the measure to pass (ed.). The measure fared much better at the polls than the mailbox. It needs a 2/3 "yes" vote to pass. It would cost homeowners $120 a year and commercial property owners up to $9,500 a year for the next four years if passed. It would raise an estimated $4 million for Alameda's schools, which are facing about the same amount in proposed cuts to state funding for next year. We'll have more on this later today.
In the meantime, it looks like Loni Hancock got the Democratic nod for the chance to replace State Sen. Don Perata, beating out Wilma Chan; Hancock will face Republican Claudia Bermudez and Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party in the race for the seat. Dennis Hayashi will ride the bench at Superior Court Office No. 9, and Conchita Tucker will represent Alameda and East and West Oakland on the County Board of Education. About 24 percent of Alameda County's voters cast ballots in Tuesday's election (though that number has changed a few times, so stay tuned).
You can get the full results here. Statewide stuff's here.
The Alameda Unified School District’s finance chief laid out the impacts of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal for next year, and they are grim. Under the proposal, the district could lose more than $4 million in state funding for the current year and 2009-2010. And that’s not counting the $650,000 it will lose when the new Nea Community Learning Center charter school opens next year, taking an anticipated 250 students off the district’s rolls.
If the governor’s plan were to be enacted, the district could face layoffs and even the loss of five days of the school year, district chief financial officer Tim Rahill said, though it could allow the district to take money out of “categorical” programs – money that is designated for specific programs that can’t be used for any other purpose.
Declining enrollment and increasing costs – Rahill said worker’s compensation costs, for example, will probably rise – will also impact the district’s budget.
“Alameda is facing a state budget crisis. We are facing the opening of a charter school. Also, we’re experiencing declining enrollment,” Rahill said.
He said parcel tax dollars generated by the passage of Measure H could also be used to help cover the cuts, if the board wishes to use those. This year, the district is slated to get $4 million in Measure H tax funds, and it has only budgeted $1.2 million of that.
Schwarzenegger has proposed a number of additional taxes to bridge $31.3 billion in budget shortfalls between the 2007-08 and 2009-10 fiscal years.
The district wants your input on its budget situation. They’ve scheduled budget workshops for February 11 and April 2. We’ll update you when times and locations are available.
If the governor’s plan were to be enacted, the district could face layoffs and even the loss of five days of the school year, district chief financial officer Tim Rahill said, though it could allow the district to take money out of “categorical” programs – money that is designated for specific programs that can’t be used for any other purpose.
Declining enrollment and increasing costs – Rahill said worker’s compensation costs, for example, will probably rise – will also impact the district’s budget.
“Alameda is facing a state budget crisis. We are facing the opening of a charter school. Also, we’re experiencing declining enrollment,” Rahill said.
He said parcel tax dollars generated by the passage of Measure H could also be used to help cover the cuts, if the board wishes to use those. This year, the district is slated to get $4 million in Measure H tax funds, and it has only budgeted $1.2 million of that.
Schwarzenegger has proposed a number of additional taxes to bridge $31.3 billion in budget shortfalls between the 2007-08 and 2009-10 fiscal years.
The district wants your input on its budget situation. They’ve scheduled budget workshops for February 11 and April 2. We’ll update you when times and locations are available.
posted by Michele Ellson at 9:00 AM on Jan 28, 2009
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Between the time when 53% of precincts were counted and when 100% of precincts were counted, the TOTAL vote went as follows:
TOT@53% TOT@100%
YE 7114 -- 9010
NE 3875 -- 4676
10989 -- 13686
The, the **increment** between 53% and 100% is as follows:
YE 1896 (70.3%) (9010-7114)
NO 801 (29.7%) (4676-3875)
2697
In order to get to 66.67% of the FINAL total tally, in the last batch of votes, proponents actually needed a 74.6% split (or, 2012 v. 685, not 1896 v. 801). With this split, the final tally would have been 9126 (66.67%) to 4560 (33.33%).
Thus, Measure H (as of right now . . . since more votes could still come in, i.e. provisional ballots) is 116 votes short in the last batch, i.e. 2012 (# votes needed in the last batch of votes) versus 1896 (actual # votes in the last batch of votes).
Another way to look at is this way: MH's total YES is 9010 (65.83%) to 4676 (34.17%) for a total vote of 13686. Assuming the total vote remains the same at 13686, to hit 66.67%, MH needed 9126 votes, or 116 more than what they actually got.
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