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Your guide to Bay Area ballots, covering all the measures and propositions in digestible 2-minute summaries.
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California Proposition 22: How Many App-Based Drivers Currently Qualify As Employees?
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W e are listening to our audience to cover the issues that matter most to you this election season. This story is one example, and please share your own questions here . We recently got a question from a listener about California’s Proposition 22 . That’s the proposition that would allow app-based transportation companies to treat their workers as …
T his is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all. Sonoma County Measure P would expand oversight of the County Sheriff. The current oversight office was established in 2015 after 13 year old Andy Lopez was killed by a sheriff's deputy in Santa Rosa . This year, killings by police have motivated five California j…
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Sonoma County Measure O: Funding Mental Health Services With Quarter Cent Sales Tax
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Sonoma County Measure O would impose a special sales tax — an additional .25 percent — to fund a wide range of local mental health services.저자 Carla Esteves
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Late last year , the Richmond City Council directed the city manager to explore ways of bringing in more tax revenue. You’ll see the fruits of those efforts on the ballot, in the form of Measure U.저자 Andrew J. M. Garcia
Measure C would tax businesses that sell cannabis in Fairfield.저자 Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all. Measure X is a sales tax measure that’s expected to generate $81 million dollars a year for the next 20 years. If it passes, sales tax would increase by half a percent on most goods, but not on necessities like food and medicine . That would bring Contra Costa’s s…
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all. Oakland Measure S1 is a police reform effort for voters in Oakland. Those behind the measure see it as a path to independent oversight of the Oakland Police Department. They say it would increase accountability, community safety and public trust.…
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Oakland Measure RR asks voters to remove a $1,000 limit on fines received for violating ordinances. This includes rules against misdemeanors like illegal dumping , vandalism , and excessive noise .저자 stats@kalw.org (KALW)
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Oakland Measure QQ: Youth Voting in School Board Elections
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Right now in Oakland, you have to be 18 years old to vote in a school board election. Measure QQ would give the City Council the power to allow 16 and 17 year-olds to vote in them. To be clear, they don’t have to allow it, but they could.…
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Berkeley Measure KK: Updating Four City Charter Amendments
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Berkeley Measure KK would change four things in the city charter . Let’s take them one at a time.저자 stats@kalw.org (KALW)
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Berkeley Measure JJ: Increase Salaries for Berkeley Mayor and City Councilmembers
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Berkeley Measure JJ would do many things, but the main one is this: it would give Berkeley’s mayor and city councilmembers a big raise. The mayor would get over $107,000 per year and councilmembers would get $67,000. That’s 75% more than they make now.…
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Berkeley was an early adopter of citizen oversight of its police force. It established a Police Review Commission in 1973 , well before Oakland and San Francisco . But after nearly fifty years, proponents of Measure II say the commission is outdated, lacks power,…
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Alameda County Measure X is a bond measure that would authorize the Alameda County Fire Department to take out a $90 million loan to repair and replace some of its outdated fire stations.저자 stats@kalw.org (KALW)
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Alameda County Measure W: Sales Tax To Tackle Homelessness
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Alameda County Measure W is 0.5% increase on sales tax for the next 10 years, to fund services for homeless people across Alameda County.저자 stats@kalw.org (KALW)
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Alameda County Measure V: Renewing Unincorporated Areas' Utility Tax
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Measure V seeks to renew a tax on utility bills paid by households in several of Alameda County's unincorporated areas.저자 Sarah Lai Stirland
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . San Jose’s Measure H aims to generate about $15 million annually by increasing taxes at the city’s two card rooms.저자 Joshua Sirotiak
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Santa Clara County Measure T: Nature Preservation Parcel Tax
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Santa Clara County Measure T is a $24 parcel tax designed to raise funds to protect and preserve natural open spaces in the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority district. This covers the eastern foothills of Santa Clara County, south of the US-101 corridor. Th…
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Santa Clara County Measure S: Safe, Clean Water And Natural Flood Protection Program
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This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . Santa Clara County Measure S asks voters to renew the Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program. This program was originally passed overwhelmingly in 2012 by voters of Santa Clara County.저자 Bee Soll
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . San Mateo measures Y and R are related measures that regulate housing and development throughout San Mateo County.저자 Vivian Bossieux-Skinner
This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all . San Mateo Measure V would raise the hotel room tax in East Palo Alto. Every year, the proceeds would go toward improving affordable housing.저자 Noor Bouzidi
