PROP#
DESCRIPTION
SUPPORTERS
OPPONENTS
PROP 1
$7.12 BILLION BOND FOR CALIFORNIA’S WATER SYSTEM
Association of California Water Agencies
League Of Women Voters of California
Prop 1 will authorize $7.12 billion in general obligation bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects, such as public water system improvements, surface and groundwater storage, drinking water protection, water recycling and advanced water treatment technology. Also, water supply management and conveyance, waste-water treatment, drought relief, emergency water supplies, ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration.
PROP 2
INCREASE AMOUNT OF POTENTIAL SAVINGS IN THE STATE ‘RAINY DAY’ FUND FROM 5% TO 10% OF THE GENERAL FUND Prop 2 will alter the state’s existing requirements for the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA), as established by Proposition 58. The BSA is a rainy day fund. ACA 1 would also establish a Public School System Stabilization Account (PSSSA).
PROP 45
PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIRED FOR INSURANCE COMPANY RATES INITIATIVE. Prop 45 will require changes to health insurance rates, or anything else affecting the charges associated with health insurance, to be approved by the California Insurance Commissioner before taking effect. It will provide for public notice, disclosure, and hearing on health insurance rate changes, and subsequent judicial review. It will exempt employer large group health plans under any circumstances. It also prohibits health, auto, and homeowner insurers from determining policy eligibility or rates based on lack of prior coverage or credit history.
PROP 46
California Alliance for Jobs
California Tax Reform Association Sierra Club
Western Growers
California
Jerry Brown, Governor (D)
Ellen Brown (G), 2014 candidate for California Treasurer
California Democratic Party
Educate Our State
California Republican Party
Evolve
California Democratic Party
California Republican Party
Courage Campaign
California Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
INCREASE THE CAP ON DAMAGES THAT CAN BE ASSESSED IN MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE LAWSUITS TO OVER $1 MILLION.
Consumer Attorneys of California
Prop 46 will create the first law in the United States to require the random drug testing of physicians. Additionally, it will increase the cap on damages that can be assessed in medical negligence lawsuits to over $1 million.
Consumer Federation of California Congress of California Seniors
Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies
American Civil Liberties Union of California Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California California State Building & Construction Trades Council
PROP 47
REDUCES THE CLASSIFICATION OF MOST NONVIOLENT CRIMES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR. Prop 47 will reclassify “non-serious, nonviolent” felonies into misdemeanors, making way for about 10,000 people to return to their families and loved ones. Prop 47 will permit re-sentencing for anyone currently serving a prison sentence for any of the offenses that the initiative reduces to misdemeanors. This initiative would create a Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund that would receive between $150 million and $250 million per year based on prison cost savings created by Prop 47. Specifically the following felony crimes would be reduced to misdemeanors. Shoplifting, where the value of property stolen does not exceed $950; Grand theft, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950; Receiving stolen property, where the value of the property does not exceed $950; Forgery, where the value of forged check, bond or bill does not exceed $95; Fraud, where the value of the fraudulent check, draft or order does not exceed $950; Writing a bad check, where the value of the check does not exceed $950; Personal use of most illegal drugs.
California Democratic Party
California Republican Party
California Calls
California Police Chiefs Association
Jay Z Jon Lopey, Siskiyou County Sheriff
PROP#
PROP 48
DESCRIPTION
SUPPORTERS
OPPONENTS
RATIFICATION OF GAMING COMPACTS WITH THE NORTH FORK RANCHERIA OF MONO INDIANS AND THE WIYOT TRIBE.
Jerry Brown, Governor (D)
Stand Up for California
Prop 48 ratifies tribal gaming compacts between the state and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the Wiyot Tribe. It will omit certain projects related to executing the compacts or amendments to the compacts from the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act. This initiative is a veto referendum, which means that a “yes” vote is a vote to uphold or ratify the contested legislation (AB 277) that was enacted by the California Legislature while a “no” vote is a vote to overturn AB 277.
PROP#
DESCRIPTION
MEASURE
ALAMEDA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION SALES TAX
BB
MEASURE
CC
MEASURE
DD
MEASURE
EE
Measure BB will implement a 30 year Transportation Expendi ture Plan by renewing the 0.5 % transportation sales tax that was approved in 2000 and increasing the tax by 0.5%. This will result in a 1% sales tax in Alameda County dedicated to transportation expenses alone, which will expire in 2045 without voter renewal. The 30 year plan will allot $7.8 billion in spending to improve and maintain transportation infrastructure and systems in the county including para-transit, street repair, bus passes for youth, and funding for the BART extension to Livermore.
CITY OF OAKLAND ETHICS COMMISSION AUTHORITY INCREASE CHARTER AMENDMENT Measure CC will amend the Oakland City Charter to grant significantly more authority to the city’s Ethics Commission, an independent entity responsible for investigating and bringing to light any questionable or corrupt actions by elected officials. The measure also seeks to set aside $500,000 annually in additional funding for the commission in order to hire more staff members and to investigate elected officials in a more rigorous and thorough fashion.
CITY OF OAKLAND AND OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION Measure DD will amend the city charter to establish a 13-member commission to oversee the redistricting for city council elections and Oakland Unified School District elections. The city council is required to go through a redistricting process every ten years. Under Measure DD, the new redistricting commission will go through its redistricting process for both the city council and school districts every ten years. The commission’s first act of redistricting will occur in 2021.
CITY OF OAKLAND MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM TERMINATION Measure EE will authorize the City Council to approve the elimination of the Oakland Municipal Employee’s Retirement System (OMERS). The city will be responsible for purchasing annuities from a top-rated insurance company to continue paying the same retirement benefits to the remaining retirees in the OMERS system.
California Democratic Party
SUPPORTERS
OPPONENTS
Alameda Labor Council
The Bay Area Transpiration Working Group
The Sierra Club TransForm
League of Women Voters of Oakland
Oakland Tribune
There is no opposition to this measure.
Victor Ochoa, Past Board President, Centro Legal de la Raza Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
League of Women Voters of Oakland
There is no opposition to this measure.
Esperanza TervalonDaumont, Executive Director Oakland Rising Libby Schaaf, City Councilmember
William Russell, President Oakland Municipal Employees Retirement System Katano Kansaine, Plan Administrator
There is no opposition to this measure.
MEASURE
DESCRIPTION
MEASURE
CITY OF OAKLAND MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE INITIATIVE
FF
MEASURE
N
Measure FF will increase the minimum wage in Oakland from $9 an hour to $12.25 an hour. Workers would also be able to earn 5 to 9 paid sick days a year. Measure FF would go into effect beginning on March 2, 2015 and the minimum wage rate would increase yearly on January 1st based on increases in the cost of living. The new minimum wage will impact approximately 48,000 Oakland workers while 57,000 workers will receive paid sick days.
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PARCEL TAX Measure N authorizes the district to impose a 10 year annual parcel tax of $120 per unit of property. This money wil go towards adding school programs designed to prepare students for colleges and real-world jobs to reduced dropout rates.
SUPPORTERS
OPPONENTS
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
There is no opposition to this measure.
ROC the Bay SEIU 1021
Dr. Gary Yee, Superintendent, Oakland Unified School District (retired)
There is no opposition to this measure.
Karen Friedman, Co-President, Peralta Colleges Foundation Board and Redwood Heights resident Emiliano Sanchez, Principle, Fremont High School
MEASURE
Z
CITY OF OAKLAND POLICE SERVICES PARCEL TAX AND PARKING TAX
Keith Carson, Alameda County Supervisor
Measure Z authorizes the city to renew for ten years a parcel tax ranging between $51.09 and $99.77 per property unit depending on the type of parcel. It would also authorize the city to continue to impose a parking tax of 8.5 percent for ten years.
Mary Bergan, League of Women Voters Oakland
The projected revenue from these two taxes combined over the ten-year life of Measure Z was estimated by city officials to be $277.2 million. Not counting the 3 percent required for oversight and evaluation and $2 million for fire services, the revenue from this tax will be split 60-40, with the larger portion going to police staffing, programs and services and the smaller portion going to community violence prevention/intervention programs.
J. Alfred Smith, Jr., Senior Pastor Allen Temple Church
Barbara Leslie Richard L. Word Katherine Gabzy