Nevada County

To maintain critical County of Nevada services with locally controlled funding that cannot be taken by the State, such as: wildfire prevention / emergency preparedness; reducing flammable brush countywide; improving evacuation routes to save lives; preventing illegal campfires; helping seniors / disabled residents maintain defensible space; enhancing emergency communications, early warning / 911 response; and for general government use; shall the County of Nevada measure establishing a ½¢ sales tax, providing $12,000,000 annually for ten years, with citizen oversight / audits, be adopted?

To maintain improve essential services including public safety, crime prevention/ investigation, environmental regulations enforcement, neighborhood protection, and other County services, shall the measure establishing cannabis business tax rates not to exceed $10 per square-foot or $8 per ounce on cultivation and/or up to 10% of gross receipts for all cannabis businesses in unincorporated Nevada County, generating an estimated $1.5-3,000,000 annually, unless/until repealed, with financial audits, no money for the state, be adopted?

To maintain, restore and enhance library services including: (1) Providing children/teen services, such as homework help, computer classes, and school outreach; (2) Enhancing senior/disabled services; (3) Maintaining/restoring Library hours at all branches; (4) Keeping materials and services current, shall an ordinance be adopted extending the existing voter-approved sales tax at the adjusted rate of 1/4 cent, raising approximately $4 million annually, for 15 years, with citizen oversight, and requiring that all funds benefit Nevada County libraries?

Shall an ordinance be adopted which (a) bans outdoor cultivation, commercial cultivation and other commercial cannabis activities, (b) limits indoor cultivation to 12 plants per parcel in residential and rural areas, (c) prohibits indoor marijuana cultivation in unpermitted structures and areas used or intended for human occupancy, and (d) allows marijuana cultivation only by qualified patients and primary caregivers and only for medicinal purposes?

Shall medical marijuana cultivation in Nevada County be allowed to expand by amending the County's General Code to (a) increase the allowed sizes of cultivation areas; (b) reduce or eliminate setback requirements between cultivation areas and adjacent residences and sensitive uses; and (c) eliminate various marijuana cultivation regulations and restrictions related to nuisance control?

Shall the Beyers Lane Community Service District levy an annual special tax upon all taxable real property located within the boundaries of the Beyers Lane Community Service District in an amount not to exceed $350 per parcel per year for the purpose of providing road maintenance and improvements within the boundaries of the Beyers Lane Community Service District?

Shall Ordinance No. 2012-01 of the Mystic Mine Community Services District be adopted to:(i) increase the existing road tax from $120 to $200 per parcel per year to pay for road maintenance and improvements, (ii) make other changes to the tax as stated in the Ordinance and (iii) establish a spending limit of $30,000 in accordance with Article XIIIB of the California Constitution?