City of East Palo Alto

(INITIATIVE) To fund tenant rental assistance and other specified housing purposes such as affordable homeownership, affordable housing preservation, protecting residents from displacement or homelessness, and administrative expenses, shall the initiative measure requiring funds raised by the existing 2.5% tax on gross receipts (that cannot be passed on to tenants) when renting certain types of residential units, until repealed by the voters, which raises approximately $1.45 million annually, be adopted?

To fund general government uses, such as programs for affordable housing, providing tenant rental support, and protecting local residents from displacement and homelessness, shall the current City of East Palo Alto business tax of 1.5% of gross receipts on landlords with five or more residential rental units, which cannot be passed to tenants, be set at 2.5% of gross receipts for all residential rental units, until terminated by voters or reduced by Council, raising approximately $1,480,000 annually, be adopted?

Shall a measure to impose an increase to the City's current Transient Occupancy Tax rate of 12%, paid by a person who rents a hotel room, by a 1% increase on January 1, 2022, and another 1% on January 1, 2023, for a total rate of 14%, estimated to raise $195,000 the first year, and $390,000 annually thereafter, for affordable housing development, acquisition and rehabilitation activities, which shall continue unless repealed by the voters, be adopted?

Shall the measure to impose a parcel tax on commercial office space over 25,000 square feet at an annual rate of $2.50 per square foot, estimated to annually raise $1,675,000, for affordable and supportive housing programs; programs that facilitate access to job opportunities in the S.T.E.M. sectors, building trades and strengthen First Source Hiring; and for City to administer the ordinance and provide annual reports, which shall continue until repealed by the voters, be adopted?

Shall the 2010 Rent Stabilization and Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance be strengthened by simplifying administrative processes and procedures, defining "maximum allowable rent," revising the registration fee pass-through, eliminating annual registration requirements, streamlining annual general adjustment calculations, addressing nuisance-based tenancy termination, strengthening informational notice provisions, and authorizing the City Council to revise the Ordinance when in conflict with federal or state law?

Shall the business license tax a landlord with five or more residential rental units pays the City of East Palo Alto, which shall not be passed on to tennants, be set at 1.5% of gross receipts, until terminated by the voters or reduced by the Council, and the approximately $600,000 rasied annually used as directed by the City Council for general fund purposes, such as funding programs to increase affordable housing, and protect local residents from displacement and from homelessness?

To make neighborhoods safer by maintaining rapid police response times/number of police officers patrolling neighborhood streets; repairing streets/potholes; updating drinking water/storm drain infrastructure; maintaining youth/senior programs and other vital City services, shall East Palo Alto enact a one-half cent (1/2%) sales tax that can only be ended by voters providing about $1,800,000 annually, with citizens' oversight, annual independent audits, all fund benefitting East Palo Alto?