City of El Monte

To preserve funding for various City services and goals like fire protection; graffiti removal; street and sidewalk repair; park maintenance and enhancements; youth and senior programs; building rainy day reserves and any other general governmental purpose, shall the City's 1 /2% transactions and use tax be increased to 3/4% and extended indefinitely until ended by voters to raise an additional $3,500,000 annually?

To enhance funding for police protection and public safety services, community code enforcement and beautification efforts and other general governmental purposes, shall the City of El Monte increase its existing transient occupancy tax paid only by hotel and motel guests from its current rate 10% to a new increased rate of 14% providing an estimated $350,000 annually in additional general fund revenues, until ended by El Monte voters?

To remove impediments to federal and state housing funding for the City of El Monte without increasing local taxes, shall affordable, decent, and safe rental housing projects be constructed, developed, acquired, or converted by low-income housing providers, as designated by the City of El Monte, for low-income persons, including families, the elderly, and veterans, as applicable, for up to 500 units annually for 17 years, with an annual carryover for unused units?

To fund El Monte public safety, parks, recreation, and youth programs including: after-school programs; youth recreation; addiction prevention; community policing; and park improvements, shall a gross receipts tax be adopted for cannabis businesses up to 9% for retail, up to 6% for cultivation and manufacturing, and up to 5% for distribution and laboratory testing to raise approximately $3,500,000 annually?

Shall the term of office for the elected office of Mayor be extended from two (2) years to four (4) years, commencing with the 2015 General Municipal Election cycle?

To preserve and stabilize funding for essential public services such as keeping the City’s four fire stations open; maintaining staffing levels for emergency response police services; street lighting and repair; senior services; and youth parks programs and to build the City’s “rainy day" general fund reserves, shall the City’s existing one half of one percent (1/2%) transactions and use tax be extended for five years?

Shall the City Council be reorganized to replace the current structure of one elected Mayor serving a two-year term and four elected Council Members serving staggered four-year terms with a structure composed of five elected City Council Members who will share the title of Mayor on a rotating basis subject to voter approved procedures for accomplishing the rotation?

Shall the ordinance adopted by the voters in April 1990 be repealed in order to allow the City Council to investigate the reasonableness of rent charged to mobilehome owners and if appropriate, consider the regulation of proposed mobilehome park rent increases in the future?

To offset budget cuts and maintain City general fund services, shall an ordinance be adopted implementing a business license fee of one (1) cent per fluid ounce of sugar sweetened beverage served/provided/traded by businesses in the City?

(ADVISORY) If the Sugary Sweetened Beverage License Fee ballot measure passes on November 6, 2012, the new tax revenues should be used primarily to pay for the following public services: police and fire emergency services; parks and recreation programs including new sports fields; health and wellness programs for children and senior citizens; and other projects to prevent and treat diabetes and childhood obesity.