City of Fresno

Shall the measure establishing a 1/8 percent sales tax providing approximately $19.5 million annually for 20 years to improve facilities and services for Fresno veterans, including affordable housing, job training/placement, and mental/physical healthcare; reduce veteran homelessness; rehabilitate deteriorating Fresno Veterans Memorial Auditorium, VFW/American Legion halls (by removing asbestos and providing disabled accessibility), requiring local use of funds, public spending disclosure, citizen oversight and audits, be adopted?

To fund unrestricted general revenue purposes, including combating gangs, drug abuse, human trafficking and homelessness, fund police, fire, roads, and parks (90%) and fund a Community Benefit Fund allocated as recommended by a citizens' commission (10%), shall the measure to tax cannabis cultivation up to $12 per canopy square-foot and up to 10% of gross receipts for medical dispensaries and all other cannabis businesses, generating up to $10 million annually until repealed, be adopted?

Shall the City of Fresno Charter be amended to remove or modify these legally unenforceable sections? (1) §309, prohibiting "off-year" campaign contributions--removed as unconstitutional. (2) §701's City Manager residency requirement--removed as unconstitutional. (3) §1225, prohibiting residential water meters--removed as preempted by state/federal law. (4) §1207, requiring the City Council to raise taxes to balance the budget--amended and made subject to the Proposition 218 requirement for voter approval of taxes.

Shall the measure imposing a 3/8 percent sales and use tax, estimated to generate $37.5 million annually for 30 years, funding City parks and cultural arts, with independent oversight, be adopted?

Shall the City of Fresno Charter §1205 be amended to require the City adopt a balanced budget each fiscal year?

Shall the Charter be amended to allow electronic notices and responses through the Internet for formal bidding? 

Shall Ordinance 2012-26 which grants to Mid Valley Disposal an exclusive franchise for the collection of residential solid waste, recyclable materials, and organic materials within the City of Fresno be adopted?

Shall the Charter be amended to require Council to establish: a policy for managing City reserves; a policy for issuing and managing debts with Controller certification on the reliability of funds for debt repayment; and a policy establishing a due diligence process for evaluating requests by the private sector for City financial assistance that exceeds one million dollars?