City of Lodi

To make neighborhoods safer, maintain/improve essential City of Lodi services including: reducing crime; maintaining neighborhood police patrols/gang violence intervention/prevention; fixing potholes/city streets; maintaining neighborhood fire stations; enhancing rapid police/fire response times by restoring firefighter and adding police positions; maintaining recreation facilities/programs; and other general fund purposes; shall the City of Lodi measure enacting an ongoing half cent local sales tax, providing $5,400,000 annually, with independent citizen oversight, and funds spent locally, be adopted?

Shall the City of Lodi replace outdated playgrounds, repair eroded riverbank at Lodi Lake, repair and expand park trail systems, replace park restrooms and drinking fountains, and improve park parking lots, roadways, landscaping, and infrastructure, by enacting a one-eighth cent per dollar (0.125%) transactions and use (“sales”) tax, estimated to raise $1,400,000 annually, to sunset in fifteen (15) years, with all revenue exclusively applied to these specific purposes, subject to citizen oversight and annual audit?

Shall the City of Lodi fight crime and expand programs to reduce gang violence by hiring additional police and a gang intervention worker, restore downtown Fire Engine 1 service, and increase training, by enacting a one-quarter cent per dollar (0.25%) transactions and use (“sales”) tax, estimated to raise $2,800,000 annually, 64% to police, 36% to fire, sunset in 15 years, all revenue exclusively applied to these specific purposes, subject to citizen oversight and annual audit?