City of McFarland

To maintain local funding for essential ervices including: Police and Fire/Emergency Medical Service response, street/road repair, and park maintenance in the City of McFarland, shall a measure expanding the definition of hotel to include campgrounds, amending the definition of "Tax Administrator" to the Finance Director, and increasing the existing Transient Occupancy Tax (paid by hotel/lodging guests) from 6% to 12%, providing an estimated $500,000 annually, with independent audits, until ended by voters, be adopted?

To maintain local funding for essential services including: Police and Fire/Emergency Medical Service response, street/road repair, and park maintenance in the City of McFarland, shall a measure establishing a 5% utility user tax on gas, electricity, video, telecommunication services, providing an estimated $750,000 annually, with independent audits, until ended by voters, be adopted?

To provide funding for essential city services and projects in the City of McFarland such as: police patrols, crime prevention, and quick 9-1-1 emergency response; fire service; repairing roads, potholes and infrastructure, maintaining streets, revitalizing the downtown area, and improving community facilities, parks, senior services, and other general city services, shall the measure establishing a one percent sales tax providing approximately $579,662 annually until ended by voters, requiring citizen oversight, independent audits, and all funds controlled locally, be adopted?

Shall a measure to improve city services, including police, fire/emergency, parks, youth/senior services, homeless community outreach and street repair, by enacting a tax on cannabis businesses of up to $10.00 per square foot for cultivation, 8% of gross receipts for retail, 2.5% of gross receipts for testing labs, and 6% of gross receipts for other cannabis businesses, until terminated by voters, provided such businesses are permitted in the future, generating up to approximately $1.8 million annually, be adopted?

To maintain vital services, improve McFarland's streets and roads, maintain local police and fire protection and 911-emergency response times; shall the city of McFarland enact a utility users tax at the rate of five percent for all utilities, for ten years, providing approximately four hundred ninety-four thousand dollars annually with exemptions for senior citizens and funds used only in McFarland, subject to independent financial audits and citizen oversight?