City of Stanton

To improve general City services, such as police, fire and emergency response, parks and youth/senior services, and street repair, shall a measure enacting a tax on cannabis or hemp businesses up to $ 12.00 per square foot for cultivation, 6% of gross receipts for retail businesses, and 4% for all other cannabis or hemp businesses, generating approximately $1,000,000 - $1,400,000 annually, until ended by voters, be adopted?

To maintain and improve essential Stanton public services including emergency paramedic repsonse and fire protection, police patrolling homelessness and preventing burglaries, housing affordability programs and other City services, shall a measure amending the Stanton Municipal Code to increase the hotle/motel visitor tax from 8% to 12% be applied to hotel/motel guests, including visitors booking online, providing approximatley $250,000 annually, with audits, and all funds used locally, be adopted.

Shall City of Stanton Ordinance #1045, adopted by voters on November 4, 2014, to generate revenues for city services such as neighborhood police patrols, fire protection services/paramedics, business/job creation, and senior programs, be repealed?

Shall the City of Stanton adopt a measure providing that a person may not hold office as a City Council member if he or she has, after December 31, 2015, served on the City Council for two full terms?

Shall an ordinance adding Chapter 3.05 to the stanton municipal code to impose a transactions and use tax to be administered by the State Board of Equalization be adopted?

Shall the existing utility user tax, approved by the voters in 2001 at the rate of 5%, be increased to the rate of 7.5%, applied to all utility services, with an annual adjustment for inflation according to the Consumer Price Index, for the funding of general city services and programs, provided that existing exemptions from the tax remain?

(ADVISORY) Should the City Council give priority to the following vital City programs and services in allocating money available in the City’s general fund: providing for public safety by continuing and preserving police, fire and paramedic services; retain Stanton’s support for school programs; restoring adequate reserves and funding economic growth and jobs?