Measure L
The Sun and the PE's editorial boards endorsed it. The city is prepared to spend nearly $80,000 to tout it to voters.
And all it would do, if approved, is reduce a $100 utility bill by $.08.
What is the point of Measure L?
Well, the answer is that the city hopes voters approve it because it also authorizes the city to make technical modifications to the tax to bring it into conformity with recently changed federal law. Without a voter-approved change, the city could be vulnerable to court challenges, possibly to the peril of the whole tax, which if disallowed would all but wreck the city's finances.
Vague enough for ya?
In a story set to print tomorrow, we'll try to get to explain the issue in a little more detail.
Looking at the voter responses on the Registrar's website, a mere total of 17,000+ SB citizens voted this in--out of 180,000-something population--that's all it takes, folks. Imagine the pull we would have in the way city government is run, if more people would take a genuine interest in the city you live in. Please get involved in your local community, and we may actually see those changes that are being proposed and planned to make this city the great city is has been known as in years past!