Gimme My Props

Basically, Prop 19 would allow homeowners to move into a nicer place without their tax bill ballooning.

Proposition 18 proposes to allow 17-year-olds to vote in a primary election if the voter will turn 18 by the time of the general election.

Proposition 17 would let people who are on parole for felony convictions vote — that’s more than 50,000 people.

In a nutshell, Proposition 16 is about repealing Proposition 209, which passed back in 1996.

California’s Proposition 15 is an amendment to the state constitution that would update how the state assesses property taxes.

In 2004, Californians approved a $3 bllion bond to fund stem cell research. That money has been pretty much used up and the original backers want to replenish it. Prop 14 is a five-point $5 billion bond to pay for future stem cell research, training, and trials.

Measure Q is called the Oakland Parks and Recreation Preservation, Litter Reduction, and Homelessness Support Act. If that sounds like everything but the kitchen sink, you can think of it as a parcel tax to fund outdoor areas. About sixty percent of the revenue would go toward maintaining and improving Oakland’s parks, from cleaning the bathrooms to fixing trails.

Measure K aims to protect open space, parks, and water in Napa County. To do this, the measure would impose a quarter-cent sales tax, expected to bring in $9 million annually for the next 15 years. It would be spent on things like maintaining hiking trails in both county and city parks, restoring watersheds, and managing vegetation to prevent wildfire risk.

The media landscape has changed in this new digital age and Oakland City Council members say there’s a part of the city’s charter that needs to get with the times. This is where Oakland’s Measure R comes in. Currently the city’s charter states that the City Council designates the city’s official newspaper for publishing matters of legal and public notice such as election proceedings, awarding of leases and contracts, etc. But for a publication to be an official newspaper it has to be printed and

Measure D is a $90 million bond measure to repair and replace old fire stations in unincorporated parts of Alameda County.