San Joaquin County, CA Ballot

Proposition 1A Protection of Local Government Revenues
9,398,045 / 83.6% Yes votes ...... 1,837,430 / 16.4% No votes: Should local property tax and sales tax revenues remain with local government thereby safeguarding funding for public safety, health, libraries, parks, and other local services? Provisions can only be suspended if the Governor declares a fiscal necessity and two-thirds of the Legislature concur.
Proposition 59 Public Records, Open Meetings
9,322,156 / 83.3% Yes votes ...... 1,867,161 / 16.7% No votes: Shall the Constitution be amended to include public's right of access to meetings of government bodies and writings of government officials while preserving specified constitutional rights and retaining existing exclusions for certain meetings and records?
Proposition 60 Election Rights of Political Parties
7,217,315 / 67.5% Yes votes ...... 3,473,838 / 32.5% No votes: Shall the general election ballot be required to include candidate receiving most votes among candidates of same party for partisan office in primary election?
Proposition 60A Surplus Property
7,765,107 / 73.2% Yes votes ...... 2,839,572 / 26.8% No votes: Shall the sale proceeds of most surplus state property pay off specified bonds?
Proposition 61 Children's Hospital Projects. Grant Program
6,620,176 / 58.3% Yes votes ...... 4,743,459 / 41.7% No votes: Shall $750 million general obligation bonds be authorized for grants to eligible children's hospitals for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping children's hospitals?
Proposition 62 Elections. Primaries
5,111,627 / 46.2% Yes votes ...... 5,960,889 / 53.8% No votes: Should primary elections be structured so that voters may vote for any state or federal candidate regardless of party registration of voter or candidate? The two primary-election candidates receiving most votes for an office, whether they are candidates with "no party" or members of same or different party, would be listed on general election ballot. Exempts presidential nominations.
Proposition 63 Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes above $1 Million
6,183,119 / 53.7% Yes votes ...... 5,330,052 / 46.3% No votes: Should a 1% tax on taxable personal income above $1 million to fund expanded health services for mentally ill children, adults, seniors be established?
Proposition 64 Limit on Private Enforcement of Unfair Business Competition Laws
6,562,861 / 58.9% Yes votes ...... 4,572,383 / 41.1% No votes: Should individual or class action "unfair business" lawsuits be allowed only if actual loss suffered? Only government officials may enforce these laws on public's behalf.
Proposition 65 Local Government Funds, Revenues. State Mandates
3,895,621 / 37.6% Yes votes ...... 6,461,927 / 62.4% No votes: Should reduction of local fee/tax revenues require voter approval? Permits suspension of state mandate if no state reimbursement to local government within 180 days after obligation determined.
Proposition 66 Limitations on "Three Strikes" Law. Sex Crimes. Punishment
5,596,077 / 47.3% Yes votes ...... 6,230,122 / 52.7% No votes: Should the "Three Strikes" law be limited to violent and/or serious felonies? Permits limited re-sentencing under new definitions. Increases punishment for specified sex crimes against children.
Proposition 67 Emergency Medical Services. Funding. Telephone Surcharge
3,238,537 / 28.4% Yes votes ...... 8,154,515 / 71.6% No votes: Should the telephone surcharge be increased and other funds for emergency room physicians, hospital emergency rooms, community clinics, emergency personnel training/equipment, and 911 telephone system be allocated?
Proposition 68 Non-Tribal Commercial Gambling Expansion. Tribal Gaming Compact Amendments. Revenues, Tax Exemptions
1,894,183 / 16.2% Yes votes ...... 9,788,161 / 83.8% No votes: Should tribal compact amendments be authorized? Unless tribes accept, should casino gaming be authorized for sixteen non-tribal establishments? Percentage of gaming revenues fund government services.
Proposition 69 DNA Samples. Collection. Database. Funding
7,183,917 / 62.0% Yes votes ...... 4,395,343 / 38.0% No votes: Should collection of DNA samples from all felons, and from others arrested for or charged with specified crimes be required with submission to state DNA database? Provides for funding.
Proposition 70 Tribal Gaming Compacts. Exclusive Gaming Rights. Contributions to State
2,759,558 / 23.7% Yes votes ...... 8,868,324 / 76.3% No votes: Upon tribe's request, should the Governor be required to execute a 99-year compact? Tribes contribute percentage of net gaming income to state funds, in exchange for expanded, exclusive tribal casino gaming.
Proposition 71 Stem Cell Research. Funding. Bonds
7,009,814 / 59.1% Yes votes ...... 4,859,401 / 40.9% No votes: Should the "California Institute for Regenerative Medicine" be established to regulate and fund stem cell research with the constitutional right to conduct such research and with an oversight committee? Prohibits funding of human reproductive cloning research.
Proposition 72 Health Care Coverage Requirements
5,681,863 / 49.1% Yes votes ...... 5,881,886 / 50.9% No votes: Should legislation requiring health care coverage for employees, as specified, working for large and medium employers be approved?

Local Measures

Measure E Local Community College Repair/Overcrowding Measure -- Yosemite Community College District (General Obligation Bond Election - 55%)
87,523 / 62.2% Yes votes ...... 53,185 / 37.8% No votes
   84,403 (62.62%) Yes / 50,388 (37.38%) No in Stanislaus County
   Yes / No in Santa Clara County
   3120 (52.7%) Yes / 2797 (47.3%) No in San Joaquin County: To prepare Modesto Junior College and Columbia College students for jobs and four-year colleges, repair buildings, and increase access to educational opportunities by repairing, constructing, equipping buildings, classrooms, libraries, science labs, establishing new and expanded college education centers in Turlock, Oakdale, Patterson and Calaveras County, and acquiring land, modernizing classroom technology, shall Yosemite Community College District issue $326,174,000 in bonds, at legal rates, with annual audits, a Citizens' Oversight Committee and no money for administrators' salaries?
Measure P School Bond -- Lincoln Unified School District (Bond - 55%)
12065 / 71.3% Yes votes ...... 4860 / 28.7% No votes: To improve the quality of education, shall the Lincoln Unified School District be authorized to acquire, construct, and improve classrooms and school facilities; make health and safety improvements; construct and renovate school libraries; improve student access to classroom computers and modern technology; renovate restrooms; and qualify the District to receive $19 million in State grants by issuing $50 million in bonds within legal interest rates, with a citizens' oversight committee, annual audits, and NO money for administrator salaries?
Measure Q Urban Growth Boundary Measure -- City of Stockton (Urban Growth Boundary Measure - Majority Approval Required)
33749 / 50.3% Yes votes ...... 33291 / 49.7% No votes: Shall the Stockton General Plan be amended to establish an Urban Growth Boundary that would, with limited exceptions, prohibit urban development outside the Urban Growth Boundary until June 30, 2024, unless approved by a majority of the voters; allow land outside the Boundary to be used for 'open space'; and adopt a General Plan Policy to encourage the Lodi City Council to adopt a policy to maintain a community separator?
Measure R Large Retail Measure -- City of Lodi (Large-Scale Retail Initiative - Majority Approval Required)
8701 / 42.7% Yes votes ...... 11694 / 57.3% No votes: Shall the ordinance prohibiting the construction of new, rebuilt, or expanded retail structures in excess of 125,000 square feet (including outside retail sales areas) unless approved by the City Council and a majority of the voters voting at a city wide election be adopted?
Measure S Agricultural Protection Ordinance Measure -- City of Stockton (Agricultural Protection Ordinance Measure - Majority Approval Required)
42880 / 65.1% Yes votes ...... 22995 / 34.9% No votes: Shall an Ordinance be approved to amend the Stockton Municipal Code to create a Greenbelt between Stockton and Lodi and to provide regulations to protect and promote farming operations?
Measure T Stockton Greenbelt Measure -- City of Stockton (Stockton Greenbelt Measure - Majority Approval Required)
31508 / 48.5% Yes votes ...... 33484 / 51.5% No votes: Shall the City of Stockton be required to adopt a Greenbelt Master Plan on or before June 30, 2006, and to establish a Financing Implementatin Plan to provide funds to compensate property owners affected by the Greenbelt Master Plan?
Measure U Tracy Hills Growth Measure -- City of Tracy (Amendment to the Growth Management Ordinance relating to the Tracy Hills Area - Majority Approval Required)
6399 / 29.5% Yes votes ...... 15260 / 70.5% No votes: Shall amendments to the Residential Growth Management Plan (also known as the Growth Management Ordinance) be adopted to allow an annual allocation of up to 600 Residential Growth Allotments ("RGAs") and residential building permits ("permits") to the Tracy Hills Community Area, and the exclusion of those RGAs and permits from the existing annual allocation calculation, subject to dedication of proposed open space and park property, payment of proposed fees and applicable development regulations?
Measure V Tracy Residential Growth Measure -- City of Tracy (Amendment to the City of Tracy General Plan and the Residential Growth Management Plan - Majority Approval Required)
9297 / 42.8% Yes votes ...... 12419 / 57.2% No votes: Shall the General Plan and the Residential Growth Management Ordinance be amended to: allow 250 Residential Growth Allotments ("RGAs") and residential building permits ("permits") in 2004 and 2005 for the Bowtie Property, and thereafter 250 RGAs and permits annually for the Ellis Transit Village; delete RGAs and permits issued to the Bowtie Property and the Ellis Transit Village from the existing annual allocation; and, if this measure receives more votes, shall it nullify Measure "U"
Measure W Safe Neighborhood Gang And Drug Prevention, Police/Fire Response Measure -- City of Stockton (2/3 Approval Required)
50429 / 73.9% Yes votes ...... 17848 / 26.1% No votes: To prevent/reduce gang and drug-related crimes; improve the responsiveness of hazardous material/bomb squads; expand neighborhood-based policing with foot and bike patrols; provide additional firefighters, paramedics, police, and school resource officers; increase patrols around school and parks; and improve police/firefighter training, shall the City of Stockton enact a one-quarter cent sales tax with a citizen?s oversight committee and independent annual financial audit?
Measure X Southeast Stockton Urban Growth Boundary Measure -- City of Stockton (Majority Approval Required)
44924 / 67.7% Yes votes ...... 21470 / 32.3% No votes: Shall the City of Stockton's General Plan be amended to include an area in Southeast Stockton (generally bounded by State Highway 4 to the north, Kaiser Road to the east, Arch Road to the south, and the existing Stockton city limits to the west) within an Urban Growth Boundary, if one is established?
Measure Y Manteca Public Safety Measure -- City of Manteca (Special Public Safety Tax - 2/3 Approval Required)
3247 / 19.8% Yes votes ...... 13151 / 80.2% No votes: Shall Ordinance No. 1269, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Manteca adding Section 3.60 to the Manteca Municipal Code Enacting a Special Public Safety Parcel Tax be adopted?
Measure Z Sales Tax -- City of Manteca (The City of Manteca .25% Transactions and Use Tax (Sales Tax) Ordinance - Majority Approval Required)
3595 / 21.9% Yes votes ...... 12834 / 78.1% No votes: Shall Ordinance No. 1270, Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Manteca Imposing a 0.25% Transactions and Use (Sales) Tax to be Administered by the State Board of Equalization be Adopted?

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