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Election Results
Failed
1,068 votes yes (52.15%)
980 votes no (47.85%)
100% of precincts reporting (2/2).
2,048 ballots counted.
Shall an existing special property tax to fund standby costs of providing emergency room services at the Orchard Hospital, in the amount of $70 per residential equivalent unit per year for an additional ten years (vacant parcels and parcels without residential units shall not be subject to the tax) to raise approximately $330,000.00 per year, as enacted by Gridley Resolution 2016-R-020, and a corresponding increase in the City's spending limit, be approved?
What is this proposal?
Measure Details — Official information about this measure
Impartial analysis / Proposal
City Attorney for the City of Gridley
This proposition seeks voter approval for the continued imposition of a special property tax upon residential properties exclusively. If approved by the voters, the tax revenues would be used exclusively to pay for stand-by costs of providing emergency room services at Orchard Hospital in Gridley, a critical access hospital. The proposed tax, in the amount of $70.00 per residential equivalent unit would expire after ten (10) years.
The Gridley City Council has placed this measure on the ballot due to concerns that absent supplemental funding, the hospital might be forced to close and that such closure would constitute a detriment to the health, welfare and safety of the citizenry.
A two-thirds vote of the qualified electors is required to continue the imposition of the proposed special tax.
s/Anthony E. Galyean City Attorney for the City of Gridley
Published Arguments — Arguments for and against the ballot measure
Arguments FOR
NO ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF OR AGAINST MEASURE M-3 WAS FILED
— Butte County Clerk-Recorder
Arguments AGAINST
NO ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF OR AGAINST MEASURE M-3 WAS FILED
— Butte County Clerk-Recorder
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