To provide funding for local colleges that cannot be taken by the State; keep college education affordable; attract and retain quality teachers; support homeless, hungry students; maintain science, technology, health-science programs; and prepare students for university transfer, career and job training, shall Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s measure levying $48 per parcel for 5 years ($5,500,000 annually), be adopted, with citizens’ oversight, and with no funds for administrator salaries?
3, Santa Clara County • 2020 • Measure
Failed
Result: 62.6% yes, 37.4% no (119,398 votes cast)
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This measure would have imposed a $48 annual parcel tax for 5 years on properties within the Foothill-De Anza Community College District to generate $5.5 million annually for college programs and services. The funds would have been prohibited from being used for administrator salaries and would have been subject to citizens' oversight.