City of San Mateo — Transactions and Use Tax Measure

Approval requirement: Majority (county listing).

Official ballot question

To provide funding for San Mateo city services, such as keeping local streets, sidewalks, parks, infrastructure, and community facilities safe, clean, and well-maintained, fixing potholes, providing fire protection, paramedic, crime prevention, and 9-1-1 emergency response, and improvements to traffic safety/traffic management, shall the City of San Mateo’s ordinance establishing a one-quarter cent sales tax be adopted, providing 7 million dollars annually for general government use until ended by voters, with independent audits and all funds locally-controlled?

Official ballot wording and filing (PDF page 2). Wording transcribed from the official filing; line breaks and spacing normalized.

• The 0.50% figure is the city’s own transactions and use tax; it is not the combined sales-tax rate from all jurisdictions.

Campaign finance

CalBallot has not yet linked campaign-finance filings to this local measure. No contribution or spending total is reported here.

San Mateo County campaign-finance resources

Use the November 2026 election, jurisdiction and measure name to search. City or regional committees may file with a different office; the county resource is a starting point, not a complete measure-specific filing list.