With just over 16,000 votes in, Measure A appears depending on outstanding votes to have passed by a 67.2 to 32.8 percent margin. The raw vote total is 10,771 yes votes to 5,262 no votes. UPDATES LATER.
BREAKING NEWS: Measure A Passing Very Narrowly
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Now the school board can get to work on the next “[i][b]temporary[/i] emergency[/b] schools parcel tax” to fund the [i][b]emergency[/b][/i] renovation of Emerson Jr High and the [i][b]emergency[/b][/i] repairs of the DHS multipurpose room.
Once that passes, they can then devote their energies to renewing and making permanent the special “[i][b]temporary emergency”[/b][/i] measures Q and W schools parcel tax”
Wow, by my math that is about a 30 vote margin.
This is a very close vote. If these results hold up and stay just as close I think it’s safe to say that the questionable letter sent out by the district may have swayed the election.
Fabulous, the kids won’t have classes of thirty in the primary grades!
It passed.
Barely
[quote]I think it’s safe to say that the questionable letter sent out by the district may have swayed the election. [/quote]Which way? Making it closer to failure, or ‘bringing home the bacon?… I opined a long time ago that it would pass, but just barely… I think there are many factors involved… looks like the renewal of the city’s Park Tax will not fare as well, if it is pursued.
[quote]Fabulous, the kids won’t have classes of thirty in the primary grades! [/quote]Wasn’t too worried about that. That was reality when I grew up, and not convinced Davis schools do better than mine did. Unless today’s teachers have less skill/commitment, or more challenges than mine did. My neighborhoods had a blue collar population for the most part, and most parents did NOT have a college degree.
The 9:52 update has the vote at 11,073-5,403. That is 16,476 ballots cast. Two-thirds of 16,476 is 10,984. So it is passing with 89 more votes than needed. In other words, if 90 people who voted yes had instead voted no, the outcome right now would be 10,983-5,493. That would mean it was losing with a 66.66% yes vote. (It requires 66.67% to pass.)
I have no guess as to which way the as yet uncounted ballots will go. But if there are 524 left (which makes 17,000 total ballots cast), the vote would have to go no worse than 261 yes to 263 no in order to drag Measure A under the 2/3rds requirement.
If there are 3,524 outstanding votes to be counted (which seems very unlikely at this point), then for Measure A to lose the remaining vote would have to be no worse than 2,260 yes to 1,264 no.
Pretty rigged. I’m sure the ballot counting is rife with teacher union fraud.
Poor Student: at the end of the day, I think it carried by those who have representation, but no taxation on this item.
Should have added, “Elections”, both under Tony Bernhard & now Freddie Oakley (and their competent, dedicated staff), are in my informed opinion, were/are incapable of fraud. However I may agree or disagree with how we got to this point, the tabulation will be more pure than “Caesar’s wife”.
If it passes, I believe that it is simply because enough voters believed in supporting our schools. I see no need to dream up small town conspiracy theories. But that may not be as emotionally satisfying to some.
Check out who handles the ballots at every stage starting at the library.
Poor student might do well working for “the Donald”.
BTW, Poor Student, if you are aware of REAL misconduct, it is your duty to expose it. If not, there is a famous expression, “put up or shut up”.
Typical resorting to violent language to defend your own selfish interest rather than showing interest in confirming the truth for the sake of all parties interested. Must be a Davis teacher writing. Teachers as we know score in the lowest quartile of standardized tests like the GRE. Not a group of people we want to subsidize let alone let teach the typical student who is 50th percentile. If we had privatized education most Davis teachers would not qualify for the available jobs.
[quote]Typical resorting to violent language to defend your own selfish interest rather than showing interest in confirming the truth for the sake of all parties interested. Must be a Davis teacher writing. [/quote]Tu es bete. Violent? how? My selfish interest? I voted against the measure. Teacher? No, but I am a professional. If what you imply is true (which I seriously doubt), it is YOU (if you do not step forward with your “information”) who show a despicable lack of interest in confirming the (your?) “truth” for the sake of all. I repeat. “put up or shut up”.
[quote]Now the school board can get to work on the next “temporary[b] emergency[/b] schools parcel tax” to fund the emergency renovation of Emerson Jr High and the emergency repairs of the DHS multipurpose room. [/quote]
Just to be clear, that would require a bond measure not a parcel tax. You cannot use parcel taxes for facilities.
Moderator: please fell free to start deleting my posts… this individual has (my weakness) ‘pushed my buttons’.
[quote]Just to be clear, that would require a bond measure not a parcel tax. You cannot use parcel taxes for facilities. [/quote]Just to be clear, David, facilities bond issues (the school district CFD’s) are indeed bonds, based on ‘quanta’ of parcel sizes, and look, feel like, taste every bit as much as a parcel tax, including discounts for multi-family parcels. That’s how they get passed.
Hpierce: That may be, but they are separate.
Yes, separate, but nearly equal in their implementation.
BTW, as I understand it, “affordable housing” has substantial discounts from the CFD’s, even though they have a similar student yield as ‘market-rate’ units of the same or similar size.
Interesting how the returns differed in peripheral precincts vs. central Davis: http://www.yoloelections.org/returns/