California Local Tax Ballot Measures, 1986 to 2012
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Martin, Isaac W.; López, Jane Lilly; Olsen, Lauren (2017). California Local Tax Ballot Measures, 1986 to 2012. In California Local Tax Ballot Measures. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J09P2ZT7
- Description
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California local tax measure archive, 1986 to 2012.
The files included in this archive are public records associated with local tax measures that were put before California voters in the years 1986 through 2012. Most of them were collected during the years 2014 to 2016 as part of a research project “Direct Democracy and the Significance of the Framing of Proposals” funded by the National Science Foundation (award number 1421993). Most were acquired by addressing public records requests to relevant county officials, some by making public records requests of city officials, and still others were downloaded from local government web sites or retrieved from public libraries. Rod Kiewiet of the California Institute of Technology also kindly provided our research team with many primary source documents, associated with school district parcel tax measures, which he had acquired by public records requests.
The documents included in the archive include extracts from the official sample ballot and voter information guide, often including the ballot question, impartial summaries, and arguments for and against a given measure; the full text of the proposed ordinance where it was available; and very occasionally other public primary source documents (e.g., city council resolutions, city staff reports) that were provided to us above and beyond what we requested.
The coverage of the archive is incomplete. We have included all such documents from every local government tax measure presented to voters in the state of which we were aware and that we could acquire. We worked from lists published by the California Election Data Archive (beginning in 1995) and the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (covering the whole period, but with limited coverage of special elections and elections in odd-numbered years), supplemented by information from local contacts. In some cases, we had reason to believe of the existence of tax measures of which we were unable to locate a surviving documentary record. In other cases, particularly for special elections and elections in odd-numbered years prior to 1995, the archive may omit measures because we were unable to learn of their existence - Scope And Content
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All files are in pdf or rtf format. The files are arranged by county. Within county, files are named according to the following convention:
Year-County-Agency-Letter-Label
“Year” is the 4-digit year, and in rare cases may include an alphanumeric suffix for the month (e.g. “1990Feb”) in order to disambiguate otherwise identical measures.
“County” is the county name, with spaces omitted.
“Agency” is the name of the relevant local government agency whose revenues are to be provided by the tax, with spaces omitted. The agency name may be omitted if the agency is the county itself and the measure concerns county government revenues. Agency names without further specification generally refer to cities. School districts and other special district types may be abbreviated (e.g. “USD” for unified school district). Some city names may be abbreviated (e.g., “MtShasta”). San Luis Obispo is generally abbreviated “SLO.”
“Letter” is the letter uniquely identifying the measure on that year’s ballot for that jurisdiction. In some cases, a single file may include sample ballot information for multiple measures, in which case the “letter” term in the filename may include multiple letters joined by an ampersand. In a few cases, local governments identified measures by number, or by a combination of letter and number; the identifying information in the filename will generally correspond to how the measure was identified on the ballot.
“Label” describes the type of documents included in the file. Labels used by the project research team and their interpretations are as follows:
“All” - file includes sample ballot information and measure text
“SampleBallot” - file includes sample ballot information guide but not measure text
“Incomplete” - file includes partial information from a sample ballot or voter information guide, but not all of the relevant information about the measure
“OrdText” or “Ordtext” - file includes the full text of the proposed ordinance
“Res” - file includes the full text of the local government resolution describing the proposed tax measure; typically used in cases where there was no ordinance text drafted prior to the balloting
“SampleBallot&Res” - file includes sample ballot information guide and resolution text, but no proposed ordinance text (in such cases, proposed ordinance text may not exist)
“Supplemental” - this label is used to name folders, in a few instances where additional public records were provided to us; the naming conventions for documents within this folders are not standardized, as the documents themselves are various.
Occasionally a label may have the suffix “(v2)” when two versions of the documents were provided to us. - Date Collected
- 2014 to 2016
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Principal Investigator
- Research Team Members
- Funding
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National Science Foundation (award number 1421993)
- Geographics
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- Alameda County (California)
- Amador County (California)
- Butte County (California)
- Calaveras County (California)
- California
- Colusa County (California)
- Contra Costa County (California)
- Del Norte County (California)
- El Dorado County (California)
- Fresno County (California)
- Glenn County (California)
- Humboldt County (California)
- Imperial County (California)
- Inyo County (California)
- Kern County (California)
- Kings County (California)
- Lake County (California)
- Lassen County (California)
- Los Angeles County (California)
- Madera County (California)
- Marin County (California)
- Mariposa County (California)
- Mendocino County (California)
- Merced County (California)
- Modoc County (California)
- Mono County (California)
- Monterey County (California)
- Napa County (California)
- Nevada County (California)
- Orange County (California)
- Placer County (California)
- Plumas County (California)
- Riverside County (California)
- Sacramento County (California)
- San Benito County (California)
- San Bernardino County (California)
- San Diego County, California
- San Francisco County (California)
- San Joaquin County (California)
- San Luis Obispo County (California)
- San Mateo County (California)
- Santa Barbara County (California)
- Santa Clara County (California)
- Santa Cruz County (California)
- Shasta County (California)
- Sierra County (California)
- Siskiyou County (California)
- Solano County (California)
- Sonoma County (California)
- Stanislaus County (California)
- Sutter County (California)
- Tehama County (California)
- Trinity County (California)
- Tulare County (California)
- Tuolumne County (California)
- Ventura County (California)
- Yolo County (California)
- Yuba County (California)
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