Model California MeasuresMarina Luderer2023-10-26T11:34:34+00:00
Model California Measures
Before you draft a measure, it is helpful to use our Tool for Crafting a Ballot Measure and the Elements of a measure, as well as look at other measures that may be similar to the one you want. We particularly recommend looking at Alameda County for early care measures, Pomona for youth-related measures, San Francisco 2014 for overall strategies regarding baseline budgets and planning, and Oakland College and Career Readiness for All for collaboration between community-based organizations and schools.
Check out this list of Model California Measures with valuable information:
- Alameda County – early care and health sales tax
- Marin Measure A – special sales tax for a children’s fund, November, 2016
- Monterey County – parcel tax for safe, affordable, quality childcare, November 2022
- Napa Children’s Fund – draft of proposed set-aside, 2016
- Oakland Fund for Children and Youth – set-aside of general fund, most recent version, 2009
- Oakland Public Safety and Violence Prevention – parcel tax and parking surcharge
- Oakland College and Career Readiness for All – parcel tax
- Oakland Children’s Initiative – sales tax for early care and college support, 2018
- Pomona Children and Youth Fund – set-aside of General Fund
- Richmond Kids First – set-aside of General Fund for 2016 ballot
- Sacramento Children’s Fund – city set-aside of General Fund (related to marijuana revenue)
- Sacramento Children and Youth Fund – marijuana tax on ballot, June, 2016
- San Francisco Babies and Families First Fund – commercial rent tax for early care, 2018
- San Francisco Children’s Fund, reauthorized in November, 2014 – includes increases in fund, services to transitional age youth, and greater oversight and planning
- San Francisco Children’s Fund, set-aside or property tax reauthorized 2000
- Santa Cruz Children’s Fund Act – Marijuana tax set-aside
- Solano Advisory measure for Solano Children’s Fund – accompanied a general sales tax, November, 2016
- Sonoma County Childcare and Children’s Health – sales tax for early care, 2024
- South San Francisco Early Care for All – parcel tax on large properties
- Yolo Preschool Measure – sales tax
