PROP# DESCRIPTION SUPPORTERS OPPONENTS

PROP 1

$7.12 BILLION BOND FOR CALIFORNIA’S WATER SYSTEM

Prop 1 will authorize $7.12 billion in general obligation bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects, such as pub-lic water system improvements, surface and groundwater storage, drinking water protection, water recycling and ad-vanced water treatment technology. Also, water supply man-agement and conveyance, waste-water treatment, drought relief, emergency water supplies, ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration.

Association of California Water

Agencies

California Alliance for Jobs

Western Growers

League Of Women Voters of California

California Tax Reform Association

Sierra Club

California

PROP 2

INCREASE AMOUNT OF POTENTIAL SAVINGS IN THE STATE ‘RAINY DAY’ FUND FROM 5% TO 10% OF THE GENERAL FUND

Prop 2 will alter the state’s existing requirements for the Bud-get Stabilization Account (BSA), as established by Proposition 58. The BSA is a rainy day fund. ACA 1 would also establish a Public School System Stabilization Account (PSSSA).

Jerry Brown, Governor (D)

California Democratic Party

California Republican Party

Ellen Brown (G),2014 candidate for California Treasurer

Educate Our State

Evolve

PROP 45

PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIRED FOR INSURANCE COMPANY RATES INITIATIVE.

Prop 45 will require changes to health insurance rates, or anything else affecting the charges associated with health insurance, to be approved by the California Insurance Com-missioner before taking effect. It will provide for public notice, disclosure, and hearing on health insurance rate changes, and subsequent judicial review. It will exempt employer large group health plans under any circumstances. It also prohib-its health, auto, and homeowner insurers from determining policy eligibility or rates based on lack of prior coverage or credit history.

California Democratic Party

Courage Campaign

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

(LAANE)

California Republican Party

California Chamber of Commerce

Association of California Life and Health Insurance

Companies

PROP 46

INCREASE THE CAP ON DAMAGES THAT CAN BE ASSESSED IN MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE LAWSUITS TO OVER $1 MILLION.

Prop 46 will create the first law in the United States to require the random drug testing of physicians. Additionally, it will in-crease the cap on damages that can be assessed in medical negligence lawsuits to over $1 million.

Consumer Attorneys of California

Consumer Federation of California

Congress of California Seniors

American Civil Liberties Union

of California

Service Employees International Union

(SEIU) California

California State Building &

Construction Trades Council

PROP 47

REDUCES THE CLASSIFICATION OF MOST NONVIOLENT CRIMES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.

Prop 47 will reclassify “non-serious, nonviolent” felonies into misdemeanors, making way for about 10,000 people to return to their families and loved ones. Prop 47 will permit re-sen-tencing for anyone currently serving a prison sentence for any of the offenses that the initiative reduces to misdemeanors. This initiative would create a Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund that would receive between $150 million and $250 mil-lion per year based on prison cost savings created by Prop 47.

Specifically the following felony crimes would be reduced to misdemeanors. Shoplifting, where the value of property stolen does not exceed $950; Grand theft, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950; Receiving stolen prop-erty, where the value of the property does not exceed $950; Forgery, where the value of forged check, bond or bill does not exceed $95; Fraud, where the value of the fraudulent check, draft or order does not exceed $950; Writing a bad check, where the value of the check does not exceed $950; Personal use of most illegal drugs.

California Democratic Party

California Calls

Jay Z

California Republi-can Party

California Police Chiefs Association

Jon Lopey, Siskiyou County Sheriff

PROP 48

RATIFICATION OF GAMING COMPACTS WITH THE NORTH FORK RANCHERIA OF MONO INDIANS AND THE WIYOT TRIBE.

Prop 48 ratifies tribal gaming compacts between the state and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the Wi-yot Tribe. It will omit certain projects related to executing the compacts or amendments to the compacts from the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act. This initiative is a veto referendum, which means that a “yes” vote is a vote to uphold or ratify the contested legislation (AB 277) that was en-acted by the California Legislature while a “no” vote is a vote to overturn AB 277.

Jerry Brown,

Governor (D)

California

Democratic Party

Stand Up for

California

MEASURE

BB

ALAMEDA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION SALES TAX

Measure BB will implement a 30 year Transportation Expenditure Plan by renewing the 0.5 % transportation sales tax that was approved in 2000 and increasing the tax by 0.5%. This will result in a 1% sales tax in Alameda County dedicated to trans-portation expenses alone, which will expire in 2045 without voter renewal. The 30 year plan will allot $7.8 billion in spend-ing to improve and maintain transportation infrastructure and systems in the county including para-transit, street repair, bus passes for youth, and funding for the BART extension to Liver-more.

Alameda Labor Council

The Sierra Club

TransForm

The Bay Area Transpiration

Working Group

Oakland Tribune

MEASURE

CC

CITY OF OAKLAND ETHICS COMMISSION AUTHORITY INCREASE CHARTER AMENDMENT

Measure CC will amend the Oakland City Charter to grant significantly more authority to the city’s Ethics Commission, an independent entity responsible for investigating and bringing to light any questionable or corrupt actions by elected of-ficials. The measure also seeks to set aside $500,000 annually in additional funding for the commission in order to hire more staff members and to investigate elected officials in a more rigorous and thorough fashion.

League of Women Voters of Oakland

Victor Ochoa, Past Board President,

Centro Legal de la Raza

Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

There is no opposition to this

measure.

MEASURE

DD

CITY OF OAKLAND AND OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION

Measure DD will amend the city charter to establish a 13-member commission to oversee the redistricting for city council elections and Oakland Unified School District elec-tions. The city council is required to go through a redistricting process every ten years. Under Measure DD, the new redis-tricting commission will go through its redistricting process for both the city council and school districts every ten years. The commission’s first act of redistricting will occur in 2021.

League of Women Voters of Oakland

Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, Executive

Director Oakland Rising

Libby Schaaf, City Councilmember

There is no opposition to this

measure.

MEASURE

EE CITY OF OAKLAND MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM TERMINATION

Measure EE will authorize the City Council to approve the elimination of the Oakland Municipal Employee’s Retirement System (OMERS). The city will be responsible for purchasing annuities from a top-rated insurance company to continue paying the same retirement benefits to the remaining retirees in the OMERS system.

William Russell, President Oakland

Municipal Employees Retirement System

Katano Kansaine, Plan Administrator

There is no opposition to this

measure.

PROP# DESCRIPTION SUPPORTERS OPPONENTS

PROP# DESCRIPTION SUPPORTERS OPPONENTS

MEASURE

FFCITY OF OAKLAND MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE INITIATIVE

Measure FF will increase the minimum wage in Oakland from $9 an hour to $12.25 an hour. Workers would also be able to earn 5 to 9 paid sick days a year. Measure FF would go into effect beginning on March 2, 2015 and the minimum wage rate would increase yearly on January 1st based on increases in the cost of living. The new minimum wage will impact ap-proximately 48,000 Oakland workers while 57,000 workers will receive paid sick days.

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

ROC the Bay

SEIU 1021

There is no opposition to this

measure.

MEASURE

NOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PARCEL TAX

Measure N authorizes the district to impose a 10 year annual parcel tax of $120 per unit of property. This money wil go to-wards adding school programs designed to prepare students for colleges and real-world jobs to reduced dropout rates.

Dr. Gary Yee, Superintendent, Oakland Unified

School District (retired)

Karen Friedman, Co-President, Peralta Colleges Foundation Board and Redwood

Heights resident

Emiliano Sanchez, Principle, Fremont

High School

There is no opposition to this

measure.

MEASURE

ZCITY OF OAKLAND POLICE SERVICES PARCEL TAX AND PARKING TAX

Measure Z authorizes the city to renew for ten years a parcel tax ranging between $51.09 and $99.77 per property unit depending on the type of parcel. It would also authorize the city to continue to impose a parking tax of 8.5 percent for ten years. The projected revenue from these two taxes combined over the ten-year life of Measure Z was estimated by city officials to be $277.2 million. Not counting the 3 percent required for oversight and evaluation and $2 million for fire services, the revenue from this tax will be split 60-40, with the larger portion going to police staffing, programs and services and the small-er portion going to community violence prevention/interven-tion programs.

Keith Carson, Alameda County

Supervisor

Mary Bergan, League of Women

Voters Oakland

J. Alfred Smith, Jr., Senior Pastor Allen

Temple Church

Barbara Leslie

Richard L. Word

Katherine Gabzy

MEASURE DESCRIPTION SUPPORTERS OPPONENTS