SVBA is Against Measure A.
Help us fight this new tax
Measure A Will:
Hurt low income families
Won’t solve Santa Clara County’s reckless spending
Hurts small to medium sized businesses
Raise costs of everything from toilet paper, to medication, to gasoline.
Make it less affordable to live in Santa Clara County
Learn More:
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Mercury News Editorial: Santa Clara County already has top rate in California for county government spending. Now it wants a sales tax hike.
“Instead, county supervisors should stem their rapidly escalating spending, which has doubled in the past eight years and ranks highest per capita by far of the 10 largest California counties.“
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County Measure A Brochure Draws Fire for Apparent Advocacy
“The county said the mailer went out to approximately 700,000 households. Printing and postage cost about $266,000.“
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Opinion: Measure A is a taxpayer bailout for poor planning, fiscal mismanagement
In 2021, $76 million of federal COVID-19 aid intended for small businesses, frontline workers and struggling families funded “Hero Pay” bonuses to almost every county employee. County employees are eligible for free health care for life after as few as 10 years of service. For several years beginning in 2018, the county offered employees free valet parking at county offices for a total of $4.5 million.
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Santa Clara County Supervisor Ellenberg’s Committee Found No Cost Savings Before Asking for a Sales Tax Increase
“During the five meetings this year, the two-member panel – Supervisors Ellenberg and Betty Duong – didn’t identify a single cost-saving measure, budget reduction, or plan to rein in spending. “
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Santa Clara County supervisors allocate $76 million to provide hero pay for county employees
“The vote Tuesday spends about $76 million out of the county's first tranche of $187 million ARPA funding to provide one-time payments to nearly all 22,000 county employees”
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Santa Clara County Offering Free Valet Parking to Government Employees
“Santa Clara County workers just got what may be the best perk in the Bay Area. Free valet parking has just been offered to all county employees and visitors for the next four years, a project that costs taxpayers $4.5 million.“
