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El Dorado County, CA March 5, 2002 Election
Measure L
Library Tax
County Service Area 10, El Dorado Hills Library Zone E

Put on the ballot by the El Dorado County Board Of Supervisors

4722 / 73.3% Yes votes ...... 1714 / 26.6% No votes

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Shall a $25.00 per year library tax be imposed annually upon all parcels in the El Dorado Hills Zone of Benefit (Zone E) within County Service Area No. 10 for the sole purpose of providing library service within such zone. The tax shall be imposed in the fiscal year 2002-2003, but collection of the tax shall be deferred until completion of construction of anew library facility within the El Dorado Hills zone?

Meaning of Voting Yes/No
A YES vote of this measure means:
A " yes" vote is a vote in favor of the special tax.

A NO vote of this measure means:
A "no" vote is a vote not in favor of the special tax.

Impartial Analysis from the County Counsel
At the present time, library service in the El Dorado Hills area are provided by Zone "E" of County Service Area No. 10 at facilities located at Oak Ridge High School. Those services are funded by a benefit assessment on each improved residential parcel of land within the boundaries of Zone E of County Service Area No. 10, the affected area. The benefit assessment is limited to a period of ten years, and commenced in the 1995-96 fiscal year. The County of El Dorado proposes to construct a new library facility to serve the El Dorado Hills area in the near future. In order to fund the services necessary to operate the library it is proposed to levy a special tax in the amount of $25.00 on each parcel of land, improved and unimproved, residential and non-residential, in Zone E.

The special tax would commence in the 2002-2003 fiscal year, but would not actually be collected until the fiscal year in which the construction of the new library facility is completed.

In order to ensure that in any y ear the cumulative total of the special tax plus the current benefit assessment does not exceed $25.00 per parcel, the amount of the special tax for any parcel will be reduced by the amount of the benefit assessment paid on that parcel in that year. In that manner, the total amount payable by owners of parcels in any fiscal year shall not exceed the sum of $25.00 per parcel.

The special tax will be imposed only if approved by 2/3 of the voters casting ballots at the election thereon.

A " yes" vote is a vote in favor of the special tax.

A "no" vote is a vote not in favor of the special tax.

Ed Knapp for Louis B. Green, County Counsel

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Sacramento Bee - Neighbors East

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Arguments For Measure L Arguments Against Measure L
El Dorado Hills/Latrobe does not have a permanent public library. But...thanks to Friends of the Library, the efforts of our two District Supervisors, Helen Bauman and Rusty Dupray, and the vote of the Board Of Supervisors, funding has been secured to break ground on a new library in El Dorado Hills.

Passage of Measure L will provide funding to operate the library.

It will be an up-to-date facility, with thousands of books, periodicals and internet access - a place where young and old can read, research, study and learn together.

It will be much more than a traditional library. It will become the centerpiece of EDH - sponsoring lectures, programs and presentations for all age groups, a "hub" binding the common interests of our community and county.

The county needs to know that the community will help with operating expenses for a new library and then construction can start.

Funding to build the library is contingent on the passing of Measure L.

We're encouraging voters to approve a $25 a year assessment you already pay for temporary library services through Oak Ridge High School.

Voting yes on Measure L will establish your commitment to the library by a mere $13 a year more --- a very small investment for so much gain to our community.

An EDH library will improve our local community in many ways, including providing our children a safe place to study, learn and read. If we truly want our children to value reading, we must make reading and libraries a real priority.

Please join us in voting YES on Measure L. You YES vote will help us break ground on the library this year.

s/ Dr. Vicki Barber

County Superintendent of Schools

s/ Larry Fry

EDH Fire Chief and President EDH Chamber of Commerce

s/ Moni Gilmore

Chair of EDH Senior Council

s/ Joe Harn

El Dorado County Auditor/Controller

s/ Bob McGee

President of El Dorado League of Women Voters

No argument against this measure was submitted.


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