League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
	Fresno County, CA November 4, 2008 Election
	Measure A Transient Occupancy Tax City of Kingsburg Needs 51% to pass 3329 / 75.56% Yes votes ...... 1077 / 24.44% No votes See Also: Index of all Measures

Arguments For Measure A

Vote YES on A to protect our essential services, WITHOUT taxing Kingsburg residents. Measure A is a HOTEL TAX PAID ONLY BY VISITORS when they spend the night locally. Kingsburg homeowners or property owners are NOT taxed. Consider this: Kingsburg's population has grown by 56% reported crimes in Kingsburg have doubled the number of Kingsburg calls for police assistance has increased 300% YES on A provides the funding we need to protect and maintain Kingsburg's small town quality of life ­ WITHOUT RAISING YOUR TAXES. YES on A fights youth crime. YES on A fights gangs and drugs from coming into Kingsburg. YES on A repairs our potholes. YES on A stimulates our economic development. For the past decade, Sacramento politicians have seized more than $2 million from Kingsburg to address the state's own budget crises. Now the State has proposed additional funding cuts that threaten our City services. YES on A gives us LOCAL CONTROL to protect our services. By law, every penny is required to stay here and cannot be taken by the State. By increasing the cost of a hotel room by just a few dollars a night for visitors, YES on A provides Kingsburg with the funds needed to maintain and improve our police and fire services, roads, parks, anti-gang/drug programs, and senior services that give us our small town quality of life. Measure A guarantees strong fiscal accountability protections, including being subject to publicly available, annual, independent audits of city funds and expenditures. Remember to VOTE LOCAL November 4th ­ only YES on A directly affects Kingsburg. Join police officers, firefighters, local business owners, teachers and community leaders in voting YES on A to PROTECT AND MAINTAIN OUR CITY SERVICES. For information about Measure A, visit http://www.CityofKingsburg-ca.gov. s/ Wayne Osborne President, Kingsburg Firefighters Association s/ Kevin Pendley Sergeant, Kingsburg Police, Fmr. DARE officer s/ Judy Pagel Local business owner and 10-year Kingsburg resident s/ Mike Henenfent President, Kingsburg Chamber of Commerce s/ Ed Morgan Board Member, Kingsburg Historical Society, 71-year Kingsburg resident (No arguments against Measure A were submitted)

Full Text of Measure A

THE KINGSBURG CITY SERVICES IMPROVEMENT MEASURE. To maintain and improve public safety services such as police and fire protection, street and pothole repair, parks, youth, after-school, anti-gang and anti-drug programs; senior and other city services, shall the City of Kingsburg impose a Transient Occupancy Tax, also known as a hotel bed tax paid only by hotel guests, of 12%, 4% more than the current Transient Occupancy Tax of 8%, and continuing to be subject to publicly available annual audits.