San Clemente Sales Tax Measure Election Night Results 2024

Tonight, San Clemente voters determine connected a half-cent income taxation summation to make funds that would beryllium utilized exclusively for soil replenishment efforts on the city’s disappearing coastline.

Initial results astatine 8 p.m. showed 65.58% of voters — 13,777 votes — were for the income taxation measure, portion 34.42% — 7,231 votes — were against for it.

The measurement needs a supermajority — astatine slightest 66.7% of voters supporting it — to walk since it’s an earmarked tax.

The city’s income taxation is presently 7.75%. If the measurement is approved, the taxation would summation to 8.25%

Coastal erosion has been chipping distant astatine San Clemente’s shoreline for decades arsenic the metropolis battles landslides, span failures and soil nonaccomplishment on the coast.

[Read: San Clemente Needs More Money For Sand]

The income taxation summation is meant to money aboriginal projects that volition bring much soil to the dwindling coastline. If approved, the summation volition make an estimated $7 cardinal annually — capable for the metropolis to spot astir 150,000 cubic yards of soil annually successful summation to formation maintenance.

Angelina Hicks is simply a Voice of OC Tracy Wood Reporting Fellow. Contact her astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @angelinahicks13

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