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r Mission:
Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association is dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of the taxpayers of Silicon Valley against the over-reaching and over-spending of government.
We invite you to join us in that mission!
The Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association endorses a NO vote for Santa Clara County Measure:
November 5, 2024, Election -
Measure __: Los Gatos Sales Tax Increase (2/3% Vote)
Scheduled to be on the November 5, 2024, ballot:
MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT - Science & Technology General Obligation Bond $28M 55% Vote
MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT - School Renovations Bond $24M 55% Vote
CITY OF GILROY Public Safety Special Transactions and Use Tax ¼ - 2/3rds Vote
MORELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT Neighborhood Elementary and Middle Schools Renewing Parcel Tax $142 2/3rds Vote
SAN BENITO HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Second High School Vocational, Workforce Readiness & Job Training Classrooms Measure of 2024 General Obligation Bonds $70M 55% Vote
SAN BENITO HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Safe, Functional Second High School Measure of 2024 General Obligation Bonds $70M 55% Vote
UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Education and Local Control Parcel Tax $148 2/3rds Vote
CITY OF SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale Main Library General Obligation Bonds $290M 2/3rds Vote
EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Educational Purposes & Establishing the Specification of Election Order Parcel Tax $49 2/3rds Vote
FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT Parcel Tax $192 2/3rds Votes
CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW Property transfer tax $9.5M Majority Vote
EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT Education Parcel Tax $125 2/3rds Vote
More are likely...
We are pleased to report...
In the News
Tax groups sue San Jose over gun insurance law.
Silicon Valley Business Journal, March 17, 2022
Read the full article here.
...In 2020 the SVTA defeated 9 of 17 ballot measures that were tax increase measures....in savings to Santa Clara County taxpayers--and counting!
...thanks to our legal victory over the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority, taxpayers saved $65,000,000.
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$900,000,000
...in savings to Santa Clara taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure I, the $900,000,000 bond measure in the city of Morgan Hill (March 3, 2020)
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$45,000,000
... in savings to San Mateo taxpayers!
...thanks to the defeat of Measure V, the $45,000,000 bond measure in the city of San Carlos (Nov. 3, 2015)
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$ 2,000,000*
...in savings to San Mateo County taxpayers!
...thanks to our defeat of Measure G, the five-year-long parcel tax, in San Mateo County (Nov. 6, 2012).
* Figure approximated by the authors of Measure G.