Gilroy
– South County voters who want to vote in the mail-in library
election should get their ballots in the mail by Friday to ensure
the county registrar receives them by the May 3 deadline.
Ballots are due in the office of the Santa Clara County
Registrar by 8pm Tuesday. Results will be posted either Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning.
Gilroy – South County voters who want to vote in the mail-in library election should get their ballots in the mail by Friday to ensure the county registrar receives them by the May 3 deadline.
Ballots are due in the office of the Santa Clara County Registrar by 8pm Tuesday. Results will be posted either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
Ballots can be dropped off at the Registrar’s office in San Jose until the deadline.
The ballot contains Measures A and B, which would assess property taxes to fund the nine libraries in the county system, including those in Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
Measure A would extend for 10 years an annual $33.66 parcel tax and Measure B would levy an additional $12 annually. Measure B can not pass if Measure A fails.
The registrar sent out 212,331 ballots earlier this month. About 60,000 have been returned.
This is the second time the county library system has asked voters to extend the tax, which would raise $5.4 million and cover about 20 percent of the system’s budget.
In March 2004, a measure fell six percentage points shy of the required two-thirds majority.
To prevent the parcel tax from expiring the library joint powers authority decided to spend $1.8 million to host a special election rather than place the measures on the consolidated ballot in November.
