In a special joint meeting with the Measure X Community Advisory Board on Tuesday, the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors will receive Measure X project updates from county departments.
Measure X is a countywide 20-year, half-cent sales tax approved by county voters on November 3, 2020. Collection of the tax began on April 1, 2021.
The ballot measure language stated that the intent of Measure X is “to keep Contra Costa’s regional hospital open and staffed; fund community health centers, emergency response; support crucial safety-net services; invest in early childhood services; protect vulnerable populations; and for other essential county services.”
The county established a Measure X Community Advisory Board to make recommendations as to how the money is spent.
Supervisors will be hearing from various county departments on how Measure X-funded projects are developing from the county administrator’s office. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the county conservation and development department, employment and human services, Contra Costa Health, Contra Costa Library, the public defender’s office, the probation department, the public works department, and the sheriff’s office. The board meets at 9 a.m. at the Contra Costa County Administration Building, 1025 Escobar St. in Martinez.
At the board’s regular meeting, which begins at 1 p.m., the board will hear a report on Measure X revenues and expenditures and will consider reallocating selected Measure X unspent balances to the Measure X unallocated funding pool.
How stupid do you have to be to vote a tax increase on yourself? Like the government doesn’t take enough already just to f@%k it all away?
Half you people must have voted yes.
Same goes for the gas tax increase.
They say there’s a sucker born every day…
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Let’s be accurate.
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The phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute”, is attributed to P.T. Barnum.
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Everyone knows that.
Actually, I voted against measure X. I didn’t like the idea of giving local politicians a bucket of money with which they could do anything. There isn’t much accountability on how the money is spent. There is a good possibility that money can go to favored “special projects” that not many of us want or agree with.
Besides, we are being taxed into oblivion.
TAX and SPEND is all they know…..
Why do you think they have that border wide-open?? they want to continue the pillaging and plundering of every family that’s been here before 1945. and they want to subjugate your children and have them as permanent slaves, paying into their system going to their schools, regurgitating the robotic nonsense.
Will the report include kickbacks?