Proposition Summary
WATER QUALITY, SAFETY AND SUPPLY. FLOOD CONTROL. NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION. PARK IMPROVEMENTS. BONDS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Funds projects relating to safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, waterway and natural resource protection, water pollution and contamination control, state and local park improvements, public access to natural resources, and water conservation efforts. Provides funding for emergency drinking water, and exempts such expenditures from public contract and procurement requirements to ensure immediate action for public safety. Authorizes $5,388,000,000 in general obligation bonds to fund projects and expenditures, to be repaid from the state’s General Fund. Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: State cost of about $10.5 billion over 30 years to pay off both the principal ($5.4 billion) and interest ($5.1 billion) costs on the bonds. Payments of about $350 million per year. Reduction in local property tax revenues of several million dollars annually. Unknown costs, potentially tens of millions of dollars per year, to state and local governments to operate or maintain properties or projects acquired or developed with these bond funds.
Proposition Number
84
Year
2006
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y:4431945;A:53.8;N:3807005;B:46.2
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative STATUTE.
For Author
MARK BURGET, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy; LARRY WILSON, Chair Board of Directors, Santa Clara Valley Water District; E. RICHARD BROWN, Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
Against Author
BILL LEONARD, Member, California State Board of Equalization
Recommended Citation
WATER QUALITY, SAFETY AND SUPPLY. FLOOD CONTROL. NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION. PARK IMPROVEMENTS. BONDS. California Proposition 84 (2006).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/1252