The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider whether to place a new sales tax increase on the ballot for the upcoming June primary election.
The agenda report for Tuesday’s meeting says the board will consider a sales tax of 0.5% or 0.625% lasting five years “to protect local services impacted by the severe federal cuts” passed by Congress last year.
Contra Costa County officials said their proposed tax is similar to one passed in November in Santa Clara County as Measure A. The Contra Costa County tax, if approved by a majority of voters, would be estimated to annually generate $122 million as a 0.5% sales tax or $151 million as a 0.625% sales tax.
The county would need approval by the state Legislature to raise a sales tax cap — state law caps the total combined tax rate in a county at 2% unless granted exceptions by the Legislature — and Contra Costa officials said state Sen. Jesse Arreguin, D-Berkeley, has indicated he would add the county to existing legislation that could be passed prior to the June 3 election.
Tuesday’s meeting is set for 9 a.m. at the county Administration Building at 1025 Escobar St. in Martinez. The meeting can also be accessed via Zoom at https://cccounty-us.zoom.us/j/81863939331. The list of upcoming county meetings and agenda documents is available at https://contra-costa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
No! Taxes are already high. And adding another tax “for five years”? Baloney! We all know that once gov’t gets drunk on additional tax revenue, it never goes away.
To Board of Supervisors – want any chance of being re-elected? Don’t even pursue the thought of this.
Almost all of these governmental entity financial crises boil down to two words: Unfunded pensions.
County pensions are funded. Starting in 2010 they funded on the backs of the workers and not the 5 Stooges of Pine Street or the CAO and other higher ups. The funny thing is the employee portion always came out of our paychecks but the county is the one that lagged.
But not CALPERS or CALSTRS, they have huge unfunded liabilities, and don’t get me started on Social Security.
County is mor PERS. County is it’s own fund
County retirement is accounts with CALPERS but by law they are required to fully fund their accounts. But Calpers has a huge unfunded liability and unrealistic ROI assumptions.
County is independent of PERS except elected officials like Auditor, Treasurer, Sheriff etc. The BoS and appointed dept heads are CCERA. Safety has health insurance through CALPERS because of cost. The rest of the active and retirees have county crap insurance.
Place it on a ballot? Well if stupid voters approve it which California is full of then it’ll be left woke approved.
The county needs to learn within it’s means. There are no such things as “money trees”. Tax, tax, tax is no way to good government.
The BoS needs to stop going themselves large raises. Remember the 60% they gave themselves in the early 2000’s or the 30% they gave themselves about 15 years ago?
I always vote No on new taxes and bonds. Quit wasting our money you crazy ass Democrats.
I would consider voting “yes” if I could see a strong need for funding and provisions in the bill to keep it from being redirected into the ether like “homelessness” or the Train to Nowhere. “To protect local services” ain’t getting that done.
I would say that there are not very many people who vote yes for any new taxes. But when the results come in they always say it has passed. That all my friends is a scam if I ever saw one. I don’t know anyone who would or has voted yes for new taxes.
Just like in Concord, last election that a tax measure was on the ballot, it may actually have been 2, they said they passed that is crock of crap.
They finagle and do what they want and make us believe that WE voted on it. BS you all crooked people.
Why is this article published only an hour before the tax-raising meeting is held?
First, there is no such thing as a temporary tax.
Lying politicians have proven this time and time again.
The County Board of liars spends our precious tax dollars on whatever will fill their re-election coffers and deep pockets with absolutely no regard for the good Citizens of Contra Costa County.
Yet there are still the gullible who keep voting for the liars.
Perhaps that should be the epitaph when we are no more.
The gullible voted for the liars, and everyone lost.
Rumor has it the more we get taxed, the more people cheat on their taxes, or balance out raised taxes with more write offs, it’s not rocket science how to counter it.
We pay too much in taxation already hopefully there are enough sane people to vote no on this and kick this crap to the curb where it belongs…
Coco needs a Mamdani.
-Raise taxes
-Reparations are a must
-Ev mandate by 2030
-increase registration ea year
-financial penalty until Ev is purchased
Looks like someone drank to much Cali Kool Aid!
No,this is Sarcasm!, I hope.
Nobody on earth needs a mamdani ever!
Remember to vote on this in July!
And how much of a raise do they want this time. Geez in the past 25 years they’ve given themselves a 60% and 30% raise and they also get the raises the employees get as well. The 30% = 33% because the employees got a 3% raise. The employees do the work and the Stooges of Pine Street get the money
All governments can do is try to tax us out of their problems–VOTE NO ON ANY TAX INCREASE– WE ALREADY PAY ENOUGH-Government needs to learn fiscal responsibility
Let’s see, feds cut funds because California politicians are stupid … or are we the voter stupid because we keep electing the fools?
So now Cuckoo County says we will just raise taxes to compensate ….
how about cutting spending where it does not belong? Such a novel idea that will never pass muster here.
These jack- asses are financially illiterate.
IF it gets approved no way will it ever be removed
They think the public is an ATM, need to vote them out
They need to live within their means and rescind some of their own ridiculous salary increases
POUND SALT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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County might operate more efficiently and at lower cost
with few employees.
Why are people who do nothing but take allowed to vote to take more and more from us who produce???
The Taxacrats are at it again. The only answer they know to solve problems is to raise taxes!
p.s. How many billions of tax payers dollars has Greasy Gaven given to illegal aliens?
They spend money like drunken sailors and blame the feds.
Don’t ask them what they want it for, if you don’t want to pay some more……
I beg your pardon! From my own experiences, I can verify that a drunken sailor has to stop spending when he runs out of money.
I love watching these idiots slit their own wrists.
It’s almost like it’s planned stupidity!!!
True; however that’s why they have ballot harvesting.
Put it on the ballot right after you put voter ID required on the ballot.
I see the fix is in once again!!!
A half-cent sales tax (Measure X) was passed back in 2020:
https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/10295/Measure-X.
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It has resulted in a lot of hard earned sales tax money getting spent on DEI and other questionable Democrat political causes:
https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/10249/Measure-X-Community-Impact
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That’s always the answer isn’t it, “It’s just a few dollars. Residents of Concord could be looking at a sales tax rate of 10.875% after the November 2026 general election.