Here are the ones that passed that will most clearly impact San Jose:
- Measure 2 - provides additional funding to help renovate schools
- Proposition 4 - authorizes more funding for water districts, wildfire prevention, and land protection
- Proposition 35 - continues funding for Medi-Cal health care programs via a tax extension on managed health care plans
- Proposition 36 - increases penalties for theft and drug crimes
I'm not mentioning Amendment 3, as it is just updating the language in the Californian constitution in a common-sense way, yet it does not actually alter any rights.
The biggest one on the list for me is Prop 36. Crime has become a major issue in Silicon Valley, and this will reduce the threshold for thefts being treated as felonies and allow multiple robberies to be grouped together to constitute a felony. Hopefully this will become a stronger deterrent to the retail theft that is greatly impacting San Jose businesses, especially small businesses. We can't get to a place like San Francisco where shampoo and toothpaste is being locked behind glass cases because of rampant shoplifting. I'm very happy this one will pass.
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