{"id":212506,"date":"2026-03-10T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212506\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:20:07","slug":"parcel-tax-question-makes-june-ballot-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212506\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcel tax question makes June ballot in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland voters go to the polls in June to decide on whether to approve a new parcel sale tax aimed at maintaining city services.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland City Council voted unanimously last week to place the parcel tax on the June 2nd ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/03\/09\/voters-will-decide-on-a-new-oakland-parcel-tax-in-june\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Oaklandside reports <\/a>that the council\u2019s action was procedural, as the measure&#8217;s sponsors, including city unions and residents, had already gathered 30,000 signatures to easily qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by voters, the measure would authorize an annual, 192-dollar tax on single parcels and other real estate. There would be exemptions for low-income residents, seniors and others.<\/p>\n<p>The tax would raise about 34-million annually over the next nine years.If the measure is not approved by voters, Oakland\u2019s cash-strapped government could be forced to make additional cuts to city jobs and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland voters go to the polls in June to decide on whether to approve a new parcel sale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-212506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}