Fresno County is going to blows with California over a special statute passed by the state legislature to ensure a county tax initiative will appear on the November ballot. <\/p>\n
The measure, which received the necessary signatures to go in front of county voters, proposes a half-cent sales tax to replace an expiring levy for funding transportation infrastructure. After the county board authorized a study pushing the measure beyond the November ballot\u2019s approval deadline, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 1923<\/a> to place the initiative on the ballot.<\/p>\n The action prevents the Fresno County Board of Supervisors from lawfully participating in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno County is going to blows with California over a special statute passed by the state legislature to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12875,165657,112,114,113,74213,7689,15979,168889],"class_list":["post-431966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-ballot-initiatives","tag-election-administration","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-municipal-tax","tag-sales-and-use-tax","tag-state-tax-legislation","tag-transportation-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431966","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=431966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}