{"id":482124,"date":"2026-10-01T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482124\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:50:09","slug":"2026-election-santa-ana-measure-n-would-make-local-sales-tax-permanent-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/482124\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Election: Santa Ana Measure N\u00a0would make local sales tax permanent \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cSanta Ana Streets, Public Safety, Essential City Services\u201d Measure, also known as Measure N, would eliminate the scheduled reduction and 2039 expiration of the city\u2019s local sales tax.<\/a><\/p>\n

That would make the 1.5% tax collected and delivered into city coffers permanent \u2014 unless later repealed by voters.<\/p>\n

Measure N, which was placed on the ballot by the City Council,<\/a> says the local tax generates about $84,000,000 annually, which supporters say is important funding for general city services, including but not limited to 911 emergency response, fire\/paramedic services, police and crime prevention, pothole and street repair, graffiti and litter removal, as well as parks and playgrounds.<\/p>\n

The revenue would also be used to address an \u201canticipated structural deficit\u201d at the discretion of the Santa Ana City Council, officials said.<\/p>\n

The measure continues a tax originally approved by voters as Measure X in 2018. Measure X is set to reduce the local sales tax collected to 1% in 2029 and eliminate it in 2039.<\/p>\n

With the 7.25% collected statewide and the additional 1% collected in Orange County for transportation needs, the total sales tax rate collected in Santa Ana is 9.25%.<\/p>\n

Measure N would maintain existing oversight requirements, including a citizen oversight committee, annual independent audits, and annual public disclosure of spending.<\/p>\n

Supporters of the measure include Santa Ana Councilmember Thai Phan, Measure X Committee Member Michael Chu, Santa Ana Police Officers Association Executive Board Member Paul McClaskey, and resident Adriana Alba, who emphasize the measure is \u201cnot a tax increase\u201d and warn that without it the city faces cuts to critical services.<\/p>\n

There was no ballot argument submitted against the measure.<\/p>\n

Measure N needs a simple majority of the votes to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cSanta Ana Streets, Public Safety, Essential City Services\u201d Measure, also known as Measure N, would eliminate the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1400,163,165,164,7,204,100,611,8047,13,338],"class_list":["post-482124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2026-elections","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-election","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orange-county-elections","tag-politics","tag-santa-ana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482124","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=482124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}