Measure N: Town Charter and Property Transfer Tax Measure

Majority Voter Approval Required [1]

The question on your ballot

Town of Portola Valley Autonomy Measure. Shall the measure maintaining Portola Valley’s independent status be adopted, providing: wildfire prevention/vegetation management; 911 emergency response/police patrols; local zoning/planning services; storm drain repair; and general government services; by adopting a charter for the Town of Portola Valley solely for, and establishing a real property transfer tax of $10 per $1,000, paid by buyers or sellers of property, until ended by voters, providing approximately $2,000,000 in locally controlled funding annually, with independent oversight? [2]

Text read from a scanned official PDF.

Vote YES or NO on the question exactly as printed. Majority Voter Approval Required.

Official documents

The county publishes the impartial analysis and the arguments for and against as PDFs. ThinkBallot links them as published; it doesn't summarize them.

• Measure N: Resolution and Full Text (PDF)
• Measure N: Impartial Analysis (PDF)
• Measure N: Primary Argument in Favor (PDF)
• Measure N: Rebuttal to Argument in Favor (PDF)
• Measure N: Primary Argument Against (PDF)
• Measure N: Rebuttal to Argument Against (PDF)

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