PREPARED BY: ARTURO CASTILLO DATE OF MEETING: 06/01/2026
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CONSIDER RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE INDEPENDENT CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE REPORTS FOR PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30, 2025 FOR MEASURE S (FORMERLY MEASURE Q) AND MEASURE K TRANSACTION & USE SALES TAX
CEQA: This proposed action is not a project as defined by CEQA.
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
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Receive and File Report by Minute Action
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Continue Best Management Practices, Fiscal Excellence, and Fiscal Transparency is a major policy goal contained in the FY 2024-26 City Council Priority Workplan, effective April 7, 2025.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This proposed action is not a project as defined by CEQA as a budget or financing mechanism pursuant to 14 Cal. Code of Regulations section 15378(b).
BACKGROUND
Following adoption by the City Council of Ordinance 2012-005, local San Pablo voters passed the Measure Q Sales Tax on June 5, 2012 (74%), to provide additional funding for general municipal services, including the following: Public Safety (especially gang prevention); job training for local residents (especially youth and the disenfranchised); and youth services. In addition, following adoption by the City Council of Ordinance 2014-007, local San Pablo voters passed the Measure K Sales Tax on June 3, 2014 (71%), to provide specific funding for a dedicated paramedic-staffed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) unit at ConFire Station No. 70 in San Pablo-originally Squad 70, which transitioned to Truck 70 in 2021 with the addition of aerial-ladder capability. Pursuant to Measures Q and K voter requirements, the City Council appointed representatives of San Pablo businesses and residents to serve on an Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (Committee) to monitor and review each local sales tax measure's annual expenses, respectively.
On November 3, 2020, following adoption by the City Council of ...
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