Upcoming Tax Measures

Trails and Landscape Maintenance District Parcel Tax Set to Sunset in 2027

In 2007 the Clayton City Council created the Trails and Landscape Maintenance District (LMD) to include the maintenance for arterial and specified roadway medians and parkways; the trails systems; open space non-native invasive weed abatement; open space and trails weed abatement for fire and public safety; landscape and turf irrigation; Clayton fountain • Maintenance of City parks is NOT included as authorized expenditure. It also required a Citizen Oversight Committee

 

Measure B, a ten year special parcel tax set to expire/sunset in 2017, was placed on the ballot by the city council and approved by the voters in November 2007 to pay for the maintenance of the trails and landscaping. It required a two-thirds voter approval to pass. 

 

In 2016 the city council voted to place Measure H on the November ballot to extend the LMD tax for an additional 10 years until 2027. It passed by 79 percent of the voters.  This measure did not change the services provided by the LMD, the rate of adjustment or the method of apportioning the special parcel tax and requires the continuation of the Citizens Oversight Committee. The LMD’s boundaries encompass the entire City of Clayton. This ballot measure continued the same tax rate methodology and same annual adjustment, including limiting any increases to the annual CPI, with no annual rate increase higher than 3% over the previous year. 

 

The current rate parcel tax is around $291/year. 

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Grove Park Parcel Tax Will Sunset In 2037

In 2007 over 68 percent of Clayton voters approved a special parcel tax (set to expire/sunset in ten years) dedicated to pay for maintenance, repair and replacement landscaping, irrigation, hardscape, lighting, public restrooms, the gazebo, playground water, electricity and other miscellaneous operating and administrative expenses for the Grove Park. The special Community Facilities District tax covers ongoing costs related only to the Grove Park, not to any city other parks. The Grove Park opened in the center of town the following year in 2008. 

 

In 2014 the City Council voted to place Measure P on the November ballot extending the existing tax, set to expire in 2017, for an added 20 years until 2037. At that time residents were paying around $19.00 per year, an amount that is adjusted annually according to the Consumer Price Index with a 3 percent maximum increase per year. Measure P was approve by 81 percent of the voters.