LOCAL PROPOSITIONS:
Prop J • Five-year parcel tax expected to generate $50.08 million annually • $98 per year for single-family residences, $60 per year for apartment and condominium units and $450 per year for commercial or industrial properties • Funds from the tax would be distributed to every school in the district at the rate of $150 per student • Could be used by individual schools to purchase supplies, fund vocational education, support music and art programs or and hire teachers Prop D • Would increase sales tax a half-cent to 9.25 cents • Five-year increase expected to generate about $103 million per year • Tax hike is conditional on a package of 10 financial reforms, including soliciting bids to outsource the Miramar Landfill, lowering retiree health care costs and creating new pension plans For more information visit www.easyvoter.org — Compiled by Claire Harlin and Lauren Ventura