Contra Costa Times has the details:
Measure WW put on the ballot by the East Bay Regional Park District got 71 percent of the vote, more than enough to pass the two-thirds majority it needed.
Measure WW will finance $500 million in bonds over two decades by extending a property tax of up to $10 per $100,000 in assessed valuation in almost all the two counties. Only the greater Livermore area is excluded because it was not part of the regional park district in 1988 when voters approved the property tax increase to buy and develop parks.
Passage of Measure WW will enable the East Bay Regional Park District to continue an aggressive land-buying campaign that has expanded the park system by some 34,000 acres in the last two decades. It now has 98,000 acres in 65 parks.
Here’s one of the projects it would fund:
Project Location: Calaveras Ridge Trail
Project Number: 12
Project Description: $11.3 million to acquire open space and park corridor and construct this trail for all users connecting six regional parks along the 680 corridor serving all communities from Sunol to the Carquinez Strait.
Now that would be a nice stretch o’ trail.
Park district’s project map is here.
I’m quite pleased with the result. Still want to find out who the “No” people were funded by. Frankly, I’m surprised it passed, knowing it needed 2/3rds to work. I was already priming for disappointment when I checked in with the registrar of voters in both counties. Cool beans! More trails!
My wheels are already muddy…..
This is one of two messages 4wheelbob has posted on the No on Measure WW campaign whose tone I find regrettable. The “no” people were funded by the “no” people, meaning a grand total of five mountain bikers and to the tune of $150 to $200. 4wheelbob seems to sense some sort of grand conspiracy against Measure WW involving grasping land developers, insidious antitax forces, and perhaps the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, and the Knights of Malta, all using mountain bikers as a front for their nefarious schemes to build some houses and keep their taxes low. Nope, it was just three activists and two people who sent in $100 and $50 respectively. In another blog, 4wheelbob complains (in one among a number of objections with a faulty factual premise) that we principals in the No on Measure WW campaign kept hiding our identities. To the contrary, we were the cover story in the East Bay Express of October 29, 2008. See this link: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/fighting_for_their_right_to_bike/Content?oid=855053. We’re proud to identify ourselves and everyone knew who we are (except, I guess, 4wheelbob), but we didn’t bother to do so on the No on Measure WW website because our biographies were beside the point in that forum. Take a look at any number of websites supporting or opposing ballot measures and you’ll find the same approach.