{"id":3185,"date":"2022-10-18T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2022-10-18T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:23:35","slug":"voters-in-el-dorado-county-to-decide-2-84-million-in-road-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/10\/18\/voters-in-el-dorado-county-to-decide-2-84-million-in-road-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters in El Dorado County to decide on $2.84 million in Road Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Keith Goble<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Oct 18, 2022 \u2014 Next month\u2019s elections in six California counties will include questions on various transportation-related initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Land Line tracks measures covering statewide, county and local ballot initiatives. Here is a breakdown of some notable initiatives that are expected to appear on Nov. 8 ballots in the Golden State.<\/p>\n<h3>El Dorado County<\/h3>\n<p>Two questions on ballots in El Dorado County would provide an estimated $2.84 million each year for road maintenance and snow removal.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, the county has collected a 10% hotel\/motel tax in the unincorporated part of the county.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measure R<\/strong> would raise the hotel\/motel tax on the West Slope by 2% to 12%.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated $340,000 yearly would be raised for the maintenance of existing roads in the West Slope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measure S<\/strong> would increase the tax collected in the Lake Tahoe area by 4% to 14%. Revenue estimated at $2.5 million annually would be used for snow removal and maintenance on existing roads in the Tahoe area.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say the additional tax revenue would reduce the reliance on the county general fund for road maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><em>A two-thirds majority vote is required for each measure to pass<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measure R would raise the hotel\/motel tax an estimated $340,000 yearly would be raised for the maintenance of existing roads in the West Slope.<br \/>\nMeasure S would increase the tax collected in the Lake Tahoe area an estimated at $2.5 million annually would be used for snow removal and maintenance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}