Fresno s sales tax could go up next month after court rules Measure P passed, two years after election
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) A court has ruled that Fresno s Measure P, a 2018 parks funding measure, should be considered passed.
It s another step, and might even be the final step, in a long running legal battle over the three-eighths percent sales tax increase to fund city parks and recreation that was on the November 2018 ballot.
Measure P received 52% of the vote at that time, but that set off a battle over the margin it needed to pass.
The city of Fresno argued that the California Constitution, as modified by Proposition 218 in 1996, requires that new taxes be approved by a two-thirds vote.