State law allows the City Council to place an advisory measure on the ballot allowing voters to voice their opinions on issues of interest to the community. State law provides that an advisory measure is an indication of general voter opinion and is not controlling or binding on the City Council. Consequently, if the voters approved Measure Q, they will have expressed their opinion to the City Council that they want The Grove to be developed as a one-acre park with construction and maintenance costs of approximately $150,000 per year paid from new general fund tax revenues. The Council will be free, however, to disregard the voters' opinion with respect to the development of the property as a park, with respect to the cost of construction and maintenance, and/or with respect to the uses of any new general fund tax revenues.

Measure Q requires a simple majority vote for passage.

Maurice E. Huguet, Jr., Clayton City Attorney