Combined ballot

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President/Vice President of the United States

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic
  8,063,473 votes 61.1%
• John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  4,902,278 votes 37.1%
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  105,375 votes 0.8%
• Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  65,654 votes 0.5%
• Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  39,620 votes 0.3%
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  37,432 votes 0.2%
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)

US Legislature

United States Representative; District 18

• Dennis Cardoza, Democratic
  130,114 votes 100.0%

United States Representative; District 19

• George Radanovich, Republican
  173,981 votes 100.0%
• Phil Rockey (Write-in)
• Peter Leinau (Write-in)

United States Representative; District 20

• Jim Costa, Democratic
  92,977 votes 74.4%
• Jim Lopez, Republican
  32,110 votes 25.6%

United States Representative; District 21

• Devin Nunes, Republican
  125,375 votes 68.0%
• Larry Johnson, Democratic
  59,013 votes 32.0%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 29

• Mike Villines, Republican
  108,546 votes 66.2%
• Humberto Avila, Democratic
  55,564 votes 33.8%

Member of the State Assembly; District 30

• Danny Gilmore, Republican
  42,846 votes 50.6%
• Fran Florez, Democratic
  41,958 votes 49.4%

Member of the State Assembly; District 31

• Juan Arambula, Democratic
  63,529 votes 69.6%
• Clifford Archer, Republican
  27,778 votes 30.4%
• Christopher Alexander McCowan (Write-in)

Judicial

Superior Court Judge; County of Fresno; Office 10

• Jim Kelley
  125414 votes 57.21%
• Douglas O. Treisman
  92777 votes 42.32%
• (1027 Total Write-In Votes 0.47%)

School

Member; Tulare County Board of Education; Trustee Area 1

• Celia Maldonado Arroyo
  112 votes 51.61%
• Ronnie Castillo
  101 votes 46.54%
• (4 Total Write-In Votes 1.84%)

Board Member; College of the Sequoias Junior College District; Trustee Area 3

• Earl Mann
  131 votes 59.28%
• Carmita Rodriguez-Pena
  70 votes 31.67%
• Ruben Macareno
  17 votes 7.69%
• (3 Total Write-In Votes 1.36%)

Trustee; State Center Community College District; Trustee Area 2

• William J. Smith
  123846 votes 61.15%
• Phil Maher
  77752 votes 38.39%
• (924 Total Write-In Votes 0.46%)

Trustee; State Center Community College District; Trustee Area 5

• Richard M. Caglia
  115816 votes 55.11%
• Phillip J. Forhan
  93628 votes 44.55%
• (705 Total Write-In Votes 0.34%)

Trustee; Central Unified School District; Trustee Area 3

• William Duane Peverill
  8369 votes 51.87%
• Mike Yada
  7705 votes 47.75%
• (61 Total Write-In Votes 0.38%)

Trustee; Central Unified School District; Trustee Area 6

• Terry Cox
  5772 votes 35.79%
• Bradley S. Black
  5573 votes 34.55%
• April Henry
  3912 votes 24.26%
• Oscar L. Robinson
  814 votes 5.05%
• (57 Total Write-In Votes 0.35%)

Trustee; Cutler Orosi Unified School District; Trustee Area 4

• Lloyd Marvin McClard
  151 votes 71.23%
• Leo Gonzalez
  59 votes 27.83%
• (2 Total Write-In Votes 0.94%)

Board Member; Dos Palos-Oro Loma Unified School District (4 Elected)

• Eric Fontana
  138 votes 20.35%
• Paul Goodman
  105 votes 15.49%
• Mario De Francesco, III
  87 votes 12.83%
• Joe Castillo
  85 votes 12.54%
• Richard Hogue
  74 votes 10.91%
• Dewayne Weagel
  60 votes 8.85%
• Norma Nordstrom
  58 votes 8.55%
• Judi Coleman
  42 votes 6.19%
• Claude Shaw, Sr.
  28 votes 4.13%
• (1 Total Write-In Votes 0.15%)

Board Member; Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Jo Ann Narbaitz
  627 votes 19.64%
• Gabriel Delgado
  551 votes 17.26%
• Gilbert F. Coelho
  453 votes 14.19%
• Maribel Munoz
  438 votes 13.72%
• Abel Serrano
  395 votes 12.37%
• Sean Howard
  365 votes 11.43%
• Stacy F. Sablan
  351 votes 10.99%
• (13 Total Write-In Votes 0.41%)

Trustee; Fresno Unified School District; Trustee Area 2

• Larry Moore
  37148 votes 42.83%
• Manuel G. Nunez
  30165 votes 34.78%
• Esmeralda Diaz
  10801 votes 12.45%
• Paul H. Garcia
  8405 votes 9.69%
• (206 Total Write-In Votes 0.24%)

Trustee; Fresno Unified School District; Trustee Area 5

• Carol Mills
  42609 votes 49.95%
• Natalie S. Clark
  42443 votes 49.75%
• (253 Total Write-In Votes 0.30%)

Trustee; Fresno Unified School District; Trustee Area 6

• Janet Ryan
  49256 votes 58.11%
• Virginia Hermosillo
  35273 votes 41.61%
• (236 Total Write-In Votes 0.28%)

Trustee; Golden Plains Unified School District; Trustee Area 4

• Seth Nick Bowles
  410 votes 47.51%
• Billy Joe McDonald, Jr.
  223 votes 25.84%
• Kathleen Salas
  221 votes 25.61%
• (9 Total Write-In Votes 1.04%)

Trustee; Kerman Unified School District; Trustee Area 3

• Anthony Ayerza, Jr.
  760 votes 68.10%
• Ken Moore
  203 votes 18.19%
• Alex Partnoff
  151 votes 13.53%
• (2 Total Write-In Votes 0.18%)

Board Member; Laton Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Richard M. Alves
  509 votes 27.26%
• Delbert E. Mello
  401 votes 21.48%
• Evelia Garcia
  338 votes 18.10%
• Daniel Ramirez Vargas
  334 votes 17.89%
• Consuelo Velasco
  264 votes 14.14%
• (21 Total Write-In Votes 1.12%)

Board Member; Mendota Unified School District (4 Elected)

• Araceli Perez
  537 votes 14.65%
• Lupe Flores
  475 votes 12.96%
• Diana Sanchez Toscano
  393 votes 10.72%
• Isabel Maldonado
  376 votes 10.26%
• Mary Ellen Silva
  374 votes 10.20%
• Richard Martinez
  365 votes 9.96%
• Freddie P. Valdez
  360 votes 9.82%
• Robert Rasmussen
  295 votes 8.05%
• Miguel Angel Arias
  259 votes 7.06%
• Gapo Lua
  220 votes 6.00%
• (12 Total Write-In Votes 0.33%)

Board Member; Parlier Unified School District (2 Elected)

• Rick Maldonado
  726 votes 22.38%
• Xavier Jay Betancourt
  544 votes 16.77%
• Zonia Iniguez-Tovar
  438 votes 13.50%
• Yolanda Montalvo
  403 votes 12.42%
• Robert Leija
  384 votes 11.84%
• Juana Alejandra Mendoza
  353 votes 10.88%
• Richard Rick Velasco
  184 votes 5.67%
• Martin A. Juarez
  128 votes 3.95%
• Eustolia Zamora-Bonilla
  79 votes 2.44%
• (5 Total Write-In Votes 0.15%)

Trustee; Sanger Unified School District; Trustee Area 1

• Tammy C. Wolfe
  1075 votes 54.74%
• Steve Mulligan
  877 votes 44.65%
• (12 Total Write-In Votes 0.61%)

Trustee; Sanger Unified School District; Trustee Area 4

• Walter O. Villarreal
  715 votes 50.60%
• Paul Hernandez
  694 votes 49.12%
• (4 Total Write-In Votes 0.28%)

Trustee; Sanger Unified School District; Trustee Area 5

• Jim Gonzalez
  445 votes 51.99%
• Henrietta A. Olveda
  341 votes 39.84%
• Ray Monreal
  69 votes 8.06%
• (1 Total Write-In Votes 0.12%)

Board Member; Selma Unified School District (2 Elected)

• John H. Lorona
  3372 votes 34.88%
• Paul Green
  3175 votes 32.84%
• Yvette G. Montijo
  3091 votes 31.97%
• (30 Total Write-In Votes 0.31%)

Board Member; Sierra Unified School District (4 Elected)

• Wes Qualls
  2888 votes 18.40%
• John Dean Maxwell
  2302 votes 14.67%
• Tom Mendenhall
  2102 votes 13.39%
• Michael O'Connell
  1905 votes 12.14%
• Norman Saude
  1877 votes 11.96%
• Don Fowler
  1787 votes 11.38%
• Robert Franklin
  1544 votes 9.84%
• Jason Schroer
  1217 votes 7.75%
• (75 Total Write-In Votes 0.48%)

Board Member; Kingsburg Joint Union High School District (2 Elected)

• Blake Carlson
  3189 votes 43.15%
• Rick D. Jackson
  2311 votes 31.27%
• Mike Serpa
  1856 votes 25.12%
• (34 Total Write-In Votes 0.46%)

Board Member; Washington Union High School District (2 Elected)

• Chuck Freitas
  2469 votes 44.27%
• Elaine Blacksill Mehrten
  2017 votes 36.17%
• Marlene M. George
  1064 votes 19.08%
• (27 Total Write-In Votes 0.48%)

Board Member; American Union Elementary School District (2 Elected)

• Jim Mattos
  413 votes 39.60%
• Katherine Mathew-Coelho
  393 votes 37.68%
• Scott Reisdorfer
  234 votes 22.44%
• (3 Total Write-In Votes 0.29%)

Board Member; Orange Center Elementary School District (2 Elected)

• Veronica Thomas
  141 votes 36.34%
• Gene Balthrop
  137 votes 35.31%
• Rosa Depew
  107 votes 27.58%
• (3 Total Write-In Votes 0.77%)

Board Member; Pine Ridge Elementary School District (2 Elected)

• Richard Dick Nichols
  345 votes 37.30%
• Cynthia K. Farley
  217 votes 23.46%
• Kimberly Briggs
  216 votes 23.35%
• John-David Hughes
  140 votes 15.14%
• (7 Total Write-In Votes 0.76%)

Board Member; West Fresno Elementary School District (3 Elected)

• Mel Sanders
  333 votes 17.81%
• Barbara Ann Hunt
  315 votes 16.84%
• Henry A. Hendrix
  304 votes 16.26%
• James Tucker
  257 votes 13.74%
• Peaches A. Coleman
  253 votes 13.53%
• Va Yang
  216 votes 11.55%
• Lula C. Tucker
  177 votes 9.47%
• (15 Total Write-In Votes 0.80%)

Council Member; City of Coalinga (2 Elected)

• Kelley William Bourdeau
  1489 votes 29.75%
• Ron Lander
  1292 votes 25.81%
• Tito Balling
  972 votes 19.42%
• Patricia M. "Trish" Hill
  730 votes 14.59%
• Kathy Merithew
  484 votes 9.67%
• (38 Total Write-In Votes 0.76%)

City Clerk; City of Coalinga

• (214 Total Write-In Votes 100.00%)

City Treasurer; City of Coalinga

• (162 Total Write-In Votes 100.00%)

Council Member; City of Firebaugh (3 Elected)

• Javier S. Marquez
  598 votes 22.41%
• Rod Lake
  580 votes 21.74%
• Jim Lowe
  478 votes 17.92%
• John Baltierra
  390 votes 14.62%
• George I. Conklin, Jr.
  306 votes 11.47%
• Robert John Garcia
  299 votes 11.21%
• (17 Total Write-In Votes 0.64%)

Council Member; City of Fowler (3 Elected)

• Rick Darling
  801 votes 21.56%
• Daniel T. Parra
  670 votes 18.03%
• Rico B. Aguayo
  669 votes 18.00%
• Mac Shaw
  579 votes 15.58%
• Craig Mellon
  551 votes 14.83%
• Astine Zadourian
  436 votes 11.73%
• (10 Total Write-In Votes 0.27%)

Mayor; City of Fresno

• Ashley Swearengin
  72784 votes 54.35%
• Henry T. Perea
  60804 votes 45.40%
• (336 Total Write-In Votes 0.25%)

Mayor; City of Kerman

• Trinidad M. Rodriguez
  2231 votes 96.54%
• (80 Total Write-In Votes 3.46%)

Council Member; City of Kerman (2 Elected)

• Richard Stockwell
  1715 votes 50.89%
• Jack Sidhu
  1602 votes 47.54%
• (53 Total Write-In Votes 1.57%)

Council Member; City of Kingsburg (2 Elected)

• Chet Reilly
  2117 votes 29.90%
• Leland E. Bergstrom
  1839 votes 25.97%
• Barbara Taylor
  1624 votes 22.93%
• Paul Kruper
  1466 votes 20.70%
• (35 Total Write-In Votes 0.49%)

Council Member; City of Mendota (2 Elected)

• Joseph R. Riofrio
  602 votes 31.16%
• John C. Flores
  349 votes 18.06%
• David Castaneda
  323 votes 16.72%
• William L. "Smitty" Smith
  282 votes 14.60%
• Cora E. Martinez
  203 votes 10.51%
• Danny Joe Garcia
  162 votes 8.39%
• (11 Total Write-In Votes 0.57%)

Council Member; City of Orange Cove (2 Elected)

• Gilbert Garcia
  769 votes 31.96%
• Esther Gonzalez
  701 votes 29.14%
• Diana Silva Guerra
  508 votes 21.11%
• Joel Lizaola
  421 votes 17.50%
• (7 Total Write-In Votes 0.29%)

Council Member; City of Parlier; Council District 1

• Juan M. Montano
  207 votes 49.88%
• Edward "Eddie" Barela
  206 votes 49.64%
• (2 Total Write-In Votes 0.48%)

Council Member; City of Parlier; Council District 3

• Raul Villanueva
  192 votes 65.98%
• Rosaline Velasco
  98 votes 33.68%
• (1 Total Write-In Votes 0.34%)

City Clerk; City of Parlier

• Dorothy Garza
  1417 votes 98.40%
• (113 Total Write-In Votes 100.00%)

City Treasurer; City of Parlier

Council Member; City of Reedley; Council District 1

• Pete Chavez
  4410 votes 78.72%
• Matthew "Scott" Brockett
  993 votes 17.73%
• (109 Total Write-In Votes 1.95%)

Council Member; City of Reedley; Council District 3

• Steven Rapada
  4245 votes 95.74%
• (189 Total Write-In Votes 4.26%)

Council Member; City of Reedley; Council District 5

• Anita Betancourt
  3602 votes 66.24%
• Marsha L. Hunter
  1816 votes 33.39%
• (20 Total Write-In Votes 0.37%)

Council Member; City of Sanger; Council District 1

• Martin F. Castellano
  2066 votes 38.74%
• John J. Navarro
  1792 votes 33.60%
• Cort Fleming
  1461 votes 27.40%
• (14 Total Write-In Votes 0.26%)

Council Member; City of Sanger; Council District 3

• Victor Ruiz
  3143 votes 56.35%
• Raul Cantu
  2422 votes 43.42%
• (13 Total Write-In Votes 0.23%)

Council Member; City of Sanger; Council District 5

• Jose R. Villarreal
  4663 votes 97.96%
• (97 Total Write-In Votes 2.04%)

Council Member; City of San Joaquin (3 Elected)

• Amarpreet "Ruby" Dhaliwal
  212 votes 24.91%
• Julia Aguilar Hernandez
  191 votes 22.44%
• Abel G. Lua
  183 votes 21.50%
• Tony Vallejo, Sr.
  107 votes 12.57%
• Mike Estrada
  80 votes 9.40%
• Jesus "Chewy" Apodaca
  72 votes 8.46%
• (6 Total Write-In Votes 0.71%)

Treasurer; City of San Joaquin

• (20 Total Write-In Votes 100.00%)

Council Member; City of Selma (3 Elected)

• Dennis Lujan
  2189 votes 16.53%
• George Rodriguez
  2065 votes 15.59%
• Jim Avalos
  1753 votes 13.23%
• Joseph M. Tiger
  1513 votes 11.42%
• Johnny Smith
  1394 votes 10.52%
• Sandi Niswander
  1296 votes 9.78%
• Danny Serimian
  1173 votes 8.86%
• John Mendoza
  744 votes 5.62%
• Herbert L. Wingfield
  417 votes 3.15%
• Mike Melvin
  382 votes 2.88%
• Gary Alexander
  306 votes 2.31%
• (14 Total Write-In Votes 0.11%)

Special District

Board Member; Clovis Memorial District

• William E. Rice
  32550 votes 53.39%
• Paul Dictos
  28196 votes 46.24%
• (226 Total Write-In Votes 0.37%)

Board Member; Consolidated Irrigation District; Division 2

• Thomas E. Feaver
  990 votes 81.35%
• Shavinder Brar
  226 votes 18.57%
• (1 Total Write-In Votes 0.08%)

Board Member; Del Rey Community Service District (2 Elected)

• Martina C. Ledesma
  98 votes 33.91%
• Kimberly Ozuna
  95 votes 32.87%
• Julio Leija
  48 votes 16.61%
• Juan Homer Leija
  47 votes 16.26%
• (1 Total Write-In Votes 0.35%)

Board Member; Fresno Irrigation District; Division 4

• George Porter
  13058 votes 64.66%
• Tom E. Steffen
  7078 votes 35.05%
• (59 Total Write-In Votes 0.29%)

Board Member; Kings River Conservation District

• David Cehrs
  19204 votes 56.67%
• Alvin J. Quist
  14595 votes 43.07%
• (90 Total Write-In Votes 0.27%)

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train
Pass: 6,512,189 / 52.5% Yes votes ...... 5,887,181 / 47.5% No votes

To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air pollution, global warming greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?

Proposition 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals
Pass: 8,009,556 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,622,352 / 36.6% No votes

Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?

Proposition 3 Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program
Pass: 6,805,649 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 5,536,987 / 44.9% No votes

Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?

Proposition 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy
Fail: 6,071,863 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 6,570,777 / 52.0% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?

Proposition 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses, Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation
Fail: 5,015,080 / 40.4% Yes votes ...... 7,407,454 / 59.6% No votes

Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?

Proposition 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws
Fail: 3,728,495 / 30.8% Yes votes ...... 8,365,052 / 69.2% No votes

Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement?

Proposition 7 Renewable Energy Generation
Fail: 4,376,814 / 35.4% Yes votes ...... 7,984,617 / 64.6% No votes

Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?

Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
Pass: 6,838,107 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 6,246,463 / 47.7% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?

Proposition 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole
Pass: 6,518,511 / 53.8% Yes votes ...... 5,602,596 / 46.2% No votes

Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?

Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
Fail: 4,966,867 / 40.5% Yes votes ...... 7,303,418 / 59.5% No votes

Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?

Proposition 11 Redistricting
Pass: 5,957,057 / 50.8% Yes votes ...... 5,759,932 / 49.2% No votes

Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

Proposition 12 Veteran's Bond Act of 2008
Pass: 7,618,136 / 63.5% Yes votes ...... 4,385,715 / 36.5% No votes

Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?

Measure A Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Kingsburg (Needs 51% to pass)
3329 / 75.56% Yes votes ...... 1077 / 24.44% No votes

To maintain and improve public safety services such as police and fire protection, street and pothole repair, parks, youth, after-school, anti-gang and anti-drug programs; senior and other city services, shall the City of Kingsburg impose a Transient Occupancy Tax, also known as a hotel bed tax paid only by hotel guest, of 12%, 4% more than the current tax of 8%, and continuing to be subject to publicly available annual audits.

Measure B Bond -- Central Unified School District (Needs 55% to pass)
Pass: 12065 / 63.40% Yes votes ...... 6965 / 36.60% No votes

To replace outdated heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to improve energy efficiency; upgrade classroom computers and technology; replace again portables; renovate restrooms; improve student safety and school security; acquire property; buildclassrooms and schools to reduce overcrowding; and qualify the District to receive and estimated $75,000,000 in State matching funds, shall the Central Unified School District issue $152,000,000 in bonds at lowest possible interest rates with annual audits, independent citizens' oversight, and no money for administrators' salaries.

Measure C School Facilities Improvement -- West Hills School Facilities Improvement District 2 (Needs 55% to pass)
Pass: 2652 / 65.74% Yes votes ...... 1382 / 34.26% No votes

To improve the quality of education; renovate and construct classrooms and educational facilities; acquire land; improve energy efficiency; upgrade electrical systems to improve access to computers and technology; and make the District eligible for up to $50.0 million in State matching funds; shall the School Facilities Improvement District No. 2 (Coalinga Area) of the West Hills Community College District issue $11.6 million in bonds, at legal rates, with citizen oversight, guaranteed annual financial audits, no money for administrators' salaries?

Measure E School Facilities Improvement -- West Hills School Facilities Improvement District 3 (Needs 55% to pass)
Pass: 778 / 58.63% Yes votes ...... 549 / 41.37% No votes

To improve the quality of education; construct and improve classrooms and educational facilities; acquire land; improve energy efficiency; upgrade electrical systems to improve access to computers and technology; and make the District eligible for up to $70.6 million in State matching funds; shall the School Facilities Improvement District No. 3 (Lemoore Area) of the West Hills Community College District issue $31.0 million in bonds, at legal rates, with citizen oversight, annual financial audits, and no money for administrators' salaries?

Measure L Library Upgrade and Improvement -- County of Fresno (2/3 Approval Required)
Fail: 163865 / 63.41% Yes votes ...... 94573 / 36.59% No votes

To add books, separate homework areas for children/youth, work with neighborhood schools to increase after school and job search programs, improve, upgrade, repair, and construct urban/rural Fresno County branch libraries; including disability access, fire safety, remove asbestos, improve energy efficiency and technology, shall Fresno County voters amend the one-eighth cent sales tax with a one- quarter cent sales tax for sixteen years with independent public review of expenditures?

Measure R Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Selma (Needs 51% to pass)
1850 / 35.79% Yes votes ...... 3319 / 64.21% No votes

Shall the City of Selma increase the existing transient occupancy tax for the privilege of occupancy in any room, hotel, inn, tourist home, house, motel or other lodging, for occupancy for a period of less than 30 days from 6% to 10% of the rent charged by the operator of such lodging?

Measure S Police and Fire Tax -- City of Parlier (Needs 2/3 to pass)
Fail: 1034 / 59.15% Yes votes ...... 714 / 40.85% No votes

To hire additional sworn officers including related training, equipment, vehicles, and for facilities expansion for the Parlier Police Department, and to raise additional funds to place paid Firefighters, and to expand the Parlier Fire Station, shall the City of Parlier be authorized to levy a parcel tax set forth in Council Resolution 2008-57 only for this purpose; subject to an annual audit.

Measure T Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Kerman (Needs 51% to pass)
1339 / 49.96% Yes votes ...... 1341 / 50.04% No votes

Shall the City of Kerman establish a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) at the rate of 8 percent for the users of motels, hotels and similar temporary lodgings in the City to pay as part of their room rate?

Measure V School Improvement -- Sierra Unified School District (Needs 55% to pass)
Fail: 2701 / 48.64% Yes votes ...... 2852 / 51.36% No votes

To improve neighborhood elementary and middle schools, upgrade classroom computer technology and school pick-up/drop-off zones, bring playgrounds into compliance with safety requirements, upgrade plumbing, wiring, heating and ventilation system, improve energy efficiency, increase classroom funding by paying down debt, shall Sierra Unified School District issue $12,000,000 of bonds at legal rates to renovate, acquire, construct, repair, equip schools, sites, facilities, with independent financial audits, citizens' oversight, and no money for administrators' salaries?

Measure W Job Training and School Improvement -- Sierra Unified School District (needs 55% to pass)
Fail: 2839 / 51.03% Yes votes ...... 2724 / 48.97% No votes

To provide a quality education and attract excellent teachers, upgrade electrical systems, classroom computer technology and science labs, improve job training and vocational education classrooms, improve energy efficiency to reduce utility costs, shall Sierra Unified School District issue $10,000,000 of bonds at legal rates to renovate, acquire, construct, repair, equip high school classrooms, sites, facilities, with independent financial audits, citizens' oversight, and no money for administrators' salaries?