PRESS RELEASE
December 6, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sarah Henry, Public Information Officer
510-747-4714
Today, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters certified the results of the November 6, 2018 election. The City of Alameda’s voter turnout rate for this election was 73.65%, with 73.5% voting by mail and 26.5% voting on Election Day. The results are as follows:
Mayor (vote for one only)
Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft: 41.96%
Trish Spencer: 37.45%
Frank Matarrese: 20.00%
Write-in: .58%
City Council (vote for no more than two)
John Knox White: 25.88%
Tony Daysog: 22.69%
Jim Oddie: 19.27%
Robert C. Matz: 18.17%
Stewart Chen: 13.64%
Write-in: .4%
Mayor-elect Ezzy Ashcraft was re-elected to the Alameda City Council in 2016 and has two years remaining on her term. As the third highest vote getter for City Council, Jim Oddie will complete the remainder of her term.
Alameda’s incoming City Councilmembers are:
- Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft
- Councilmember John Knox White
- Councilmember Tony Daysog
- Councilmember Jim Oddie
- Councilmember Malia Vella
Measure F (City of Alameda, needed majority yes to pass)
61.5% Yes, 38.5% No
Ballot question: Shall the measure maintaining the City of Alameda's financial stability and protecting services and infrastructure such as police response to violent crimes and burglaries; 9-1-1 emergency medical and fire response; maintaining neighborhood parks; repairing potholes, maintaining streets and protecting the Bay from pollution by enacting a 0.5% sales tax until repealed by voters, providing approximately $5,000,000 annually in locally controlled revenues, requiring independent audits and public spending review, be adopted?
Measure K (City of Alameda, needed majority yes to pass)
39.69% Yes, 60.31% No
Ballot question: Shall the Charter be amended by incorporating Ordinance 3148, the City's Rent Review, Rent Stabilization and Limitations on Evictions law, with the following modifications: (a) preclude City Council from amending the law in response to changing conditions and concerns, and require voter approval instead, and (b) eliminate the December 31, 2019 sunset clause?
The defeat of Measure K means that Alameda Rent Stabilization Ordinance 3148 remains in place. Additional information including rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords can be found at www.alamedarentprogram.org.
Measure E (Peralta Community College District, needed a 2/3 majority to pass)
82.46% Yes, 17.54% No
Ballot question: To continue providing the colleges of Alameda, Berkeley, Laney, and Merritt, funds that cannot be taken by the state to support affordable college education, including core academic programs to prepare students for university transfer and successful careers, by providing tutoring and teacher support; shall Peralta Community College District continue to levy $48 per parcel annually for eight years, providing $8,000,000 annually, with internal and citizens' oversight, no funds for administrator salaries, and all funds benefitting local colleges?
Measure G (Peralta Community College District, needed 55% to pass)
75.78% Yes, 24.22% No
Ballot question: To upgrade aging classrooms, technology, science labs; expand job training classrooms; and acquire, construct, repair sites/facilities/equipment, shall the Peralta Community College District issue $800 million in bonds at legal interest rates, with approximately $44.2 million in taxes raised annually for 40 years at projected tax rates of $24.50 per $100,000 of assessed valuation, with no funds for administrator salaries, audits and citizen oversight, and all funds used locally?
Measure FF (East Bay Regional Park District Zone 1, needed 2/3 vote to pass)
86.61% Yes, 13.39% No
Ballot question: Without increasing tax rates, to protect against wildfires; enhance public safety; preserve water quality, shorelines, urban creeks; protect redwoods and parklands in a changing climate; and restore natural areas, shall East Bay Regional Park District be authorized to extend an existing parcel tax of $1 monthly ($12/year) per single-family parcel and 69₵ monthly ($8.28/year) for multi-family units, raising approximately $3.3 million annually, to expire in 20 years?
Election results can be found on the Alameda County Registrar of Voters website at www.acgov.org/rovresults/236/index.htm. The next general election in the City of Alameda is November 3, 2020.
The Alameda City Council will certify the November 2018 election results at its regular December 18 meeting. For more information, visit alamedaca.gov/agendas.
