Sonoma County Local School and Fire District Measures Pass
Smaller school and service district measures across Sonoma County are passing in early returns.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
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Old Adobe Union School District Bond (O): Yes 56.5% (2,750)
Waugh School District Bond (E): Yes 56.0% (699)
Harmony Union School District Parcel Tax (M): Yes 66.5% (810)
Coast Life Support District Parcel Tax (D): Yes 72.6% (434)
Schell-Vista Fire Protection District appropriations limit (N): Yes 80.6% (716)
ABC7 labels the Old Adobe bond as needing 55% to pass. The Harmony parcel tax sits right at the two-thirds line.
All results are unofficial election-night and early-morning counts as of Wednesday, Nov. 4. Counties keep counting mail and provisional ballots for days, and certification comes later, so margins can shift, especially in close contests.
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Measure G would keep West Sonoma County Union High School District's $79-a-year parcel tax for eight more years, raising about $1.95 million a year. Near Occidental, Harmony Union's Measure M asks for a new $75 tax. Both need two-thirds.
Voters in the Coast Life Support District, the ambulance service for the Sonoma and Mendocino coast from Timber Cove to Irish Beach, decide Measure D on Nov. 3. It would raise the parcel tax from $61 to $101 per unit, or from $183 to $303 a year for a typical home, and needs a two-thirds vote.
Cal Fire mapped the Cooley Fire at 1,156 acres and 15% contained Sunday evening after a private prescribed burn escaped near Lake Sonoma. The Bay Area Air District kept a smoke advisory for Marin, Sonoma and Napa through Monday.
The Pride flag that flew at Sonoma Valley High School since 2019 came down Monday after Sonoma Valley Unified trustees voted 3-2 on Oct. 8 to give the board sole say over symbolic flags. At least 250 people rallied on Broadway during a student walkout Tuesday, and police arrested a counter-protester on suspicion of trespassing.
Democratic state Sen. Mike McGuire has won California's 1st Congressional District, defeating Republican Rep. James Gallagher in a district reshaped by Proposition 50, according to an AP call.
