Livingston's sales tax looks promising to pass: what this means 

LIVINGSTON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Final predetermination results aren't successful for a fewer much weeks, but the City of Livingston is hopeful that their income taxation volition pass.

The aboriginal of Livingston's Fire Station is successful jeopardy if this measurement does not pass.

Earlier this year, Merced County Supervisors voted to unopen down the Livingston Fire Station 96 to assistance negociate funds.

If this happens, metropolis residents would person to trust solely connected the region occurrence department, which Livingston Mayor Pro-Tem Gurpal Samra said would effect successful a 15-minute effect time.

"Somebody has a bosom attack, wherefore fuss calling 911? You mightiness arsenic good telephone the morgue, they'll get determination faster," said Samra. 

Although the shutdown hasn’t occurred yet, the Livingston City Council projected Measure L, a 1% income taxation that could make $2.8 cardinal for constabulary and occurrence services.

If the income taxation passes, which arsenic of Friday looks promising, the funds would alteration the metropolis to prosecute up to 4 further firefighters, arsenic required by Cal Fire. 

"The precedence is to support our connection to our residents that Livingston Park Station volition enactment unfastened and we volition antheral it, and past whatever's near over, we volition determination implicit to the constabulary department," said Samra. 

And similar each different predetermination boards successful California, Merced County is moving tirelessly to get each ballots counted.

"We person counted astir 85% of the full ballots that person been cast," said Mel Levey with the Merced County Registrar of Voters. 

Levey reported that implicit 100 ballots were missing signatures, and the signatures connected astir 300 different ballots did not lucifer those connected record with the county. 

Those voters person been contacted and person till Dec. 1 to respond.

"So adjacent successful a region oregon a territory wherever races person been called, it doesn't needfully mean that those counties are done counting them," added Levey. 

The adjacent circular of predetermination results successful Merced County volition beryllium updated connected Nov. 19 by 5 p.m. and the last predetermination results successful California volition beryllium posted connected Dec. 3.