Yes, aggressively. City leadership has done its part and exhausted internal options to shield residents from service reductions. To save money, the City has proactively:

• Frozen 24 vacant city positions to keep administrative payroll down.

• Cut internal operational expenses across all city departments.

• Withheld pay raises for all City employees for the last two consecutive years.

The City has trimmed all available internal fat. There is no way to close the remaining $12 million gap without cutting actual public services.

Because the deficit is so large, failing to pass Measure P will trigger immediate, mandatory, and deep cuts across our neighborhoods. To balance the budget, the City will be forced to implement employee layoffs, resulting in:

• Direct reductions in neighborhood police patrols.

• Rolling brownouts at local fire stations, which threatens 9-1-1 response times.

• Complete closures of some neighborhood community parks.

• The elimination of vital youth afterschool programs and senior enrichment services.

• Drastic reductions to roadway and pothole maintenance.

Measure P updates our local sales tax by 1%. In plain terms, it adds exactly $1 to a purchase of $100.

For the average Fairfield household, this will result in an estimated $XXX per month in additional expense.

No. By law, essential everyday living expenses are completely exempt from sales tax. You will not pay any additional tax on:

• Groceries (food products for human consumption).

• Prescription medications and medical devices.

• Rent or mortgage payments.

• Utilities (water, gas, electricity).

The tax primarily applies only to standard retail goods, clothing, and gasoline.

Measure P is protected by ironclad legal safeguards. By law, 100% of the funds must stay local to serve Fairfield—the State of California is legally barred from taking a single penny of it. Furthermore, the measure mandates a Citizen Oversight Committee made up of Fairfield residents and requires independent annual financial audits to verify exactly how every dollar is spent.

More information on Citizen Oversight can be found on the City’s website at www.fairfield.ca.gov/measurep

Yes. Because it is a sales tax, anyone who visits Fairfield to shop, dine, buy gas, or do business helps fund our infrastructure and emergency services. This ensures that out-of-town visitors, or travelers passing through Fairfield along I-80 who stop for gas or fast food, pay their fair share for using our roads and public safety resources, rather than placing the entire financial burden on local residents.