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Faith & Reason · Measure Opposition
No, CEO. Marin Healthcare District · Nov 3, 2026
Vote No — a second 30-year tax on Marin roofs.
Measure CC — the Marin Healthcare District – Emergency Healthcare Funding Measure — is a 30-year, 14¢-per-square-foot parcel tax that would raise about $12.4 million a year (~$372 million over the term), on top of debt Marin taxpayers are still paying from 2013.
Why Vote No
CC = double crazy. Four reasons this 30-year roof tax does not belong on the ballot.
I · Double Crazy
In 2013 the hospital borrowed for building and earthquake work. Most of that debt is still outstanding through 2047. Measure CC stacks a second 30-year tax on the same roofs — about $12.4 million a year, ~$280 more on a 2,000 sq ft home.
Crazy to tax again before the first bill is paid. Double crazy to lock it in for three more decades.
II · Wants, not needs
The hospital beat its budget. 2024 surplus: about $24 million — already nearly twice the annual take of this tax — plus tens of millions in foundation gifts. Measure CC funds a wish list: upgrade, expand, attract. That is wants, not needs.
III · How it got here
Petition gatherers, according to a director and a taxpayer advocate on the record, told people the hospital would close if they did not sign. That conduct was called “straight up dishonest.” A tax that needed a scare story to reach the ballot has not earned a Yes.
IV · Hard to unwind
No senior or low-income exemption. Only another vote can repeal it, and the district may bond against the stream. Once locked in, this “citizens’” tax is a permanent claim on every improved roof in the district — hard to unwind, easy to keep collecting.
As It Appears on the Ballot
Official ballot label from the Marin Healthcare District resolutions placing the measure on the November 3, 2026 ballot. The yes committee is a separate name.
Official ballot question
“Shall the measure funding expanded and upgraded emergency room, intensive care, hospital, and other medical facilities to care for trauma, heart attack, stroke, and other patients and attract qualified doctors and nurses, with no funds for administrator salaries, by enacting a parcel tax of 14¢ per square foot of improved building area annually, generating approximately $12,400,000 annually for 30 years, subject to annual audits and citizens’ committee oversight, be adopted?”
As printed in Marin Healthcare District resolutions submitting the measure to voters for November 3, 2026.
Still Owing the First Bill
In 2013 the hospital borrowed for building and earthquake upgrades. Most of that debt is still outstanding. Measure CC stacks a second 30-year tax on top.
Scaled to a home
Owing $965,000 on a house built for $394,000 — then renovating again before one-tenth is paid. That is the arithmetic Measure CC asks every Marin property owner (and every renter who pays it through the lease) to accept.
Marin property owners already pay roughly $16 million a year servicing the hospital’s existing bonds. Measure CC is not the first ask. It is the second mortgage.
Wealth Already on Hand
The hospital beat its budget, raises gifts that dwarf this levy, and pays its CEO over $2 million a year.
Hospital revenue: $661 million. Surplus: $24 million. Foundation gifts: $23.6 million — already about twice the annual take of this tax. CEO pay: over $2 million.
It is crazy for an institution this flush to tax the middle class in the name of health — and double crazy when petition gatherers, according to a director and a taxpayer advocate on the record, told people the hospital would close if they did not sign: conduct called “straight up dishonest.”
Taxing the middle class in the name of health is self-defeating: it takes the very thing that produces health. Public health doctrine has long held that wealth brings health — tax one, and you tax the other.
Figures as cited in the Argument Against Measure CC filed with Marin County Elections; petition conduct reported on the record by a director and a taxpayer advocate.
Ballot Argument · Adapted
From the Argument Against Measure CC filed with Marin County Elections — expanded here for voters who want more than the ballot-pamphlet length.
Crazy
When Measure CC expires. Her parents will pay it like a mortgage — but Marin already pays one since 2013. Now the hospital wants more. Double crazy.
Double crazy
Measure CC funds “upgrade,” “expand,” “attract.” It charges by the square foot, not by what a home is worth — so a modest house pays like a mansion — while the hospital’s foundation already raises twice this tax in gifts. Wants, not needs — they ran a ~$24M surplus.
Still owing
In 2013 the hospital borrowed $394 million. Only $33 million is paid off. Ballooning debt of $593 million is still owed through 2047, $232 million of it interest. Measure CC seeks a second tax of $372 million — combining to $965 million.
Locked in
Atop the current bill, a 2,000-square-foot home pays $280 more yearly — $8,400 total — with no senior or low-income exemption. Only another vote can repeal it; the district may bond against it. Prop 43 would restore the two-thirds vote for later citizen taxes; Measure CC is on this ballot under a simple majority.
Bottom line
A second mortgage on Marin, for wants not needs, sold with dishonest signatures, and hard to unwind.
Cite · Not a FairPAC communication
A personal Marin Independent Journal / Marin Voice submission about Measure CC is posted on a candidate site. FairPAC did not write it, does not republish it, and this independent expenditure is not that piece.
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November 3, 2026
Measure CC appears on the Marin Healthcare District ballot — most of Marin except Novato. Official election information is at the county, not on any candidate site.
On the ballot
Look for Measure CC — Marin Healthcare District – Emergency Healthcare Funding Measure. A No vote rejects the 30-year, 14¢/sq ft parcel tax.
Registered voters in the district may vote by mail or at a vote center. Confirm your status and drop-off options at marinvotes.org.
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Questions, Answered
14¢ per square foot of improved building area, every year for 30 years. A 2,000 sq ft home is about $280 more per year ($8,400 over the term), stacked on existing hospital bond taxes. There is no senior or low-income exemption. Landlords can pass the levy through as rent.
No. An October 2025 notice of intent listed a $75 vacant-parcel rate and $88 per dwelling on parcels with three or more units. Those rates were dropped. The ballot-book measure is square-footage only.
The official label is Marin Healthcare District – Emergency Healthcare Funding Measure. The letter designation is Measure CC. Friends of MarinHealth / Yes on CC is the yes committee — not the measure’s official name.
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Nov 3, 2026
Measure CC is Double Crazy. Local Common Cents means reading the operative text — not the slogan on the petition. Marin can do better.