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List of City Manager's Office Projects and Programs

Measure U

List of City Manager's Office Projects and Programs

Measure U

In 2012, Sacramento voters approved Measure U, a temporary half-cent sales tax to restore essential services that had been cut or scaled back during the Great Recession. In 2018, Sacramento voters approved a new version of the City’s Measure U sales tax, extending it and raising it from a half-cent to a full cent. View a complete breakdown of the City’s current sales tax rate.

Enhancing Quality of Life in Sacramento

Measure U is a general-purpose tax - the revenue it produces goes into the City’s General Fund and can be used for any municipal purpose. Measure U helps maintain and improve quality of life in Sacramento by providing funding for safer neighborhoods, better-maintained parks, and stronger community programs.

Apply Now: The City is currently accepting applications to serve on the Measure U Community Advisory Committee.

Ensuring Transparency and Accountability

Measure U established an independent citizens’ oversight committee to review expenditures, provide funding recommendations to Council to align Measure U spending with community priorities, and report to the public how Measure U dollars are spent. The City Clerk’s Measure U Community Advisory Committee page includes current members, open seats accepting applications, information about upcoming meetings, along with the Committee’s annual report and workplan.

Go to the Measure U Committee

Learn more at the City Clerk's Boards & Commissions Portal page

A One-Cent Transactions and Use Tax: How It Works

Measure U is a local tax that adds one cent to every dollar spent on most goods in Sacramento. As a “transactions and use tax,” Measure U applies to the sale and use of goods within the City of Sacramento. Unlike a sales tax that is limited to sales with the City’s jurisdiction, a use tax is paid on the use, storage, or consumption of goods that were purchased outside of the City’s jurisdiction but used within City boundaries.

By the Numbers

In the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025 (Fiscal Year 2024/25), Measure U is projected to generate $140 million in tax revenue. A summary of Measure U funded programs in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024/25 Approved Budget is as follows:

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Measure U Programs

Affordable Housing - $6.0 million

Resources for Specific Plans, Zero-Dollar Fee program, Long Range Planning, and Zoning services in the Community Development Department, and for Housing in the City Manager’s Office to focus on planning and zoning a citywide housing policy and opportunities to promote development of additional housing.

Arts/Creative Edge - $4.2 million

Resources for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations through the Cultural Arts Award Program and for City programs that promote cultural and creative life including the Arts in Public Places, Arts Education and Outreach office, Arts and Culture, History, Crocker Art Museum, Arts Stabilization, Creative Economy and Grants, and the new Entertainment Services Division.

Climate Action - $862,000

Resources for sustainability and cost-saving energy programs to reduce the City's greenhouse gas emissions as required by State law and staff for the City’s Climate Action and Sustainability Office.

Community Investment - $29.9 million

Resources for the Sacramento History Museum, Sacramento Utility Rate Assistance (SURA) Program, Facility Reinvestment and Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Programs as well as fleet acquisitions, park operations, older adult services, golf administration, city cemetery, permitting and events, and fiscal & technological support for the Youth, Parks & Community Enrichment Department (YPCE).

Community Response - $29.2 million

Resources for the Department of Community Response to provide an alternative response to homelessness model through community outreach; and additional resources for fleet acquisitions and to address illegal dumping, neighborhood code compliance, public safety accountability, animal care/shelter, and the Sacramento City 311 Call Center activity.

Homelessness - $10.3 million

Resources for the Department of Community Response to coordinate with various Federal, State, local, nonprofit, and faith-based entities to end homelessness.

Inclusive Economic Development - $8.6 million

Resources for Community Programs, Thousand Strong program and City departments that promote inclusive economic and community development such as Community Engagement, Community Investment, Economic Development, and Office of Diversity and Equity.

Library - $14.7 million

Resources for the support and maintenance of the City’s twelve libraries.

Public Safety - $21.6 million

Resources to staff and support the hiring pipeline in Police, Diversity Outreach Recruitment Program and fire suppression in the Fire Department, park safety services in YPCE, and animal enforcement and field services in the Community Development Department.

Youth - $27.6 million

Resources for programs such as the Mayor/Council Economic Development Priorities, Children and Youth Services Program, Summer Youth and Community Programs, Gang Prevention, Office of Violence Prevention Disruption, Response & Intervention, Powerhouse Science Center, and Family and Youth Investments. Resources also include the operation of the City’s access leisure, aquatics, community centers, youth employment, youth enrichment, youth expanded learning, Camp Sacramento, Office of Youth Development, Fairytale Town, Sacramento Zoo, and recreation programs.

Miscellaneous - $6.3 million

Resources for, commission stipends for various Commissions, expanded technology support, and Citywide employee services/benefits costs related to staffing funded by Measure U.

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Measure U

Enhancing Quality of Life in Sacramento

Ensuring Transparency and Accountability

A One-Cent Transactions and Use Tax: How It Works

By the Numbers

Measure U Programs

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