City of Morgan Hill Fiscal Years 2020- 2022 Recommended Operating and CIP Budgets

As demonstrated below, the City of Morgan Hill has one of the lowest tax revenue base compared to other cities in the County.

City of Morgan Hill Property, Sales, Transient Occupancy, and Business License Taxes Per Capita Santa Clara County Cities FY 2018-19

To address the reality of the infrastructure funding gap, in June 2019, staff embarked on an extensive community outreach, Engage Morgan Hill, to learn about the community’s priorities and to educate the community on the City’s police services, infrastructure needs and finances, amongst other topics. In addition, staff engaged the services of Godbe Research to conduct a statistically valid survey exploring the community’s priorities and the support for a potential special ballot measure in March 2020 to provide funding for police services, infrastructure, and general services.

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