Your last-minute guide to L.A. city charter amendments, ballot measures

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Set us as preferred Voters in the city of Los Angeles will consider eight ballot measures covering everything from taxes and fire resources to governance of airports and the port and the quality of parks.The basicsMeasure FD would increase sales taxes by 0.5% to provide additional funding for the city Fire Department.The measure would raise an estimated $345 million annually.

Under the plan, the city’s retail sales tax would increase from 10.25 cents per dollar spent to 10.75 cents per dollar spent.ImpactThe ballot initiative was spearheaded by the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, the union representing rank-and-file firefighters, which has long argued that the department is underfunded.It claims decades of neglect have left the department understaffed and under-resourced.Critics point out that this would be the third sales tax hike since 2024, following L.A.

County hikes for homelessness (Measure A in 2024) and healthcare (Measure ER in the June 2 primary).The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn.

estimates that Measure FD will cost an average of $86 per person and $345 for a family of four in additional sales taxes each year.Read more: California Supporters say Los Angeles Measure FD will ensure adequate funding for the L.A.City Fire Department; opponents say it will boost sales taxes to 10.75% and cost $86 per person.The basicsProposition TE would carve out a five-year exemption from L.A.’s “mansion tax” for Pacific Palisades homes damaged or destroyed in the 2025 wildfire, sparing sellers six-figure transfer bills on high-end properties.

The mansion tax levies a 4% transfer tax on all L.A.property sales above $5.4 million and a 5.5% tax on sales above $10.9 million.

At the current level, if a Pacific Palisades resident who lost their home in the fire sold the vacant lot for, say, $6 million, they woul...