MEASURE R PASSES

By Anne Soble

According to the latest Los Angeles County
Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk tally from the Feb. 5 election, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District parcel tax, Measure R, passed handily by 22,309 to 8446. In percentage terms, it received 72.54 percent to 27.46 percent. The measure needed two-thirds approval of the votes cast to pass.

The number of voters who cast ballots on the measure was 30,755, or 43 percent of the district’s total registration of 70,107. The vote count was completed for the 71 precincts in the district at 3:57 a.m. on Wednesday.