To modernize the City’s existing 5% telephone users tax for non-residential users, and existing 2% rate for residential users, and to maintain funding for such essential City services as police, fire, streets, libraries and parks, shall the tax be extended to include wireless, internet, and other modern telecommunications without increasing the tax rate to raise approximately $560,000 per year for City services on an ongoing basis?

To simplify the City’s existing business license tax and to fund essential City services such as police, fire, streets, libraries, and parks at current levels, shall the City amend the tax to assess rates equally amongst businesses regardless of function, imposing a minimum tax per business of $26 per year plus 0.15% of gross receipts over $25,000, thereby maintaining current annual revenues of approximately $3.2 million on an ongoing basis?

Shall the City of Monterey Charter be amended to: (1) disavow application of the California Public Contracts Code, (2) repeal requirements to competitively bid the construction of public improvements valued at $65,000 or more, and (3) delete provisions relating to emergency purchases and job order contracts, thereby allowing the City Council to regulate such matters by ordinance and streamlining purchasing and procurement activities?