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Primary references

Sources and primary records

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Source categories

  • City Council agendas, staff reports, resolutions and minutes
  • City budgets, audits and project improvement documents
  • CFCAC agendas, presentations and final report
  • Election materials and official ballot documents
  • Development agreements, permits and fee records
  • Utility rate filings and published rate schedules
  • Municipal bond market benchmarks and official funding documents
  • Resident/participant statements, including the Grace da Silva Nextdoor statement, clearly labeled as a participant statement rather than an official City record
Primary records should control when a secondary description conflicts with the actual document. Where the record is ambiguous, the page should say so.

2026 election and ballot wording

City of Marina - Notice of Election / official ballot question ↗

Monterey County Elections - Local Measures ↗

These are the starting-point sources for the election wording. The site's analysis should not be treated as a substitute for the official ballot text.

Utility and rate sources

Housing and development sources

History and decision-process sources added in this research pass

Expanded research register - documents used to close open questions

Facilities, CFCAC and UUT

Budget, project and restricted funds

Fire-station siting and public safety

Development and growth

Utility sources

Resident/participant material

Grace da Silva's August 11, 2026 Nextdoor statement is retained as a participant statement, based on the resident-provided screenshot, not as an official CFCAC record. The site does not use that statement to establish what CFCAC formally voted on; it is presented only to document a member's later interpretation of the process.

Source hierarchy: ballot text, laws, resolutions, staff reports, budgets, audits and adopted technical studies are treated as primary records. Technical consultant reports are identified as such. Resident statements are clearly labeled. Secondary commentary is not used to override primary documents.

Construction timing and funding references added for the restored graphs

The 5% sequential pay-as-you-go graph is a what-if illustration, not a City-adopted facility-by-facility cost estimate. The current public City material establishes the overall program/gap but does not provide a verified current split of the ≈$58M gap among the three facilities.

Burden, pay-as-you-go and rate-choice analysis

The site's 5% long-run escalation curve, equal-third facility split, $9.65M/year accumulation proxy and lower annual savings what-if cases are analytical assumptions, not City forecasts.

Construction escalation indexes and method

Debt-model and economic-development sources

Development-performance and public-claims sources

a local Marina activist social-media claims were identified through publicly indexed Facebook search results. Facebook did not expose full post bodies reliably; only visible indexed statements are assessed.

Community voices and 2026 candidate context

These sources are included to document public discussion, not to elevate social-media commentary above primary City records. Candidate status is taken from the City's official Candidate Watch page.

Grace Silva-Santella Nextdoor source: a screenshot supplied directly to this project documents her later comments about CFCAC and the UUT. Because no stable public Nextdoor URL was available, the site labels it as a supplied resident source rather than inventing a link.

Development timeline source anchors

Utility-cost and money raised-model clarification

Fund-balance and alternative-funding claim checks

CFCAC and facility-funding breakdown sources

Rate-what-if analysis: source trail

The 3%-7% dynamic payoff graph is generated by VoteMarinaCA. It was not found in the CFCAC materials reviewed. Assumptions are stated on the Debt and CFCAC pages so the calculation can be reproduced or challenged.

Measure Q official ballot arguments and signer background

Utility-rate and accountability sources

  • June 16, 2026 KMA UUT analysis ↗ - Table 2C: 8,254 occupied households, $496/month average modeled taxable utility cost, 62%/38% draft household groups; Table 4: $13.894M annual commercial utility base and about $970,000 commercial UUT at 7%.
  • Current Measure Q page ↗ - official ≈$3.83M annual estimate, taxable services, reduced-rate who qualifies, General Fund status, local-use requirement, audits and voter termination.
  • Measure Q FAQ ↗ - general-tax uses, annual reporting, independent audits/community oversight, Council option to reduce or suspend, and expected $50M money raised-bond capacity.

The 3%-7% rate/time graphic and progressive tables are VoteMarinaCA what-if analyses, not City forecasts.

How do other City issues fit?

Parks, Preston Park, development incentives, litigation, recreation facilities and transportation projects can be legitimate questions without necessarily being the same financial question as Measure Q. Use the City Issues & Measure Q FAQ to see what is directly related, indirectly related, or financially separate.

Interactive UUT calculator method

The interactive calculator on the Rate page is generated locally in the browser. It does not call a remote financial service. The calculator uses the June 2026 KMA household/commercial tax-base values, the site's $50M and 4.75% loan assumptions, and clearly labeled static or progressive scenarios.

See the full calculation method and assumptions →

Chapter 3.07 and utility-bill comparison sources

Website source map

The main page is the decision summary. Supporting pages answer narrower questions. The Sources page sits behind all of them so a reader can trace the evidence rather than follow one prescribed path.

City budget primary-record library

The City's budget index currently provides adopted budget records back through FY 2008-09. Two-year cycles are listed once because the same adopted book covers both years.

Data table 1
Financial year(s)RecordPrimary link
FY 2025-26 / 2026-27Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2023-24 / 2024-25Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2021-22 / 2022-23Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2019-20 / 2020-21Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2018-19Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2017-18Budget SummaryOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2016-17Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2015-16Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2014-15Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2013-14Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2012-13Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2011-12Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2010-11Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2009-10Adopted Budget / City archiveOpen City PDF / record ↗
FY 2008-09Adopted BudgetOpen City PDF / record ↗

City of Marina master budget page ↗

Official contacts for questions

For questions about Marina election notices, Measure Q records or other official City election material, contact the City of Marina City Clerk's Office at 831-884-1278 or marina@cityofmarina.org. The office is at 211 Hillcrest Avenue, Marina, CA 93933. City Clerk ↗

For voter registration, vote-by-mail ballots and voting locations, contact Monterey County Elections at 831-796-1499, toll-free 866-887-9274, or elections@co.monterey.ca.us. Monterey County Elections ↗

Registration, ballot mailing and voting help →

Measure Q communications and advocacy sources

These sources show how Measure Q is being presented to voters. They do not replace the ballot language, law, staff reports, CFCAC report or adopted financial records.

Data table 2
SourceRoleHow this site uses it
City of Marina Measure Q website ↗Official City communicationPrimary source for the City's current explanation, estimates, who qualifies rules and administrative statements. Policy-rationale claims are checked against actual City records.
NoMarinaUUT.com ↗Opposition advocacy websiteSource for organized opposition claims and source leads. Factual claims are checked against original public records before being treated as evidence.

See the side-by-side claims assessment →

CFCAC participant statements

Later public statements by former CFCAC members are used as participant accounts of how they experienced the process. They are kept separate from the formal CFCAC report and City records because later recollections do not change the committee's official action.

Data table 3
SourceDateUse on this site
Jason Smith, public Nextdoor commentsAugust 24, 2026Participant account addressing utility assumptions, rate analysis, document review and final approval. Contemporaneous email or draft material referenced in the comments has not been independently obtained.
Other former CFCAC member public comments documented on this siteAugust 2026Used to compare later member recollections with the formal written recommendation. The adopted report remains the record of CFCAC's formal position.

Facilities planning and concept sources

Data table 4
SourceWhy it matters
2024 RNT facilities planning authorization and scope ↗Documents the City's RNT work to identify sites, develop conceptual plans, estimate costs and assess existing facilities. This planning predates CFCAC.
December 2025 CFCAC Report and Recommendations ↗Identifies RNT architects Ansgar Killing and Tyson Cline among the experts who joined committee meetings and describes the committee's review of facilities, sites, prepared slides and expert input.

Bond-rate and denominator sources

$213.37 million cash and investments

The FY2024/25 ACFR, Note 2, reports total cash and investments of $213,369,886: $177,616,557 City government funds, $22,123,173 City business-type funds, and $13,630,156 money held for others funds. The report also explains that Marina pools cash resources from its funds for cash management and separately identifies restricted cash held for debt, building and improvement projects, deposits and trust obligations.