Pasadena Mayor to Join Supervisors Mitchell, Solis at Morning Press Conference Backing Proposed County Sales Tax Ballot Measure

Mayor Victor Gordo is scheduled to join Supervisors Holly Mitchell and Hilda Solis at a morning news conference outlining a proposed temporary half-cent sales tax increase that is on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ Tuesday agenda.

The proposal, according to information provided in the event announcement, would place the tax increase on the June primary ballot “to help address more than $2.4 billion in federal funding cuts to the Los Angeles County healthcare system resulting from the Trump administration’s passage of H.R.1” — the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Mitchell and Solis will outline the proposal at 8:45 a.m. on Temple Street outside the Board Hearing Room at the Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., ahead of the board’s 9:30 a.m. meeting. They will be joined by Gordo, a group of local healthcare leaders and “families and patients that rely on Medi-Cal,” according to the announcement.

The five-member board will decide whether to approve or reject a proposal introduced by Supervisors Holly Mitchell and Hilda Solis in January. The proposed measure — called the Essential Services Restoration Act — would ask voters whether to enact a half-cent general sales tax increase for five years through Oct. 1, 2031.

An estimated $1 billion would be generated from the measure, according to the county.

The county sales tax currently stands at 9.75%. The latest proposed hike would increase it to 10.25%.