LA County Supervisor Changes Vote on Transportation Sales Tax

According to the LA Times bottleneck blogger Stevre Hymon, the sales tax for LA County is half way to the ballot:

A press release from L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe just popped up in my email basket. It's a keeper and it's below.

What this means is that if the sales tax increase goes to the ballot, it will be on the general ballot. But it's not sure thing it will be on the ballot because a state bill that is needed to authorize such an election is stuck in the State Senate while members haggle over what projects are included in the bill.

Nonetheless, this is a remarkable turn of events. According to the release, Knabe changed his mind after learning that having the sales tax on a separate ballot would cost the county an additional $10.3 million. Officials at the Supervisors' meeting on Tuesday, if my notes are correct, estimated the cost to be $2- to $3-million more.