On the ballot in Hayward’s Nov. 5 municipal election
Hayward voters will get their say on the City’s elected leadership and a local sales-tax extension in the upcoming Nov. 5 municipal election.
Four seats on the seven-member City Council are on the ballot as well a 20-year, no-increase extension of the City’s half-cent sales tax, which funds City police, 911 dispatch and maintenance services, as well as streets, facility and infrastructure improvement projects.
The half-cent sales tax, authorized by Hayward voters with the passage of Measure C in June 2014, is set to expire in 2034. The extension, appearing on the Nov. 5 ballot as Measure K1, would extend the life of the tax at the same ½-cent rate until 2054.
The contest for four City Council seats—those currently held by Councilmembers Angela Andrews, Ray Bonilla Jr., Dan Goldstein and Francisco Zermeño—marks the last time Councilmembers other than the mayor will be chosen through at-large, citywide elections. Beginning in 2026, Councilmembers will be elected from geographic districts—with only the mayor continuing to be elected citywide.
For more information on Hayward’s Nov. 5 municipal election, go online here on the City of Hayward website.
