Measure T: Sonoma voters consider raising local sales tax to help maintain city services

City of Sonoma voters will decide on increasing the local sales tax on the November ballot.

Measure T would increase the city’s current half-cent sales tax by another half-cent. Combined with a half-cent Sonoma County sales tax to fund firefighting services that was passed by county voters as Measure H in March and takes effect Oct. 1, as well as the county’s Measure I quarter-cent sales tax for child care programs on the Nov. 5 ballot, the overall sales tax rate in Sonoma could go from 9% to 10.25% if Measures T and I both pass.