After a week of controversy over how Alameda County will spend its Measure W funds, the Board of Supervisors finally put the $1.8 billion debate to bed — but not before residents got their objections in.

Public input lasted for for hours at a special meeting on Wednesday, and Board President David Haubert had to extend the packed meeting by 30 minutes to allow for a final vote on the measure’s allocations.

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Voters narrowly passed Measure W in 2020 with a simply majority. The measure was promoted as a funding source that would be used entirely for homelessness solutions in the county; it was challenged by the Alameda County Taxpayers Association, which claimed the measure was a “special tax” that should have required a two-thirds majority vote to pass. The California Supr

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