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Southern Alameda County’s Washington Township Health Care District is coming up short each year and now its leaders want to turn to property owners to make up the difference.

Measure B on the Nov. 4 ballot in Fremont, Newark, Union City and a small part of South Hayward would impose a parcel tax of $5 per 100 square feet of building area. For an average size single-family house in the district, that’s about $90 annually. The tax would last for 12 years.

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But the district’s arguments for the measure are misleading, and officials are unwilling to discuss specifics of how they plan to address their financial shortfall, which is more than twice as big as the revenue expected from the new tax. Voters shou

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