61.   The governor failed to persuade legislators to allow school districts to impose new taxes without voter approval to raise more money.

62.   The Green Line could be operating within six years of voter approval, using existing reserves, federal money and the quarter-cent sales tax to leverage bonds.

63.   The measure will probably win voter approval.

64.   The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is considering a legal challenge of the fee if the council reimposes it without voter approval.

65.   The meeting took place three days before the Giants announced they were planning to build the privately funded ballpark at China Basin and seek voter approval.

66.   The Padres, meanwhile, are playing for nothing less than the survival of the franchise in San Diego, for voter approval in November of a new ballpark.

67.   The other two states are Maine and Colorado, where an initiative received voter approval this month.

68.   The reform legislation, written last week and adopted Wednesday by the Senate and Thursday by the Assembly, needs voter approval to become law.

69.   The proposal would let the Police Commission change certain disciplinary procedures without voter approval.

70.   The proposal would then go on the ballot for voter approval.