The measure coming up on the Nov. 3 ballot is the closest anyone’s gotten to touching the “third rail” of California politics.

The roll shows that the net assessed value of all property in the county grew by $35.5 billion to a total of $551.5 billion from the year prior.

For a scheme with such potentially devastating consequences on schools and local governments, it’s garnered surprisingly little attention.

We get a little more time to pay federal and state taxes, but the due date for local property taxes is what it is. And it’s still April 10.