Santa Cruz voters say ‘yes’ to shifting more cannabis tax revenue to fund youth programs

Santa Cruz voters this week appear to have overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that will increase the amount of money from a city cannabis tax that goes to a Children’s Fund for childcare and youth programs and makes that fund permanent.

Residents of the city of Santa Cruz had one measure to vote on in Tuesday’s election — Measure A, which proposed to increase from 12.5 percent to 20 percent the allocation of cannabis business tax revenue to the Children’s Fund and make the fund permanent as a charter amendment that could only be overturned by another ballot measure decided by voters.