The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has approved funding to pay for a series of gun buyback events in the county starting next month and running through 2023.

The board approved spending up to $208,000 in reserves from Measure K, a 2016 voter-approved extension of a half-cent sales tax, to go along with $100,000 from the county Sheriff’s Office and $67,000 raised by the community group Citizens for a San Mateo County Gun Buyback to fund the events.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.