City Council confirms this year’s cannabis revenue grant recipients
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – This year, 14 organizations are receiving funds from city cannabis sales revenue. This is the third year where up to 50% of prior year cannabis revenue goes towards the community benefit grant program.
South Lake Tahoe City Council adopted the Cannabis Community Benefit Fee Revenue Allocation Policy in 2021, which awards organizations that mitigate potential impacts of the cannabis industry in the city and help promote the City’s Strategic Plan.
The city has committed $400,000 this year. That’s about the same amount as prior years. The funds come from Measure G, a voter adopted cannabis business license tax of 6% of gross receipts and $20 per square foot of canopy cultivation.
The city received a total of 34 applications this year. City Sustainability Coordinator Sarah Letton noted increasingly more entities are competing for the same amount of money. The grant review committee consisting of Mayor Pro Tem, a council finance committee member, the City Manager, and City Finance director, narrowed it down to the 14 using a process developed by staff in determining how well applicants meet set criteria.
“This is a challenging job,” Letton said, “because the range of proposed projects is quite broad and there are many worthy needs and organizations in this community.”
In addition to the $400,000 designated this year, little over $5,000 was unspent from last year and in order to fund all 14 projects at their full requested amount, council approved allocating an additional $6,257.45, totaling the awarded amount to $411,861.32.
The awardees consists of:
- St. Theresa Bread and Broth
- Encompass Youth
- Gateway Mountain Center
- Marcella Foundation
- South Tahoe Amateur Hockey
- TASK
- Lake Tahoe Historical Society
- High Sierra Softball
- Mountain High Recovery Center
- Tahoe Art League
- Tahoe Rim Trail Association
- STMS PTA
- El Dorado Community Foundation
- Sober Grad Night
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