File #: 25-00724    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/13/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 8/19/2025 Final action: 8/19/2025
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury Report on Cannabis Taxation and Expenditures, as follows: (EST. TIME: 25 MIN.) a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors' response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury report entitled "Cannabis Taxation and Expenditure"; b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara Superior Court; and c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - BOS Response Cannabis Taxation and Expenditures, 3. Attachment B - 2024-25 Grand Jury Report on Cannabis Taxation & Expenditures, 4. Attachment C - FY2025-26 Adopted Cannabis Tax Revenue Budget, 5. Attachment D - Historical Cannabis Revenue Uses, 6. Presentation

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury Report on Cannabis Taxation and Expenditures, as follows: (EST. TIME: 25 MIN.)

 

a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury report entitled “Cannabis Taxation and Expenditure”;

 

b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara Superior Court; and

 

c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE