Ballot Measure 1A -

Summary

Shall Pueblo County Taxes be increased by One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) Annually in the first fiscal year and by such amounts are raised annually thereafter by increasing the rate of the special retail marijuana sales tax to Five and One-Half Percent (5.5%) With one third (33.3%) from such tax now to be credited to the Pueblo County scholarship fund and the other Two-Thirds (66.6%) now to be credited to a new economic development and special projects fund to fund for one-time or capital projects or expenditures or for responsible fiscal planning or to balance the county's budget, and shall Pueblo County be entitlted to collect, retain, and spend the full revenues from such tax increases as a voter-approved revenue chande notwithstanding any revenue or expenditure limitation in Colorado Law and shall the methodology used to calculate Pueblos County's retail marijuana excise tax be amended so that transactions between unaffiliated retail marijuana businesses are taxed based on the contract price of the unprocessed retail marijuana transferred rather than the average market rate, and shall the same share of the excise tax revenue initially credited to the infrastructure and community development fund now be credited to the new economic development and special projects fund?