The solid approval by California voters of Proposition 51, authorizing up to $9 billion in bonds to fund new schools and school renovation projects, allows Scotts Valley Unified School District officials to go forward with plans to seek up to $6 million of that bond money to build a new gym at the middle school. Fifty-six percent of county voters endorsed the proposition
A local $35 million bond issue approved by Scotts Valley voters in 2013 had not provided enough money to include the new gym in the plans for a new middle school campus. The district was counting on the state bond money and said it intends to apply for the funds early next year.
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The day after voters approved the legalization of marijuana, the state notified cannabis sellers that effective Nov. 9, medical cannabis patients with state issued marijuana cards and a valid government issued identification card will be exempt from state sales and use taxes when they purchase cannabis products from a dispensary.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2018, both medical and adult users of cannabis will be subject to a cultivation tax and both medical and recreational cannabis users will pay a 15 percent excise tax. Consumers of cannabis — not medical users — will also have to pay state sales taxes.
school campus. The district was counting on the state bond money and said it intends to apply for the funds early next year.
