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For the past six years, Pueblo County voters have turned down proposals to use marijuana tax dollars to fund a new jail. Yet that hasn t stopped the county s commissioners from moving the project, estimated to cost upwards of $90 million, forward.
Pueblo Country voters balked at the idea of using those new funds to build a new county jail and extend a new road named in honor of Joe Martinez, a local Word War II hero. But when voters approved to increase the local sales tax on retail marijuana from 3.5 percent to 6 percent in 2019, the ballot initiative didn t specify where the money would go. As a result, the County Board was able to finally secure the project s funding source without voter approval.
The Pueblo County commissioners approved using $600,000 in marijuana excise tax funds to honor a longtime beneficiary of the Colorado 4-H and FFA community through the State Fair Junior Livestock Sale during a late February meeting.
For decades Sam Brown and his family have set record sale prices on various animals sold by 4-H exhibitors at the annual Colorado State Fair. This year, that generosity has been noted through a wall of honor to be installed at Gate 5, located on Prairie Avenue, with Brown s name to be the first to grace its surface. For me, it was important to recognize someone who s done a tremendous amount of work, not only at the fair, but in the community, said Commissioner Chris Wiseman during the Feb. 25 Pueblo County Commissioner s meeting.
A long-awaited program that will enable qualifying and approved businesses to operate with fewer COVID-19 restrictions was officially kicked off in Pueblo on Tuesday at 1129 Spirts and Eatery.
The restaurant is one of the initial businesses, alongside Brues Alehouse, to join the county s COVID-19 health restrictions variance program. About 30 businesses are currently in the queue to become certified through the program and raise capacity.
Dubbed the Five Star Variance Program, Commissioner Garrison Ortiz has championed the program and sought state approval for its enactment since at least early December. Implementation was stalled due to the high number of active COVID-19 cases in the state, as well as the indicator level for COVID-19 in Pueblo County that remained at level Red. Others who have been involved in getting the project off the ground included the Latino Chamber of Commerce.