COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT - File #: 22-383

• File #: 22-383
• Version: 1
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/23/2022
• In control: County Administrative Office
• On agenda: 6/14/2022
• Final action: 6/14/2022
• Title: Project Trellis Programs and Funding

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/14/2022	1	Board of Supervisors	approved	Pass

To: Board of Supervisors

From: County Administrative Office

Agenda Section: Consent

SUBJECT:
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Project Trellis Programs and Funding
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Direct staff to suspend the Measure S funded Project Trellis micro-grant program, pending the future re-evaluation of Measure S taxes;
2. Direct staff to eliminate the Measure S funded Project Trellis marketing program;
3. Direct staff to cancel the Collective Cannabis Branding, Promoting, and Marketing Strategy Request for Proposals (RFP) without award;
4. Adopt the amended resolution (Attachment 1) and Project Trellis Committee bylaws (Attachment 6) removing the marketing program;
5. Direct staff to suspend the Measure S funded Project Trellis Committee pending the future re-evaluation of Measure S taxes; and
6. Direct staff to bid on future state-funded Cannabis Equity Grants to support the Local Equity Program and approve an annual General Fund contribution of a minimum of $100,000 in match funding beginning in fiscal year 2023-24.

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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund (1100)
Economic Development (1120)

DISCUSSION:
On March 19, 2019, your Board passed Ordinance 2623 creating a cannabis local equity program for the County of Humboldt, and Resolution 19-24 adopting the county Local Equity Program (LEP) Manual. On May 28, 2019, your Board adopted Resolution 19-45 (Attachment 3) forming the Humboldt County Cannabis Micro-Grant & Loan Advisory Committee, later renamed the Project Trellis Committee ("Committee"). The Committee's main function is to act as advisor for Measure S-funded Project Trellis initiatives. On Jan. 12, 2021, the Resolution was amended by Resolution 21-06 (Attachment 4) to allow the Committee to also "review, and score" micro-grant applications. Another amendment, Resolution 21-05 (Attachment 5), was presented to your Board on Jan. 11, 2022, which allowed the Committee to "act as the County of Humboldt's advisory...