Berkeley Mayor Appoints City Council Subcommittee for New Sugar Tax

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates Thursday, Nov. 20, completed a key step in implementing Measure D, the sugar tax approved by 76 percent of Berkeley voters in the Nov. 4 election.

The measure, the first such tax in the nation, calls for a Panel of Experts to make recommendations to the City Council on how to allocate the tax revenues “to reduce the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages in Berkeley and to address the results of such consumption.”

On Tuesday night, Nov. 18, the City Council voted unanimously to authorize the Mayor to name a four-person subcommittee of the Council to develop the applications for the Panel of Experts. (The original agenda item called for a three-person subcommittee. It was amended at the Council meeting to increase the number to four.)

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The Mayor today named the following Councilmembers to the subcommittee: Laurie Capitelli (chair), Max Anderson, Linda Maio and Darryl Moore.

Information submitted by Office of Mayor Tom Bates

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