The Sonoma County Child Care & Children’s Health Initiative was passed by voters in 2024, authorizing a quarter-cent sales tax. photo credit: Michelle MarquesAngie Dillon-Shore, Executive Director of First 5 Sonoma County
KRCB’s Michelle Marques talks with Angie Dillon-Shore, Executive Director of First 5 Sonoma County, the organization tapped to distribute funding from Measure I, a quarter-cent sales tax for child care and children’s health:
Michelle Marques: What is First 5 Sonoma County?
Angie Dillon-Shore: So First 5 Sonoma County is one of 58 county level commissions across the state of California that were established in 1998 through a statewide tobacco tax that supports programs and services for children birth to 5 years old and their parents and caregivers. And so we locally take those tobacco tax dollars, and now a new revenue source that will talk about in a minute, to invest in early care and education, in children’s health, in thriving families, and just overall ensuring that our community centers the needs of young very young children…