Supervisors Mar and Wiener listen to advocate Roberto Vargas defend their sugary beverages tax to the Board of Education
Photo by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
A San Francisco ballot initiative to levy a tax on sugary beverages got a boost last night as the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education voted 5-2 to endorse it.
“The school district has done amazing work around nutrition for kids,” said Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the initiative’s authors, shortly after the meeting. “This is a big win.” Read more »