On November 5, 2013, City of Boulder voters approved Ordinance 7916, which authorized the city to impose an excise tax of up to ten percent and a sales and use tax of up to ten percent on recreational marijuana sales to offset some of the indirect costs of recreational marijuana. In June 2016, the City of Boulder launched the Substance Education and Awareness (SEA) Fund, which utilizes a portion of this tax revenue. 

The SEA Fund serves as a community-wide substance use prevention initiative. Funding is used by community agencies (partners) to provide direct programming and to disseminate media campaigns designed to prevent youth substance use. This report is a compilation of data from the third year of the SEA Fund evaluation and documents progress made toward achieving the four SEA Fund goals.

Since its inception, OMNI has partnered with the City of Boulder and its partners to build evaluation structure and capacity over time. We worked closely with each SEA partner to enhance their organization’s evaluation capacity by creating detailed logic models and evaluation plans for their programs that connect their programming and data to the SEA Fund goals. This included a review and adjustment of program metrics that will give us new sets of data to review for the year four report.