When Lathrop voters overwhelmingly approved a one-cent sales tax increase to pay for essential city services, all that anybody knew was that the Lathrop-Manteca Fire District would be getting 40 percent of the money generated. What specifically the rest of that money would be used for, however, was open-ended – just as long as benefitted the city and its residents and the usage remained in the spirit of the measure in which voters approved. According to the end-of-year report that will be discussed and eventually voted on by the Measure C oversight committee when they meet this week, in the last fiscal year Measure C has paid for 5 police positions – two community impact team deputies, one administrative sergeant, one school resource officer and one detective – as well as the operation, maintenance and staffing of the Lathrop Generations Center.