Minutes - Council Work Session - 09/24/2024

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temporary employee, 14 or fewer hours per week, as needed but not to exceed December 31, 2024, to conduct building permit plan reviews 2.02: Review Draft Ordinance #24-12, Cannabis Business Regulations Community Development Director Hanson reviewed the Staff report and the draft ordinance for cannabis business regulations. Councilmember Musgrove said she does not remember why they discussed having different distance requirements for daycares versus schools. She asked if they could make the distance requirements 1,000 feet for both schools and daycares. Community Development Director Hanson said they cannot, as State statutes says they cannot make the distance requirements from daycares more restrictive than 500 feet. Councilmember Musgrove stated the ordinance says there would be no application fee. Community Development Director Hanson explained that the State statute is set up so that the City does not handle licenses for the sale of cannabis products and they cannot collect an application fee for this. She said they can collect a registration fee annually. She stated the process will mostly be run through the State and the City will receive a zoning verification letter. Councilmember Musgrove asked if the City will do the background checks. Community Development Director Hanson said the State will conduct the background checks. She added that if the background check is not passed then the State will not issue the business a license. Councilmember Musgrove asked what would be considered an immediate threat to the health or safety of the public that is referenced in Section 2.5.1 of the ordinance. Community Development Director Hanson gave examples of what these threats could be, including failing annual age verification checks. Councilmember Specht asked if they could do age verification checks more often than annually. Police Chief Katers explained that they typically do the number of checks per year that the State pays for and most secondary checks have not been paid for by the State. Councilmember Musgrove noted that in Section 3.1 of the ordinance, there is no distance buffer requirements between two cannabis retailers Community Development Director Hanson said this buffer is at the discretion of the City. Councilmember Musgrove said she does not support this as if you look at the business and industrial districts, they are all around Highway 10 and digital signs have a restriction of the number of feet between them. She said she would like to see some distance buffer. City Council Work Session / September 24, 2024 Page 3 of 13