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Did you see that thing I sent you? >> Hold on one second. >> Sorry. Excuse me, Paul. I didn't I didn't hear it. What >> did you see that tap into article that I sent you before? >> The one about the fire on Adams? >> I did not read it. That's what I had. >> Yeah. Two families just displaced. It

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looked like it happened early in the morning. >> Yeah. 5, right? Someone said someone text me was like early like 4 5 a.m. >> Yeah, it was like 5:00 a.m. they said. And looks like a newer building. >> It does look like a new building. >> Yeah.

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>> Why do they have sprinklers in them? Cuz that look pretty big. >> That Yeah, that was my roof. Looked like the roof >> could have been like a a gas tank. That happened once before. the gas lines um on someone who lives on Grand Same Bach.

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>> Are we public yet, Jerry? >> Say that again. >> Are we public yet or? >> No, we are recording right now, just so you know. >> We do we have public viewership so I can tell them what happened. >> Um yes, you can see it. If anyone's on

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the link right now as just a viewer, they can. We're in as panelists. >> We didn't start yet, Kenny. So, yeah, can tell tell us what Yeah. What happened? But Ruben, >> no wait, let's not. >> Yeah, let's let's >> if you if anyone from the public can view this. Um Jerry, can you please let

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Jen in? She's in under community development. >> Got it. Got it. I will. Wasn't sure. >> Council President, I think we can begin. Um, >> yeah, everyone else is ready. Okay. I'd

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like to advise all those present that notice of this meeting has provided to the public in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act and that notice was published in the city website. Copies were provided in the bring record and also placed on the bulletin board. The lobby city hall written objections to vending should be made to the city clerk. Guys, all rise

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to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the flag of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God under God indivisible indivisible liberty for all justice for

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all. >> Roll call. Second. Councilman Cohen >> here. >> Councilman Firestone >> here. Councilman Fischer >> here. Councilwoman Imus

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>> here. >> Councilman Le >> here. >> Councilman Preszano >> present. >> Councilman Cano >> present. >> Councilman Russo >> present. >> And council president Ramos >> present.

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>> Orman present. We're ready to begin. I will share my screen for all of you. So make sure you guys can see. Yep. Can see it. >> Great. We can begin. >> Yep. >> We do have a closed session this starting at 6:30.

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Uh any questions? You contact corporation council beforehand. We'll start at 6:30. Uh items for second reading. Item number one has been pulled. Uh number two,

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stop. No standing. It's a loading zone park number three. That is the special improvement district. Any questions? >> Could you give us some background on

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three again? I mean I I can tell you what it is. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Every every year um they have to we have a we have an ordinance and the ordinance says all of the what all the districts are and what properties are in the

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district. And so if there are any changes throughout the year, if there's a new property, if one's taken offline, if the boundaries were to move, that's what the what they have to update every year. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh number four is being carried needs to

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go to the planning board and number five is the are the changes for the World Cup that we discussed last council meeting. >> Yeah, I don't >> with the hours. >> I don't know if you saw because president I don't know if you guys saw the email I sent through. I think like

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technically it's not written correct. Um it it basically is written on the days of the games, the hours can extend, but because the hours are overnight hours,

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it actually relates to the next day. So, as it reads right now, it doesn't really allow for the late night opening for the late games. It allows like the night before the late games to be open during the week or actually it

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allows for the the night before to be open late. >> Should we add a specific games then that that'll clear it up I think. Right. >> It it has the specific date in there. Um but I is Arlene on

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>> uh I believe that this is something that when notices get sent out to the businesses that they will be told that as far as enforcement is concerned that they >> yeah we discuss that they they'll know which specific dates it'll be >> they'll be able to I mean it is correct

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that it is the day but there is an ambiguity that council Fischer is addressing because technically it's the next day even though it may be starting on that day but I think that the way that the administration was going to handle that was just to let the establishments know that they could be

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open till, you know, the end of those games. Uh, so I think that's until 3 in the morning on those nights >> mornings >> on the next day. So why don't they just add the additional day and say until >> whatever the time is. I think the

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concern is is that it it might have to go back to first reading and and the and the games are starting like in 10 days >> next week, next Friday. June 11th. >> Okay, that makes sense. >> Okay, if I may question, sorry,

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>> council president. Yes. So, we're we're in the process of drafting a letter to all permites to let them know the intent of the ordinance and how we plan to enforce the ordinance, which will be consistent with, as Councilwoman Fischer uh identified in in her email, um 3:00

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a.m. only on nights, I guess we could say, uh that games start at at 11:00 p.m. um or 12 a.m., but we will be very clear on the dates and the applicable games in the letter that we send to all of the establishments. >> Excellent. Thank you.

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>> And I think it's only four dates anyway because the weekend's already. >> Yes. >> Um I'm going to throw in another monkey wrench into that one. >> It says EST. It's EDT. >> Oh boy. You put the Jim Doyle on us.

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>> Might it might actually help with the situation because it's an hour before. >> All right. I send that got cleared up in the uh in the notes to the businesses. >> Sounds good. >> All right. B portion participant

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communications. Any questions on those items? >> Um questions on miscellaneous licenses or claims? >> Council President, on the license, um >> Sure. >> We always have it buried in there. Um,

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can we ask the clerk if they could actually list these out what's being put in there? Because it always I it's one of these things where you innocuously don't see it unless you you know you just kind of go by it. That is there something maybe going forward. We don't need an ordinance for it. Can we just request that it kind of says who's being

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who's going to apply or is that something we're not allowed to do? >> Um, I do not know the answer to that question. I think we've asked this before and Jerry's provided it temporarily. It sounds like they just went backwards and stopped providing it.

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>> So, let's talk to the clerk's office, see what we could do. Uh, as far as that goes, uh, Mr. Clerk, so take note of that, please. >> I'll take the silence as a yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm hoping so.

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Uh, questions on payroll. All right. No one. All right. Consent agenda. Let's go to administration first. We have three items. Any questions on A1. This is our messaging system.

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Also same for A2. >> No contract. >> Then A3 >> is all are uh council president. Are they essentially just flip-flopping something here? Is that what it looks like? It says reduce contract amount and then another one it

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says uh alert uh to award a fair contract. Are we just flipping something here? >> No. So back in April, we um did a resolution for Everbridge, but ultimately they came back and there was an issue with their billing. So the

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first one is an amendment to our standard NIXL um which we are reducing by uh 6500 and um the second resolution is to add the 360 public safety alerting and that's going to be in the amount of

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the 7,939 which takes us from June to January. So, it's just an increase of what whatever that number is like 1,500 bucks, thousand bucks. >> Yep. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> You're welcome.

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>> Uh mayor, uh CD1, let's go to community development 303309 Madison Street. Oops, lost my place. Any questions there with Director Brown?

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CD >> I think CD1 through CD4 all release of maintenance and performance bonds. >> Correct. Yep. Uh CD5 Breit for Engineering >> that's for that's also from escrow account. Is there an amount tied to

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that? >> Two up to 200. D up to 200. Okay. It's >> it's funded using the developer escro. So yes, it's it's up to $200. $200,000. >> Can we put that? >> Yeah, it says. Could you put the number in there?

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>> Uh I mean, >> we we typically haven't put a >> put a number on there because we're we usually don't even get close to those. That's just for because this is it's it's essentially it allows us to I understand I understand that question. >> Yeah, it'site pretty sight specific.

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>> All right. Uh CD6 event leveling board. It's a contract with the attorney there. >> Is it this is just literally the at the meetings that type of thing? Anything outside of the the actual board itself? Correct. >> Correct.

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>> Yeah. Things that arise from issues stemming from the meeting. Yes. I mean, so there's it's there's ongoing issues that they're that the that cancer was following up on um which is

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resulting in the need for the funds. >> CD7 as a affordable housing uh council >> for hiring Skinsky. Wow. Well, so the so the back story here >> actually the the the the attorney that was at the old law firm that was handling this >> that's right

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>> went to went to Scarreny Holland but moved to this law firm. So >> so Wendy Karog has been servicing the city as affordable housing council for the last six years. >> Uh so she's leaving weer and going to Scarcy because she has uh all the institutional knowledge of everything

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that we've done with affordable housing um over the last few years. Um, we're we're following him. >> Got it. >> Community service. >> There's two items there. >> Any questions on those two items? Okay.

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Corporation Council. Miss Arleene, do you want to uh dive into these items? Have >> the same explanation, I believe. >> Uh yes, pretty much. Um so you have the increase in uh an award of contract to

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McManaman for redevelopment litigation. And then I do >> what is that one related to what litigation? I think actually Chris could probably speak more to this since I don't actually get too much involved in this.

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>> I I can this is uh this is actually paying a lot of their outstanding invoices associated with the HRH payment plans. >> This is all of um McMah and Scotland bound's work on HH >> on which one? >> HRH I think it should have just said >> okay >> litigation but yeah.

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>> Gotcha. So we for two payment plans we're paying 40 grand for two payment plans. Are you kidding me? >> No. So the this part of it includes their payment plans. Part of it also includes other uh open litigation that

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they have and that part I can't speak to as much. Um but I believe that the amount that uh is for the hospital payment plans outstanding is about $13,000 out of the 30. Can you get us break down of all the other in

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>> Can you get us the information on the other on the other items, please? >> Yeah, just a high just if you name them like if you name them that's we we know what the issues are, but >> you I don't know beyond the 13,000, but we'll get that answer for you. >> You do have a memo on open litigation at

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least that my office um sees. So, that should be in your email box. You received it a few hours ago, >> right? >> But it is 18 pages long. >> Yeah, 19. >> There's nothing on page 19, but >> Okay. >> Sorry.

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>> So, yeah, if you could identify which cases, that would be great. >> Yeah, >> you should. If you look at the memo, just so you know, it does um separate everything out by the actual law firm that's handling it. So, that might make it a little bit easier, especially if you're looking specifically for this one. you'll see what they're actually

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handling that you know my office deals with. >> Great. And I think CC2 and CC3 will be going to close session on these two matters >> only on the one matter. The other matter we actually discussed in closed session and this is the resolution for it and

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you will have a memo from me probably early in the morning. We're trying to work out a few additional details on a potential settlement. Um, and as soon as that's worked out, I really do hope you'll have this in your email box in the morning. >> So, thank you.

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>> Scroll up. Jerry, any other items in this category? >> I believe so. Nope. >> All right. City clerk, I just have adoption of minutes. Uh, amendment to the bite. We're still working on CL2. We had a good

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conversation today. Uh and then CL3 is for gun violence awareness month for June. Uh F1 and this is just in case we don't adopt the budget to send the estimated tax bills out

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by the end of the month. >> Yes. But just for clarity, if we do adopt >> this go out >> and have a if we adopt a budget on Wednesday night and then we have or we approve introducing new budget, we have

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a hearing in 10 days, we still have enough time before this uh estimate. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Not exactly. >> Those end to June June 30th I thought. So, we have we have until June 30th to

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send out estimated tax bills. Yes. Uh just a little more nuance is that we have um we have to let our provider who, you know, processes the estimated tax bills know that we will need them by the 10th. There is a small likelihood that that perhaps, you know, we we would

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generate them and then not actually need to send them out. Um but our our hope would be that um we the council would would vote on um an amendment um which is approved by the state um and that

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then we could schedule a um potentially a a special meeting even if needed um to vote on the amended budget and the hearing. The hearing can be scheduled three days after you vote on the amendment. Um, so there is a possibility to actually do this a lot sooner, >> but otherwise, you know, we could

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generate them and not send them out. >> I thought it was 10 days that we had to have between a material change to I could be wrong, but >> it's only three. >> Yeah. >> Okay. What I

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what I would what I would say is um unless we really don't think we're going to move forward with some sort of budget, we should do everything we can to tell our provider that no ifs, ends,

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or buts. We're not sending out estimates for August. So if that we need an extra two days like whatever it is um just to be able to make sure because this number is so high and because it's so high I think the maximum amount of an estimate

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is like 5% we will clobber we will just literally devastate our residents in November. So we need to we need to realistically think irrespective of if we're at 10% 12 13%. We should be calculating what we think these next two

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bills are to like minimize that. And I don't know if we have flexibility. Do we have flexibility to do like 10% uh you know now and another 5% increase in November or is it like just half of the annual here and no increase in November?

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Like how does that work? My understanding is that we can't send estimated tax bills. We can only send estimated um we can only send estimated tax bills at 5% over last year's budget unless we have an adopted budget. Then we can then we can send the correct tax

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bills. Which is why in in an ideal world, there would be an amendment um that is approved by the state. That's actually my biggest concern really is the timing on the state approval. um state approves the amendment, amendments voted on, um schedule a hearing on any

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substantive changes to the amendment and then um you know vote on the amended budget as soon as possible. Um even potentially earlier than the 17th of reality, >> let let's for let's assume we agree on we we had like

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Ruben said, we had a constructive conversation. Let's assume we just have some sort of agreement of five votes or more by tomorrow morning. So, we have a number, it goes up on the budget, we vote on Wednesday night with or without state approval, right? And we just hope

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that the state approves it either before then or afterwards. >> Yes. >> The hope is yes, that the state approves what you vote on. But, uh again, I don't think it's effective until state approves it. So >> nothing nothing's ever I'm not

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suggesting we're right now what we're solving for now is not sending out an estimated tax bill, right? So we have so we have a calendar. So we need to ask the provider to give us flexibility on the back end and we we just all need to work

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the the way to think about this is if if we have a blended rate let's say of it's going to be like 12 or 13% right across everything. Let's say it's 12%. Because we didn't have any increase the first two quarters, we're we're effectively

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increasing taxes 24% for the last half of the year, right? So, we need to and if and if we can only increase 5% in August because we just miss our calendar, then we're going to have to take the we're going to have to have

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like a 30% increase in November. And I think as a group, we should want to avoid that as a group. So, we have council members that need to work really hard to get an agreement on a budget in the next 24 hours. We have the administration that will work with us to get it to the state that we hope we have

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approval by Wednesday night. If not, we're just approving it. And if we get comments and have to change it, which has never happened, then we'll have to vote again. And then as soon as we have a state approved budget, we can then set up a hearing three days later.

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>> Yes. A state approved amendment. Like once the state approves the amendment, then you can have the hearing and vote on the amended budget. Yes. >> So, but if we've already if we vote Wednesday without their approval and they approve it

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Thursday, um we can then set up an amendment or a call for Saturday or Monday, right? Whatever. A few days after that for the final >> few days after that. Yeah. I mean, our >> Yes. our our hope would be that

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something is voted on on Wednesday, approved by the state, that the state does not require any subsequent vote on it. Again, that's our goal. >> Um and then that that there could be an actual vote on the amended budget even

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before the 17th. Um at the worst case scenario, you know, we could approve um you know, Edmonds generating the estimated tax bills and not send them. >> Well, wait, I have a question. If we've already voted tomorrow, if we already vote Wednesday, we have already voted on

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the amended budget. We just got their approval after the fact. We have to vote again. We don't have to vote again. >> Yeah. After the hearing is >> we have to hear three days later on. >> Yes. >> After the final. Yeah. >> Yes.

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>> After Yeah. We need because of the material changes, there will be a second vote. Yes. >> Right. A second vote. But the f if the first vote comes before the state approval, we're still working off of the date of the state approval 3 days later for the second vote. We don't have to

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have another first vote after the state approves because we approved it before the state approved it without >> So that is where the law is not 100% clear, but we are hopeful that the state will not make you vote again. >> All right, great. So with all of that, we're bumping into the 10th. Okay. So,

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we're getting to the 10th and what I would say to you is on your end, the administration end is work with that provider and get like push that date out, right? It's within all of our control to do our our pieces so that there's a 0% chance that we send out a

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estimated tax bill because that would be disastrous for taxpayers. >> That is why I outlined the plan exactly to you that we have a plan A and a plan B. everything to do with not sending estimated text. Okay. >> All right.

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>> All right. Let's go to infrastructure. >> Any questions on infrastructure items? >> I1. I2 is a lead service changes. Excuse me. I3 that is the

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Hudson River tunnel work up there at 16th Street 17th Street area. Uh I4 is a noise waiver and that is for Saturday work for by you Paul. Uh I think I say 94 Hudson Street.

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>> Yeah, very like residential in that area. >> Correct. that that is Saturday work. Uh tax collector tax overp payments that's on every uh council meeting T1. This is at no cost to the city.

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That is just giving them more time to complete the road project. >> Yeah, these are all the projects. Uh T2 is the same. Okay, let's go to ordinances. The first reading.

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I know we have a question uh clarification uh that we need on one of the ordinances. I think that is the >> uh ordinance number two I believe. And and please councilman Cano, Councilman

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Russo, correct me if I'm wrong. Uh I'm not sure. I spoke with council Fischer earlier and I believe the consumption language is still in the ordinance and I believe that we agreed that we would be removing uh consumption alto together. That was something that we had it

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>> discussed with the public. Director Brown, please. >> Yeah. No, that's that's just u the what's on the website right now. It's it's highlighted in it should be highlighted in yellow. Um I'm just waiting for the updated version from the CRB attorney. Uh, I have the um I I have

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the ordinance, but it's like two because we're doing 36 177 and 196. I have 36 and 177 on one side. I have 196 on the other side. So, I've asked her to combine it um so that um so we don't have to create a new uh agenda item. So,

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it I was hoping that it would be up today. I know she's still working on kind of consolidating the two. And hopefully by tomorrow morning we should have a consumption area free ordinance on the website. Consumption will not be in the ordinance. And to Councilman

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Fischer's point, I know that you had asked for something that stated just uh pro uh that consumption is prohibited. Uh that's been relayed and will be part of the ordinance. >> The one thing um >> there's another one.

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>> There's another one. >> The man, which one? the manufacturing portion. >> Yeah, that's just out of the blue. I mean, and by the way, all the fees are up massively, too. >> So, I'm I'm kind of clueless here. >> Go ahead. >> No,

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one one of the things I was going to say is I didn't see the actual language for the I1 and I2 in the ordinance on version that is online. Um,

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I only looked at the online version one. I didn't open up and look at the PDF version, but I just want to at least make sure that I1W is carved out of it. >> It's I think it's I I1 and I2.

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>> I know. I just want to make sure IW is carved out. If it's not, um, I can't remember because the is the version online? the version that's online is is it it's it's not the correct version. Um it's a placeholder.

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>> Yeah, there's no there is no version online. >> Yeah, it's >> No, there's a if you go if you go into our um our meeting for Wednesday, >> it's on um >> June 3rd under >> agenda packet. No, >> no, not the agenda packet under first

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readings on June 3. Um, yep. It's number two. Not the not the caucus, but the actual June 3rd meeting. Uh, the print out. Hold on. And I can't even open the print out.

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>> It's all yellow. I'm having trouble. >> If you click on if you click on the link, you see it and it's all highlighted as >> Yeah. it it and that's what I looked and I didn't see actual any language for zoning for >> correct

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>> the manufacturing. It doesn't seem to be >> I don't see it either. >> Yeah, it's we're going to be updating the ordinance. It's so it has >> Yeah. >> But yeah, to actually councilman to your point um I1W subdist is in the version

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that was sent over today. So, I'll make sure that that's not in the final >> great >> uh version. >> And then, um sorry. And then it looks like we're inserting a a an impact fee that wasn't there before. At first, I thought the

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impact fee was the transfer tax and then I went down and realized we're still collecting a 2% transfer tax fee, but this is contemplating an additional 1% impact fee every year. So, a total of 3%. Is that right?

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>> Hello. >> I'm catching up to where you are. If >> it says if you go if you >> sales Yeah. 369. >> Yep. Yeah. in here.

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36 >> annual fee graded 1% of the gross sales are 30k micro business 50k standard. Correct. Is that that what you're saying? >> Yes. >> Yes. And then when you scroll down further into that other section that is actually the transfer tax section. Um it

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doesn't reference uh what the transfer tax fee is, but it doesn't delete it either. There's paragraphs that are just missing that are in our ordinance where we have a 2% transfer tax fee. And the 2% transfer tax fee is where you have that 75% goes

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to, you know, social justice or whatever. So, I just wasn't sure if we were meaning and and this changes kind of how the 1% can be um used. So, I just didn't know if they meant to be additive or if one was meant if it was meant to

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replace the other one. I just wasn't sure. And then two other quick things. One is anywhere where there's a notice required of 10 days, I'd like to change that to 20 days. Um if if I I appreciate I

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actually very much appreciate what Rose is trying to do, which is just to make our entire ordinance more official and correct things like that we've learned along the way. And one of the things I think we learned along the way

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from neighbors that are in proximity is um not getting notices until a day before just because of when they're sent, you know, when they're received, etc. And adding time, I think, is one of those lessons learned, which would be a positive. Um, so anywhere it says 10

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days, just change it to 20 if people were okay with that. And the second is we're reducing the cannabis review board from 7 to five people. And I'm okay with that. We went from three to seven at a time where we wanted more representation. I think five is fine, but I think if we have five, it would

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still be great to have two of the resident ones be um appointed by the city council and one by the mayor. Right now, it's flipped. >> Uh what's what's the section? I'm looking at the use of cannabis tax revenue. So, just to kind of back up the

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ordinance that I have that's not on the that's not online uh 3617 I'm sorry 1718 I'm sorry 17718

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H use of cannabis tax revenue to the extent permitted by applicable law the transfer taxes and use user taxes collected by the shall be collected and dispersed by the CFO upon recommendation by CRB. And that's and then that's the only change. And then it gets up it gets back to the

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with uh minimum of such event up to 75% of the annual cannabis tax revenue. >> So that >> so that section the 177-18 relates to the transfer tax. If you actually go online to um 177 I guess is

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the actual um transfer tax cannabis transfer tax and there's a paragraph that says it's 2% of sales and it's a transfer tax by definition the you know the defined term is transfer tax above in 369 we actually

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now have this community impact fee of 1%. So, I just I didn't know if they meant to be the same thing and just renamed and and reduced. Like, I didn't know if we were going from two to one or if it's

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we're just adding a new fee that we didn't have before, a 1% on top of the 2%, which I'm not necessarily opposed to. I just didn't necessarily know. >> I uh sorry, >> this ordinance tries to do a lot at one time and it probably doesn't need to. It

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probably just needs to do the hemp right now and then do the cannabis after. But >> I'm at I'm at 17718. Where do you see the 2%? Because I'm looking at 17718 C and that's got the breakdown of the 25

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75 25%. But I'm not seeing where the 2% is established. >> T I mean tax est. Oh yeah, there is hereby imposed a transfer tax of 2% medical. So that's SE 17716A. >> Yeah, that's a different section that's

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not being touched. So what's being what's being amended here is 17 is 17718. >> And I think the section that you're talking about that establishes that 2% that's in a different uh section of of that of that chapter.

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>> Yeah. So let's just think about it holistically. The question was a simple one I thought where previously we were being we were charging a transfer tax every year which was 2% of sales and so that's the 177-16

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I don't know why it was you know in that section not the cannabis section um >> it's it's in no that is in the cannabis section it's here uh can I can I share my screen >> I think sorry if if you don't mind

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suggestion. I mean, perhaps we could take down all of Councilman Fischer's questions and all council members questions and then get back tomorrow with, you know, with specific answers once we've investigated them further. So, we can give you the exact um sections of the code, copy and paste

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>> also because you're not looking at the latest because what's online is a placeholder. >> Yeah. And I'm and I'm happy to u you don't have to don't write anything like I'm happy to just talk through it like I don't >> Yeah, exactly. It it could be a >> Yeah. It's just but their questions we

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economics previously were 2% and now we have something new called a community impact fee. So it was a simple question are we keeping the 2% and then we're also adding a new 1% so therefore we're charging 3%. 2% is a transfer tax, one is a community impact fee. They're both

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calculated off of gross sales. They're both prrated similarly. The 2% has a certain definition of how it can be used. the 1% has a certain definition of how it can be used with overlap. So it's unclear what what the intent is behind

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both of those on a combined basis. So that was the the broader question. I just want to help get it right so there's no ambiguity. And then and as I mentioned, I want to I do want to take a just a close look at the I1 and I2 for manufacturing. The the thing about

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manufacturing is it's a different type of use versus retail, right? It's going to have more I'm assuming more delivery trucks um because they're delivering out. And so it has more implications to road use and loading zones and delivery.

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And so when we think about the conditions for approval for manufacturing, it's a I'm assuming I don't know if it's permitted use, but what are those conditions and how are we amending them to make sure that we're contemplating this new type of use, not just changing words.

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>> I actually think it's more like a mail order kind of manufacturing as opposed to trucking. Uh I think it's very light manufacturing. >> In the committee, we actually that's my understanding. But in the committee when we talked about this, you know,

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Councilman Russo actually, why don't we just have let all of our latencies do it and we thought, well, if we just started in the in the industrial zone, you know, we could just see how that goes. So, this is sort of limited to licences that are in the industrial zone.

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>> Okay. >> Yeah. the uh >> so so Chris can can you get that information to councilman Fischer and the other council members that uh need clarification? I think we all do right at this point as far as language goes no discuss to the committee on Thursday uh

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about various language and needs that language finalized in the the ordinance itself. So if we can look at that tomorrow, we'd really appreciate it. All right. So uh let's move on from that and I think uh that is it right that resolution just go

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to planning board and I think that's it development that is about items motion to close council >> president >> yeah buddy

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>> so I I'm just I have a question still back on the hemp part, not the one we just had a big discussion about. Um, is this going to be for every single institution, not just one or two? This is for everybody in town that sells hemp

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or like all the little bodeas and things like that. Is that correct? >> Intoxicating. >> Okay. and and be and the state has given us clarification on the beverages because I notice we have a temporary carveout that

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we write in there that says uh all businesses, bar, liquor stores, etc. are temporarily allowed to keep selling intoxicating hemp derived beverages during any state authorization transition period under the new hemp law even without a cannabis license. This is a short-term accommodation, not a

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permanent expansion. So, are we doing that or is the city doing is the state doing that? That's a question for the CRB attorney. Um I think that we're aligning we're >> getting the ordinance in line with state with the state, but that's a question

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for our CRB attorney. >> And Chris, if this isn't done like uh people don't have clarification tomorrow, we're just going to have to carry another meeting, >> right? >> It is it is what it is. People have people still have questions and have to carry it again. >> That's all right. So let's just be aware of that, too. All right. So, thank you

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everyone. Appreciate it. >> Public portion. Wait, wait, wait, wait. No. Or do we have We don't have to do anything else, right? No, that's it. We're all done. Thank you, buddy. >> Okay. All right. Sure. Okay. Take care. Thanks. Good night.