Sucks that nobody showed up, maybe someone will at the next reading.
'NO' TO POT DISPENSARIES HOLDING
On Monday July 21 it was a joint meeting of the Fortuna City Council and the Fortuna Development Agency. All council members were present, with the exception of Mayor Campbell who was not feeling well that evening.
On the subject of paying the bills, City Manager Duane Rigge reported that during this last accounting period, the City of Fortuna's bills amounted to $519,810.22, and the Redevelopment Agency's bills were $72,593.49. Without deliberation, the Council agreed to pay the bills.
One of the points to this meeting was to conduct another public hearing on the proposed municipal code ordinance prohibiting the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries in city limits. In this second reading of the proposed ordinance, Rigge said that the adoption of the ordinance would "essentially prohibit" a business founded on dispensing the plant.
City Attorney David Tranberg said that the ordinance under consideration was essentially the same as the earlier document. "The notion that this ordinance is addressing, is not, per se, the medical use of marijuana. That's a bigger issue than the City of Fortuna is willing to tackle," he said.
"This ordinance though addresses only that narrow part of the medical marijuana situation that is dispensaries that are essentially businesses open to the public," Tranberg added. "To the extent that medical marijuana provides relief to patients, they can still obtain it on their own, or grow it legally." There were no public comments following Tranberg's report.
A motion was made to hold another reading of the ordinance and to adopt it.
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n749/a06.html
Pubdate: Thu, 31 Jul 2008
Source: Humboldt Beacon, The (CA)
Copyright: 2008 Humboldt Beacon
Contact: news@humboldtbeacon.com
Website: http://www.humboldtbeacon.com/
'NO' TO POT DISPENSARIES HOLDING
On Monday July 21 it was a joint meeting of the Fortuna City Council and the Fortuna Development Agency. All council members were present, with the exception of Mayor Campbell who was not feeling well that evening.
On the subject of paying the bills, City Manager Duane Rigge reported that during this last accounting period, the City of Fortuna's bills amounted to $519,810.22, and the Redevelopment Agency's bills were $72,593.49. Without deliberation, the Council agreed to pay the bills.
One of the points to this meeting was to conduct another public hearing on the proposed municipal code ordinance prohibiting the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries in city limits. In this second reading of the proposed ordinance, Rigge said that the adoption of the ordinance would "essentially prohibit" a business founded on dispensing the plant.
City Attorney David Tranberg said that the ordinance under consideration was essentially the same as the earlier document. "The notion that this ordinance is addressing, is not, per se, the medical use of marijuana. That's a bigger issue than the City of Fortuna is willing to tackle," he said.
"This ordinance though addresses only that narrow part of the medical marijuana situation that is dispensaries that are essentially businesses open to the public," Tranberg added. "To the extent that medical marijuana provides relief to patients, they can still obtain it on their own, or grow it legally." There were no public comments following Tranberg's report.
A motion was made to hold another reading of the ordinance and to adopt it.
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n749/a06.html
Pubdate: Thu, 31 Jul 2008
Source: Humboldt Beacon, The (CA)
Copyright: 2008 Humboldt Beacon
Contact: news@humboldtbeacon.com
Website: http://www.humboldtbeacon.com/
