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City Manager Office <br />www.santa-ana.org/cm <br />Item # 27 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />March 1, 2022 <br />TOPIC: Flavored Tobacco <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Ordinance Options Prohibiting the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Consider one of the following options: <br />Option 1 <br />A. Adopt an urgency ordinance prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products, <br />including hookah. (Requires five affirmative votes) <br />B. Adopt an urgency ordinance prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products, <br />excluding hookah. (Requires five affirmative votes) <br />Option 2 <br />A. Approve the first reading of an ordinance prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco <br />products, including hookah. <br />B. Approve the first reading of an ordinance prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco <br />products, excluding hookah. <br />Option 3 <br />Consider whether to direct staff to prepare an ordinance regarding enforcement and/or <br />security measures for tobacco retailers; or <br />Option 4 <br />Take no action at this time and wait to see whether senate bill 793 goes into effect <br />following a statewide referendum vote in November 2022. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Introduction <br />At the November 16, 2021 meeting, Councilmember Mendoza added the following <br />Councilmember requested item: Discuss and Consider Directing City Manager to Direct <br />Staff to Introduce an Ordinance to Ban the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products. There <br />was consensus among a majority of the City Council to proceed with this item.