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Committee Member Tinajero enters the meeting — 6:05PM. <br />ACTION: <br />Chairman Solorio: The City has a regional signage program that partners with local business that <br />have digital billboards, to allow for City oriented signage to be posted. Chairman Solorio <br />suggested contacting Main Place Mall and Tom's Truck Center, to utilize their digital billboards <br />for posting recruitment advertisements. He also requested that the font size used for the website <br />on the billboard, be made larger. <br />2. Update on Options Regarding Medical and Adult Use of Cannabis — Candida Neal, <br />Alvaro Nunez, and Ali Pezeshlfpour, Planning & Building {Strategic Plan Goal No. 1, <br />lc} <br />Planning Manager Candida Neal addressed the Council Committee suggesting permitted medical <br />cannabis dispensaries have - the .following uses, in addition to retail: cultivation, <br />manufacturing/processing, distribution, testing and microbusinesses. These uses have been made <br />allowed by the Medicinal and Adult -Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), <br />passed by State Senate in June 2017, as well as Prop 64. Manager Neal reviews the issues <br />needing voter approval, and makes recommendations for how the Council Committee should <br />proceed. These recommendations include the repeal and replacement of Measure BB with a new <br />ordinance for medical marijuana, allow five additional uses for medical purposes and allow <br />recreational use with voter approval of new taxes. <br />PUBLIC COMMENTS (pertaining to Item No. 2) <br />Peter Katz, President, Com -Link shares his support of allowing grow operations in industrial <br />zones. Mr. Katz shares some statistics as examples of how grow operations will positively affect <br />the city's revenue, and suggests using unrented small industrial buildings for such operations. <br />Chris Clew, attorney, Santa Ana Cannabis Association (SACA), provides Council Committee <br />with a written proposal of how the City can partner with SACA to continue expanding economic <br />growth. The proposal focuses on recreational use, cultivation and manufacturing/production. Mr. <br />Glew requests to schedule a meeting with the City Attorney's Office to establish a plan and <br />present it to C2u cil, in hopes it will avoid adopting a new ordinance to be voted on. <br />Committee Afcmber Tinajero exits the meeting — 7:08PM <br />3 <br />13A-23 <br />