7.5.18- Council General Comment Form ASM 3. MAP cont. and meet quarterly. A. MaloneCity of Boulder Marijuana Business Licensing and Enforcement Comment Form
What is your suggested change in the way that Marijuana Businesses are licensed or how Marijuana
Regulations are enforced in the City of Boulder that you would like the Marijuana Advisory Panel to
review?
Which person, group or constituency on the Marijuana Advisory Panel should make your suggested
change?
What staff, resources, or tools would they need to fully implement it?
If your suggested change was enacted, what benefit would there be to undertaking the change and
what person, group, or constituency would benefit?
I recommend that the Marijuana Advisory Panel remain in tact and scheduled to meet quarterly.
There are items left hanging from the initial round of 36+ consensus recommendations that were
unanimously accepted by council. These items need to be set forth in code. In the 2 years that
they have hung in the balance, new challenges have arisen that council is not prepared to
discuss and solve in their meetings. Futhermore the city has legalized marijuana yet 9 years in,
the industry remains cloaked and more needs to be done to integrate the responsible and
community oriented businesses with their greater community.
For those three reasons and more, the MAP should stay in tact and meetings set quarterly.
Council direct city manager.
Staff time to participate in the quarterly meetings. There is more than enough money set aside
from cannabis industry sales, use and excise taxes to pay for the resources required for
quarterly meetings.
The MAP was described as one of the most if not the most successful and well done panel put
together by the city. We do the hard work of education, communication, and compromise in order
to present consensus based recommendations to council that protect the city's public interests.
The marijuana industry is constantly meeting new challenges and this forum ensures that
as the world looks upon Boulder as a leader in cannabis legalization and energy planning alike,
we are doing it the right way -- transparent and community oriented.