City Council Meeting - August 11, 2022

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Meeting Summary

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CALL TO ORDER IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT CITY HALL, 420 LITHO STREET –10:00 AM 📄
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Kelman at 10:00 AM, conducted telephonically via Zoom due to the state of emergency. 📄 The roll was called, confirming all council members present. 📄 The agenda was approved via motion. 📄 The main business item was a resolution to call an election on a citizen initiative regarding cannabis business regulations, consolidating it with the November 8, 2022 general municipal election. City Attorney Greg Rubins explained this was a follow-up to implement a prior council decision from last year to place the matter on the ballot. 📄 Councilmember Jill Hoffman confirmed it was a ministerial implementation of that prior vote. 📄 No public comments were made. 📄
Motion
Motion to adopt the resolution passed unanimously. 📄

Meeting Transcript

Time Speaker Text
00:00:02.66 Serge Avila I don't know.

Good morning, Mayor Kelman and council members. This meeting has been held pursuant to government code section 549530E and in light of the declared state of emergency, the special meeting of the city council for August 11th.
00:00:18.26 Greg Rubins And,
00:00:18.48 Serge Avila will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and reported through Zoom.

Welcome.
00:00:25.23 Mayor Kelman Right. Thanks very much. Go ahead and call me in order and please call the roll.
00:00:30.14 Serge Avila Council member Sobieski?

Councilmember Kloblin-Knoll.
00:00:34.10 Mayor Kelman Thank you.
00:00:35.01 Serge Avila Councilmember Hoffman.

Thank you.
00:00:36.56 Mayor Kelman care.
00:00:37.29 Serge Avila Merrick Elman.
00:00:38.39 Mayor Kelman Yeah.
00:00:38.51 Serge Avila Thank you.

Or members are present, there is a forum.
00:00:41.38 Mayor Kelman Great. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda, please?

Summer.

Second.

Please call the roll again.
00:00:49.86 Serge Avila Council Member Sobieski? Yes.

Council Member Glibler-Knowles.
00:00:53.59 Mayor Kelman Yes.
00:00:54.23 Serge Avila Councilmember Hoffman.
00:00:55.47 Mayor Kelman Yes.

Thank you.
00:00:56.24 Serge Avila And Mayor Kellman. Yes. Motion passes.
00:00:59.14 Mayor Kelman Okay, great, we have one business item today, item one a resolution calling for an election on a citizens initiative entitled a citizen sponsor initiative measure to repeal existing regulations and authorize one storefront one delivery only cannabis business to operate in the city of Sausalito.

to be held and consolidated with general municipal election scheduled for November 8th, 2022.

and requesting that the Marin County Registrar of Voters conduct the election.

So I will hand it over to our city attorney, Greg Rubins, who will take us through this. Thanks, Greg.
00:01:28.49 Sergio Rudin Thank you, Mayor Fowler.

And this is a follow-up item to implement a decision that the council already made last year to place this matter before the voters.

So it's necessary to actually formally adopt the resolution so we can get that to the county officials so that can be properly processed.

So the reason for the special meeting is to
00:01:52.03 Greg Rubins and it will make what we've already consented to do.

Thank you.
00:01:55.67 Mayor Kelman Greg, I'll just mention you're a little bit underwater on your microphone. So if there's a way to improve that.
00:02:01.19 Greg Rubins or else you look I'll keep having that problem. I'll keep having that problem.
00:02:07.35 Greg Rubins I have my mic all the way next.
00:02:12.89 Mayor Kelman Thank you.
00:02:13.02 Greg Rubins Thank you.
00:02:16.04 Mayor Kelman Okay, well, I mean...

I don't know what that is, but that's not good.
00:02:26.86 Mayor Kelman That's running water.
00:02:29.80 Sergio Rudin I don't have any background for it.
00:02:32.09 Mayor Kelman MS BENNETT, It has improved.
00:02:32.18 Sergio Rudin It has improved.

Yeah.
00:02:35.09 Mayor Kelman That's slightly better. So can you just state what action is going to be required from the council today and before you dig in?
00:02:42.06 Sergio Rudin We need to the action item is to adopt the resolution so that we election so that can we place the matter on the ballot paper part of it?
00:02:53.03 Greg Rubins resolution Okay, great.
00:02:59.97 Mayor Kelman Anything else you'd like to offer, Greg?
00:03:02.70 Greg Rubins Okay.
00:03:02.92 Mayor Kelman Thank you.
00:03:02.97 Greg Rubins for any other questions.
00:03:04.88 Mayor Kelman Great, any questions for city attorney?
00:03:09.71 Mayor Kelman Thank you.
00:03:09.72 Jill Hoffman See you then.

So I just wanted to confirm, it's my understanding that we have already voted on this issue last July and that We had, the option then to either adopt the measure or place it on the ballot. We voted to place it on the ballot.

in November 2022.

and that this is just a kind of ministerial implementation of that prior vote, is that correct?
00:03:36.77 Sergio Rudin That's correct.
00:03:38.33 Jill Hoffman Okay.

All right, thank you.
00:03:39.76 Mayor Kelman Thank you.
00:03:40.76 Jill Hoffman Thank you.
00:03:40.77 Mayor Kelman Thank you for that.
00:03:41.84 Jill Hoffman Thank you.
00:03:42.32 Mayor Kelman Serge, are there any members of the public?
00:03:46.85 Serge Avila Madam Mayor, there are no members of the public in this meeting.
00:03:50.22 Mayor Kelman Okay, so public comment is going to be open and then there's nobody here, so I'm closing it.

bring it back up to the council, Um, If there are no more questions, I'll entertain a motion to adopt the resolution.
00:04:05.88 Greg Rubins Some have
00:04:06.76 Mayor Kelman you Okay.

Okay, Serge, please call the roll.
00:04:11.15 Serge Avila Councilmember Sobieski? Yes.

Cancel memory clip then also?
00:04:14.96 Mayor Kelman Yes.
00:04:15.69 Serge Avila Council member Hoffman.
00:04:17.00 Mayor Kelman Yes.
00:04:17.81 Serge Avila and Mary Kelman.
00:04:18.84 Mayor Kelman Yes.
00:04:20.33 Serge Avila Motion passes.
00:04:22.25 Mayor Kelman Okay.

Greg, do you need anything else from us on this part?
00:04:25.81 Greg Rubins That is what we need this morning.
00:04:29.24 Mayor Kelman Okay, great. So that was the only item we had today.

And so with that, Let me just confirm.

go ahead and adjourn to our next scheduled meeting, August 30th, 2022.

Thanks everybody. Thanks.
00:04:43.28 Greg Rubins Thanks so much.

All right.