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Motion by President O'Malley, seconded by Vice President Litten to adopt Ord. 08-2022. All members voted in favor. Motion passed. Ordinance 08-2022 adopted. 4. ORDINANCE 09-2022 - AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force at the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing the Director of Finance to enter into Equipment Leases in forms approved by the Director of Law on behalf of the City of Lakewood ("City"). (I"read& referred to Finance 2122122; 2"d reading 317122) (pg. 3) Motion by President O'Malley, seconded by Vice President Litten to adopt Ord. 09-2022. All members voted in favor. Motion passed. Ordinance 09-2022 adopted. 5. Housing, Planning & Development Committee report regarding meeting held March 21, 2022. (to be provided) Chairman Bullock delivered the following oral report: The Housing, Planning and Development Committee met tonight and considered two pieces of legislation. We first considered and disposed of Ordinance 5-2022 which is the legislation we discussed at the last meeting that a structural engineer's report be required every three years for certain large structures and for underground and above ground parking lots. There were some amendments that were brought forward in partnership between Councilmember Baker and the Law Department. The committee moved to approve those amendments as a substitute and then we also made two additional changes to the date in the opening paragraph from November 30 to November Is'. In Section 2 we changed 18 months to 12 months and corrected a typo. I am happy to explain further if councilmembers have any questions. The committee moved to recommend adoption of the ordinance as substituted and amended. The second was Ord. 13-2022 which would make partial changes to the existing ordinances that govern fees for medical mariivana dispensaries, of which we have two in Lakewood. The driving point here is that the State made a change and the City really has to come into compliance with that change. The committee had a two-part discussion. Number one was what is the revenue that we collected could have collected? Second, we got a report about the actual experience with the businesses and their routine annual inspections. I am happy to report that the annual inspections have been smooth. Minor repairs have been made here and there and no problems that anyone can recall hearing about have been received. In our experience these are good business neighbors who have done a good job building and operating a business. On the revenue, the committee asked questions that I think we need to do more work on to understand the scope of what we might 4