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Minutes. of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, December 19, 2016. Page 17 Council President Saponaro stated,- just as a general note to everyone. These. Ordinances; we are requesting them. to be suspended due to the timing of them so we have them completed before the end of the year and we start the new year. Generally you will notice throughout the rest of the year we did three readings and we tried not to do suspension motions. These are housekeeping measures; things that we have to make-.sure are in place before we move to 2017. Just as a general note to everybody and. for the Minutes. • First lteadin~ of Ordinance No: 2016-28, entitled, "An Emergency Ordinance adopting a moratorium on applications for; and the granting of, zoning certificates for any .building, structure, use or change. of use that would enable the cultivation, processing, distribution or sale of medical marijuana for a period of 180 .days in order to allow the Village to review applicable State and local laws and regulations relating to such uses." Introduced by Mayor Bodnar and Council as a Whole. (Law Director) Mrs. Mills, seconded by Dr. Parker, made a motion to suspend the rules of Council requiring an Ordinance to be read on three separate occasions. ROLL CALL: AYES: All NAYS: None Motion Carried Rules Suspended Mrs. Mills, seconded by Dr. Parker, made a motion to enact Ordinance No.. 2016-28. Council President Saponaro asked, discussion? Mr. Diemert replied, as everyone knows, medical marijuana has been approved in the State of Ohio. The statewide rules and regulations are just now starting to come about. We are allowed to have our own local rules and regulations and maybe even taxation of such facilities. We are researching and putting all that together and awaiting the State's final rules and then Administration will make recommendations to Council. Council President Saponaro asked, clarification, this is not about people being able to go to a doctor and use this, this is about facilities that actually would be able to dispense medical marijuana? Mr. Diemert replied, correct. Council President Saponaro stated, okay. I just wanted to make that clear for the record. I did get a call on this. Dr. Parker asked, dispense or produce? Council President Saponaro replied, both. But we are not regulating whether a person can. actually go to a doctor to use it. Dr. Parker stated, I just wanted to clarify dispense versus produce.