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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, May 20, 2024 Page 8 Ms. Calta replied, the short answer to that is I wouldn't say there is anything significantly new since the last time we talked about this. We tried to give Council in their packets as much information as up to date as possible. Couple of things, there was a Cleveland.com article which gives you a little bit of the lay of the land around the State. Today, I listened to a webinar put on by the Ohio Municipal League. I don't know if anyone else jumped on it. It was pretty dense, but they did have a couple of attorneys and an individual from the Department of Cannabis. He summarized where everything is. Here's how I would summarize it, there are still some rules and regulations at the State level that are going through the review process and approval process. For the most part you are looking at certain licenses that are going to start to be issued. The first group of them are for what they call dual licensure. So if you have an existing medical marijuana facility in your jurisdiction, those establishments can submit for dual licensure meaning it would be for medical and for recreational. So the first round of permits and applications is in that group. The second goes to those that are existing establishments. They can then also get licensure for additional locations. That's all moving forward. The June 7, 2024 date was mentioned numerous times. There's nothing new to that but the seminar did confirm everything is moving forward. They are still working out some of the kinks. They are mirroring a lot of the recreational marijuana rules and regulations over what was done for the medicinal and then there are some things they need to tweak with the medicinal, so they are doing that at the same time. There's nothing that has changed, but it is moving forward. Mrs. Jurcisek asked, with that being said, the one option in this memo was tabling it with the caveat of passing a moratorium until more is discovered. Ms. Calta replied, I think it would be a matter of whether Council is looking for any additional information. I think we tried to get to the granular level like where in our zoning code and where in our zoning districts and where could the establishments go and where are the prohibited zones. Just to give you an idea of what you are looking at. I think we talked a little bit about that at the last Caucus meeting but the map was meant to give everyone a real visual of what that looked like and also to take a deep dive into the zoning districts based upon that map and see what we permit and what districts would support the uses that we are looking at. We also gave you the Eastlake ordinance where you can see where they went into extreme detail as to how they are regulated. For the record, there's the ability to outright prohibit all of these establishments. There's also the ability to limit them. So when you look at the Eastlake ordinance, that's where they limited it by coming up with certain zones and areas that they felt were permissible and they limited the number. As far as learning more information, as the program gets rolled out, we are going to learn more. We are going to be able to have experiences from other communities to look at. We don't have that information yet. We can only look at the medical marijuana facilities. Mrs. Jurcisek asked, regardless of that, would that change the bottom line as to what is the potential the Village could gain revenue -wise from this using the example that Mr. Marquart had in his memo?