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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the third quarter update on cannabis compliance, enforcement, and taxation, Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2021, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
a) Receive an update on the status of cannabis tax collection, land use permitting, business licensing, and enforcement;
b) Provide direction to staff to respond to State Local Authorization inquiries with a ‘Pending’ or ‘Local Compliance Underway’ for provisional license holders and operators only if they demonstrate appropriate progress through the land use or business licensing application process; file required County cannabis tax report(s) and pay required taxes on cannabis operations; and continue to comply with other conditions of Chapter 50, as outlined in the report;
c) Provide any other direction to staff regarding the County’s cannabis program; and
d) Find that the proposed actions are administrative activities of the County, which will not result in direct or indirect changes to the environment and therefore are not a “project” as defined for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY