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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 11, 2021 Page 17 717 and the second location was just recently opened. He indicated he would send an 718 email to the Council with his entire speech due to time constraints, but he would 719 like to offer a couple of suggestions. He asked the Council to adopt the City of 720 Shoreview model which allows responsible tobacco shops to continue to sell to- 721 bacco products in menthol, allow gas stations to sell the menthol, exclude tobacco 722 shops from the ban of menthol flavored tobacco products, increase compliance 723 checks to a minimum of four per year instead of two visits per year, provide edu- 724 cational materials to retailers, require retailers to show a proof of completed train- 725 ing by the retailer, and to limit the tobacco licenses in the City of Roseville. He 726 thought this would accomplish what they are allowed in the City of Roseville with- 727 out putting businesses out of business. 728 729 Ms. Renee Pardello, McCarrons Blvd 730 Ms. Pardello explained she supported the ban. She indicated this is a bigger dis- 731 cussion about the economy and how people make a living. She explained if busi- 732 nesses continue to make a living off peopleÓs addictions, systemic racism, and 733 health issues that in the end affect everyone, then they are never going to become a 734 community that really values caring for each other and our collective future. She 735 thought there needed to be discussions about how they help the businesses transi- 736 tion out of these products they sell that cause harm and needs to be a part of the 737 discussion. She explained when people hear about a $500,000 tax revenue, she was 738 sure peopleÓs minds start to shift and think in a different direction. That is because 739 the economy is based upon making profits off damaging themselves and the envi- 740 ronment. 741 742 Mayor Roe closed public comment. He explained regarding business-to-business 743 sales, he believed the only thing that the City of Roseville licenses is the retail sale 744 of tobacco. All other activities related to tobacco sales and manufacturing are reg- 745 ulated by other entities and not the City of Roseville. He thanked the public and 746 businesses for their comments regarding this topic. 747 748 Correspondence was received before the meeting and included in the Council 749 packet as well. 750 751 Mayor Roe indicated the Council could vote on the ordinance at the meeting or 752 delay the action for more information if the Council would wish to do so. He 753 thought the discussion should be framed around the view of the Council with keep- 754 ing the threshold question of whether or not to completely ban the sale of flavored 755 tobacco at any type of establishment or any kind of flavor in the City or does the 756 Council want to do something like one of the neighboring communities has done 757 that has different categories and flavors regulated in different ways. One of the 758 things that seemed to be a threshold for him is that we are currently much laxer 759 more lax than almost all of our neighbors with a few exceptions and he was not sure 760 that was something he was comfortable with, in terms of regulating flavored to-