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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 11, 2021 Page 19 806 City can do to start, looking at the policies through a systemic racism lens, and work 807 to correct that wrong. 808 809 Councilmember Etten agreed with much of what has been said. As this is looked 810 at, it needs to be looked at first as a public health piece. He agreed with the findings 811 of fact and purpose that are in the draft ordinance. He was supportive of those 812 things but was interested in discussing the allowance of some stores, for example, 813 tobacco-only product places. Places that sell 90 percent or more of products that 814 are tobacco related products. In a sense, those are stores that cannot recover any 815 other funds. One of the notes between City staff and retailers was that a lot of 816 customers walk to their locations because they do not have cars and he thought that 817 was an accessibility issue that has been brought up by a lot of public health folks. 818 If it is not available, then it is much less likely that they will start. He stated he was 819 open to the motion on the floor and open to a slight opening on the other side of 820 that motion. 821 822 Mayor Roe indicated motions to amend are acceptable. 823 824 Councilmember Willmus indicated he was a little bit up in the air. He explained 825 he was one that came out very strongly with respect to vaping accessibility to those 826 products. He was somewhat curious if the Council were to look at an approach 827 where these products were eliminated unless they are looking at a tobacco shop, 828 where the vast majority of that revenue is coming from tobacco sales. That leads 829 him into the question he had at the onset of this conversation and that is, he would 830 not want to see a significant expansion of tobacco-only shops in the City of Rose- 831 ville. He would want to look at a component of that where there is some regulation 832 on the number of licenses. He thought there might be further conversation for the 833 Council to have. 834 835 Mayor Roe offered an amendment to the motion. 836 837 Roe moved, Willmus seconded, an amendment to the Ordinance to exempt tobacco 838 shops where 90 percent of their business or more are from tobacco and are over 21 839 as outlined in City Code 306.06 A4. Those establishments would be exempt from 840 the flavor sales ban. In addition, the motion includes the limitation of that particular 841 type of license in the City of Roseville to no more than 4. 842 843 Council Discussion 844 845 Mayor Roe thought the Council has a challenge here and it is very similar to the 846 challenge associated with regulating the sale of liquor. Those are legal products 847 that are heavily regulated as industries by other entities besides the City of Rose- 848 ville, and as mentioned they are a significant tax system for are significantly taxed 849 by the State and Federal governments. He thought that providing limited availabil- 850 ity in the City of Roseville through tobacco-only shops of this type of product,