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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 24, 2022 Page 8 313 charged appropriate to the amount of time and work staff needs to do around that. 314 He was not sure what the City liquor license fee was offhand but was sure it was 315 more than $250, given the potential issues that arise from those types of businesses. 316 317 Mayor Roe noted he did look at the liquor license fees in Roseville, notingthey are 318 regulated heavily by the State as well. The high fees tend to be for on-sale estab- 319 lishments where people actually are consuming alcohol at the establishment. He 320 believed State Statute actually cap the license fee for off-sale liquor stores at a pretty 321 low amount. He would note that he did not believe the intention of retail sales of 322 the THC products is for consumption on-site, certainly that is something the City 323 could probably regulate as a part of this. 324 325 Councilmember Groff indicated one of the costs he sees coming down the road is 326 testing and he assumed this will be similar to what is done with tobacco sales and 327 underage sales, which will take some officers time. The more venues the City has 328 selling this the more testing will need to be done. 329 330 Mayor Roe questioned ifCouncilmember Groff meant compliance checks rather 331 than testing. 332 333 Councilmember Groff indicated that was correct. 334 335 Councilmember Strahan explained there was concern about restriction of items 336 with trace amounts of THC, even though she was surprised that cannabis got mixed 337 in there as well. She wondered if that was something staff was looking for guidance 338 on as well whether or not the City is regulating face masks and other things that 339 have trace amounts of these substances. 340 341 Mr. Trudgeon did not think that was the intent. He thought that was in regard to .3 342 percent of THC or less and that could have been in the State Law as well. The City 343 would need to be very explicit that this would not cover, if the Council chooses, 344 any product that has trace amount, which he thought was defined at .3 percent or 345 less and that is in other ordinances as well. 346 347 Mayor Roe explained a few things he noticed in the sample ordinances was discus- 348 sion about prohibiting or providing samples and something that might be consid- 349 ered. The other was regulating consumption on premise, specifically Shoreview 350 prohibited that and it might be something to think about. He noted the two ordi- 351 nances in the packet follow the tobacco model of not allowing sales in moveable 352 places of business, although the definition of that was different between the two 353 cities. He also noted that in at least one of the ordinances it talked about the display 354 being behind the counter and not available for the public to take off the shelf. He 355 explained Shoreview also had a restriction on the sale through home occupations. 356 He wondered if the City has defined retail establishments properly in their ordi- 357 nance and if it is covered adequately, then it does not need to be reviewed.