all right let's presume we're going to resume so we can take advantage of our time so i conversed with the with the sponsors and proponents of whom there are several under article ten the c p a article and several of them are not here tonight because we had arranged to have them  e wednesday and lee and i lead off on wednesday and then we do the special on marijuana following on wednesday so what we're going to do with the unanimous consent of town meeting two and then that will leave three major pieces which will take two nights but it will presumably mean that we don't have to come for a fourth night the three major pieces remaining we complete action eight and nine will be the c p a first on wednesday and then the special so called opt out on marijuana which is complicated and there are seven amendments so that will take time and then the citizens petition on going from three to five so with your agreement we will do article eight and do you want to read article of the motion marijuana expires on is in effect through july first twenty eighteen we're proposing to extend the moratorium until december thirty first twenty eighteen and the reason for that is that there is a great deal of discussion and debate not only about adult used marijuana in the town but there was also a great deal of  early in march i believe it was the seventh on the twenty third the regulations came in place the planning board did not have time to to look at the regulations that the state had come up with and go through the public process to change the zoning bylaws and have sufficient amount of time for a public hearing on that we also have that there is complexity in the law and  results in complications that are not clear and it's not settled and so we would propose for the best interest of the town that we extend the moratorium to the end of the year  miss past thank you seabass precinct three december thirty first moratorium implies and perhaps november town meeting and i would request yeah i'm sorry charles clarke you're the planning board on tommy member precinct four i'm sorry i misspoke on that it this only has to do with adele use marijuana the medical marijuana is in place there's nothing changing on the this is just to extend the moratorium on adult use marijuana until the end of the year so just a clarification i have a question but i've cation so we talked earlier it's like all all the more term deals with is legal marijuana not medical marijuana the charles clarke chaired playing board adult use take marijuana and my second point is i appreciate the idea of the moratorium i appreciate it's very complicated my concern is that if we continue the moratorium what is what will be the impact if like watertown other towns don't so we're trying to for maybe control it but if other towns have it legal and they're right next door it's like literally adjacent to us in some cases i live in four seven which is right next to watertown would be possible that people just go adult use marijuana facilities in belmont during this period of time so the effect is on belmont but it you can you can go with the border like walk literally up walk i can walk to water come from my house and go over does that also not really isn't that the impact not actually going to be what you want that's my concern yes well charles clarke chair of the plane but we can only we can only control what happens in belmont fair enough i just want to ask you yes friedman bonnie friedman precinct three the draft regulations came out in december i've tried to attend all the meetings in town related to marijuana and the moratorium and my feeling is there are no establishment that have asked for a license yet we have a moratorium in place until june the earliest if somebody had already done the asked for a license and gone through the community meetings and such would be  seems that there are very few issues left at the planning board to do and they could as they've considered at meetings put in writing that where they want the adult to be and we could still pass it at our june town meeting in time for july i think that at one meeting it was just a decision should we have another moratorium or should we write regulations and i would say that there was enough time to do it if they were wanted to get it done in time and we still have time now for g m thank you charles clarke chair the playing board charles clarke chair of the playing board we did not feel at the time that we were looking at putting zoning regulations in place that we did not feel that we had sufficient information to write so owning regulations  that would be sufficient and protective of the town during this process we still feel that way and now we can proceed with those disc gives protection to the town going forward we also know that there is more controversy now in terms of what's happening for adult use marijuana in belmont as evidenced by the citizens petition going forward and we feel that  when we write the zoning regulations that we should hear more than we did before in public hearings about the sentiment of the of the town mr blow thank you i miss my remark important necessary to spend that time to get public input to make decisions on time place and manner which we can in fact do if if we do move forward with this so the board felt very strongly that we needed that amount of time to do that not to sort of for stall because it introduces a much larger conversation charles clarke chairs the planning board my understanding is that we can only extend the moratorium through the end of the year  i just i worry because i know that we like to you know generally be the last people to do things to see how it goes in other towns how it's working in brookline and things like that my fear is that  not knowing enough is why we're doing this and it's maybe we should be looking at examples where it is running in other towns massachusetts and see that they aren't having issues and i'm afraid we're just going to keep doing moratoriums and we're going to put this off as long as we put off the community power mr clark charles clarke chair of the planning board i don't think bill months alone in terms of being cautious about this in terms of exactly what the regulations are there are approximately two hundred communities in the commonwealth that have a stablished moratoriums in terms of adult use marijuana in addition the attorney general has only allowed us to do this through the end of the year  after the we will have this is this petition and other things that come forward in terms of that no matter how that turns out what i think we need we need the time and we will playing board not to protect it from marijuana per se but time to put zoning regulations in place that are reflective of the town i mean first any further discussion  the final vote for the record one ninety in favor fifty two opposed clearly more than two thirds so the motion passes now do article article nine mr poe or read that a motion  asian there's also a state excise tax and i want to and i want to products of ten point seven five percent in a regular sales tax a six point two five percent so discussion of the motion these banks and have federal control so you're really not one hundred percent clear where contradicting of the federal law by well yeah picking up this money and the  george hall town council which after sixty four and work says this is a tax that's collected by the state department of revenue and then the state pays to the town its share of the total revenue collected from the through state the state statute i'm not aware of any concern about the federal government pursuing civil forfeiture actions against state local governments for collecting revenues from marijuana sales i think that's not significant if i collected right from somebody who's selling marijuana and i collect my are and i know them you know they made their money through selling marijuana i know i could get in trouble and i don't see were any different but you know if there's a state might be challenged in the future i don't know you know it's conceivable it would be challenged but i think that i'm not concerned that the federal government is going to turn its sights on local governments collecting revenue from these operations i'm might suggest that we're not going to collect that money today it's only after we have the  precinct three back again obviously so i want to thank the selectmen for putting this on the warrant for anybody who doesn't understand the state will collect seventeen percent that  goes regardless and the only way whether if we ever do have a marijuana retailer in town the only way for us to collect this money is to authorize this so i strongly recommend everybody say yes whether or not we have a shop in the works in town right now thank you very much that's correct one yes ma'am i'm a thurston precinct's one just a quick question that three percent local sales tax is not your marked for any particularly u george hall town council that is correct the town can also negotiate a local impact of an additional three percent which is a separate thing if that's negotiated that has to be used for costs associated with you know whatever are the costs imposed on the community by hosting the facility three percent connect collected through the excise taxes not that the states ten point seven percent five percent excise tax is earmarked for a variety of things related to administration of the regulatory program law enforcement and drug treatment but the local share is paid to the general fund and is available for appropriation for any purpose thank as a result priests precinct a town meeting about a question for you mr moderator can anybody give me sort of a sense of scale of how much money we're talking about certainly they've been you know predictions or whatever that something could come to  no sense of what the sales might be what the tax might be back to boma at this point we haven't really investigated that there been any studies done as to what the experience in colorado or all i mean i guess the community with the establishment of adult use recreational facility that we fact that the street percent excise tax i'm not questioning the three percent excise tax but i guess if this is going to come up for a better debate two days from now i'm going to stand at th colorado washington and the typical adult you store pretty much average as one to one and a half million so you're looking at thirty to forty thousand dollars restore first order thank you thank you dr albert thank you are playing with someone in move the question i can't do it now because i've spoken o rs requires a majority of those in favor of the motion would pass one opposed to thank you all very much