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The National City council on Tuesday tabled a decision on a proposed cannabis ordinance until May. The ordinance would allow up to six businesses, including consumption lounges, in designated areas.
The council voted 4-1, with Councilman Ron Morrison opposed, to amend the ordinance to allow the sale and use of vaping products, particularly in lounges. Staff will return next month with an updated proposal for a final vote.
“The intent is for folks that do decide to vape to do so in a lounge so that they’re not actually doing it in a park, they’re not doing it in a parked car, they’re not doing it in a place where they can get in trouble,” said Vice Mayor Jose Rodriguez, who suggested the amendment.
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Alejandra Sotelo-Solis was in fifth grade at Kimball Elementary School when she made the bold assertion. Asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said one day she would be the mayor of National City.
“I don’t know if at 11 years old you know (mayors) work on budgets” or “sit on regional boards,” she said.
What she did know, however, is that a mayor is a “head figure.”
Now 39, Sotelo-Solis fulfilled her longtime goal on Tuesday, when she was sworn in as the city’s first Latina mayor. The oath of office Sotelo-Solis recited was led by none other than her former fifth grade teacher.