The Grass Valley City Council has taken the initial step to implement a commercial cannabis industry by agreeing on a fee for those who want to set up operations.
Nevada City’s annual operating budget will receive a 7% boost through funds collected through California’s statewide cannabis excise tax.
Nevada City’s 2019-20 budget shows that the city collected a total of $4.8 million through various taxes and fees. Over the next three years, the city will improve its technological infrastructure, youth programming and law enforcement infrastructure with a $1 million grant through the Board of State and Community Corrections.
The council is expected to approve receipt of the grant at its Tuesday meeting. Fund distribution won’t happen until June.
Nevada City Councilman and grant writer Doug Fleming said the community corrections board created the Cannabis Health, Safety and Compliance Project grant to develop a safe, sustainable and equitable cannabis industry and mitigate the potential negative impacts on the region’s youth and the environment.
Starting May 1 Nevada City will reimplement its parking pass program and once again begin enforcing parking meter fees.
The city temporarily suspended collecting parking meter fees last June to try to minimize the effect of COVID-19 restrictions on businesses.
However in July the council voted to enforce the policy again, determining the revenue the parking meter fees brought to the city was greater than the potential incentive the suspension provides for patrons.
Despite passing a resolution reversing the suspension, the policy was never enforced after the state moved to its color coded tier system that determines counties’ COVID-19 restrictions.
“From that point on the resolution was not enforced with the understanding that the police department would instead focus its enforcement on COVID violations,” interim City Manager Joan Phillipe told the City Council at its Wednesday meeting. “As you’ve made clear that hasn’t been a consistent practice either.”
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