Trustees will have their next regular meeting on May 10 rather than Buena Vistaâs usual second Tuesday of the month, when they are scheduled to discuss a potential new fire authority and a Chaffee County Economic Development Corporation grant proposal.
Also on the agenda: Buena Vista Mayor Duff Lacy will randomly select one of 20 applicants who completed phase 1 of the townâs retail marijuana license process.Â
The winner of the random drawing will move on to the second phase of the process, allowing them to open the second of two marijuana establishments permitted to operate in Buena Vista by an ordinance passed last year.
After sitting out for the first seven years of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, Buena Vista is close to issuing the town s first recreational dispensary licenses.
As a handful of mountain towns cashed in on tourists once retail pot sales began in 2014, Buena Vista only allowed one medical dispensary to operate, with local laws restricting sales to registered medical marijuana patients only. However, Buena Vista voters approved recreational dispensaries during the November election, allowing up to two retail pot shops to open in town.
Ascend Cannabis, the town s lone medical dispensary, plans to incorporate recreational sales and modify the store, according to owner Scott Embree, who is not sure of a time frame regarding the conversion but says he is looking forward to serving medical patients and recreational customers going forward.
The Buena Vista board of trustees will have their next regular meeting on Monday, May 10, rather than their usual second Tuesday of the month, when they are scheduled to discuss a potential new fire authority and a Chaffee County Economic Development Corporation grant proposal.
Also on Mondayâs agenda: Buena Vista Mayor Duff Lacy will randomly select one of the 20 applicants that completed phase 1 of the townâs retail marijuana license process.
The winner of the random drawing will move on to phase 2 of the process, allowing them to open the second of two marijuana establishments permitted to operate in Buena Vista by an ordinance passed last year.
Has the town of Buena Vistaâs 17-month streak of month-to-month sales tax increases come to an end? Depends on how you look at it.
Comparing how much money was remitted from the state department of revenue last February compared to this one, 2021âs returns are less than 2020âs by 6.9 percent.
However, last year, the town was reimbursed for a clerical correction to the tune of $116,076 on top of $212,808 of taxes the town brought in. Those two amounts combined were 71 percent higher than in February 2019, when the town recorded $191,997 in sales taxes.
The corrective deposit made up for an account that the state had not been remitting to the town for three years.
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