Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and approve the hearing officer’s recommendation to uphold the denial of the business license application MJ21701203 submitted by Seaside Medical Group, Inc., for a medical marijuana business located at 1529 West Pacific Coast Highway.  (District 1)
Thank you. Take care. Okay. So that was our one presentation for the night. We have two hearings and then we're going to go into the VIP records item. So the first hearing, Madam Clerk, please please read the first hearing. Hearing. Item number one is a report from financial management. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the hearing and approve the hearing. Officer's recommendation to uphold the denial of the business license application submitted by the CCI Medical Group Inc for Medical Marijuana Business located at 1529 West Pacific Coast Highway District one, and this item required . So why don't we do an oath and then we'll go right into Mr. Moto? Because. Report. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony may give in that cause now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God. Do. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The staff report for this item will be given. By Sandie Singh Palmer, our purchasing and business services manager. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. Tonight you have before you a recommendation to uphold the hearing officer's recommendation to deny the business license application. MJ 21701203 Submitted by Seaside Medical Group, Inc. for a medical marijuana business located at 1529 West Pacific Coast Highway in Council District one. In addition to the counsel letter, you have been provided the hearing officer's recommendation and findings and the appeal hearing packet. To provide some background on this item. On February 21st, Seaside Medical Group Inc. submitted an application to operate a medical marijuana dispensary at 1529 West Pacific Coast Highway on August 16th, 2017. The Department of Financial Management denied the business license application. Due to the proposed business location being within 1000 feet of a public or private. School, which is in violation of Long Beach Municipal Code Section 5.90.030. On August 21st, 2017, Seaside Medical Group, Inc. filed an appeal of the business license application denial. And on October 10th, 2017, the City Council referred the appeal hearing to a hearing officer. On November 7th, 2017, the appeal hearing was held and the presiding hearing officer assigned by the city clerk's office was Jennifer L. King on November 9th, 2017. The hearing officer recommended that the denial of the business license application submitted by Seaside Medical Group, Inc. be upheld due to the proposed business location being within 1000 feet of a public or private school, which is in violation of Long Beach Municipal Code Section 5.90.030. It is requested that the City Council accept the hearing officer's recommendation to deny the business license application. That concludes my report, and staff are available to answer any questions Council may have. Thank you very much. There is a motion in the second before I do that. Is there any public comment on this item? This is just the hearing. Thank you. Surely, Rosada, I don't understand the full reason for this denial. But. But whatever needs to be done to deny this and others, I believe it would be in the city's best interests. There is no medical marijuana. It's all marijuana. When a child smells it walking past someone's house in the alley or lately sitting on the street. Guy was rolling his joint in Belmont Shore, just sitting out there on Second Street, just in full view of everyone unafraid. Children are not going to know. Oh, that was. Medical marijuana, Johnny. No, no, no. They're just gonna say that was we. And there used to be. There used to be a time when we would say, you know, something is going to pot. Now our sister cities literally going to pot. With our approval, we are proving our city to go to pot. It's a gateway drug. I was just in conference with another young lady. Who works here in the shore. She affirmed. Yes, it was it was a gateway for me. It doesn't matter. The stamp of approval we put on it. It does not me. God's test for approval for things that should be. Around his humans. Maybe it doesn't. It doesn't meet his approval. Still yet and still. There is no medical. It didn't grow up out of the ground. You don't buy seeds. It's a medical. It just says marijuana or cannabis. As many of you that can find a reason to deny this and others, it would be in the best interest of yourselves and your family for years and generations to come. As you put your stamp of approval on anything representing the city in heaven, it registers as, Oh, this is so-and-so. They approve that. So we can let that walk in their family. If you're a child, 16, 18 years old, 21 year old, whatever the legal requirement is, if they walk in your door with a joy, Hey, Mom , I kid, you gave me this. You want one? What will be your reaction? Oh. He gave you a medical marijuana, Susie? No, that won't be your reaction. You're going to frown and you know it. Come on. We're sending our city to pot. Somebody needs to get a C, D of New Jack City and make sure all the council people get it for Christmas. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker, please. Is there any other public comment on this hearing before I close it? Mr. Goodhew, please come down. Is there? I'm going to close the speakers list. They promote. They will. They will. It'll be fine. We're going to. So I. The next three speakers and then the speakers list is closed officially. Thank you, Mr. B. Giving honor to Jesus who made marijuana not medical is good. Marijuana is good. I don't know what she's talking about. I got got I have glaucoma. And the first thing the doctor told me is that the team along the tunnel process have six or seven side effects. Doctor told me when I went to specialist smoke marijuana. It has no side effects. It takes the pressure off your eyes. Right now, I have to drive way down to L.A. to get my marijuana, and I'm smoking as much as possible because I didn't used to wear glasses, but I'm wearing them now. I lost a lot of my sight and I don't know what that mumbo jumbo she's talking about, because if it wasn't for marijuana, I'd be in trouble. So and Nixon was given medical marijuana since 73. You know, the rich were getting it back then and other people were getting slammed, sent, sent to prison for it. I had a cousin that did what? Got 40 years for it in Texas, had about a little more now. So, you know, I don't know about that. So I wish you would have some marijuana so I can get it down the street, you know, so I would have to go way out there. It ain't like, come on, I was marijuana. Marijuana. I no problem. Remember back in the eighties when cocaine was outlawed? That was a problem. Heroin and meth is a problem. Matter of fact, you guys are. Be glad marijuana is out here. That's comin. Everybody down. It'd be a problem if it wasn't a weed out there. The marijuana is good. And I don't know. It's still my God's letting people in heaven who. Smoke marijuana acolyte who believe in his. Name. You got to believe in Jesus name. You go to heaven so you know you're not smoke marijuana. You left out. So you know, hey, let me get me. I got 123. So, you know, marijuana is good. You know, land marijuana is good. Let's get that marijuana in Long Beach to help the people that need it and have them body aches and stuff. Thank you. Thank you. And just and just to clear also just the record out before the last week or so, the voters have approved on the medicinal side locally is obviously at the state on the state side. Recreational in Long Beach I believe has Mr. West already probably two dispensaries, I believe, that have already opened with business licenses. And I know there's a few more that are being processed silver and that are on the way. And so there are those there are dispensaries that are have opened and will continue to open as part of the the the voter approved laws. Yes. Next Speaker Okay. I wasn't even intending to speak, but I'm I'm sorry. My name is Cammy Johnson from Cameco. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I'm actually going to speak on the business side of this is the question of having businesses that are not allowed within thousand feet of a school. And I don't understand why that's an argument, because there's so many other businesses, whether it's a 7-Eleven that wants to sell alcohol near school or if there's another company that wants to sell marijuana near a school. This is really about just regulating where the businesses are. The city of Long Beach has already voted this in. I'm not I'm not an advocate on one way or another. I've seen the medical benefits of medical marijuana and recreational marijuana for those who need to become or whatever it is. I'm not a user or protect myself. But what I will say is that I don't want it near a school and that's what the law is. So I don't know whether there's a question here or what needs to be said or some to interject on God or anything else. The people of the city have voted and there are laws in the city. This is a common question that anyone can ask. You can ask anybody if they use marijuana, that's what they do. There's a doctor involved or whoever is involved that is has nothing to do with this going on right now with this agenda item. This agenda item is only because is within the thousands thousand feet of a school. That's it. So what you may. But if you do vote to allow this to happen, what makes a difference if alcohol or other drugs or whatever is. Sold. Within a thousand feet of a school, what will stop it? And why are we making exceptions for Seaside Medical Group? That's all I'm asking. And I. Think you. Finally, Mr. Good, he stated a number of times before, If I view marijuana of any type, those people entering into it is just one step, slight step above. Sex trafficking. Period. No ifs, ands or buts. Currently. As I've stated before, also the boundaries that you set up are certainly appropriate. But they don't go far enough. What you've got to figure out, as I pointed out with the one that's operating in that building next to the third down there in Belmont Shore is you've got to figure out in each district what are the pathways those kids take back and forth to school and to their hangouts at the end of the day, which are generally where parents are not in the Belmont. Sure, it's Rite Aid for ice cream. One block away or jack in the box the other way. And you see kids of from Lowell, from Rogers tramping by there every single day. So whenever you set that up, you've got to factor that in. And if you're forced to sell this. The one you. What you should do, as I mentioned before, is read out a space. It's in the police department. If you want to get money. And one for each statistic. So you'd have nine vendors up there. All right. And they could be open from 10 to 10, 15 a.m. or whatever. The other alternative would be very serious about this. Also, put it out on one of the if you look at the aerial photos in the Long Beach, this is your house today. There's an excellent picture in shot of the oil well. Islands set it out there and they can come out every other Thursday for a few hours and pick up the stuff. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our public comment on hearing item number one. So I will move this back to the deliberation that we have a motion in a second to receive the supporting documentation and conclude the hearing and approve hearing officer's recommendation on the denial. Councilman Gonzales. No, I just I support the hearing officer's decision. I know there was some back and forth. But, you know, we as many mentioned, we have to stand by our 1000 foot buffer and I support this item. Thank you. Okay, there's a motion. And second, please cast your votes. Motion case.