AGENDA
GRAY TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
April 19, 2011
HENRY PENNELL MUNICIPAL COMPLEX –7:00 P.M.
Roll Call:
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag:
Minutes from Previous Meetings:
Approval of March 29, 2011, Town Meeting Minutes
Proposed motion:
Ordered the Gray Town Council approves March 29, 2011 Town Meeting Minutes, as presented.
Approval of April 5, 2011, Town Council Minutes
Proposed motion:
Ordered the Gray Town Council approves April 5, 2011 Town Council Minutes, as presented.
First Order of Business:
Public Comments of Non-Agenda Items – (limit 3 minutes per person)
Second Order of Business:
Reports from the Council Chair:
Reports from the Town Manager:
Committee Reports:
Council Correspondence:
Third Order of Business:
Presentations: MSAD#15 – Budget Presentation
Ryan Keith, CEO – update regarding Local Food Ordinance and Medical Marijuana
Public Hearing:
- Liquor license renewal application for Anna DiSanto, located at 322 West Gray Road.
Fourth Order of Business: ORDERS
Item #90-11 To review and act upon authorizing a liquor license renewal application for Anna DiSanto, located at 322 West Gray Road.
Proposed Motion:
Ordered the Gray Town Council authorizes the liquor license renewal for Anna DiSanto, located at 322 West Gray Road.
Item #91-11 To review and act upon approving the warrant articles for the town meeting to be held on June 14, 2011.
Proposed Motion:
Ordered the Gray Town Council approves the warrant articles for the town meeting to be held on June 14, 2011, as presented.
Item #92-11 To review and act upon approving the proposed sign design for the various municipal signs for the Town of Gray
Proposed Motion:
Ordered the Gray Town Council approves the proposed sign design for the various municipal signs for the Town of Gray, as recommended by Town Staff and the CEDC.
Item #093-11 To review and act upon making appointments to the Recreation and Conservation Committee.
Proposed Motion:
Ordered, that the Gray Town Council appoints Anne Tricomi as a regular member to the Recreation and Conservation Committee for a term to expire August, 2013.
Fifth Order of Business: ORDINANCES:
Item #94-11 To review and act upon extending the proposed moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation operations.
Proposed Motion:
WHEREAS, the Town Council adopted a Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Cultivation Moratorium Ordinance to be effective January 25, 2011, (the “Moratorium Ordinance”), because the Town’s current Code of Ordinances is not adequate to prevent serious public harm possibly to be caused by the development of medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities and other uses authorized by the changes in law as a result of the November 3, 2009 State-wide referendum vote amending and extending certain provisions of the medical marijuana law in Maine; and
WHEREAS, the Moratorium Ordinance was necessary to prevent an overburdening of public facilities that is reasonably foreseeable as the result of medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities and other uses authorized by the changes in law as a result of the State-wide November 3, 2009 referendum vote; and
WHEREAS, the those problems still exist; and
WHEREAS, the Town has been actively studying those problems since the date of the adoption of the Moratorium Ordinance and trying to design a regulatory scheme that will adequately address the same, but has not yet completed that work;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it ORDERED by the Town Council of the Town of Gray, that the Moratorium Ordinance be, and hereby is, extended on the same terms and conditions as originally enacted, for an additional term of 180 days from April 24, 2011 to October 21, 2011, unless the Town Council terminates the same sooner either by express vote or by enactment of such regulatory scheme as the Town Council determines after study adequately addresses the issues identified above.
Dated: April 19, 2011
Sixth Order of Business:
Council Action Items, Assignments and Issues Status:
Request that Maine DOT review signage in Gray center and nearby state roads.- Consider and discuss a proposed Mass Gathering Ordinance, eventually moving it to a Public Hearing.
- Complete all revisions to the Street Construction Ordinance (§ 400).
- Amend or replace the Sign Ordinance (§ 406).
- Review the town TIF Policy. (CEDC to amend and not rewrite)
Establish a Gray Hall of Fame award and a process to identify initial, historical recipients.Begin organizing a Comprehensive Planning Committee.
Seventh Order of Business:
Council Business: -
Eighth Order of Business:
Additions to the Agenda:
Ninth Order of Business: Adjournment
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