Now Therefore I'M Mayor Tim Bussey Do Hereby Proclaim The Week Of August 26Th Through 31St As Born Again Jack'S Week. In Doing So The City Acknowledges Our 40Th Anniversary And Their Many Contributions To Our City And Its Citizens Data This 26Th Day Of August 2024.

One Of The Things We'Re Most Proud Of Is That We Do Give Back To The Community. We Have An Annual Pancake Breakfast Every First Sunday Of October Held At The Bloomington Event Center And From The Proceeds From That We Give Back To The Community In The Form Of Scholarships To The Athletes At At Kennedy And Jefferson We Give A Very Sizable Donation To The To The Bloomington Athletic Association Which Is The Area That We Most Most Of Us Know It As It Serves The Younger Youth, The Younger Athlete Of Bloomington And They Use It For Scholarships, For Equipment And For Whatever They They Need To Meet Their Budget And So Forth.

This Is Your Plan. It'S Done In Partnership With The Community But This Was Done It At Your Request And You Own This Plan And We Want To Make Sure You Know That We'Re Continuing To Move Forward On It And That We'Re Focused On Outcomes And Making Sure That We'Re Achieving The Vision That That You And The Community Laid Out Together.

It Is Putting Us On Track To Be A Enduring And Remarkable Community Where People Want To Be.

92% Of Your Residents Have Visited A Park Or Facility In The Past Year. Our National Level On That Same Question Is 76% Of Respondents. So You'Re Well Above The National Level There.

It Is A Trend That Has Really Been Happening For The Past 20 Years. Over 20 Years Ago It Was Recommended By Aafp That Cities No Longer Build Standalone Senior Centers That They Make Them Multigenerational Facilities And That Is The Direction That A Lot Of Cities Have Been Moving.

We're Only In The Feasibility Study Phase Of This Project And We Haven'T Really Even Started The Community Engagement For This Project I Just Want People To Understand That We Are Not Finished With The Engagement, We'Re Just Starting The Engagement And So This Just Double Checking Make Sure That We Have The Right Types Of Amenities In This Facility But Absolutely.

Trust The Process Because I Think We Have Seen It In And We'Ve Seen It Very Successfully In Action And I Expect It'S Going To Be The Case Here As Well.

This Is Part Of Our Standard Practice. We Have Done It For Several Others Multiple Times In The Past. We Anticipate Doing It In The Future Especially When They'Re Empty Like This Particular Existing Easement Is.

Cities May Limit Hemp Products To Exclusive Age 21 Plus Establishments Such As Liquor Stores Or Exclusive 21 Plus Tobacco Stores. That'S Not Something That We Knew Before The Model Ordinance Language Had Come Out.

I My My My Policy On This Has Been All Along That We Should Get Consistent On This Stuff And So Like You Know In Terms Of Feedback To Staff The The If If We Want To Regulate Lower Potency Stuff Like I Can Go To Cub And Get You Know And A Beer Or Three To Beer But I Can'T Go To I Can'T Get You Know 5% Beer There. Right. If We Want To Do That Then Maybe Low Potency Edibles Belong In That Category And We Do That All Very Uniformly And Then We Deal With High Potency Stuff Very Uniformly As Well Which Is, You Know, The Liquor Stores, Etc..

If Actually Look Up 500 Feet Will Be About 150 Yards Or 160 Plus Yards. Right. You Take A Shot Of That. This Is Basically You Add A Couple Of Hundred Yards To And It Becomes A Little More Challenging. The Same Thing Is You'D You'Re Looking At A Sign Or On The Store A Kid Coming Out Of The I Was A Kid And I Used To Smoke Pot At Midnight And Don'T Like It. It Wasn'T A Good Thing For Me And I Don'T Think It'S A Good For Any Youth Out There. So If This Is Going To Stay Which We Don'T, We Can'T Control It. It Came From The State At Thousand Feet Will Be The Minimum That I Would Consider Myself. I Mean Just From The Health Point Of View It Was My Arguing Before When We Had This Conversation Back In The Spring That As It Is We Have A Lot Of Challenges With Kids Addictions, High School So We Can'T Do Anything About Getting Rid Of It. So If We'Re Going To Have At Least Try To Do The Best That We Can To Keep It As Far As Possible From The Children That'S All I Need To Say.

The State Is Going To Limit The Number Of Licenses That Will Be Issued. So For The The Applicants That Are Going Into The Sort Of Equity Lottery I'Ll Call It This Fall, There'S Only Going To Be About I Would Say Under 200 Licenses And Then Furthermore Once They Open The Applicant To All Applicants Through One 2026 There Are Between The Equity Applicants And The And The Regular Applicants In That First Year And A Half Or So There'S Going To Be Fewer Than 250 Retail Licenses Issued Statewide. So There Is Effectively A Cap Applied Statewide. We Don'T Know How Those Will Be Geographically Distributed And How You Know How That Filters Down To Bloomington.