The City Council Committee on Ordinances & Legislation convened on February 15, 2024. The committee first approved the minutes from its January 22nd meeting. Next, a proposed ordinance to amend property owner responsibilities regarding litter and weeds was tabled at the request of Attorney Ramsey, who indicated that he, another attorney, and Mr. Hathaway were working on a broader set of property-related ordinances. The main discussion revolved around a communication from the Mayor proposing an amendment to the fee schedule to include new fees for Farmer Brewer Distillery pouring permits for wine and spirits, as well as general Distillery pouring permits. Assistant City Planner Chris Pirano explained that these new licenses were necessitated by a local brewery, Troy City Brewery, applying to distill and pour its own wine and spirits. The proposed fee for a single permit was $1,200 annually, with a cap of $3,500 for a series of three permits, aligning with existing malt beverage and all-alcohol permit fees. After discussion, the committee voted unanimously to refer the matter to the Corporation Council for the establishment of a formal ordinance. Attorney Ramsey confirmed he would draft the necessary ordinance. Towards the end of the meeting, Attorney Ramsey provided an update on a comprehensive property maintenance ordinance, which will include provisions for graffiti. A brief mention was made of discussing "22f," which allows departments to set their own fees, but it was deferred to a future agenda due to Open Meeting Law requirements.
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2:28heyy committee on ordinances and legislation come to order uh the clerk will call the role coun counos here here vice president here pursuant to the open meeting law any person can make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees of therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by
3:05those present and deemed acknowledgeable and permissible um anyone sign up for citizen UT no okay um item number two on the agenda to approve the minutes of the January 22nd there was a motion by councelor proposal seconded by councelor Samson all those in favor I I uh item number three there's a proposed ordinance an amendment uh to Property Owners to keep premises free of litter
3:39and weeds we recommended it you know it could be passed through first reading however I did have a conversation with attorney Ramsey and he said that he um and another attorney um that we've hired along with Mr Hathaway are working on a number of ordinances relative to property and he asked that we hold this off until then um so motion table motion to table would be in order there's a
4:09motion to table by Council Samson second second by councel proposal all in favor I I item number four on the agenda is a communication from the mayor regarding an amendment to the fee schedule with adoption of new fees relative to Farmer Brewer Distillery pouring permit for Wine and Spirits as well as all Distillery pouring permits um and Mr piranha was here to talk to us about these Distillery pouring
4:46alcohol welcome Mr pirano Chris pirano City assistant city planner welcome thank you good evening uh so the proposal in front of you is necessitated by um one of the uh breweries in the city um applying to both the city and the state for permits to uh distill and pour their own wine and spirits um we do not have these types of licenses we have not had these types of licenses issued in the City
5:17previously um The Proposal from the licensing board is to keep the fee um equivalent to that of the malt beverage pouring permit which is $1,200 um but also to cap the series of the three at 3,500 which is equivalent to um an all alcohol permit that a bar or restaurant would pay for does anyone have any questions the $1200 that yearly correct okay and some of these uh locations in
5:53the city like Troy City and can heat that they make their own um alcohol and now they're going to be making their own wine they should have met my father he was great at that and making their own vodka um some like that wow that's interesting counc Samson yeah I think they should come down and Sample give us samples so you know we know the product no I'm I'm joking um where is it located
6:19the farmer Brewery I'm just curious is it do they have a location yet are they it's um Troy City Brewery oh it's Troy City Brewery Troy City and can heat and can heat oh they fantastic okay no I was just wondering that's just the name of the of the that type of a license it's called oh it's that's the the farmer Brewer farm brewer distillery that's the license name yes Oh I thought that was
6:42it allows them to both distill their own alcohol and then serve it on premise oh all right I came from a family that distilled that stuff in the cell really yeah well I think most people the best line okay do I have a motion motion to refer um to council for Action pardon me oh okay so we will be referring this probably to legal to write up an ordinance to then come back to us
7:11because you don't have an ordinance do you wait a minute I do see Mr Ramsey um Mr Ramsey would you like to come down attorney Ramsey sure I didn't we tabled uh the other issue uh relative to you know the properties I told him that we had had a conversation about that but on this Distillery uh this farmers's Brewing Distillery um do you have have you completed an ordinance for
7:39this no um more than happy to do itan I knew that was going we discussed but I didn't know that you wanted an ordinance today we happy to get it to you as soon as possible no it doesn't make a difference I mean we'll we'll wait for it we just wanted to talk about it and see if in fact we wanted to add these two to the list of licens
8:00and what the price would be no I I've looked at the the prices recommended I mean I I'm I think it makes sense to go ahead and approve I I think what you're looking for is the approval to have the fees correct correct um but do we don't have that name in the foral licensing board there's restaurant all alcohol there's restaurant beer and wine uh all clubs if it's a Vets Club you know all
8:25the prices we have everyone has a copy of the list of but we don't have that particular name of a farmer brew and Distillery pouring permit a license for that or a license for all Distillery pouring do we need to put that in ordinance what the name of that license would be it makes sense that you be cck I mean what is submitted right here I'm not I'm not seeing there are two new ones that they
8:52want to we provided the uh the fee schedule that we have in the office okay I'll put this in the form of ordinance that make it we can get it approved immediately okay but I mean I I've looked at the fees and I've spoken with Mr Pano and you know his rationale makes a lot of sense I don't have a problem that we just put it in the right
9:16form to get it passed make sense to me that's fine so we can uh make a motion motion to refer to Corporation Council for the establishment of an ordinance there a second all in favor I I and when you have it done let us know I hope to have meetings every Tuesday before a council meeting or every other Tuesday so we can move things along so when you have it attorney Rumsey if you
9:36could let us know and I'll let you know as well when uh we're very close to the property maintenance ordinance which is going to change a lot of things right that include you know graffiti things of that nature as well as the council proposal likes to hear that yes amen so we're working on it yeah I did say that we had had a conversation and there was a number of ordinances coming down
9:54relative to that so um is is now I don't know if it's an appropriate time to talk about 22f I just want to make sure that the ordinance committee is aware of uh 22f uh it wasn't on the agenda so there'd be an open meeting law violation to talk about 22f all right it's just about adoption of fees not on the agenda so it's somewhat related to what's on the agenda but uh I guess we
10:17can 22f allows departments to um steal their own fees without coming to city council for everything okay we can put that on the next um I'll put that on the next agenda we can discuss it then if we discuss it now it wasn't on the agenda so anybody that I just met in relation to the the the fees for the liquor right it so that's the only reason I brought up because it is
10:40related to simp agenda but we'll go in depth at another time okay thank you so much sure appreciate it there is nothing else on the motion toour all in favor I we could have