So being seven o'clock on March 26, 2026, I call the planning board meeting and warrant to order.

My name is Liz Brown.

I'm filling in as vice chair for John Dugan who can't be here.

So the first um oh, anyone recording?

Can you please identify yourself?

That would be no one.

All right.

Now moving on.

So the first item on tonight's agenda is the meeting minutes from March 12th, 2026.

Does anybody have any issues?

Changes?

I think a motion to uh adopt them as sent out.

Second.

All right, let's go.

Amanda.

Um we're we're voting on the minutes.

Yes.

Yes.

I don't know if you need to vote on the case.

Um sorry, Mandy.

Yes.

Yes.

And chair votes yes, so that's unanimous.

Okay.

All right.

Next item on the agenda, request for occupancy bond for canal 10 canal street, map 11, parcel 29.

The bond is needed for paving, dumpster, sidewalks, landscaping, and picture box frames.

Um you have did everybody get the estimates.

All right, did anyone Jimmy said June for you 28?

Has anybody been assign this as a reviewer?

No.

Okay.

I looked at the uh Madam Chair.

Uh it has a nice ring, doesn't it?

It does.

It does.

Um I looked at the the numbers, and I think the numbers are in line with what we were asking for.

Um so I would make a motion that we move it to a vote.

Yeah, we're mad and discussion anyway.

Uh do you want him to come up to explain his bond?

I'd appreciate that.

Yeah, I can really generally favorable, obviously, but we would like to sure.

Good evening, madam chair, members of the board, Mike Allen.

Um the CEO of Chief Cannabis.

Um thank you for the opportunity this evening to come in and um speak to uh what we hope to have uh open here in a relatively short period of time after after this evening.

Um we are in the process of scheduling the remainder of the work that we have to complete, which has been held up primarily due to weather.

Uh paving is a good example.

Umscaping and line striping, uh, which is kind of the lion's share of uh the remainder of what we have what we have left.

Um but that that stuff is uh the paving is scheduled for April 15th, whether it's a pending.

Uh we do have and then the line striping will will follow shortly thereafter, um and the landscaping as well.

But uh our request this evening was to really la um give a uh you know a timeline of July uh of this year to make sure we had plenty of time to get the remainder of the items done, and uh the plan is to get a bond uh performance bond in place.

Uh I believe the insurance company hopefully will be issuing that tomorrow.

Um we just talked to them again to be quick, generally that's the plan there is to have that bond in place for the for the 103,000 uh or so dollars that we we need, which covers the cost of all the all the things that we that remain uh on the list, as well as the additional 15 percent that the board that the board has um has required.

So uh that we hope to have tomorrow.

Um I really was hoping to get some clarity this evening on um once we assuming the board is favorable towards this, um can we get uh the interim uh building commissioner to sign off on our certificate of occupancy?

And the reason I asked that is because this is somewhat of a time-sensitive issue.

We we cannot request what's called a post-provisional license inspection with the cannabis control commission without a certificate of occupancy.

And so I'm hoping I was hoping to get some clarity this evening on the ability for the interim building commissioners to sign off on that on that CO if the board is in favor of this so that we can move to that that next step because I have to file the request.

It will take at least a month for that for them to respond and schedule that first inspection.

That first inspection is only the first step.