Good evening.

Welcome to the March 30th Supercommittee meeting and agenda review committee at the bar of dormant.

So it's called order.

If

you would please stand for a pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance

to the United States or to stand one nature under I indivisible with a T and Justice Follow.

Thank you.

Is that accurate?

That's correct.

Okay.

And just as a reminder, we revised our council rules.

So registered comments go at the top and the other public comments go at the end of the agenda once we get through all the discussion items.

So I just wanted to remind folks of

that.

Just a quick item in our executive committee talking for the creation of the pension board.

This is the list of the individuals who have been designated or have been asked to serve on the pension board for its creation.

The intent is to formally approve that and make that an item of business at the next meeting council.

Are there any questions, concerns, discussion that is related to

it?

There

is not a formal uh we don't have one currently.

So this is going to serve sort of as a committee appointment for this purpose, and then we'll formalize things down the road.

Does that work for everybody?

Any concerns?

Okay.

Let me turn this over to the uh business district relations and development committee.

Did we go in order this?

We'll see.

No, just okay.

I'm calling the business district relations and development committee to order at 603.

Um, so we have one item on the agenda for discussion, which is um a draft of an ordinance regarding vape shops in the borough.

And so um opening that up to consideration.

I don't know if there's someone who wants to give a little background.

I know that we can say that this draft has been reviewed by our planning commission, and then they had some comments.

Okay, Amy, no, that's not right.

No, it they do have it, and they are to provide us some comments, but I think most of the comments in their public meeting that happened aligned with the comments that

uh

the chief and and John and Linda and Daniel and I had already identified.

So it sounds like many of them aligned.

Um, we also had a couple of people who suggested that we look at the borough, no, excuse me, the city of Pittsburgh's um ordinance as well, which takes a different take, and obviously they have different roles as a city, but those are the comments that we've received to date, I

think.

Okay.

So

does anyone have any comments or questions or

one of the primary differences between Bridgeville's, which apparently served as the template for this and the cities?

The Bridgeville one just had the specific, at least what the planning commission had brought up was the definition of what a vape shop is.

The one that was proposed in the ordinance has more specifically how number of items and a percentage sold versus more of a specific of the actual um purpose of the shop.

Whereas if you um originally say you apply as like a convenience store, but then slowly like change over time to add more products.

How do we keep track of that versus what did you initially apply

as

your

question is about the city of Pittsburgh's ordinance?

The City of Pittsburgh's ordinance creates an entire different um category for um facilities that sell basically anything but medical marijuana.

So it's e-cigarettes, evapes, liquids, cbd products, etc.

They create a um a total different category, and then in that category determine um some of the specifics that we have in our ordinance related to time of sale, um what the things have to be behind um

yeah,

things that have to be behind um new self-service stuff, um, and some other things specific to where in their districts that they can

be.

So