Good evening, and welcome to the legal affairs subcommittee.

Attending the legal affairs subcommittee, our councillor Higgins, Councillor Melville, Councillor Peach, Councillor Turko, Councillor Gould, Councillor Gamash, Councillor McGinn, and myself as chair.

We have one item on the agenda, and that is civil fingerprints and quarries regarding section 16-5, where this deals with the city clerk's office as well as the police department.

Just to let us know where we are and the direction that her office wants to move in, and then I'll have um Chief Griffin come before us and let us know where we stand as far as fingerprints go through the police department and what he's looking for.

I now turn it over to Clerk Danforth.

Thank you, Counselor.

So the reason this is coming before you tonight is uh twofold.

Our um licenses are expiring at the end of the year.

We'll be sending out the renewals in about a month and a half, and so I'm looking for some guidance from the council and from um the chief who I've spoken with uh briefly.

Um this is regarding uh our use of quarries for licenses, and also the civil fingerprinting ordinance that was adopted back in 2017, which we've never used.

And so we'd like to start using it.

And I have a number of licenses.

Uh went through them with the chief.

Um I have them.

I would entertain a motion to receive late five.

Thank you very much.

So moved.

You heard the motion by Councillor Turko.

Any discussions seeing none, all in favor, and all opposed any opposed, it's a vote.

Cliff Damport.

Council, can I make that four and five?

So moved.

Seeing no rejections, all in favor.

Any opposed, it's a vote.

So the chief could probably give you a better um a clearer understanding than I can of the differences between a quarry and the fingerprinting and how in-depth each of those are.

Um and so if you want to start doing that, Chief, and then we can go through the licenses and he could give a recommendation on how we should move forward.

Sure, the the fingerprints just confirms the information on the um on the printouts.

Uh definitively beyond just um someone's name and date of birth, because there could be a number of people that have similar names and data births, and and this would just cut right through that and um provide an uh definitive uh result.

Clerk Danforth.

Thank you.

So, like I said, this is to um cut back on the workload of the clerk's office with regard to the quarries.

I found out recently last year that the licensing board does a quarry on their initial um application and they don't do another quarry.

In the clerk's office, we've been doing a quarry on applicants for renewals every year.

And we have quite a few, and so to cut back on our workload and cut back on the uh police department's workload as well.

The fingerprinting does come with a price, uh, where the quarries did not, and I think the chief has uh more knowledge on the price right now in the ordinance.

It's it says it's a hundred dollars, and uh right.

That's for um there is a fee from the state, and then we added that just to have some administrative uh to help out on our end of it uh and have that go into a rev.

I think at the time it went into a revolving account that we have already established.

Clerk Danforth and so that's going to stay at $100?

Um, I mean that uh we can I know that we had talked about maybe bringing that down to the 30 uh because of the with the economy and everything the way it is, it's kind of challenging for some of these license holders if there's an interest in that.

I thought maybe we're gonna go to 50.

Oh 50.

Right.

So that would be up to the council because that's in the ordinance.

So that's the difference.

We don't pay uh charge um applicants right now for the quarries, but we do for we will for the fingerprinting, which we have not begun to do.

And um, like I said, that ordinance was passed in 2017.

So I have a list of um licenses in late five, and the chief and I briefly went through them and he gave me his recommendation on which ones should require a fingerprinting and which ones require a quarry and how often.

So if you want me to go through the list and stop me, um if you have any questions.

So an auctioneer license, I haven't done one of those, and so uh the chief has recommended that we do a quarry when we get one of those.

The bowling alley license shouldn't require any because they also already have an entertainment license, and so we're not gonna do two.

So most of the bowling alleys uh in have an entertainment license, and so doesn't the uh the new place up at the mall that has the um pool tables.

So no background recommended on that.

Class one, twos, and threes.

Um it's required right now for class twos, and so we'd like to keep that the way it is, um, that we do a fingerprinting every year on the class two licenses.

The class one licenses are held by corporate entities who that they're people, and so it doesn't seem that that would be necessary.

Moving on to the entertainment licenses, the chief has recommended that the non-live, which means TVs only or radio, get one quarry when they are initially set up, unless there's a change in the management.

And for the entertainment licenses that have uh live entertainment, uh the chief has recommended that we do a quarry every year.

Fortune teller license, that is required for fingerprinting in the ordinance, and the chief would like to keep that the same way.

The inholder license uh would also have just the quarry run initially, and then unless there's a change in management.