Great FB video about what the city is doing on Med MJ
If you have nothing else to do tomorrow night from 6 to probably 9-10 PM you could waste it at Carnegie. The agenda is jam packed with all kinds of corporate welfare handouts and authoritarian ordinances;
Item #6, Approval of Contract, Sub-Item #12, $300K for Midco Aquatic Center Filter. Not sure if this is something that has to be done consistently, but that must be one hell of a filter for that kind of money.
Item #24, Village on the River moving another one of the Bunker Ramp liquor licenses
Item #25, Looks like Dave & Buster’s is parking their liquor license at a Casino. Don’t you love how they can just skirt the rules by moving the license to another address? No restrictions there but boy do we need to HAMMER on Med MJ!
Item #45 & 62-63, 2nd Reading and Resolutions of TIF #25, Cherapa II. This of course NOT needed and private investment could build this entire project, but when the city gives out TIFs like candy what do you expect? Continue to give the tax breaks to the wealthy developers thinking it will trickle down to the rest is futile.
Item #48-49, 2nd Reading, Supplemental appropriations from Covid money.
Item #50, 1st Reading, Platting of Rural areas, I am still researching this one, but I suspect this is the city stepping on Minnehaha County’s toes and trying to get platting fees from rural properties which is why the Sioux Falls Planning Commission voted down the next item;
Item #56, 1st Reading, Expansion of Wedding Barn. This is the project that the Planning Commission felt needed to pay city platting fees. We will see how the council handles this. While we give $200 Million in tax breaks to big developers we gotta find a way to stick it to the rural wedding barns. GEEESH!
Item #58, 1st Reading, Med MJ ordinance. I can’t wait to hear the discussion on this one or if any amendments will be presented or passed.
During a Stormland TV interview Mayor Poops said this;
“It’s important that parents and people who have access to that know that this is still a dangerous substance,†TenHaken said.
It is probably the least dangerous plant based drug in the world. There has never been a recorded overdose of marijuana. In fact prescription opioids and alcohol is way more dangerous then Med MJ causing millions of overdoses and deaths. I struggle with how the mayor of the largest city in the state has ZERO understanding of this harmless plant based drug.
“Say, if I can get the city to build a couple of chicanes on my street, then, can I get my street renamed ‘Pendar Road’?”…. “Lane is taken”…. #ChicaneLane?
There’s to much vacant office and commercial space. TIFing more money toward one developer because he likes to build primo offices MIF’s me. Do something for the F’ing people. On any given day drive by The Banquet. There’s 100 people outside and 50 inside waiting for a meal. Why do you need a $300k filter at the new Aquatics Center when old swimming holes don’t need one? Using COVID money for a close quarter wedding venue that competes with private business is simply a sin. Make it hard for the poor to get legal MJ so they can stomach Banquet slope. That’s rubbing dirt into an open wound. There’s no grass around city hall because it would have been consumed or smoked by the homeless.
Just watched parts of this meeting. Gonna puke at the perfidy of these councilors. In the end it will all be owned by big out of state interests.
Big Marijuana will be formed. Poor people lose another part of their economy, and minorities will still be disproportionately in jail. Oh, and no more Democrats elected even if Mary Jane is on the ballot.