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Alan Tan, Manager Randy Rowles, Chair
Staff: Trudy Slater Irma Carson
Galen Chow
AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
LEGISLATIVE AND LITIGATION COMMI'I-FEE
Thursday, March 16, 1995
4:00 p.m.
City Manager's Conference Room
1. ROLL CALL
Members present: Councilmember Randy Rowles, Chair; Coun¢ilmember
Irma Carson; and Councilmember Galen Chow
2. APPROVAL OF MARCH 2, 1995 MINUTES
Minutes were approved as submitted.
3. PRESENTATIONS
None.
4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
None.
5. DEFERRED BUSINESS
A. CARD ROOMS
Lt. Horton handed out a March 15 memo to the Legislation and Litigation
Committee indicating the differences between the City ordinance relating to card
rooms and that of the County. Three major issues were: 24-hour operation,
check cashing, and censuring alcohol in the card room. Discussion centered on
24-hour-operation impact on Police, on other similar-type businesses, on the Casa
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Royale (upon the loss of the card room), and social impacts upon the community
with proposed changes to increase the number of hours of operation through City
ordinance. Mr. Soly Bina mentioned' that even if Ms. Mailloux-Smith were to move
her card room from Casa Royale, he would like to pursue the increasing of the
number of hours of operation.
Councilmember Carson felt that efforts should be made to minimize negative
impacts of annexations upon businesses which are annexed, and Committee
members agreed. An immediate concern was the need for Ms. Mailloux-Smith's
state license renewal. (Ms. Mailloux-Smith would also experience a delay in
receiving a permit if she went back to the County because she would be
relocating her business.)
City Manager Alan Tandy indicated that an equity issue would arise if annexed
areas were subject to different rules from the rest of the City.
The Committee felt that it was important to take some sort of immediate action.
City Attorney Judy Skousen indicated that the City could make an interpretation
to grandfather Ms. Mailloux-Smith in for 60-90 days while the Council looked at
the issue. City Manager Alan Tandy indicated that the City was not required to
honor County permits, either, but that it did so to accommodate those affected,
and that type of delayed enforcement basis could continue. The City Attorney
indicated that the City would need to issue Ms. Mailloux-Smith a new permit as
her existing County permit expired on Saturday. It was indicated this should not
be a problem.
Councilmember Rowles stated that generally people annex to the City because
they like higher levels of service and that he had not heard anything that would
incline him to change the existing City ordinance. He indicated to staff that
additional information was needed, particularly from Police, but he would like to
find a temporary solution for 60-90 days.
Councilmember Chow made a motion to grandfather the operations for 60-90
days and ask that the proprietor of the Casa Royale provide a security guard for
the extended four hours that the card room would be open. Ms. Mailloux-Smith
indicated that this would be acceptable to her.
Councilmember Rowles indicated that the motion before the Committee was to
have staff administratively put together a permit and grandfather the operations
for 90 days. Motion was unanimously approved. Upon a question from the City
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Attorney regarding timing of Council meetings and waiting period before approval
of ordinance changes, Chairman Rowles clarified that the permit should include
that ordinance implementation timing requirements should not have an negative
impact upon Ms. Mailloux-Smith's permit status.
The City Attorney was directed to write a draft Legislation and Litigation
Committee report on the card room issue exploring the options that the City has
(1) enforce the existing City ordinance; (2) amend the City ordinance to be more
like the County ordinance; or (3) amend the City ordinance to grandfather the
card room in; and list the ramifications of each option. The draft report will be
brought before the Committee for review at its next meeting.
B. SET MEETING SCHEDULE
The Committee approved the following meeting schedule for the rest of 1995:
Thursday meetings at 4:00 p.m. in the City Manager's Conference Room on April
13, May 11, June 8, July 13, August 17, September 21, October 19, November
16, and December 7.
6. NEW BUSINESS
None.
7. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 5:25 p.m.
Staff Attendees: City Manager Alan Tandy; City Attorney Judy Skousen; Lt. Bill Horton;
and Administrative Analyst Trudy Slater.
Public Attendees: Soly Bina, Casa Royale; Glenda Mailloux-Smith, Casa Royale Card
Room.
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