Late Notice: City Council Will Meet Sunday at 11am
Written by 991KBU on July 27, 2018
Surprise.
Malibu’s city council is being called into session at 11 o’clock Sunday morning … apparently to clean up a possible mistake.
Late yesterday … the city clerk posted notice on the internet that a unprecedented Sunday morning council meeting will held.
The subject … changing the statement that will face voters on the November ballot … about marijuana sales.
The initiative … circulated by paid contractors working for the 99 High Tide Collective … would if passed legalize the delivery of marijuana to customers by the two monopoly pot dealers in the city.
It would also lock in those two dispensaries as the only marijuana sales outlets in Malibu … until the voters go back to change that monopoly.
The city attorney says in a report that the language approved by the city council must under state law be revised.
It must accurately explain the financial gain to the city from the portion of the initiative that deals with taxes.
The language approved by the city council for the ballot informed voters that the pot tax would be estimated to raise approximately $75,000 – $150,000 annually.
Backers of the initiative said that number was way too low … because it did not include estimates of sales from recreational use of the drug.
The city has to fix this before early August … for submission to the county elections department.
The city council is on vacation until the end of August … and individual travel and work schedules make this Sunday at 11 a.m. the most viable date and time for the Council to meet … according to the city council.
The agenda was reportedly posted on the internet at 2 yesterday afternoon.
That’s 69 hours before the scheduled council meeting … at 11 Sunday morning.
State law requires 72 hours.
State law also requires that local news media be notified 72 hours before a special meeting.
KBUU news discovered the agenda on the web last night …
KBUU was not notified 72 hours ahead of the meeting as required by state law.
Our colleagues over at the Malibu Times say they were not notified either.
No e-mail blast … no Nixle … no press release … no news carousel … nada.
The city manager Reva Feldman told us late last night… she was checking.
