ORCHARD CITY WAITING FOR STATE TO CLARIFY MARIJUANA DISPENSARY RULES

A woman in the audience at the Orchard City town board meeting March
10 cried out loudly "no" when Mayor Don Suppes announced that the
one known marijuana dispensary in Orchard City was moving and expanding.

Suppes announced that Jay Deason's Grand Mesa Herbal Dispensary,
Orchard City's only publicly known legal marijuana outlet, would be
relocating to a new, highly visible Hwy. 65 location.

Trustee Gale Doudy said the town should have "done its homework" on
the moratorium it passed three months ago so that expanding or
moving existing dispensaries would have been prohibited also.

"Is there anything we can do," a woman asked the board form the audience.

Suppes replied that the town is waiting on a court appeal of a
district court ruling in Centennial stating that a city cannot
prohibit dispensaries on the basis that marijuana possession, sale,
and use is against federal law.

"The state has yet to really step forward and help us out either,"
Suppes said. "There are several ideas, but nothing is being followed
through on so far."

The Trustee Medical Marijuana Committee is "sitting in limbo waiting
for the state to make a legislative decision" on regulation of the
legal marijuana shops, Suppes explained

Other county municipalities are also waiting for a legal lead from
the state legislature on regulating pot in their own jurisdictions,
he explained.

The Orchard City Board of Trustees moved through an agenda of
routine business items including the following:

The board approved Ordinance 2010-02 that makes certain
administrative changes in the setting of meeting agendas. The main
effect is expected to be removal of the "second constituent time"
from trustee meetings. There was one comment from the public opposed
to making the change. The vote to approve was unanimous.

The board approved an "emergency facility agreement" with Senior
Community Care at Horizons. The agreement specifies that the town
hall community room may be used as an emergency facility for patrons
of the senior care program in the event that an alternate location
for them becomes temporarily necessary.

Trustee Jimmie Boyd reported that official rights filings have been
made on source water recently acquired by the town, and also on two
of its diversion points on Grand Mesa.

The park committee reported that the pavilion structure for Orchard
City Park has been ordered and erection will begin soon.

The town administrator reported that funds from the county sales tax
and the highway users tax are in line with lowered 2010 budget projections.

The four candidates for trustee in the April 6 municipal election
were introduced.