OAK CREEK TOWN BOARD OKS KITCHEN AT MARIJUANA DISPENSARY

BUsiness Plans to Create Foods With Pot Added

Steamboat Springs -- Jacob Wise expects to have a medical marijuana
kitchen open within a few months after the Oak Creek Town Board gave
the final OK on Thursday night.

Wise, who owns a medical marijuana dispensary in Oak Creek, wants to
create a medical marijuana kitchen on Nancy Crawford Boulevard as he
switches the focus of his business from smokable marijuana to
tinctures -- liquids with the active ingredients of marijuana.

Wise will have to pay about $3,000 in fees as he opens the wholesale
business, including a special fee of $750 for medical marijuana businesses.

"They said everything would be fine as long as I met state
requirements and health codes and fire codes and everything like
that," Wise said Friday.

The Oak Creek Planning Com--mission gave Wise preliminary approval,
but it was up to the Town Board to make sure all the necessary plans
and permits were in place.

Oak Creek Mayor Nikki Knoe--bel said Wise came before the board with
all the required material, including security plans, parking and snow
storage space.

Wise said the business will be wholesale to other dispensaries, and
he will do retail only out of his existing dispensary. Because of
that, there is no additional tax in Oak Creek on the business.

Final payment approved The Town Board also approved final payment for
sewer construction work to K.R. Swerd-feger Construction after the
board earlier withheld payment.

After the company replaced a sewer main in town, as many as 10 houses
were not reconnected to the main line. The town repaired those, and
Knoebel said the construction company has reimbursed the town for that work.

She said that after a discussion with representatives of the company,
the company said it will come back and do warranty work on any other
lines, but the town could not withhold payment for that. Town Board
members agreed.