You can check out the agenda here.
For one, you’ll see on Item J-1 that the Lodi City Council is taking a look at its mid-year budget figures and, for once, not discussing major cuts or big deficits.
-City Attorney Steve Schwabauer is asking the City Council to give him another year to chew on the medical marijuana issue. There are no laws in Lodi regarding the operation of such dispensaries, and Schwabauer would like to extend a moratorium until April 2011 while he continues researching the issue and other courts weigh in. (Read about the issue here and here.) The council will decide whether to hold a public hearing next month to extend the moratorium, and from my brief talks with several council members today, they seem willing to give the city attorney more time.
-Interim Community Development Director Rad Bartlam is likely to get his contract extended another 12 months tomorrow night. Bartlam, who was the city’s planning chief for years before stepping down, was brought back as a consultant in 2007 to work on the General Plan update, and then was given the second job of interim planning head. (Read previous stories here, here and here.) He has been offered the job full-time and declined. City Council members have been happy with him and appear eager to let him stay as long as he wants. In his extended contract, his pay remains unchanged at $90 an hour with no benefits.
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Odds and ends at upcoming City Council meeting
You can check out the agenda here.
For one, you’ll see on Item J-1 that the Lodi City Council is taking a look at its mid-year budget figures and, for once, not discussing major cuts or big deficits.
-City Attorney Steve Schwabauer is asking the City Council to give him another year to chew on the medical marijuana issue. There are no laws in Lodi regarding the operation of such dispensaries, and Schwabauer would like to extend a moratorium until April 2011 while he continues researching the issue and other courts weigh in. (Read about the issue here and here.) The council will decide whether to hold a public hearing next month to extend the moratorium, and from my brief talks with several council members today, they seem willing to give the city attorney more time.
-Interim Community Development Director Rad Bartlam is likely to get his contract extended another 12 months tomorrow night. Bartlam, who was the city’s planning chief for years before stepping down, was brought back as a consultant in 2007 to work on the General Plan update, and then was given the second job of interim planning head. (Read previous stories here, here and here.) He has been offered the job full-time and declined. City Council members have been happy with him and appear eager to let him stay as long as he wants. In his extended contract, his pay remains unchanged at $90 an hour with no benefits.