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The Grand Junction City Council held a lengthy discussion at its Monday workshop on how to move forward with developing ordinances to regulate the newly allowed marijuana businesses.
One of the main topics under discussion was over how to further engage the community to get input and feedback on those regulations. Interim Mayor Pro-Tem Chuck McDaniel said he felt the council needed significant public engagement.
âMy strong preference is to get this matter fully vetted among the public and listen to anyone who wants to say something about it,â McDaniel said.
Senior Planner Lance Gloss gave the council a presentation laying out what work had been done on the marijuana regulation issue including the past public engagement.
A new brewpub may be coming to North Avenue and revitalize the building that was formerly occupied by the Grand Junction REI store.
The Grand Junction City Council cleared the way for the proposed business last week when it modified an ordinance to change the distance a brewpub can be located from a school from 500 feet to 450 feet. The building on the northwest corner of North Avenue and Seventh Street neighbors Grand Junction High School. In fact, the road just to the north of the property is Tiger Avenue, a nod to the schoolâs mascot.
Sandra Weckerly, who is purchasing the property, spoke at the City Council meeting and said servers will be checking photo IDs when selling alcohol. She also said she did not expect there to be a high volume of to-go retail sales.
The Grand Junction City Council adopted a new destination brand, a customized branding strategy developed by Visit Grand Junction.
Visit Grand Junction partnered with consultant Destination Think to create the destination brand, which includes the tagline âWhere Life Leads,â as well as four custom fonts, a logo and âPlace DNA.â The process cost about $85,000. Visit Grand Junction Executive Director Elizabeth Fogerty said they included a significant amount of outreach to the local community when developing the brand strategy.
âThese stories and experiences we hear from our guests canât happen without the interaction from our residents and the locals truly were a key to our success in building this brand strategy and quite frankly will contribute heavily to the future of this brand,â Fogerty said.
The Grand Junction City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to approve wage increases for the city manager, city attorney and municipal judge.
In the cityâs 2021 budget it included a 2.5% wage increase for all city employees, which included those three positions. Mayor Pro Tem Kraig Andrews explained that they first had to complete performance reviews before that raise was implemented.
âThe wage increase for eligible employees was dependent on the employee being evaluated and being rated as performing at or above expectations,â Andrews said. âBecause we determined that each of these three employees is performing at or above expectations, with the approval of this ordinance, each will be awarded a 2.5% increase starting with pay period seven of this year.â