This page lists meetings where a speaker used any of these words: cannabis, marijuana, dispensary. Search this topic to filter by body or year, or search the exact word only.
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Where it comes up
- Common Council17
- Council Finance Committee7
- Housing Trust Fund Board5
- CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)4
- Other / Committee3
- Housing Authority2
- County Health and Human Services Committee1
- County Committee1
- Planning Board1
- HCSD Board of Education1
- Historic Preservation1
Recent mentions
- 18:17… I like the city doesn't want your house, you know. They rather look. Yeah. Any questions on that? Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis? I just curious. Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis tax income?
Longest discussions
Meetings with the most passages that use the topic's words.
- 2:36:41… You may agree or disagree. One is we're looking for a change of view to the building. Two is there's a perspective tenant of a dispens dispensary which can't get useful. It's the change of use and then it's because right now it's warehouse storage and we're going to merile. So that's what we're here for. There's a perspective tenant which would be a cannabis dispensary. Um, …
- 2023-10-10Common CouncilCommon Council Special Meeting & Informal Meeting - October 10, 20236 passages longer discussion1:27:56here so I respect that let me say this though is when you look at the Cannabis industry in itself you know prior to to aning her and and Nixon Administration um cannabis was was widely used not only for medical purposes but for for a whole host of other purpos including including recreational um where it got convoluted and all mixed up is where they came in and they they …
- 18:17… I like the city doesn't want your house, you know. They rather look. Yeah. Any questions on that? Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis? I just curious. Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis tax income?
- 0:55… are expected to rise modestly, reflecting the continued vitality of our local economy. While some revenues such as lodging taxes and cannabis taxes are below prior expectation, this diversified portfolio of revenue, property tax, sales, pilots, user fees, and interest relies on reliable base to fund essential services.
- 2025-09-22CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Loan Committee Meeting 9/22/254 passages longer discussion6:53They were going to go in with the bakery. The bakery is still going forward as far as I know. And um where they are now, the building owner is going to make his space smaller. He's going to become a dispensary and that gives them the opportunity to have a couple of tables.
- 31:01budget. So that one's looking uh consistent and strong. Uh, I took the other ones off temporarily uh because we still haven't received any cannabis mortgage or sales tax in 2025. So, just to make the page smaller, um, I took those off. I'll be putting them back on obviously as soon as we have anything to report. Um, so right now it looks like lodging tax is going to be around …
- 14:44… to this so we can do a comparison what you're going to see is we kept sales tax pretty flat because we saw the trend was flattening out uh cannabis tax we were very aggressive on um based on the information that we have to date in terms of some of our uh sales estimates from the dispensaries one other interesting note on that that I just happen to notice we've been talking …
- 11:59… it's going to be yeah theoretically when the new hotels go on inrease um Okay so that's basically s do those key stats um question the the cannabis dispensaries do we see that sales tax separately from the county state sales tax yes it comes in
- 2023-10-31CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Board Meeting 10/31/233 passages longer discussion58:01… I said I'd like to see your driver's license please and I said okay for a gift store so I I show to my driver's license walked in it was a cannabis store no problem not any judgments but it was you know it was a cannabis store and increasingly cannabis is having a major impact obviously we all know economic development in many areas of our it's going to happen in our
- 3:00Uh sales cannabis mortgaging and mortgage and lodging tax. Um these are the ones that we get intermittently. So um we got sales tax our first quarterly payment of 432,000 which is pretty decent for the first quarter of the year. That's always that has historically always been the lowest quarter. Um, and you can see that we did net out at 2.54 million in 2025 when we budgeted …
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- 18:17… I like the city doesn't want your house, you know. They rather look. Yeah. Any questions on that? Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis? I just curious. Did you say you were going to go back to cannabis tax income?
- 3:41Uh nothing new on cannabis, nothing new on mortgage tax. Uh I'm going to look at the cannabis one relatively soon. Probably it should be roughly the same time as the sales tax contribution, but I know that um the county has been uh uh challenged in the past in getting the distribution information they need from the state in order to know how to distribute the money because …
- 3:00Uh sales cannabis mortgaging and mortgage and lodging tax. Um these are the ones that we get intermittently. So um we got sales tax our first quarterly payment of 432,000 which is pretty decent for the first quarter of the year. That's always that has historically always been the lowest quarter. Um, and you can see that we did net out at 2.54 million in 2025 when we budgeted …
- 14:30Um, and we did receive uh mostly because you notified me Margaret, we had response from Basilica from the cannabis event from two months ago that did not go over very well. So they they were very apologetic and understood that in the future they will do better. And that sounded great. It's at least good to get a response from people that make a boo boo. It's okay to be wrong. …
- 2026-05-19County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || May 19, 20261 passage10:15… we're treating what is in a person's system. Are we dealing with depression? Are we dealing with, you know, uh, alcohol uh, dependence, cannabis dependence, etc. A lot of the clinicians are, I wouldn't say struggling with that, but need further understanding and education. A film like this that drives it home in the way that it does, as well as having the actual
- 1:57:43right? Uh this was a the third now annual um cannabis convention that was localized at the basilica and utilized the campus of Kitties and the Basilica. It was an unnotified sorry the the event organizers did not notify the city. It was a mass gathering.
- 4:34And the plan was always to spend down the trust fund, and then to add in city revenue um through at the time we thought the cannabis tax was an idea, or the lodging tax, or some other funds. So, we've been spending down, and we're getting closer to like the the bottom of the Housing Trust Fund.
- 4:21… the trust fund. And the plan was always to spend down the trust fund and then to add in city revenue um through at the time we thought the cannabis tax was an idea or the lodging tax or some other funds.
- 9:12… committee meeting because we'll hopefully have more of these things actually booked into the general ledger system. Okay. Uh sales, cannabis, mortgage, and lodging tax. Sorry that this uh chart is a little squished. I apologize for that. Um although we haven't done the chargeback back in the system, we do have them in uh in hand for both the sales tax and the cannabis. So I …
- 1:10:32I mean, I couldn't agree more, but I will say everybody's been lobbying for this. I mean, it's, you know, it originally started out I'm pretty sure I'm correct on this with it was drug cases, unlawful possessions of marijuana where they didn't want people sitting in jail and and honestly even unlawful possession of marijuana. You don't go to jail anyway, right?
- 2:36:41… You may agree or disagree. One is we're looking for a change of view to the building. Two is there's a perspective tenant of a dispens dispensary which can't get useful. It's the change of use and then it's because right now it's warehouse storage and we're going to merile. So that's what we're here for. There's a perspective tenant which would be a cannabis dispensary. Um, …
- 2:51revenues did not meet expectations last year for a number of things, including the total parking screw up, among others. The cannabis uh tax has not panned out to be what we hope it would be. Things like that. So,
- 0:55… are expected to rise modestly, reflecting the continued vitality of our local economy. While some revenues such as lodging taxes and cannabis taxes are below prior expectation, this diversified portfolio of revenue, property tax, sales, pilots, user fees, and interest relies on reliable base to fund essential services.
- 44:10… obviously none of us know the magic answer to that, but there are some good signs that are offsetting some of the negative signs. Sales, cannabis mortgage and lodging tax. I cheated on this one a little bit because I said it through September, but we didn't actually record the sales tax contribution till October, but I wanted to show it this month anyway, so we're at 1.82 or …
- 41:50Um sales cannabis and mortgage and lodging tax. Um again, uh we're only two out of four of sales tax, but we're looking like we're trending pretty close to making our our 2025 budget number. So that's great. uh lodging taxes we've discussed um is uh considerably lower than we would like to see partially because again some of the um new businesses that we were anticipating …
- 1:00:37Yeah, I think we did. I remember seeing the money. Is this going to be like a cannabis use? Because then we would want to see where people are coming in and going out because they need to do separate doors.
- 2025-09-22CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Loan Committee Meeting 9/22/254 passages longer discussion6:53They were going to go in with the bakery. The bakery is still going forward as far as I know. And um where they are now, the building owner is going to make his space smaller. He's going to become a dispensary and that gives them the opportunity to have a couple of tables.
- 1:25:35… stream would increase based on those. Uh the most interesting new number tonight is we finally got a number from the county for our cannabis tax. Um it is not as ideal as I think we would have hoped. Uh this number is through May and it actually includes December of 2024 as well. So that's a six-month number of 65,000. Uh if you extrapolate that out on a straight line basis, …
- 31:00fine there. uh sales tax, cannabis mortgage tax, and lodging tax. Um don't have an update on the sales tax yet, but I can tell you that the second quarter did come in and I believe it was about 602,000, which is more or less in line of what we need to see in order to make our budget this year. So, so far that looks okay. Uh lodging tax, uh this is a estimate. uh I wanted to …
- 52:42… if I can find some other kind of workaround, although it will be quite manual because I don't like it to go this long. uh tax on adult use cannabis. We had this conversation last month and we're having it again. The state has not made a distribution yet. I know that they as a whole are having challenges with the whole office of cannabis management and who got licenses and all …
- 1:13:24the 53 you're seeing. I just can't uh pinpoint it until it's reconciled. um tax on adult use cannabis. You know, based on the documentation that's on the OSC website, they had anticipated issuing the first payment to the counties in roughly April and then the county has 30 days to distribute it. Um we have not seen anything yet. I did reach out to the county treasurer and …
- 35:25… really have a lot to report on yet. Um, we haven't got a mortgage tax payment yet. We get those two times a year. Uh, we haven't got a cannabis payment yet this year. Um, that's still kind of questionable as to when they're going to be issued. It should be four times a year. Um, I will
- 37:57… We might have been off on the timing, but the fact is that it will be there. You know, I'm I'm very intrigued to see what the um cannabis tax is going to come in at because that was higher than we expected last year, I think.
- 31:01budget. So that one's looking uh consistent and strong. Uh, I took the other ones off temporarily uh because we still haven't received any cannabis mortgage or sales tax in 2025. So, just to make the page smaller, um, I took those off. I'll be putting them back on obviously as soon as we have anything to report. Um, so right now it looks like lodging tax is going to be around …
- 5:42is missing here uh will be two things one is uh charging back the balance of the Cannabis tax uh we did get one more payment only I believe it's only through November so uh we may only be able to charge that amount back and then we may have to do the the last part even later uh so I can't give you a lot of visibility on that but I believe the the money that we got was about …
- 33:18… sorted to slow down particularly in uh Columbia County the state overall was up two or three% but Columbia County was down about four um cannabis tax again we've only received two payments I think everybody
- 9:31… oh nothing's changed on this one except for the lodging tax we won't get the last sales tax until January so that'll be a charge back cannabis I think they're doing they're trying to do it every quarter so we probably will get two things to get charged back to
- 7:16… of the the lodging T which every little bit helps with the increase of the lodging tax with hopefully the increase of our part of the dispensary tax you know when that number comes in um and also any any other new projects that we're going to be able to you know to see uh I still think somewhere we have to figure out the plan on you know figure out how to
- 14:44… to this so we can do a comparison what you're going to see is we kept sales tax pretty flat because we saw the trend was flattening out uh cannabis tax we were very aggressive on um based on the information that we have to date in terms of some of our uh sales estimates from the dispensaries one other interesting note on that that I just happen to notice we've been talking …
- 3:34… pleased to announce that we've identified new re sources to help offset Rising expenses these include modest growth in the lodging and C cannabis tax ring for those unfamiliar with Kev cannabis tax revenue um it's distributed with 9% going to New York State and 4% to local localities with
- 11:59… it's going to be yeah theoretically when the new hotels go on inrease um Okay so that's basically s do those key stats um question the the cannabis dispensaries do we see that sales tax separately from the county state sales tax yes it comes in
- 45:23… um things to work on in 2020 like the next end of 2024 through 2025 is you know what are some those options you know we just got our first cannabis
- 2024-03-26HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 03/26/2024 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:01:51… bringing some not only um you know CTE kinds of classes but also some Modern classes like drone certification and you know in a in a cannabis of whatever I don't know a path to cannabis something um and and so uh them we talked to Bard College they're very excited about it I've talked to H Park they are very excited about it there there's there there's a lot of interest and …
- 2023-10-31CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Board Meeting 10/31/233 passages longer discussion58:01… I said I'd like to see your driver's license please and I said okay for a gift store so I I show to my driver's license walked in it was a cannabis store no problem not any judgments but it was you know it was a cannabis store and increasingly cannabis is having a major impact obviously we all know economic development in many areas of our it's going to happen in our
- 25:33… Moran hi Morris hi Rooney hi SAR I Walker I Wallace i p i car the next resolution supports the application of blazes New York to obtain a dispensary license for Brian and D um conversation I mean we did talk about this last we I'd like to um yes I'd like to ask Bill you're yes although I'm not really I I personally I don't really like these dispensaries but that's my my you …
- 2023-10-10Common CouncilCommon Council Special Meeting & Informal Meeting - October 10, 20236 passages longer discussion1:27:56here so I respect that let me say this though is when you look at the Cannabis industry in itself you know prior to to aning her and and Nixon Administration um cannabis was was widely used not only for medical purposes but for for a whole host of other purpos including including recreational um where it got convoluted and all mixed up is where they came in and they they …
- 47:53reason a part of our future cannabis uh situation right and you know we have one uh licensee for dispensary place about it it's sort of like the SLA University tougher in terms and a half question we read through church Park School daycare can't remember what else but it makes you wonder I know these liquor stores get by the building the restaurants because the church [Music] …
- 12:06… in Cooper I think about what the heck she does is it is well uh she worked with other creative businesses so two of her clients are in the Cannabis industry they're yet to be launched Brands um she works with tapestry I forget exactly what they do she has a large Makeup Company all natural makeup for
- 44:53share the news that um we got a million dollar Grant from the state of New York um for our cannabis program and we are working with SUNY Adirondack SUNY Schenectady and Fulton Montgomery Community College we all have a different aspect of the trade so uh we'll be splitting that money evenly among the four institutions and it's going to be a great Boon to um our businesses in …
- 2022-05-20Historic PreservationHistoric Preservation Commission - Special Meeting, May 20, 20221 passage47:11… see we've opened a tremendous area part of which will be construction staging for this building and hopefully we'll have a little northern dispensary type building on it in the future but you know we just want to work with you all to make a charming neighborhood and provide some very much needed housing so