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File Number: 16-530 <br />stakeholder group consisting of staff from various City Departments, including the City <br />Manager’s Office, Community Development Department, Finance Department, and the City <br />Attorney’s Office. In 2016, this team was expanded to include representatives from the Police <br />Department. <br />On December 15, 2014, a request for applications from parties interested in serving as San <br />Leandro’s first dispensary operator was publicly released and 15 teams applied for the first <br />dispensary permit. Following a comprehensive review of the 15 proposals, the following three <br />teams (in alphabetical order) were identified as having demonstrated the optimal combination <br />of knowledge, expertise, experience, and alignment with the Council-adopted criteria: <br />· Blum San Leandro <br />· Davis Street Wellness Center <br />· Harborside San Leandro <br />On September 8, 2015, a recommendation from the City Manager was presented to the City <br />Council, and the City Council unanimously voted to award the first dispensary permit to <br />Harborside San Leandro. <br />Based upon City Council direction provided at subsequent Council meetings in late 2015 and <br />early 2016, on June 6, 2016, the City Council adopted various amendments to the dispensary <br />ordinance, including a provision that allows for the issuance of a second dispensary permit. In <br />late 2015, the City Council also directed the City Council Rules Committee to develop a <br />process to award that second permit. Following extensive discussions by that Committee, its <br />recommendations were presented to the City Council on February 16, 2016. At that meeting, <br />the Council directed staff to limit the selection process for the second dispensary permit to <br />only the two remaining teams from the list of three business teams provided above, i.e. Blum <br />San Leandro (hereafter referred to as “Blum SL”), and Davis Street Wellness Center <br />(hereafter referred to as “DSWC”). As part of its actions, the Council affirmed the Rules <br />Committee’s recommendation to allow these two teams to submit updated application <br />materials, which would be scored using Council-adopted criteria. The criteria included Site <br />Planning, Finance, Operations and Community Benefits. <br />Based upon this direction, an analysis of the two teams’ updated proposals was presented to <br />the City Council on July 18, 2016. That analysis included a numerical scoring of each of the <br />applications based upon the quality of the team’s responses to the various questions. The <br />conclusion of that analysis was that both teams demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and <br />expertise necessary to operate a successful dispensary in San Leandro. Following extensive <br />public testimony and discussion by the City Council, the Council awarded the second <br />dispensary permit to Davis Street Wellness Center at the July 18th meeting. <br />Subsequent to the above actions, on September 6, 2016, the Council directed staff to bring <br />forward further amendments to the ordinance in order to allow for the issuance of a third <br />permit. In light of the fact that Blum San Leandro’s proposal was already extensively vetted as <br />part of the prior permit award processes, the Council also directed staff to bring forward for its <br />consideration a resolution awarding the third permit to Blum SL, to be effective on June 1, <br />2017. <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 10/11/2016