RED BLUFF — California Canna Company Tuesday received a development agreement from the city, allowing the cannabis business to get up and running.
The microbusiness, located at 1876 Montgomery Road, will be buying in bulk products such as cannabis flowers, breaking them into retail, packaging and then delivering that to the final customer, retail or delivery. The business would be wholesaling it out to other cannabis businesses with licenses.
In addition, California Canna Company will be making its own gummy raw materials in the future. It will be doing mechanical and ice-water extractions and no volatile extraction as well, according to California Canna Company Bill Byron.
Byron was on hand at the City Council meeting Tuesday to answer any questions they may have had as they discussed whether to give final approval to the development agreement.
In late November, the Planning Commission voted 3-1-1 for the development agreement to move forward for the council’s consideration. City Manager Tom Westbrook said there was one absence at the commission meeting, and no reason was given for the dissenting vote.
Councilman J.R. Gonzales was curious about how much medical cannabis the business would be producing. Bryon responded it is broken down in the business plan, but he did not have specific numbers for the councilman.
Council Cody Strock asked how many cannabis licenses the city has issued so far, and Westbrook answered there has only been one license for delivery. At this point, the person with the delivery license has not moved forward.
“Well, we can not have a monopoly,” Storck said.
Gonzales admitted to struggling with this issue for a couple of days.
“In order for me to protect the city, I have got to vote a certain way because I do not want to open our city up for litigation,” Gonzales.
The council voted 4-1 to approve the development agreement. Councilman Patrick Hurton was the dissenting vote.
In other business
Westbrook asked the council to allow him to sign a contract addendum with Northstar Engineering to keep Robin Kampmann employed as the city’s public works director and city engineer for a maximum of 180 days.
A new provision has been included that allows Westbrook to wind the contract down, which will depend upon the successful recruitment and filling of the public works director position, which has been vacant for some time.
Westbrook said it would be his intention for Kampmann to stay on for a bit after hiring a new public works director so she could share her wealth of knowledge and show them the ropes.
“Best case scenario is maybe we will have a public works director, keeping my fingers crossed, maybe aboard in the January-February timeframe, and then maybe we do not necessarily need the services all the way to June,” Westbrook said.
The council unanimously voted for the extension to keep Kampmann employed with the city.
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