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Planning and Building Department recommending the Board consider the following related to the Commercial Cannabis Program:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 158-2019, amending the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Authorized Personnel Allocation Resolution to add one Senior Planner (1.0 FTE) position to the Planning and Building Department, Planning Services Division to replace a Senior Planner position that is being reassigned to the Commercial Cannabis Program (in Planning and Building);
2) Direct that the above change be added to the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Position Allocation Schedule;
3) Provide authorization to the Director of Human Resources to make, if needed, any technical corrections to the authorized personnel allocations for the Planning and Building Department;
4) Request the Auditor-Controller to establish a new general fund org code within the chart of accounts for the Planning and Building Department for the Commercial Cannabis Program and;
5) Authorize the Chair to execute an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Adopted Budget to increase appropriations and revenues in the Planning and Building Department for the new Commercial Cannabis Program, increasing appropriations in Salaries and Benefits and Services and Supplies along with an equal amount in Fees from permits in the newly created org by a total of $300,000 (4/5 vote required to approve budget transfer).
FUNDING: Commercial Cannabis Permit Revenue and Commercial Cannabis Tax Revenue.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Planning and Building Department proposes to add one Senior Planner position within the Planning Division to backfill one Senior Planner position that is being reassigned in the Commercial Cannabis Program inside the Planning and Building Department.
The Senior Planner position that is being reassigned is currently working on 23 Current Planning projects that include pre applications for specific plans, specific plans, subdivision maps, conditional use pe...
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