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City Council Meeting Minutes June 16, 2020 Page 9 of 13 • January 1, 2025 Mayor Stolzmann asked members if they are interested in applying the tax to all stores or only specific businesses. Councilmember Fahey and Councilmember Brown would it like to apply to all businesses. Councilmember Lipton stated it looks as though most of the business is from the big grocers and we might want to limit it to that. Mayor Pro Tern Maloney stated he would like to apply it to all retailers for simplicity but perhaps just start with food stores. Mayor Stolzmann stated she supports applying it to all retailers. Members discussed if it should be a tax on all single use bags or just single use plastic bags. Councilmember Leh added he was comfortable just doing food stores at this time. Public Comments Sherry Sommer, 910 South Palisade Court, stated she supports it on all businesses or at least on all grocery and big box stores. Tess, student at Louisville Middle School, stated she supports the tax on all businesses to help alleviate the impact on the environment to keep plastic out of the waste stream and to change community behavior. RJ Harrington, supports the tax on all retailers, use the funds to pay for new renewable initiatives, and have it start in January 2022. He noted the impacts of climate change and how this might help. Tiffany Boyd, 550 Grant Avenue, member of the Sustainability Advisory Board, stated she would like the tax on all businesses. This it is a way to change behavior and have an impact. The consensus was to write the ballot language so the tax would apply to all retailers and apply to all single -use bags with certain specific exemptions using a definition similar to what Boulder uses. Members agreed to write the ballot language with the per bag cost to be set at 25 cents with 10 cents going back to the retailer.