Mary Alice Reporting –
City of Dover council considered marijuana legislation, heard an update from the police department, and additional funding was requested for the traffic signal project.
A bill that has been under discussion was approved and will ban marijuana establishments within city limits. The unanimous passing vote was held during Monday’s regular meeting and applies to recreational use.
Kevin Korns, acting president pro-tem, noted that codified ordinance 28-24 was up for its third reading.
“To divide and prohibit the cultivation of processing and retail dispensing of cannabis for the purpose of adult recreational use in all zoning district in the city of Dover.”
Other action taken by council was a committee assignment, requested by Service Director Dave Douglas, to prepare an emergency ordinance to authorize additional funding to not exceed $140,000 for concrete and more traffic signal reconfiguration.
“We were looking at the signal on Hospital Drive and the Boulevard. We’ve had trouble with people knowing whether they can turn on Hospital Drive once they go through the signal on the north end on the Boulevard so we’re looking at putting another signal.”
Meanwhile, Safety Director Robert Everett gave a report from the detective’s bureau at the city’s police department and some items that Captain Chad Mowrer has been dealing with.
“Recently acquired a fraud case where a resident was recently scammed into a large amount of money and those investigations are obviously difficult. This one may have been by internet, so he’s called in the Attorney General’s Office for local assist. Unfortunately, sometimes elderly residents get tricked, and they think it’s a good deal but sadly they end up spending money to get nothing.”
Other ongoing cases mentioned were credit card theft, identify theft, misuse of a credit card, and a case was closed in April related to grand theft of a motor vehicle, with the suspect pleading to all seven counts.
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