WSLCB - Board Meeting
(December 23, 2020)

Wednesday December 23, 2020 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Observed

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) convenes a meeting of the three-member Board every two weeks to consider formal rulemaking actions and hear public testimony.

If interested, you can also provide oral comment at the end of the meeting during “General Public Comments” via WebEx. If you wish to speak to the Board during “General Public Comments”, please e-mail dustin.dickson@lcb.wa.gov before that agenda item on the day of the meeting, but preferably by close-of-business on Tuesday, December 22. Dustin will provide additional instructions and a link to connect to the WebEx through your computer. Comments will be limited to four minutes per person. These instructions are separate from the dial-in number below which is for listening/observation only.
WSLCB Executive Assistant Dustin Dickson, in email (Dec 21, 2020)

https://lcb.wa.gov/boardmeetings/2020dec_schedule

Observations

A pair of rulemaking updates and a citizen request for dedicated cannabis business licensing forms were the last topics heard during the final board meeting of 2020.

Policy and Rules Coordinator Casey Schaufler provided an update on the agency’s emergency rules banning vitamin E acetate, which were last extended on September 16th. Schaufler said he planned to present the Board with updated emergency rules on January 6th “pursuant to the [Washington] State Board of Health (SBOH) permanent prohibition on the sale of vapor products containing vitamin E acetate.” The only revision would reference the “newly enacted permanent prohibition” (audio - 1m).

Schaufler announced that Location Compliance Certificate final rules would be presented to board members for adoption on January 6th (audio - <1m).

Ammon Ford, an attorney with Gleam Law and board member of The Cannabis Alliance, commented on cannabis license applications. Ford said that “the licensing procedures that are currently in use” which took between three and six months to complete were “a great burden on a lot of marijuana licenses.” He wanted the licensing process “to be more efficient for everyone involved” with dedicated forms run through “electronic systems.” Ford found existing processes wasteful and felt WSLCB was still using “stopgap measures that were employed to get a functioning system running early on” (audio - 4m).
- WSLCB was engaged in a Systems Modernization Project (SMP), last discussed December 9th, which would transition core Licensing and Enforcement functions from a legacy IBM AS/400 minicomputer to an enterprise Salesforce implementation. Considering the agency intended to request additional funding for the long-running information technology project during the 2021-23 biennium, change remained some distance in the future. Learn more from the Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer (WA OCIO) Project Dashboard.

Engagement Options

Phone

Number: 1.415.655.0001
Pin: 177 677 0252

Information Set

Announcement [ Info ]
Agenda - v0 [ Info ]
Handout - 4A - Alcohol Rulemaking (Dec 21, 2020) [ Info ]
Minutes - Signed [ Info ]
Announcement - Rulemaking (Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
Complete Audio - Cannabis Observer [ InfoSet ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 00 - Complete (14m 16s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 01 - Welcome - Jane Rushford (37s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 02 - Approval of Minutes (18s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 03 - Rulemaking Updates - Cannabis - HB 2826 Implementation - Casey Schaufler (21s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 04 - Emergency Rulemaking Update - Cannabis - Prohibition - Vitamin E Acetate - Casey Schaufler (34s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 05 - Rulemaking Updates - Cannabis - Location Compliance Certificates - Casey Schaufler (26s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 06 - Rulemaking Updates - Alcohol - Audrey Vasek (4m 55s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 07 - General Public Comment (2m 11s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 08 - Comment - Ammon Ford (4m 30s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]
- Audio - Cannabis Observer - 09 - Wrapping Up - Jane Rushford (24s; Dec 23, 2020) [ Info ]