05/20/2019 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Agenda Packet

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2. Annual Payment In the event that the Company obtains a Final License or Licenses , or such other licenses and/or approvals as may be required, for the operation of the Establishment in the Town from the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (the "CCC"), or such other state licensing or monitoring authority, as the case may be, and receives any and all necessary and required permits and licenses of the Town, and at the expiration of any final appeal period related thereto, said matter not being appealed further, which said permits and/or licenses allow the Company to locate, occupy and operate the Establishment in the Town, then the Company agrees to provide the following Annual Payment for each year this Agreement is in effect; provided, however, that if the Company fails to secure any such other license and/or approval as may be required, or any of required municipal approvals, the Company shall reimburse the Town for its legal fees associated with the negotiation of this Agreement. a) Company shall make Annual Payments in an amount equal to three percent (3%) of gross revenue from marijuana and marijuana product wholesale sales at the Establishment. In the first year of operation, the Annual Payment shall be paid in multiple monthly installments representing 3% of the gross sales for the preceding month. The first year's payments shall be made one month from the notice of commencement of operations from the Cannabis Control Commission. The balance of the Annual Payment shall be due no later than twelve (12) months after the opening date (the "opening Date.") and shall represent 3%of gross annual revenue. b) In the second,third, fourth and fifth years of operation: 3%of the gross marijuana and marijuana products sales at the Establishment in each year of operation shall be paid in two (2) six (6) month segments;the first, covering the first six(6) months of the operating year, measured annually form the opening Date, shall be paid within two hundred forty (210) days of the commencement of the year of operation and the balance, covering the second six(6) months of the operating year,to be paid within thirty (30) days after the end of the year of operation. c) With regard to any year of operation for the Establishment which is not a full calendar year, the applicable Annual Payments shall be prorated accordingly. 3. Dedication of Payments. Company shall make the Annual Payments set forth in Paragraph 2, above, to the Town of Mashpee. To the extent now or hereafter permitted by law, the Treasurer of the Town may hold the Annual Payments in a separate account, to be expended by the Town without further appropriation pursuant to G.L. c. 44, § 53A, or otherwise in trust, for the purposes of addressing the potential health, safety, and other effects or impacts of the Establishment on the Town on municipal programs, services, personnel, and facilities. otherwise, said Annual Payments shall be deposited into the General Fund. While the purpose of the, Annual Payments is to assist the Town in addressing any public health, safety, and other effects or impacts the Establishment may have on the Town and on municipal programs, services, personnel, and facilities, the Town may expend the Annual Payments at its sole and absolute discretion. Notwithstanding the Annual Payments, nothing shall prevent the Company from making additional donations from time to time to causes that will support the Town, including but not limited to local drug abuse prevention/treatment/education programs. 2