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Cannabis Compliance Board runs public random draw, selects six social-equity consumption-lounge applicants
Summary
The Cannabis Compliance Board conducted a public random-number draw on 2022-11-30 to pick six social-equity applicants to advance for consideration for cannabis consumption-lounge licenses; the draw was run by Baker Tilly using SmartPlay software and a certified report was produced.
The Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) held a public random-number selection on Nov. 30, 2022, to determine which social-equity applicants will advance for consideration for six remaining cannabis consumption-lounge licenses.
Executive Director James Umm opened the event and said the draw follows an internal audit of an earlier selection: “An internal audit found that 6 of these selected applicants were ineligible to proceed,” he said, and the eight remaining applicants who had documentation showing they met social-equity requirements would be entered into today’s selection process.
Steve Gilbert, the CCB’s chief of administration, described procedural safeguards: the board used certified public accountants from Baker Tilly LLP and a digital random-number selection system supplied by SmartPlay International. Gilbert said the CPA received a USB drive containing a text file of the eight eligible Exela application numbers and that a prior mock draw had confirmed the software was functioning as expected.
Brian Campbell of Baker Tilly read the eight eligible application numbers loaded for the draw, initiated the live run in the SmartPlay software and announced, “The draw is done now.” The CPA then downloaded the generated selection report, printed it, and compared the printed copy with the onscreen PDF to confirm the output matched.
The CPA read aloud the six application identifiers selected from the eight eligible entries. The certified report was signed and will be placed with the USB drive in a sealed envelope, the CCB said. Executive Director James Umm said the selected application numbers would be posted to the CCB website later the same day and applicants will be notified about their application status and next steps.
The event was procedural: no vote or licensing determinations were made during the draw itself; the draw only advanced selected application numbers to the next stage of consideration. The CCB stated that notification of selected applicants will follow CCB procedures and that documentation of the certified selection report will be retained by the CPA and the board.
Selected and eligible application numbers were read aloud during the event as alphanumeric Exela identifiers (examples provided at the draw included entries such as ACON-A22-00018, ACON-A22-00047, ACON-A22-00049, ACON-A22-00090, ACON-A22-00102, ACON-A22-00105, ACON-A22-00107, ACON-A22-00108). The six numbers announced as selected were read from the CPA’s generated report during the live event and will be posted by the board on its website.
