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62790. <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />PROM: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator <br />DATE: July 20, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: Transient Merchants <br />Attachment: A. Transient Merchants Memo Dated 6/14/90 (Memo Only) <br />B. Survey of Communities ~ Transient Merchants <br />Dated 7/17/90 <br />C. Ordinance 5.30 <br />irdUE - <br />1. Presentation to Council regarding information of transient <br />merchants regulation and alternatives. <br />2. Allow Council the opportunity to determine what regulation <br />they may desire of transient merchants. <br />INTRODUCTION - Council at the the June 25, 1990 meeting requested <br />that the staff come back within a month with recommendation on <br />dealing with transient merchants. <br />DISCUSSION - The City has not had a substantial amount of <br />transient merchants conducting business outside of a permanent <br />place of business to any great degree. However, there have been <br />a couple of perennial vendors, including Mr. Penke, over the last <br />fou: or five years. In addition they are increasing requests to <br />allow such an itinerant vending of merchandise. <br />Attachment B represents a survey of the different ways the <br />surrounding cities handle these types of merchants. <br />The City's ordinance does set forth three categories under its <br />solicitation ordinance: <br />Business Solicition - This is a person who sells a <br />product or services from other than an established place <br />of business. <br />Contribution Solicitor - These are persons generally <br />affiliated with charitable religious or public interest <br />groups who uses a telephone or goes door to door <br />soliciting contributions. <br />Transient Merchants - These are persons who are <br />merchandising from one locatioij with pa< rons coming to <br />that location to obtain their products r ther than they <br />going door t;o door. <br />As you may recall the term transient merchants was defined back