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INTENT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS As the intent of the Board of Supervisors was an issue at our last hearing,we thought it important to review the transcript from the July 24, 2001 San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors meeting at which the ordinance was adopted. The following direct quotations clearly identify the intent of the Board, and may assist and guide the Commission in the review of this application. "Marketing Events" Morenco "I can see in the Bay Area, I attended a wedding in Napa and I can see where... for the Bay Area folks to come and see and to be exposed to a vineyard is really something that they look forward to and it would be indirectly marketing wine." Moreno "To me, anything that showcases it, for instance a wedding where wine can be served, would be a way of promoting the wine industry." Moreno "So you're saying (directed to Russ Matthews, S.J. Farm Bureau) that if there's a wedding and they can prove that they're to consume wine at that winery then it's OX Matthews (response) "I believe that you will find that a lot of people that will talk to you today will explain to you how they, in their professional applications as winery owners, or people involved in wineries, can use an event like a wedding as a Marketing Event." Guitierrez"What I'm hearing is that he (Matthews) is not opposed to weddings that are used in the process of marketing wine. Lange(Brad Lange, Lodi grape grower and Farm Bureau leader)..."Is there any language prohibiting a winery, within their marketing plan, from charging a fee for their facility,whether it be a tax,whether it be in a per person fee, or facility fee? Is there any place in the ordinance that prohibits a winery, within their marketing plan, to charge a fee for use of their facility? Kerry to the chair(in response)--"There is no specific language that prohibits that." Lange"if it's truly the cause of the people that are in front of you that are applying for a permit to produce wine and sell wine as a winery, and that's going to be their primary source of income, and yet their secondary source would be the ability, where in the market place to allow them to, to charge a secondary or a supplemental fee for use of their facilities for a wedding, a concert, a jazz festival that you charge $10.00 a head or whatever, then I submit that the ordinance is doing exactly what they want to do on one side, and what the Hartzell's ,and other folks that have testified, want to do on the other side." Kerry (directed through the Chairman) "The focus of a marketing event should be wine. And as far as I know that's consistent with what Mr. Matthews said that it's the intent of the Marketing 1 334299-2