The Dalles City Council decided not to send a measure to voters to opt out of the state’s recreational marijuana sales and processing laws, electing instead to have municipal staff prepare a time, place, and manner ordinance for marijuana businesses and a ballot measure for the City to tax sales of marijuana.  Councilor Dan Spatz did move to put an opt-out measure on the November ballot, which was seconded by Taner Elliott, but the other three councilors voted against the motion.  Russ Brown said he felt the decision needed to be made at the Council level, noting marijuana possession would be legal regardless of what the City did with the other elements, and the panel should focus on dealing with the consequences of that instead.  Spatz did express concern that the City could have some federal funding endangered, noting marijuana remains illegal at the federal level.