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you Good morning. I now call the September 2nd San Diego County Board of Supervisors land-use legislative meeting to order. Ryan, please call the roll.

Good morning. The Board of Supervisors met in closed session on September 1st, 2026 from 519 PM to 534 PM. All the board members were present. The board took no reportable actions. End of report.

Thank you very much. We now move to non-agenda public comment. This is an opportunity for the public to address matters within our subject matter jurisdiction at the Board of Supervisors but not on the meeting agenda today. As a reminder, Comments on non-agenda must be regarding matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of this Board of Supervisors. I will stop you if your topics or your comments are about something that we don't have jurisdiction over, for example, if someone was commenting on say the war in Iran, that is not something in our jurisdiction so I will stop you.

The only action we may take is a

Thank you Chair Lawson-Reamer. We do have 11 total requests to speak on matters not listed on the agenda three individuals in person and eight requesting to speak by phone for those that are requested by phone if you could please dial into the conference line now we'll go ahead and begin with our in-person speakers as your name is called please come forward and stand on the arrows until it is your turn to speak at the podium you will then have two minutes to address the board And if you could please begin by stating your name for the audio record. I'd like to invite forward the three individuals, Sharaq Sadat, allegedly Audra and Terry Best.

Good morning. My name is Sharaa Sadat Nejad. I reside at 3713 Mount Ashman Place, San Diego, California 92111 in District 4. In that house in my garage I punctured a wall in the garage and there's a steel plate on the ground of the floor. A foot and a half, about a year and a half ago or so, a foot and a half away from this steel plate is a shower in the master bedroom. What I had done was take my smart device that has a camera on it turned it on and put it into the drain of the shower.

I've recorded three times of children and dogs screaming, the children are screaming and saying things like please stop. And dogs are barking and weeping. If you were to stand in the house, you cannot hear this. If you lay down on the bed or on the ground, you can hear- Sorry,

I just wanna get clarity. What part of town are we talking about?

This would be technically Linda Vista. But this is

the city of San Diego? It sounds

like... Yes, 3713 Mount Ashman Place. It's in District 4 from my understanding.

I'll just let my colleague, if this is helpful to you, if you want him to go ahead and proceed or however you'd like to deal with it. Go ahead and proceed. My staff has been in contact. Okay please go ahead.

So I have the recordings of children screaming and saying things like please stop I took the audio recordings to the San Diego police, to the sheriff. I brought them here to the lady District 4's office. Nobody will document these audios. Nobody will come to the house and look at the house of my findings and I'm asking for this Allegedly Audra and Terry Best.

And if Terry's in the board chamber, if you could please line up on the arrows.

Interesting the things that you hear in an inverted world and I'm wondering when you're going to take child abuse seriously because you take getting money very seriously? And you're good at it. But when it comes to child abuse, you let it perpetuate by your unwillingness to stop it when we have places like the Polinsky Center that are open and all of the juvenile detention centers where a lot of sexual abuse goes on. We sexualize children and that's grooming children.

And it's interesting when our mess becomes our message because You know, I didn't know that the five-year old me that was strong enough to report sexual abuse had to wait four years for it to stop. For a total of it going on for nine years and I never thought that 40 years later I would live in a world where it is ignored and brushed under the rug even more so than it was then. I actually had to call that man, I was brave enough to do it at 12 years old and get him to admit it.

And then I think about like that child and so I'm fighting for her and all of the other children who maybe can't come forward or maybe they do and nothing happens because even if it happens at a school It gets buried and other children can't come forward because they don't talk about it with parents, but they have like you can tell when something's going on.

When children are being sexual, when they are acting different and they don't want to go be near somebody. And it's like what are we telling them when we have places like the Polinsky Center where there are hundreds of cases and nothing is done? So I'm wondering when you guys are gonna do something about this and take it seriously.

Good morning, I'm nervous and my voice is probably gonna shake plus this is a very emotional subject for me. I'm Terri Best, a voter in District 1. I was recently at an expungement clinic where I volunteered alongside a local attorney with a new baby. This new mom had a baby sling at her hip and she ran the clinic like a boss feeding her child whenever she pleased and keeping her close.

Afterward, I told a friend it was one of the most revolutionary things I had ever seen. Then I attended the August 19th County Board of Supervisors meeting and had the privilege of seeing Tara with her new baby on the dais. It did my heart good. It was then marred by unkind words. I'm here to show my support to the women of this board and for Tara. This is a time when a newborn baby is very short and very magical I'm proud of you for bringing your baby here.

It is revolutionary and it is a turning point. Congratulations for paving the way, and thank you all for enduring.

Thank you. We will now hear from those that have requested to speak by phone. When it is your turn to speak, you'll be unmuted and you will hear a recording that will tell you to begin your comments, and we will go ahead and begin with our first caller.

It's going to be coming out, walking and talking. All right.

Kathleen, you are live and ready to speak at the Board of Supervisors meeting?

Kathleen,

are you there? Okay, Kathleen.

I'm sorry. Yes, I'm here. Wait

a second.

Excuse me, could you call me back? Or could I call back?

We will go to our next speaker.

Oh good morning this is Peggy Walker. I want to say that the more I watch this board in action the more I realize that the unincorporated area is the unwanted stepchild of a county That unfortunately seems to be because the majority of three decision makers don't live in or represent these areas favorably, while the two supervisors who actually represent the rural area are always voted down due to back country's detriment. There is the issue of payroll sexually violent predators who seem to end up in rural areas like Borrego Springs. There are health disparities and controversial industrial scale Energy projects such as solar and wind decisions that disregard rural quality of life.

Yesterday, there was condemnation of non-lethal electric shock gloves as cruel and unusual punishment that would quote damage communities but that makes me wonder then why do three supervisors think it's okay to impose high potency THC on communities that do not want a proliferation of product Proven to cause costly, damaging, even lethal outcomes. The county is already running a deficit. Will tax revenues destined for the general fund be enough and actually be used to address the significant regulatory costs of marijuana commercialization from code enforcement, environmental monitoring, planning staff, sheriff, fire, EMF, and legal costs Thank you. We'll go to our next caller.

Good morning, Board of Supervisors. My name is Terri-Ann Skelly and I attend my county planning group. I work in public health and youth mentoring and tutoring programs. In my work, I often receive health alerts from national research and educational agencies I received six health alerts from American Lung Association. One was entitled Cannabis and the Lungs. The excerpt included, cannabis products have many more forms than nicotine does including vaping, smoking, dabbing, edibles, topical and juice.

When cannabis liquid oil or plant material is heated in a device an aerosol is released which is suspension of fine marijuana particles in a gas. These fine particles can damage lungs and cause heart disease because aerosizing cannabis can lead to decreased lung development, increased breathing difficulties, lowered defense against bacteria and viruses, and more frequent inflammatory reactions. The inhalation of harmful chemicals found in e-cigarettes where the cannabis and nicotine can cause or make Worst irreversible respiratory diseases.

I respectfully suggest that the county reinforce its goals to improve the health of its residents by reducing sales and promotion of all of these products. Thank you for hearing me speak this morning.

Thank you, we'll go to our next speaker.

Good morning Board of Supervisors. My name is Becky Rapp and today I want to bring to your attention an important bill that Governor Newsom signed into law on August 31st just two days ago, and that's AB 2249. This legislation strengthens the protections California voters were promised when they passed Prop 64 giving cities and counties the ability to permit pot shops in our communities Voters were promised that safeguards would be put into place protecting our children and youth.

And clearly, Prop 64 was not clear enough as the industry was left to decipher what was appropriate. And we've seen this in advertisements and billboards and on packaging. The bill strengthens and clarifies those protections It specifically addresses cartoons and child-oriented imagery, candy and sweets and products that mimic goods primarily marketed to children. These protections are crucial and way overdue.

The California Poison Control System reports that cannabis related calls more than doubled between 2016 and 2024 and even more concerning cannabis exposure calls involving children under six increased by 445%. Most reported exposures in young children were unintentional and they were in the edible form of products. And that was in a vast majority of these cases.

These numbers remind us why the issue is not just about packaging, it's about real children and real families. And our city, our county must act now. Please support the implementation of AB 2249, educate local marijuana businesses about the upcoming requirements and encourage businesses to review their packaging and marketing now. This bill only works when it is enforced. Thank you.

Good morning Board of Supervisors, Anne Riddle here. I came to say thank you for the robust conversation regarding agenda item 19 yesterday regarding the placement of sexually violent patients within our unincorporated area. I appreciated the staff report that came out of Desmond's office regarding this item because it began to put on paper The many concerns we have here in our unincorporated areas that we are a dumping ground, but somehow because we don't have representation like we would if we were in a city that you could make decisions that affect us so dramatically.

I was very impressed by the equity impact statement noting that we have significant equity concerns in the unincorporated area because we face Huge economic and resource challenges, and I ditto that. Oh my gosh yes! And that several of the communities within our unincorporated area here in the county are on the list of most disadvantaged category as communities is a record kept by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and I appreciate that we have Organizations, particularly university organizations who are tabulating these sorts of things. Because we have disproportionate access to law enforcement and public services, particularly medical and an inability to get easily anywhere. I am particularly concerned about the lack of local law enforcement.

We very seldom see sheriff vehicles in our neighborhoods even when we report Thank you, your time is up. We'll go to our next speaker

Hi good morning, Oliver Twist here. I'm asking this board to take a closer look at illegal marijuana cultivation in San Diego County's backcountry including the large operation discovered near La Posta a couple of months ago. These are not simply zoning or cannabis issues Illegal growth can involve dangerous working conditions, environmental damage, depletion of groundwater and water resources, unpermitted structures, water and electrical hazards, and potentially the exploitation of vulnerable workers. The county's own grand jury raised concerns about the continuing illegal cannabis market and ineffective enforcement while also noting that San Diego County has not comprehensively documented the law enforcement impacts of cannabis legalization.

So I'm asking, what do we actually know about the people working at these illegal grows? Were they being paid minimum wage? Were taxes being paid? Were workers' comp requirements followed? Were the workers free to leave or were they being coerced threatened or housed or exploited. I would specifically ask the board to refer this issue to the Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement for investigation and coordination with a sheriff district attorney in appropriate federal and state agencies And I'll leave you with a broader question. SB 54 was enacted on the theory that limiting local involvement in immigration enforcement would increase trust and public safety, but years later is that true? Could restrictions on immigration enforcement cooperation inadvertently make undocumented workers more attractive to criminal enterprises precisely because those workers are vulnerable and less likely to report exploitation?

It's not an accusation, just a question worth investigating. Legal cannabis should not provide cover for illegal cultivation, labor exploitation or human trafficking and it certainly should not put San Diego backcountry residents in danger. Thank you.

Thank you. And Chair Lawson-Rumer that concludes the request for non-agenda public communication this morning and again for all the remaining speakers they will be heard at the conclusion of today's session

Okay, thank you very much. We now move on to the consent agenda. All the items are routine and will be voted upon with one motion. Do any of my colleagues have any items they wish to pull or any comments they'd like to make? Vice Chair?

No need to pull any item from me I will move the consent agenda. Thank you.

Okay we have a motion on the floor for the consent agenda from Vice-Chair Montgomery Stubb. Chair Pro Tem, agree? I'll second. No comments. And a second from Chair Pro Tem. Supervisor Anderson? Okay and Supervisor Desmond. Okay we'll now go to public comment

Thank you, Chair Lawson-Reamer. We do have 18 total requests to speak on the consent agenda two individuals in person 16 requesting to speak by phone for those that requested to speak by phone if you could please out into the conference line now go ahead and begin with the in-person speakers as your name is called please come forward stand in the arrows until it's your turn to speak you'll then have two minutes to address the board if you could please begin by stating your name for the record and also when speaking please identify which Items on the consent agenda you are speaking about. So I'd like to invite forward, allegedly Audra and Eddie Lane.

You guys in your traffic advisory committee and lowering speed limits so that you guys can get revenue from people speeding all of a sudden down a road that they used to drive down that was five miles an hour, ten miles an hour high or whatever. And cannabis this is just so interesting that it is the most taxed and regulated business where it went from people making 100% of their money pretty much down to 1% after you guys take it and after they got a pay cut because you can't even sell it for what it used to be sold for.

I mean, you can get an eighth for like $3. Those used to go for like 50 bucks. So it's just interesting when people want to be governed harder and how something like this can be regulated so heavily, and then we put sexually violent predators in our communities. And you're talking about a expansion of the sensitive buffer here from 600 feet to 1,000 feet. Yet we have pedophiles all over the place Right near children, ready to re-offend.

Is that not weird to you guys? That like for you to fight the war on drugs you're gonna be drug deal regulators and then there's nothing we can do about pedophiles working in your own facilities. How is that not something that's highly regulated? In fact, we have legislatures who are trying to allow pedophiles to work in office and at schools and stuff. But not a rapist. Like if you rape an adult it's different.

You know? It's great isn't it? Isn't it cool that you guys get billions of dollars from people dealing drugs? And pedophiles run rampant! What an inverted world.

Hello there, Supervisors. Good morning and thank you for having me here. I'm Eddie Lane from Valley Center California. We the people spoke and the question is who was listening? I know this gentleman was listening, this gentleman was listening but the rest of you are not listening to the people. We're not talking about anti-cannabis here we are not talking about Not taking care of people that were possibly harmed by breaking the law in the past, which is no longer the law. What we're talking about here is a little old lady that swallowed the fly. Remember her?

Tiny little problem she swallows a fly then she swallows a spider to fix that problem. Eventually she swallows a cow and she dies. You have a few hundred applicants for this cannabis program at this moment We have over 500,000 people in the unincorporated parts of San Diego that are not interested in having cannabis growing in their backyards or expanding retail around their schools and centers. And 1,000 feet is not gonna cut it.

I wish you all to go to Carpinteria, a great case study where they have had over 4,000 complaints Just about the smell. And that's in a population of about 10,000 or less. Imagine the number of complaints you will have and the administration in order to address all of that and the costs. Most of those cannabis farms in Carpinteria are not filing their taxes, they're not maintaining their equipment It smells, I was at a rose farm right next door and it smelled like pot.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you. We will now hear from those that have requested to speak by phone when it is your turn to speak. You will be unmuted and you will hear recording that will tell you to begin your comments and we will go ahead and begin with our first caller.

All aboard, the ordinance is wrong right off the bat when it defines cannabis as including every quote derivative mixture or preparation of the plant unquote in section 1a by the way. Like regular medicinal practice you don't give a drug the same name as any of its components although some of the limits are good Politicians are good at taking advantage of the rename game.

Looking at the use matrix and ordinance, it's good that cannabis facilities wouldn't be allowed in residential areas but a defeat to purpose if you let that be sold in bars or restaurants or stores which could subject lots of people to secondhand smoke It could be a big fire hazard at gas stations. It's also a mistake to allow that funerals, there are too many kids in the place of worship same number of kids and not a good idea to communication services where those do disorienting and distracting or financial services where grownups often they're with kids The ordinance has too many big, huge defects to approve.

And you know as the previous speaker said this stench is disgusting. The water use is disgusting and you know if these people aren't paying their tax bills and violating laws all over place I mean Why even negotiate with them? As for the tax stuff, this time it seems good. Although I have...

Thank you. Your time is up. We will go to our next speaker.

From Cuomo here. Concerned citizen just listening in. I don't really have much to say. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll go to our next speaker.

Hi, good morning supervisors. I urge you to vote no on the cannabis program on item two here. The people who will have to live with the consequences of this program have come and spoken to you, I know you've heard them. And the majority of people still don't have any idea this is happening that it's going to affect anyone that I've spoken to about it is completely shocked, completely shocked that this is happening in our own county.

And residents have come forward with concerns about their communities, the environment, and most importantly, our children And yet, you're still trying to move forward with a program that expands commercial cannabis access into our unincorporated communities including retail businesses, cultivation, manufacturing, consumption lounges and cannabis events. Parents are not asking for more places where cannabis is grown, sold, promoted and normalized.

Children are not asking for greater exposure to an industry built around a psychoactive drug As elected representatives, you have a responsibility to listen to the people who live here and to consider the interests of the next generation. Not only to expand interest of industry when the concerns of families and children are repeatedly outweighed by the desire to expand access to cannabis that is not true representation.

Please listen to your residents and please protect our children and vote no on this item. Thank you.

Next speaker is Terry.

Oh good morning Board of Supervisors, sorry about that yes my name is Terri Anskele I'm a parent a youth mentor and public health educator for my community schools. I call in to address item one and item two on the consent agenda first Item number two, I oppose the cannabis social equity cannabis program. I have participated in all county sponsored listening sessions planning group presentation and board of supervisors meetings regarding the SEGP staff conclusions do not represent the comments we provided all through the 2025 meeting so much for stakeholder meetings It seems very unfair that this board has decided to manipulate the stakeholder opinions, to create a false narrative form of authentic stakeholders. It seems very clear to me that supervisors were determined to provide financial and resource laden preferences to one very small group of people over the inhabitants of our unincorporated community.

We have so many needs for more law enforcement coverage, better roads and lighting school updates and access to medical care. We are abused by political party agendas of three of the supervisors which have only a small portion of the unincorporated communities under their purview. FYI it doesn't look good to the 33 percent of independent voters that live in the unincorporated communities The board has disrespected our decisions and opinions, and dictated to us instead. This is not transparent or equitable or fair. Thank you for hearing my concerns this morning.

Good morning Board of Supervisors. My name is Becky Rapp and I strongly oppose the socially equitable cannabis program. County planning groups, residents, business owners have all spoken unanimously against this program. The county's own secret review proved that the proposal was not sound land use decision The Planning Commission also expressed concern and did not find the ordinance to be good land use policy, but the board has chosen to move forward primarily because of social equity.

Social equity should not take precedence over responsible land use planning. This is ultimately a land use decision And it should be evaluated on appropriate location, environmental impact and the interest of the community. The board has a responsibility to make decisions based on land use not emotion, political pressure or moral obligation. I ask this board to reject the ordinance and prioritize responsible land use policy when it comes to our community in the back country.

Thank you.

Thank you. We'll go to our next speaker.

Barbara Gordon, item two. As a public health advocate I urge the county should not move forward with this cannabis program due to the health safety environmental impacts marijuana businesses will have on their residents and the community. The county has not addressed the environmental consequences of marijuana commercialization growers use pesticides fertilizers that contaminate the soil and water resources Cultivation requires water resources often exceeding the traditional crops, leading to the strain on local water supply. The cultivation and processing of marijuana generates significant odor and packaging in chemicals that improper land use leads to pollution that harms our local environment.

Expanding excess will increase availability due to the perception of risk and encourage greater use, potentially increasing addiction, impaired driving, psychiatric illnesses and increased emergency visits. Our young people deserve better. They should not be led to believe high potency THC products are harmless. I urge you to vote no on this social equity cannabis program Please listen to the planning group members. Please listen to the community who all oppose this program. Thank you for letting me speak.

Good morning, members of the board. This is Dori Rattray. Can we please stop pretending that the socially equitable cannabis program is about equity? What the supervisors driving this project are doing is corrupt, cowardly and a complete betrayal of public trust. We're treating our rural communities like it's a toxic land up, sacrificing our environment, our families, our safety and our property values to hand out commercial licenses to convicted felons You're actively choosing to enrich individuals with criminal records while penalizing law-abiding, taxpaying property owners. To the supervisors pushing this from your comfortable well-policed city districts you wouldn't tolerate a commercial growth site next to your kid's school yet you vote to force them into rural towns that don't even have dedicated highway patrol officers or fully staffed police force I'm providing my comments by phone because this is how you see us.

We're invisible to you, we don't exist. To the supervisors who actually represent the unincorporated residents and are voting against this madness thank you for refusing to participate in this scam keep fighting for the rest of you pushing this down our throats so we see your hypocrisy we will remember it and we will continue to fight please vote no on this program and stop selling out our communities

Thank you. We'll go to our next caller. Next caller is Justin, your device may be muted. Last call for Justin. Okay, we'll go on to our next caller.

He's

there. Going back to Justin.

Hey, how you guys doing? I don't know why I fight you so much because as long as you continue to flat out ignore the people, consequences happen right? Sooner or later you piss off the wrong person. Clearly that's not me. Oh no, please definitely teach us the fact that if we break the law we could eventually get benefits from it like an ungodly amount of money.

Breaking the law for many years now we're going to go ahead and give them money? Encourage people to break the law That is awesome. Sure, we don't have any election fraud right? That allows you to stay in office? Right? So are you planning and clearly Andrea Abing was delusional right? Sounded like a complete raging lunatic She needs to be locked up. She cannot go to

court. Please clarify which items on the consent agenda you're speaking to and make sure your comments are germane.

Yes, absolutely I'm talking about making sure we're all drugged up on pot. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I mean, I enjoy smoking pot But it just makes sense why you guys are also throwing and trying to kill Andrea Abbott. She's speaking up against fraud in the rehab center, which if you get more people hooked on pot, you get more bent and more people in the rehab centers, right?

Works out perfect for that, right? Is that why you're trying to kill her? Serious question. Is that why you locked her up without giving her a chance to defend herself?

Time is up, we'll go to our next speaker.

Good morning Board of Supervisors Anne Riddle here thank you for the opportunity to call in from my workplace it's always very complicated for us out here in the unincorporated area to make our voices known We look at what you're proposing and scratch our heads because it seems to us if you were really serious about assisting those who are in prison, is this really an answer?

This can't be the best that we can do for those who have already experienced hardship. There's nothing about giving somebody an opportunity to run a marijuana business that makes any sense at all. We have other marvelous opportunities at the county that we could provide instead. Perhaps we should pause this proposal until we examine other answers more efficiently and successfully. This is not the answer to a problem you want solved. You've identified the problem, come up with an answer that makes sense. This isn't it. It makes everyone in the unincorporated area feel dumped on Your planning groups to a planning group are against it. Why bring a business into an area or help somebody bring a business into an area that nobody wants them? How wise is that?

As you know, the county has five permitted pot shops and I think you know that one has folded. And it went out of business because they couldn't pay its employees, wouldn't pay maybe, or state and federal business taxes This is not a business that really could be useful to people. Let's help them, help them find a place where they're wanted, help them to provide business services and skills that will really be of long-term use to them and to their families.

This is something I know a lot about unfortunately for my loved one. Oh, he would love to run a marijuana business again. And he knew clearly what he was doing

Thank you, your time is up. We will go to our next speaker.

It's truth item two, nothing routine about it. My non-agenda will reference Manuela Paloma picking Kevin Savita for the Planning Commission which is very relevant because who was the lone no vote to protections for the backcountry? Oh it was Manny's union puppet friend Kevin of course! The guy who doesn't live anywhere other than where he needs a vote because he's a certified carpet bagger. A carpet bagger that is obviously okay with marijuana being grown and sold all over with zero reasonable noise smelling crime restrictions And since the Attendance on County Commissions Committee and Dwindling Boards like IRB came up at yesterday's meeting, let's also point out that Weber and Sudbury were absent for the Planning Commission's vote on this Socialist Racist Equity Marijuana Plan.

However, this corrupt Union Public Majority Board does not listen to their commission anyway! So what is the point of its existence? The Planning Commission has said no to our free-for-all of unregulated marijuana in the unincorporated communities. Yet here's the three ninby wannabe queens, Tara, Manny and Monica denying their voice and vote so much for democracy. That's because the housing industry and the marijuana industry have both been used by felons like Jesus Cardenas to fund those very politicians way into office Only corrupt cretins benefiting from the industry would oppose the 1,000 foot buffer from safe spaces. Only corrupt cretins would want impaired driving on winding narrow mountain roads. Only corrupt cretins would use and promote racism and criminality as an agenda item because it's full-blown quid pro quo.

To loosely quote Franz Kafka Scenes of modern humanity are made entirely out of office paper. Trapped in a labyrinth of meaningless bureaucracy, forcing men to beg a completely indifferent system just for the basic right to survive. The vacumentary residents have spoken, the planning commission has spoken yet here we are. And for the record, Tara is a corrupt tyrant who uses her children as props. Undeserving of praise! If anything she's deserving of a drug test. How about the same for all the potheads and welfare queens on this corrupt board? Drug tests for you all.

Thank

you we'll go to our next caller

Good morning my name is Stephanie Baxter I am a member of the Fallbrook Planning Group And quite insulted that this was moved to the consent calendar. What an insult to over half a million people that live in this county. For years, we've heard this meeting as an opportunity for public voices to be heard. But what I see here is selective hearing through this process. So I gotta ask, what does being heard actually mean if nothing we say changes the outcome?

You can't claim environmental justice while giving unincorporated communities weaker environmental protection. That is a double standard and it keeps coming up. So what are we doing today? Your own planning commission identified stronger protections, as we've heard. Why do you reject their recommendation? So if you're not listening to the residents, you're not listening to the community sponsor and planning groups or even your own planning commission. Who are you listening to? The fact that you have rejected all recommendations for stronger protections for people and environment is quite historic actually when you look back at it all.

Where's the equity for the unincorporated communities being asked to absorb all the impacts I'll ask you today, follow your own policies. Follow the law, apply environmental justice equally and reject this ordinance today. It's okay to go back to the drawing board. Thank you.

Hi, Mary Davis aka Oliver Twist here and representing the thousands of voices in the backcountry. I oppose strongly opposed the social equity cannabis program it will bring harm to the back country and voters when they approve marijuana were misled they were told that it would by legalizing it you would make illegal things go away and we have found even from the LaPosta operation bust That is not true.

THC potency has increased dramatically and concentrates can deliver extraordinarily high doses. The health concerns are no longer hypothetical. The National Academies found substantial evidence of an association between cannabis use in the development of schizophrenia and other psychoses, and the greatest risk among frequent users. The CDC also warns about psychosis, schizophrenia, impaired attention, memory, and learning. So why would the government policy encourage expansion of this industry?

We spend enormous amounts of public money addressing mental illness, homelessness, substance abuse, educational failure and young people struggling to become productive adults. At some point we need to ask whether our policies are working at cross purposes. The larger human question is here every intoxicating substance carries an opportunity cost Hours spent impaired are not hours spent learning, building, creating, parenting, working or developing potential. Adults make their own choices but government doesn't have to promote every choice, subsidize an industry around it and call the expansion of it equity. It certainly also does not have to harm the back country again and again. Maybe true social equity is helping people reach their fullest potential, not making increasingly potent intoxicants

Thank you, your time is up. We'll go to our next speaker.

Thank you. Kathleen Lippett here. The FEPC should never have been put on consent. This board majority rushed forward with the alternative it always wanted to implement in the first place. Initially offered with a no project alternative, but this board never intended for that to be a true option. It was yet another pretense of a feigned assertion to want to hear from the public.

The county asserts its goal is equity it always says that For those previously cited incarcerated for drug violations, why doesn't the unincorporated residents deserve equity as well? The program only benefits a small number of cannabis entrepreneurs but imposes environmental traffic, odor, groundwater concerns and enforcement burdens on thousands of residents living around those facilities. This balance sheet of benefits versus burdens is not equitable. Commercial cannabis permittees will receive business opportunity, technical assistance access to a regulated market theoretically regulated and potential profits but they are the equivalent of cannabis union lobbyists And the county may receive a small amount of tax revenues. However, it will never be worth the harm that is causing and the public trust you are destroying.

Nearby residents will receive for their part in the equity odor traffic groundwater concerns noise security concerns and changes in land use and enforcement impacts. The county has never demonstrated why this constitutes social equity and why it needs to put this program forward. Social equity should not be a justification for weakening ordinary land use protection or further risking the lives of those already involved in drugs by returning them to that...

Thank you, your time is up we'll go to our next speaker

Thank you Walker. Consent item 2, really an item of this significance should not be put on consent calendar. Supervisors you know the risks. You understand that allowing production and sale of today's high potency marijuana products drives daily use independence That harmful effects, especially detrimental to our youth and those under 26 include upticks in psychosis, child poisoning, cannabis hypermesis syndrome, DUIs, dropout violence and even suicide rates. You understand that toxic emissions from cultivation and production harm the environment and erode our quality of life?

The fact you've chosen to oppose this on us anyway tells us that you find drug dealers who don't live here are more important than residents. You have moral responsibility to all county residents you purportedly serve. We deserve equal consideration to that of a handful of so-called victims. You three, who choose to allow high potency products To be marketed and sold with impunity will share responsibility when problems ensue, and history ensures us that they will. Supervisors should not get involved in nor spend precious taxpayer money to promote any business, especially a business you don't understand and that undermines quality of life.

That's it.

Thank you. We'll go to our next speaker. We can be reviewing.

I wish there was... Hello? Can

you hear me?

Yes, you may begin your comments.

Sorry, yes. I'm doing double duty City Council and the County Board of Supervisors. Natalie Raschke. It's a little confusing and it's kind of an oxymoron on what items that we bring in wanting to build revenue yet Want to control the narrative and or what is considered drugs or medicinal. It's really creates an I don't know what the word I'm looking for, but it really makes this inversion of what life is even more confusing for the public.