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EXHIBIT A <br />COMMUNITY BENEFIT AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES PLAN <br />Local Hiring and Compensation Packages <br />The Company shall make a good faith effort to hire 80 to 85% of its workforce from local Santa <br />Ana candidates. <br />The Santa Ana WORK Center is the most pertinent and effective tool for us to utilize in <br />accomplishing the task of targeted local hiring. The WORK Center connects Santa Ana residents <br />to all manner of local open positions across a broad array of industries, with a particular interest <br />in those that are unemployed, underemployed, lower skill, youth/new to careers, or need special <br />assistance in navigating a career path. Further, the WORK Center offers a plethora of assistance <br />to job seekers including job databasing and applying assistance, job training, degree programs <br />assistance and vocational classes, and career counseling. In working with them, we have high <br />hopes of attracting some great and urgent talent from the local candidate pool, providing them <br />with a path to gainful employment. <br />This resource is the gold standard for those looking for local employment opportunities and is the <br />one resource that the City itself directs applicants to turn to for job and career opportunities. The <br />WORK Center will be the mainstay of our local recruitment efforts due to its higher local focus <br />and the quality of the job resources it offers. <br />We do, however, want to cast a wide net that captures all possible applicants in the City. Beyond <br />working with the WORK Center, we want to work with local community colleges as well, including <br />those in Santa Ana (especially Santa Ana College) that are highly likely to be providing <br />educational opportunities to Santa Ana students. Many community colleges do a truly <br />phenomenal job of helping match graduating students with sustainable and long-lasting career <br />paths to success. This is particularly true of community colleges, which tend to have students <br />who are lower income and locally based. Further, many of these community college students will <br />be first -generation graduates. That makes Santa Ana College and its Career Center an ideal tool <br />for accomplishing our goal of local equity hiring. As a burgeoning business, we will have several <br />open opportunities that the Santa Ana College Career Center can help fill while providing a <br />higher social good at the same time. Many of the graduating student applicants will have <br />educational backgrounds that adumbrate greatly with our needs: business, marketing, sales, and <br />management. No prior experience will be required for most applicants, as we will provide all the <br />training needed, thus allowing for the largest pool of candidates possible. <br />If neither of these services are able to help us find viable and in -need candidates, we will turn to <br />any number of local private employment agencies to find more local candidates, though we <br />doubt it will come to that point. <br />These are the resources we will use to attract local candidates but does not adequately address <br />how we will sort the applicants and make hiring decisions. We will also ask about prior cannabis <br />convictions, social status history, and demographic background. This information will be <br />voluntary; however, we will state on the employment application that this information will only <br />U <br />