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Middleton, Samuel <br />From: Jenna Thompson <jenna@paschalroth.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 1:38 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Public Comment on Agenda Item 25 for 9/20 City Council Meeting <br />Public Comment re: Public Nearing - Ordinance Amendment No. 2022-01 to Update Chapters 18, 21, <br />and 40 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code Addressing Medicinal Cannabis Retail, Consumption <br />Lounges and Temporary Events, Measure BB Waitlist Termination, Retail Facility Relocation, <br />Commercial Cannabis Eligible Areas, Commercial Cannabis Tax Rate Reductions for Commercial <br />Cannabis Cultivation, Distribution, and Manufacturing, and Adopt Language Addressing Proposed <br />Tax Treatment of Microbusinesses and Shared Manufacturing, and Make Other Administrative <br />Amendments of a Complimentary Nature <br />Eddie IR.orno, (714) 723-9324, works at SpeedyWeedy in Santa Ana. <br />Public orpiment: <br />We are pushing to include a '1) retail tax (break so taxes are lower and 2) tie that tax (break to wages and mileage <br />standard. 'To say - in order to get the tax (break employers would have to pay at least $17.25 + AIRS reimbursement <br />rate for mileage driven as well as other labor standard like on the yob paid training and meeting goals for hiring <br />locally. It would be a really (bug incentive that we can use to push employers like speedy weedy to provide higher <br />wages and mileage reuimlbuirsernent for drivers. <br />