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From:Talon Waite <talon.waite@gmail.com>
Sent:Friday, October 15, 2021 5:41 PM
To:E-mail Council Website; Hermann, Greg; joe@nhcdispensaries.com; Valnette Garcia
Subject:Urgent Message for Mayor and City Council
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Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council:
We are writing you today to urge you to please listen to us, NHC employees, who are also residents of SLO County,
including the City of SLO.
With hundreds of jobs and an equal number of families that depend on NHC obtaining its permit in SLO, we implore you
to reconsider the brash decision by your staff to revoke, not only NHCs opportunities but the opportunities for all of us
that work for this great company. Many of us have worked for years gaining our experience, our knowledge, and our
connections to the patients and customers we serve in SLO County. Many of us have worked for years to obtain
leadership roles at NHC.
Together we comprise a young, dynamic group of hardworking, taxpaying citizens who would not have had these kinds
of opportunities were it not for this business. Many of us have struggled our entire lives seeking economic stability in
one of the most expensive places to live in California.
The employment opportunities that are available on the Central Coast do not provide most families a chance to become
self-reliant or enjoy financial stability for themselves and their families on a wage that can be described as livable.
We have worked tirelessly educating ourselves, dedicating our time to become leaders in this new and emerging
industry. How we have learned to interact and connect with our customers and patients by
recommending the most appropriate products has made us not only trusted but trendsetters in our industry.
For the city to turn back the clock and effectively put many of us at square one, looking for new jobs, with a new
company, will not only be detrimental to ourselves, but it will be a detriment to the community. NHCs business model is
second to none. We’ve earned the opportunity to continue pushing forward and delivering everything we have
promised to this City and to the community. We look forward to speaking to you face-to-face and bringing our collective
perspectives, and those of our families, and our customers, by explaining how this decision will negatively affect us all.
It is our sincere hope that as wise, progressive, and compassionate leaders of this City you will make the right decision
for this community. We believe that decision is to allow NHC to begin its operations as the company has spent years
planning for while making tremendous sacrifices to bring this business to fruition.
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Respectfully,
Talon Waite
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And
their grandchildren are once more slaves." D.H. Lawrence
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"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the
truth." - Carl Jung
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