So where does the money go?

I saw that um for five years um uh um goes there.

Last night I had a meeting and they told me the jails has 20 percent of homeless.

So that's not right.

Uh homeless shouldn't be a crime.

And you're making a crime and it's homeless right now.

And you know, the police I found out how you do, you pick them out, and you must be me people or something like that because homeless is not a crime.

But you're making you're making it a crime.

Um they said uh the meaning of they put they put the dumber the they're complaining, um they're playing in the uh their clothes and everything in the dumpsters and like that, they're doing all that stuff.

The right now they're they're they're mean to the homeless, and that's not right.

Uh the the jail is now our homeless and metal place also.

That's what you're doing.

We have a uh we have about 20 percent h mental places in the jail also.

So that's not right what you're doing with this um the police uh uh short and uh making mean and all the spending the time with the homeless and the mental houses also um I know it's the county, it's supposed to be the county mental house, but they don't step up.

But you share the jail.

So you're you're you know, you share the jail with them.

So um that's not right you're doing with the police.

You can tell of the ship if we had academies, we wouldn't be short of police.

And every time we are short of police, the the I've talked to the officers and they said they don't have officers to open the police station.

And so uh uh uh you you're not doing the right thing, staying with fire.

We supposed to have 39 stations when Aunt Marley um Emma was here, but we didn't build those.

Well, Judy Shring, followed by Scott Chipman and then Kathleen Lippitz.

Good morning, Judy Strang, District One.

First of all, congratulations to Georgia Gomez is the new chair of the MT MTS.

The parents are very pleased about that and glad to have the Latino community represented there.

I just wanted to uh provide some clarifying information regarding uh AB 64.

And I brought this blue, which I'll pass around in just a minute.

Uh it's important to realize that the regulations and the permitting process that the state is putting in place for both Metapod and Recreational Pot pre-existed Prop 64, and this is what this explains.

The trio bills in 2015 passed by the legislature, uh set in place a permitting process and regulations for Metapot.

And this was, as they say here on the front page of SB 94, uh, to protect consumer safety and public safety, and to also help with tax compliance for the Metapot businesses.

After Prop 64 was passed, which legalized personal possession and cultivation in homes of six plants, this very um permitting process and regulatory process was applied as well to recreational businesses.

The myth that Prop 64 is a mandate for pot businesses is not true.

The regulations and permitting process were way in place two years previous to that, and I just wanted to clarify that myth.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Scott Chipman, followed by Kathleen Lippett.

I'm gonna read excerpts from uh Nadine George's high school student from Lemon Grove uh opinion piece.

Marijuana is poisoning the minds of American youth.

Today's society we are all faced with obstacles, especially those of us who are young and still learning right from wrong and good from bad.

If someone were offer me marijuana, I would decline.

I have developed my own choices and opinions.

However, marijuana is a toxin.

Uh it is the responsibility of adults to teach and encourage young to youth to make the right choices and not smoke weed.

This problem is mostly being ignored.

Making marijuana legal does not make it less harmful.

Teens usually make the decision to use marijuana based on four factors curiosity, friends, self-medications, or social media.

Many teens are merely curious about getting high and wonder what's the big deal is.

Teens are mostly trying to fit in and find a place in their society.

According to research, when teens were asked why they use marijuana, 29% said it was because their friends used it.

Social media influences our lives in many ways.

We are the future, and the future depends on what you teach us.

Why is the adult generation modeling that it is okay to use marijuana and that there is no harm to our developing young minds?

When the adults of today retire, it will be my generation that is going to be the leaders of in the world, deciding life-changing movements that will impact everyone, including all of us today.

We do not need a bunch of stoneheads making decisions running our society.

Adults need to lead by setting the right example.

Youth like me need to take responsibility.

I ask responsible adults to lead us in the right direction, making decisions and laws that keep us healthy and able to lead the next generation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And then Kathleen Lippitz.