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i' <br /> Julie Kjorsvik C <br /> From: JoAnne Duncan <jduncan@eburg.wednet.edu> 1�— <br /> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 6:29 AM <br /> To: Kittitas County Commissioners Office <br /> Cc: Jeff Watson <br /> Subject: BAN ALL POT GROWING and PROCESSING <br /> Importance: High <br /> http://www.newsofmillcreek.com/content/mill-creek-city-council-moves-ban-mariivana-businesses <br /> Hello, <br /> My name is JoAnne Duncan. I have lived in Kittitas County for 24 years. I teach first grade at Mount Stuart Elementary <br /> School. I am also on the Kittitas Early Learning Coalition, and a member of the Morning Rotary Club. Our family also runs <br /> an Angus Cattle Ranch on Weaver Rd. <br /> I am urging all leaders in our community to stand up for the majority of Kittitas County residents who voted against 602. <br /> The measure did not pass in Kittitas County. Please place a complete ban on all marijuana growing, processing, and retail <br /> businesses that are applying for licenses in Kittitas County. I have included a link to what the leaders of Mill Creek are <br /> doing to protect their community. At this point there are too many unknowns, and WAY to much at stake to rush <br /> forward. They are placing a complete ban on all marijuana activity! <br /> I have found many examples of counties who are placing a moratorium or complete ban on the growing, processing, and <br /> retail sales of marijuana. Yakima and all of the lower valley have moratoriums, Kent, Wenatchee, and Mill Creek just to <br /> name a few also have bans or moratoriums. <br /> I have been out talking to everyone I know about this and the reaction as been complete SHOCK,ANGER, FRUSTRATION, <br /> SADNESS, people are FURIOUS.... etc. The point is people had no idea that our Leaders were looking at allowing large pot <br /> growing and processing operations in our county, our backyards and our neighborhoods. People are ANGRY. I have not <br /> come across one person who is in favor of allowing our county to become an experiment for growing and processing a <br /> Federally illegal drug that brings along with it the negative impact of crime,violence, and will create a downward spiral <br /> of our once vibrant and safe community. <br /> Commissioners...PLEASE BAN ALL pot growing and processing operations within Kittitas County or seek state legislative <br /> action to add a local option to allow the county to ban legal pot growing!M READ what the Leaders of Mill Creek are <br /> doing to protect the integrity, safety,and well being of their vibrant community! This is URGENT! <br /> Respectfully, <br /> JoAnne Duncan <br /> 1 <br />