clayton copps, who founded over a decade ago, serves as operating consultant. david ho is liaison on the community benefits program. and nate haas, general manager of barbary coast, will serve as compliance consultant to barbary coast. i wanted to give everyone an idea of what experienced and qualified group of operators are involved in this project. so, three and a half years ago, i attended a strategy meeting with the barbary coast leadership team and it was a clear consensus that they wanted to open a small dispensary in the city. the idea it was they were positioned to serve clients in civic center areas and wanted to locate to a new project of town, in a part of town there was clear need for access to cannabis. after determining their parents, they determined they had patient members and employees on the west side of the city. at that time we began to survey the sunset and richmond district. because the richmond district had existing dispensary, it was determined that the sunset district would be the better choice. the process began with the review of the