We are cultivators in Mendocino County that have maintained congruent county permits and state licensing since the start of Prop 64. We have done a contract rezone as well as our own MND to adhere to changes with the County of Mendocino's Cannabis ordinance. We obtained a permit prior to the implementation of the Portal, only the approval of our Appendix G/ Supporting Documentation is keeping is from transitioning our State license from provisional to annual.
We have submitted 12 drafts of Appendix G/ Supporting Documentation to the MCP and the "planner" assigned to our project. With each draft we received new edits/ revisions. It was clear they were either learning on the job or dragging it our to bill $90 a hour. On our final draft we were informed by the "planner" we has converted Prime Farmland and they will not sign off on our AppendixG/ Supporting Documentation preventing us from obtaining annual licensure at the state level.
We wrote a formal complaint via email to the MCP Program Director in September of 2021 and received no reply. Having spoken with countless other operators and consultants is seems not one Appendix G has been approved. With provisional licensure sunsetting in June 2022 there seems to be a concerted obstructionist efforts to keep Mendocino County Cannabis cultivators from obtaining annual licensure. This is monumental because without annual licensure there is no due process under the law.
The Portal has experienced a large amount of malfunctions. From IT to Incomplete errors. Our office have had over 20 incomplete errors corrected by MCP staff. Currently, no-one in the public knows when the Portal will reopen to address the incompletes for documents not originally specified/requested in the Portal and no notification to the public the unspecified/not requested documents were required in the Portal. The Portal purpose was for "resubmission" of the original application that MCP never seemed to be able to process. The Portal is something other than that with errors made by staff and errors made by participants and their consultants.
In addition, More and more of our clients "In Good Standing" are very concerned with the lack of processing of their Appendix G/SSHR as their annual renewals coming up at the county, state, or both levels of licensure.
MCP Participates in good standing have no idea who their Planner assigned is or their status of the SSHQ/Appendix G. Please see the following:
1. AG_ 2019-0462 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 2/4/21 - processing has not been completed in one year.
2. AG_2017-0493 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 1/28/21 - processing has not been completed in over a year
3. AG_2017-0128 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 8/9/21 - processing has not been completed in six months.
4. AG_2017-0046 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 8/24/21 - processing has not been completed in six months
These are not the only four participants "in good standing" awaiting MCP processing.
Time is of the essence as participants will be losing their state provisional licenses (some who have had them for several years now) if MCP does not process these long standing submittals with issuance of a letter of approval. That letter of Appendix G/SSHR approval must be submitted to the state and must be provided in a timely manner in order to process their state provisional renewal. Without that letter from MCP, existing state Provisional licenses can not be renewed and new provisional state licenses can not be issued.
Phase 3 opening needs to wait until all MCP Participants "In Good Standing" and all Portal Participants have been process and a letter has been issued. If legally Phase 3 must be opened, then all applications from Phase 3 need to wait 1 year prior to processing.
We are cultivators in Mendocino County that have maintained congruent county permits and state licensing since the start of Prop 64. We have done a contract rezone as well as our own MND to adhere to changes with the County of Mendocino's Cannabis ordinance. We obtained a permit prior to the implementation of the Portal, only the approval of our Appendix G/ Supporting Documentation is keeping is from transitioning our State license from provisional to annual.
We have submitted 12 drafts of Appendix G/ Supporting Documentation to the MCP and the "planner" assigned to our project. With each draft we received new edits/ revisions. It was clear they were either learning on the job or dragging it our to bill $90 a hour. On our final draft we were informed by the "planner" we has converted Prime Farmland and they will not sign off on our AppendixG/ Supporting Documentation preventing us from obtaining annual licensure at the state level.
We wrote a formal complaint via email to the MCP Program Director in September of 2021 and received no reply. Having spoken with countless other operators and consultants is seems not one Appendix G has been approved. With provisional licensure sunsetting in June 2022 there seems to be a concerted obstructionist efforts to keep Mendocino County Cannabis cultivators from obtaining annual licensure. This is monumental because without annual licensure there is no due process under the law.
The Portal has experienced a large amount of malfunctions. From IT to Incomplete errors. Our office have had over 20 incomplete errors corrected by MCP staff. Currently, no-one in the public knows when the Portal will reopen to address the incompletes for documents not originally specified/requested in the Portal and no notification to the public the unspecified/not requested documents were required in the Portal. The Portal purpose was for "resubmission" of the original application that MCP never seemed to be able to process. The Portal is something other than that with errors made by staff and errors made by participants and their consultants.
In addition, More and more of our clients "In Good Standing" are very concerned with the lack of processing of their Appendix G/SSHR as their annual renewals coming up at the county, state, or both levels of licensure.
MCP Participates in good standing have no idea who their Planner assigned is or their status of the SSHQ/Appendix G. Please see the following:
1. AG_ 2019-0462 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 2/4/21 - processing has not been completed in one year.
2. AG_2017-0493 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 1/28/21 - processing has not been completed in over a year
3. AG_2017-0128 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 8/9/21 - processing has not been completed in six months.
4. AG_2017-0046 submitted Appendix G/SSHR and Air Quality 8/24/21 - processing has not been completed in six months
These are not the only four participants "in good standing" awaiting MCP processing.
Time is of the essence as participants will be losing their state provisional licenses (some who have had them for several years now) if MCP does not process these long standing submittals with issuance of a letter of approval. That letter of Appendix G/SSHR approval must be submitted to the state and must be provided in a timely manner in order to process their state provisional renewal. Without that letter from MCP, existing state Provisional licenses can not be renewed and new provisional state licenses can not be issued.
Phase 3 opening needs to wait until all MCP Participants "In Good Standing" and all Portal Participants have been process and a letter has been issued. If legally Phase 3 must be opened, then all applications from Phase 3 need to wait 1 year prior to processing.