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SLO County from page 36<br />
in motorist behavior and awareness<br />
like I’ve seen on recent<br />
trips to pot-legal Oregon and<br />
Washington.<br />
In the end, he and the board<br />
voted to allow marijuana cultivation<br />
in Carrizo Plain, ban sales of<br />
edible pot products and prohibit<br />
retail sales in unincorporated<br />
areas.<br />
Board member Adam Hill,<br />
visibly frustrated, suggested the<br />
vote represented an abuse of<br />
the democratic process.<br />
Future issue: State officials are<br />
still developing rules regulating<br />
packaging, sale and strength of<br />
marijuana in ways that may favor<br />
large producers over smaller<br />
local growers.<br />
Meet the New Boss: We<br />
extend a greeting to the county’s<br />
new chief officer, Wade<br />
Horton. Most of San Luis<br />
Obispo County’s past County<br />
Administrative Officers<br />
were hired from outside the<br />
county but Horton’s an insider,<br />
vacating San Luis Obispo County’s<br />
Public Works department,<br />
where he’d been since 2014.<br />
If you’re wondering what<br />
he does, well, if the board of supervisors<br />
is like Congress, then<br />
Horton is like the President,<br />
without, uhh, the vote part.<br />
The CAO oversees budgets,<br />
employees and just about everything<br />
else a well oiled county<br />
machine needs to run.<br />
Like his predecessors, Horton<br />
ROUND TOWN<br />
serves at the board’s pleasure,<br />
a fancy way of saying they can<br />
fire him whenever they like, but<br />
we hope he will have a long and<br />
calm career.<br />
Browsing airline pricing…<br />
hmm, still cheaper for me to<br />
fly myself to Washington for<br />
Thanksgiving. Guess I won’t<br />
be visiting the new terminal<br />
quite yet.<br />
December <strong>2017</strong>, <strong>PASO</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> 37
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