you know, whether it s folks that supported them in an election or just their own internal compasses they will see issues a particular way. in september of 2013 we thought council would be reasonable but ended up being 5-1 against us. we voted to mandate that the retail sale of marijuana would be prohibited in the downtown core of breckenridge. ben brewer was the one, yes, and then we had john warner, the mayor. he voted against us. jennifer macatammy, mike dudic and wendy wolfe was recused and couldn t vote and gary gallagher voted against us. mark burke was absent. we collected over $120,000 in taxes in january, in taxes. we had to go hand that to the people that voted to kick us out of our location.
recreational marijuana dispensaries in our downtown area. when i was on council, we set up a zone to put the retail shops on airport road, and out of being, you know, nice guys from a legislative standpoint, we were told that they had a lease expired august 31st of 2014. all right. we ll grandfather you in for eight months and then you re out on september 1st. they had an unparalleled economic advantage by being the only shop on main street for eight months. this town would never in a million years say there can only be one pizza restaurant or one hamburger restaurant or only one t-shirt shop. that s what we did. we virtually created a monopoly for them. no one talks about the three stores total that were downtown, us being one of the them. no one talks about the other stores. it s not like we were handed this one location. no. there were three of us. there isn t enough proceeds on
when people rob banks they often walk away with less than this amount of money, and here i am with it in my hand. thank you. sweet. have a good one. later, jesse. peace. 80% of the pot in breckenridge was coming out of their doors in the wintertime. that s just not right. it s not fair that when there s four businesses that one gets 80%, not because they have the best priced product and service but because they have the best location. there you go. thanks, pal. essentially we have two locations in town where there are dispensaries currently. right out here on airport road we have four marijuana dispensaries, three of which are some combination of recreational and dole and one that s strictly medical and one marijuana dispensary that s on main street. we should probably point out that they will be there only through through 2014. september of 2014. because council passed the ordinance that we don t want
the ullr parade which is really the highlight of the ullr fest. we asked some of our employees come on over to our house and have them help us built this float for the parade. the idea here is that the flexibility should be enough that we can make a joint-shaped product and get inside of it. we ll wrap it up and set it on the trailer and put the lights in the front and put the green trees in the back looking like a little bit of pot coming out and put a hole in the top like a canoe and then stand inside there. yeah. success. keep it up. our goal is to advertise to the council, to the customers and the potential customers, people who may be thinking, hey, i was going to go out and get drunk tonight and what else am i going to do. you can recreate with marijuana instead of getting drunk. i haven t had time, you know, to
this council screwed us clear as day. they screwed us right out of everything we worked for. one evening, one vote and they took everything away from us this. this location is everything. we played by the rules, and they still kicked us out of main street. we have five weeks until we have a new town council. april 1st we have an election coming up. breckenridge is going to have three seats open. jen, you re term-limited. this is my swan song on breck buzz. if the current members of council aren t going to be reasonable and do what i believe the people want and keep us on main street raising this tax revenue, i m going to do what it takes to get the new council members to be more reasonable. we need to work to get council members that are going to side with us. people that are much younger. in touch.