This RFP solicits proposals from consultants and firms to secure funding from grants in order to complete a comprehensive Cannabis Equity assessment (“Study”) of the cannabis industry in the City of Salinas. The City is looking for an experienced contractor who can provide this data collection and analysis through an equity lens, including but not limited to disaggregating existing data and data collected to identify disproportionate impacts by racial, ethnic, and economic demographics. It will be paramount that the selected responder has a keen understanding of the unique challenges facing those communities most affected by the War on Drugs and is dedicated to a strategy using social equity tools to analyze data and inform policy recommendations to support the City’s efforts to Read more