My name is Chris Salazar, co-owner and co-founder of Vape Citi. We became incorporated in December 2012. However, have been in vaping since July 2012. This is a compilation of our letter of intent to lease originally dated December 18, 2012 for various retail locations throughout Orange County and the Inland Empire before Vape Citi opened its doors in Fullerton, California. Vape Citi, Inc. was formed in August 2012 and just within the past few weeks, we have officially become incorporated through the Secretary of State. I have three other partners. As mentioned before, we are all in the healthcare field. Three nurses and one respiratory therapist. We were former cigarette smokers and switched to electronic cigarettes last summer. Since electronic cigarettes worked for us, we saw an opportunity to give others an chance to try a smoking alternative. We bought a few electronic cigarettes and sold some to our co-workers. One thing led to another and a few months later, we have been selling at a highly successful rate through referrals and word of mouth. We feel we have a strong, large customer base and with my partners, we have sold to customers from Hawaii to Texas with the majority of sales coming in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. With an actual store front, it would give us the opportunity to provide better customer service and actually interact with those new to vaping and electronic cigarette use. We would also use the store as a storage place for our inventory and fulfillment center for e-commerce. As you know, our website is not yet set up for e-commerce. It is currently as splash page. As you see in one of the attached pictures, we have our product pictures ready and we will launch e-commerce at around the same time we open our store. Vaping is the common term for smoking electronic cigarettes. However because electronic cigarettes does not contain smoke, does not use fire, does not burn, smoking an electronic cigarette would not be the proper term as there is no smoke manufactured during the heating process. Instead, there is water vapor, hence the term vape. An electronic cigarette contains three basic components. Please refer to the attached picture. 1) The battery (powers the unit) 2) The microprocessor (controls voltage/wattage to increase or decrease the amount of vape) 3) The cartridge/atomizer/cartomizer (the heating element and e-juice) Batteries come in different shapes, sizes and colors but all does the same thing. For example, the disposable electronic cigarettes sold at various liquor store, Walgreen’s and 7-11 convenience stores look like a regular cigarette but does the exact same thing as our products. They have the same basic parts as what we sell. Our products just give our customers to control the amount of vape wanted and can customize their e-cig to their liking but using different colored cartridges or tips or actual e-cig. We brand some of our products as shown. From pyrex tanks (which serves as a reservoir for the e-juice to cases to hopefully in the future, we can brand our own electronic cigarette. Like other vape shops, most of our products do come from China. Some of our products come from Montana and Washington State. We strictly advertise as an alternative to tobacco smoking. This product by no means is meant to cure any disease. () We currently do not nor plan to sell to people younger than 18. Our target group are males 18-40 but we have had customers 50-70 years of age. We also tailor to female smokers with pink e-cigarettes and cases as shown in the attached pictures. Our planned hours of operation would be 10am to 9pm. Basic retail business hours. We do not intend to open late as we do not see a need to. Our products for sale would only be the electronic cigarettes, which includes but not limited to various tanks, tips, batteries, cases, and juices. The juices may or may not contain nicotine. They are simply made of distilled water, a base of either vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol used to thicken water so that it wont vaporize quickly, flavoring and may or may not contain nicotine. Customers will have their option to customize their vape and choose their juice. We currently have contracts with four juice manufacturers and are working on getting two more manufacturers within two weeks. We will have a juice bar. Basically it will be a station to allow customers to try different flavors of e-juices. Flavors range from tobacco flavors to fruit flavors to dessert flavors to coffee flavors. A variety of flavors to meet each individuals needs. We will also sell our branded Vape Citi clothing used for promotional and marketing. I have looked at the bookstore a few weeks ago. In the event, you and the landlord accepts our offer and terms, we would keep the flooring as that is the color and type laminate we would have change it to anyway. In the addition to the juice bar, we will have about 3-4 display cases, one POS terminal and a small waiting area with a couch, coffee table and wall mounted television. This waiting area would serve as another place for customers to test the juices or wait for their party to finish purchasing. We plan to have a water dispenser and offer water. Like in wine tasting, it is almost imperative to rinse your mouth out in between different wines. The same goes with e-juice tasting. Once can not get the full flavor of the juice without rinsing their mouth with water. We plan to put store front signage based on the properties sign program. We feel we can bring the plaza extra customers. Imagine the plaza without the cigarette odor or butts in the parking lot. Vaping is an exponentially rising trend. My company feels that two years would be the perfect amount of time for both of us. As stated in a previous email, nearly 50% of approximately 44 million smokers in 2010 attempted to quit. Being in the healthcare field, we feel we have an advantage against other vape shops opening. A quick side note – With Obama-care, millions and millions of people will have a harder time getting seen by doctors and medications will come at a higher price in co-pays. The plan is for the country as a whole to push for preventative medicine where doctors and other medical practitioners get a bonus for their patients having less and less medical problems. How will this relate to us? Simple. With more people not being able to afford healthcare and more medical practitioners promoting smoking cessation, tobacco smokers would be forced to search for an alternative method to satisfy their nicotine fix. The electronic cigarette. I hope this explains what our company is about and gives you a better understanding of the electronic cigarette. If you would like me to explain our product in person so you can actually see it in person, I am free Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. February 11, 12 and 13. As far as the City of Fullerton allowing this type of business, there wouldn’t be a problem. There is another vape shop a few miles away called (). In fact, there are vape shops all over Orange County from Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Buena Park, Orange, Santa Ana and Laguna Hills. Feel free to go on Yelp! through your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone and search vape. There will be a lot of hits that comes up where six months ago, there were only three. Please look at the attached photos. Most of them are from our Instagram and FaceBook social media sites. Any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you and have a great weekend. We are primarily a retail business with the intent to sell electronic cigarettes for profit. Electronic cigarettes, commonly known as