Remarks by Chris Robertson
791 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 22 of 32
“I thought that was, it was almost laughable that was even in our code. I like shooting pool. I like all that other stuff. I don't believe that, I mean, you have a kitchen in your restaurant.”
“Okay. And I don't think it was meant to target any one individual, but you do realize there was something you left off that list, which is really the black and white issue is here. What differentiates a liquor license from one of these 51% food sales, right? Yes. We all know that. Let's call the elephant out into the room, walk his butt right in here. Let's say what it really is. We're not going to muddy the waters with everything else. Cause we know that's what it is. We're not going to blame our police or anything else. We, you were in that meeting when Tisha read a whole laundry list of…”
“And I wasn't even happy with that because I got, what do you want us to do about it? I said, I want you to do your job and nothing against her, but I mean, it's just, just because stuff's been allowed to happen for forever on a multitude of things in our city. we're the ones that are being tasked with cleaning up and it's, it's vilifying us when we're just trying to say, okay, here's the code. What makes sense? What doesn't make sense? Calling heads and tails on this stuff. So I appreciate you giving those comments, but I'm, so what makes sense about the 11 59?”
“Okay. All right. But you agree with everything else in it?”
“Where's our finance guy? Yeah. Write the check directly to Cooper over there.”
“Okay, I didn't know there were discrepancies. We just wanted more information on that. Oh, okay, all right.”
“Cloud Main Street would love to take a check from you Jim I'll give it to them they do so much for this place so okay thank you Jim all right all right next up we do have Trevor Estill Richard Estill same person right”
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
“when I became mayor, you were the first one to call me and say, I need to sit down. And it was all about this. I mean, you are the, the, the genesis of this. I understand that. I mean, you're, you're also catching five prior years of frustration. You had your three minutes. I'm going to talk. Okay. Yeah. But you said you had, you were done. Okay. Let me just finish up. I'll give you 11 seconds here in a second, but you have to hear me out. Okay. You have said you have not been listened to for how many years now? And I'll let you, we don't have to hit the clock start on that. You can answer…”
“And I spoke to you on the phone and you didn't object to this. I did talk to you about this on the phone probably about a month ago. And so that's where I don't understand is why did you wholeheartedly want us to intervene on this, which is you were the driving force of this. And now that we've found a solution, I thought it's amicable. And now you're saying, stop, we don't want any of it. So you.”
“I am Trevor. I I'm it's not what I'm saying. So what do you, what do you want this council to do? If not this, what does Trevor Estill want? I'm just for cure. I'm curious.”
“I don't know where that even comes from.”
“Trevor, I'm baffled by these comments because why would that even come out of my mouth? You have a liquor license. We can't dictate that.”
“I'm going to take the floor again. I'm going to take the floor again because let's set this straight exactly what this is. We've got somebody with a liquor license. I believe we've got two downtown, right? Thank you. Out of the four in town. All right, we got two. You have been crying. We have to differentiate between liquor license and the 51%. Sure. Right? They don't have a kitchen. They don't have a kitchen. Our code says you have to have a kitchen. You got to have pool tables. You want us to pay attention to all that. I really don't care about the pool tables and all that stuff. I like…”
“Okay, so that is the whole point of this. What differentiates between what you have and what a 51%? What is that, the 4COP, what do they call that?”
“Okay, the last time I heard you and another stakeholder, you guys were cursing each other down New York Avenue.”
“It was back and forth. Don't put me in that basket. I'm just saying that that's the last interaction I've seen. And I think you guys are great business owners. You do your things. We've always wanted you all to get along and work this out. And now you guys are telling me you want to come together and work it out somehow. And I... You never called me and said you were in opposition to this. In fact, it was the opposite. Somehow we have to differentiate, and I'm gonna turn to the council on this one right now, because we are voting on this tonight. Council Member Urban.”
“All right. Well, do you think you guys in the next month can do that?”
“Amazing. I make a motion to move this to the next September 10th council meeting.”
“We have a motion. Second by Council Member Paul. Will the clerk please call the roll?”
“Thank you all. Jim, sorry, Ray, would you like to still come up here? You can come on up here. I know you do. We're moving it to the next meeting anyway. So, uh, I apologize.”
“All right. Right. Can I name an address for the record, sir?”
“Now, and to be fair, look, so you stay open until 2 and you don't have a kitchen, so you use... No, we do have a kitchen. You have a kitchen.”
“Is that your staff in the kitchen cooking? Cause if Jim close at 11, it doesn't have to be ours. No, I'm just, I'm asking, trying to understand. Okay.”
“So basically Jim was fighting to stay open because his employees are still working during that time, right? So is that right? Your employees are working during those hours until 2 a.m.?”