Remarks by Maureen Coffey
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I hear your passion, but again, I just have to go back to, you knew you weren't supposed to be doing it.
This is just how he likes to spend a Tuesday morning.
ballrooms layout, it would never be compliant for there to be live entertainment on their rooftop. Right. Given that it is not contained, it is an open air rooftop.
Got it. I think that's important to make sure we all understand. I don't really have a question about 18 so much as thoughts. I don't view this as an endpoint to this conversation. I think that this is really kind of an intermediary place for us to rest while we figure out Everything else. It's certainly a lot better than not having it Because we haven't been able to figure out how to respond in some of these occasions where we've noticed repeated offenses, I think it's a very valid concern to bring up just the capacity of enforcement and so I guess one of my questions on that is you know if…
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Even, it doesn't have to be three full separate inspections in order to rack up three violations.
Yeah. And yes. So in addition to that, I think These are the first, this is the first board meeting in which we're incorporating these conditions into anyone's use permits. And Will it change, I guess, any of our practices of enforcement to have this condition in such that, let's say there is an observed violation of a live entertainment use permit on the first Saturday of the month, would there be an intention then to do a re-inspection, let's say the following Saturday, rather than waiting you know, a month or two to come back and check the behavior. Is that part of our orientation here or…
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Yeah. I do want to express appreciation for Buena Vida improving. I know they're not perfect, but from where we were at with them a year-ish ago, I think it was, talk about a concerted effort. And so I'm grateful for that. I think there is still work to go. And I do wonder, thinking about you know, the open window issues, it's great that you all are calling directly to the venue to get it handled. Is there something from the staff side, like, do we want to know or be able to know about that? I just...
Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, I think you know, I'm like all my previous comments apply here I will have to grapple I think a little bit with the thoughts around the different building materials and construction and how that should or shouldn't play in and and particularly as mr. Defranti brought up the the legally defensible needs of our conditions So I think That is kind of a newer thought to me. It's not something I want to reject out of hand, but it's also not something I think I am equipped to grapple with prior to voting on this in this moment. So I think that's a good marker for…
And I can also speak a little bit to that, just that. Your liaison, yeah. I'm not this year, but I have been. The Clarendon Alliance, unlike a bid, is an optional membership alliance. So not every business or entity in Clarendon chooses to participate in the Clarendon Alliance, and they don't provide the same degree representation and business liaisonship type things that a bid would. I think Galen, the new executive director, is going to bring a lot in terms of what she hopes to be able to make Clarendon Alliance into, but I think historically they have not been involved really at all in…