Board education meeting

Date: 11/26/2007
Time: 7:30

Number of peoplepresent: 24/34 with the members

The attendance were called.
Right after the members and a few people went into a room to discuss some private topic, I think. Half of the people that were present in the class left after they found out that they topic was postpone. No material or handout was released.
The audio wasn’t very clear and I had a few problems to understand what they were saying.
The topic that was discussed was about the opening of a new restaurant and the owner was asking to make the building bigger, have more parking spaces, and have a double signs and on of them bigger.
Before the owner could explain her needs for the new restaurant, she needed to say her full name. The owner listed a few positive points about why every request she asked for, saying that this restaurant was going to be positive commercial
A question was raised from one of the members of the boar asking "Is one more restaurant need in this town?"
The main problems about making the restaurant bigger was that it was going to leave the shore next to it with no enough space.
The members don’t seems to be positive about opening on other restaurant as a need for the town and a positive thing.
It was asked if any one in the room had any questions. One of the members were asked what is the difference to open a pizzeria instead of a McDonald and subway that are open 24 hours? But the only problem that seems to stop them was that the way the building is designed there was going to be a drive-thru and a lot people would prefer to go to a drive-thru then a McDonald without it.
An other member said that he wish they could open a Mediterranean restaurant instead of an other pizzeria. The members also discussed the difference between a fast food and a restaurant and what make a fast food and what make a restaurant.
Also an other question was asked about if a double sign was needed and if yes why need to be bigger? The owner answered that the second sign need to be bigger so it was more visible from people that were driving. The problem that the members had it was that the building was pretty clean and neat and a big sign would maybe be too much so the members props to keep the sign a the sam size as the rest of the signs.
At the end of the meeting the members were asked to vote for each request.
The meeting was dismissed.