1:03 a.m. - 2004-12-14
Town Hall
Went to the Town Hall meeting. Apparently they have them every Monday.
We were told that it started 7:30pm, so we stopped off at the store to check and see the progress because we were a bit early.
When we got to Town Hall, I was expecting a huge room with lots of people. We couldn't find our way and we were "greeted" by a woman sitting on a bench and a guy with an attitude. When asked what we wanted, I said we were looking for a Town Hall meeting. He asked what I wanted and I said that I heard that there was a town hall meeting tonight. Browneye said we were trying to get our C of O, and the guy got very snotty and said, "Not tonight, you're not. You'll have to come back tomorrow between..." At that point, Browneye got fed up and put on his arrogant, fuck you act and pulled a bit of rank with him and cut him off saying, "We have a business and we need to discuss our C of O at the town meeting." For those of you who do not know Browneye in person, let's just say he has a way about him. The guy came down a few notches and said, "You need to go in there then," and pointed.
Sheeeeesh.
Anyway...we went in there and they were dealing with someone with what appeared to be a legit problem (a residential thing) plus one serious crackpot and one woman whose story was too long to print here but involved such a miniscule amount of money that I was almost willing to dole out her monthly fee so she would shut the fuck up. She wanted a town ordinace changed just for her and that wasn't happening.
It wasn't long before we had our chance to speak...we complained that we were trying to open up a business in town and that we have been trying to get our final inspection to get our C of O and that we were being put out of business before we started. We said we applied for permits the first week of August, waited 10 weeks until we got a building permit (raised eyebrows from some folks there)and have been waiting another month for our final inspection. To make it worse, we were told it would be 12/13 and it was moved to 12/20. We are paying rent on the building and we can't do anything to make money with it.
They said that they would address it with the building department tomorrow and get back to us.
The architect said that it is so bad that people are choosing to pay the fines rather than wait. I wish I would have known earlier as even $1000 a day for quite some time would have still paid off.
To put it into perspective, it would be one very well paid townsperson's salary.
On another note, I may have to segregate Midnight. I think she is losing her sight and the others are ambushing her. I think Pepper might be the most guilty as he is a bit agressive. I think he has been taking chunks out of her back.
