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Ms. Grady asked if there.was anymore public comment. <br /> Mr. Jack Manoli current manager of iovanni's-Restaurant discussed how <br /> the lowering the number of seats would destroy then. They lease the <br /> property in goodwill and he pays the rent with goodwill.ill. If the system <br /> needed to be upgraded it was the landlord's job to upgrade the system, It <br /> might not be the right way to look at, but, they wanted a system out of <br /> there for the grease traps and they gage it to there. He didn't think it was <br /> fair to look to the restaurants for this change. They made their predictions <br /> on ghat they have when they signed these long-terra leases. For them to <br /> o backwards on their leases is like taking all of their hard work and <br /> throwing it away. He really didn't think that they should expect or ask <br /> therm to do that. They serious citiz en and hard workers for this area. He <br /> appreciated the board looking into the matter for them.- <br /> Mr. <br /> h rm.-Mr. Charles Hajjar, Hajjar management spoke next, He stated' that he felt <br /> badly for the restaurants. Especially for Michelle because she only used <br /> the outdoor seating only on the weekends. When he was there a few <br /> weekends ago it wasbeautiful day and stip nobody was outside* it was <br /> a shame but he guess those are the laws, Mr. McGrath had explored every <br /> avenue he could. Their actual water consumption was only 3900 GPDO <br /> 1 <br /> That could be verified at the water department in l ashpee. That was <br /> avenue that they explored. Unfortunately, what they are telling them is <br /> that any increase in flow from that magical date back in 1995 was done <br /> improperly and these restaurants needed to be roiled back to these <br /> amounts. Back to Michael's Restaurant, just two years ago they had <br /> approval for 60 seats. They it was 67 and noir it was 70 something, just <br /> within three-years. It just seems like there was no rhyme or reason to how <br /> this was happening. It was putting them in ar fog. They also making if <br /> seem-like the loss of rent and whatever. The long-term leases that they <br /> have are a very, very lover amount. There was just no bottom to every new <br /> restaurant that was there. He just wanted to make that statement <br /> because if the board thought they were getting rich off of these <br /> restaurants. He thought that the rents were in the two to three thousand <br /> dollars a month range. The operating costs were so high that it just didn't <br /> justify it. He did feel for therm, if the board would go along with the <br /> original amounts and'they wanted to mount a challenge to the DEP* They <br /> could get going with the denitrification to approve those amounts* They <br /> could go back to the DEP, hire and attorney or use Attorney Dalton, <br /> whatever they decide to do to fight the DEP to get more seats approved. <br /> They would have more traffic corning in on a Saturday right and they <br /> could feed off each other. The last thing he wanted to do was limit seats <br /> to everyone. He thanked the board. <br /> 1 <br />