<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the city council agenda item linked previously:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold';"><b>ACTION</b>: </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Approve the provision to extend Sidewalk Cafés to extend to neighboring business
property lines with the written permission of the neighboring property owner and waive applicable
catering permit fees typically required to enhance the atmosphere of the downtown corridor for the
City of Moscow and Chamber of Commerce hosted event on September 26, 2014 or take such other
action as deemed appropriate."</span><br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">As this has happened before, to whom are the "applicable catering permit fees" paid? The City if Moscow. I know this to be true, as I have a catering permit application, addressed to the City of Moscow, laying on my desk in front of me.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How nice of the city to waive such obligations a couple weeks after raising property tax by eleven percent.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Furthermore, as cited in the referenced link, this is to be a recurring event.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">" . . . </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">is proposed that the restrictions relating to Sidewalk Cafés be adjusted for this event and as a pilot for potential future downtown events."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is this to become a mandated waiver of catering permit fees for all future downtown events?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't get me wrong. I am as much a party animal as almost anyone on this list, as I have a record for "disturbing the peace" at Fort Dix, Fort Irwin, and the Presidio of San Francisco to substantiate this claim.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Concerning West of Paris, or Bloom (as it is now known) . . . </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They will always be "West of Paris", a name associated with that establishment dating back to the Foie Gras days of '06.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Foie_Gras_082906.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Foie_Gras_082906.mp3</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Aug 30, 2014, at 3:35 PM, Sunil <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't see anything objectionable about this.<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:04:13 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:keim153@gmail.com">keim153@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Item of interest<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>How is the city council working in conjunction with the Chamber on an item of potentially broad benefit a bad thing, Tom?</div><div><br></div><div>PS-West of Paris has been closed for several years now. Too bad! It was delicious.</div>
</div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Scott Dredge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com" target="_blank">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">In other words, a city council that '<b>GIVES A DAMN ! ! !'</b><br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:51:18 -0700<br>
To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: [Vision2020] Item of interest<div><br><br><div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">After the city council has approved an 11-percent property tax increase.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">Courtesy of item #9 of the City Council agenda at:</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"><br>
</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);" href="http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/records/Agendas/Council%2009-02-14.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/records/Agendas/Council%2009-02-14.pdf</font></a></div>
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<div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">9. Special Event Sidewalk Cafe Extension Trial - Jen Pfiffner</b><br></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">The City of Moscow, in partnership with the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, is hosting a downtown block party to welcome new and returning students back to the community <a target="_blank">on September 26, 2014</a>. The event is designed to introduce the Moscow community and local businesses to students and to provide an opportunity to celebrate our community as a whole. For the event Main Street from ‘A’ Street to 6<span style="vertical-align:5pt;">th </span>Street will be closed with the Third Street crossing remaining open. The City and Chamber would like to provide a festive and enticing atmosphere for the <a target="_blank">September 26</a> event, as well as provide an incentive for businesses to participate. To do so, it is proposed that the restrictions relating to Sidewalk Cafeìs be adjusted for this event and as a pilot for potential future downtown events. The proposed adjustment to the restrictions would include allowing establishments to abut a neighboring businesses property lines rather than their own property lines, thereby expanding the available area for a Sidewalk Cafeì presence for an establishment. All other restrictions would still apply. The establishment would be required to file an amended Sidewalk Cafeì Licensed Area diagram to the City Clerk with written permission from the neighboring business allowing the extension of the area in front of the neighboring business. For those establishments permitted to serve alcohol, they would need to apply for a catering permit with the City of Moscow in accordance with State liquor regulations. It is proposed that fees for these adjustments for this event be waived. </span><br>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">Three vendors that I imagine will present a major appearance are <b><i>West of Paris</i></b>,<b><i>Bucers</i></b>, and <b><i>NuArt</i></b> . . . maybe even <b><i>NSA</i></b> . . . all at Moscow tax-payer expense.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">I wonder if I can get the city of Moscow to pay for next June's Intolerista Wingding . . . probably not, huh?</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"> <br></span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">Tom</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);"> </span></div></div><br>
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