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Zaldivar: There's one Board member that I texted with after, he wouldn't call me back,
<br />but he texted me back, he goes, "I hate other people's music." He's on the Board and
<br />he sent a blanket email out to every owner, and that's why you got so much action.
<br />He put a short form on how to protest, and that's why you got so many, and I tried to
<br />contact them all, and I'm here and nobody ever called me, I mean I'm here everyday.
<br />We open the shop, we're working hard to create jobs, create economic development.
<br />You know, we're a family organization, we don't even drink alcohol, none of my family
<br />does. But we want it for their people who requested it for months, I want rum in my
<br />coconut, they want it and they're there on vacation. So, I'm listening to the market, I'm
<br />listening to the community, the youth over at Banyans, they go surfing and they want
<br />some place to grab a sandwich and hang out, and that's something we need down
<br />there. And so, even young people from 21-35, they don't even have a place to go meet
<br />a friend or go on a date. There's nothing to do down there, it just shuts down, so we're
<br />going to create that for people, and I do feel that the community and the owners are
<br />going to love it. I'm going to slowly but surely show them, I know a lot of people have
<br />difficulty with change, but this is good change and it's not a big change, it's rum in the
<br />coconut, and everything else is beautiful, sandwiches and snacks, so.
<br />Greenwell: You know, taking into consideration that you came all the way here to this
<br />meeting today shows us one side, your side of the story. I'm questioning whether we
<br />should take a continuance and get more information from the other side, I don't know.
<br />Wilkinson: Genuinely, I appreciate that you have verbally made a change to reduce
<br />the hours, that seems to address a lot of the issues. I am concerned about the
<br />bathroom, the situation and if it's a violation of the house rules. And you have
<br />problematic owners who don't like other people's music, and don't like people parking
<br />there, are they going to create a problem for you with the bathrooms and perhaps
<br />establishing an agreement first?
<br />Zaldivar: And I'll tell you, I have lots of ways to combat any issues, like I said, 86% of
<br />our customers and our research are already going to have access to that, I don't think
<br />it's going to be a big issue but if it is, we own and control 15 parking spaces. Theres'
<br />nine spaces deeded to Da Coco Shack, there's two spaces deeded to the residential
<br />unit above us, and we have full collaboration with Da Poke Shack and their four spaces,
<br />so we don't have a parking issue at all. Not a lot of people have 15 parking spaces,
<br />right? And on top of that I can take one of my spaces, and if we had to, we put in a
<br />nice bathroom there if we had to, that's my property and we can do it, that's later.
<br />Mantanez: That's also against the house rules but.
<br />Zaldivar: It's limited common area, there's things that we can do with our property that
<br />the association can't necessarily dictate, but those are our properties. So, we can work
<br />through it, we're in collaboration, we're not in competition, we're here to add value,
<br />we're not here to detract value or disrupt. I'm telling you right now, the hostel across the
<br />street, they wrote us a nice letter, the people in all the different condominium units have
<br />come by and said, "When are you opening? Come on." I mean, you can please some
<br />of the people some of the time, you cannot please all the people all the time even
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