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Favil West decries the draft RFP as poorly constructed and unprofessional. In a personal email to me, Favil said that the draft RFP demonstrates that a document as important as this RFP is to the future of the Community should not be left in the hands of well meaning people who do not know what they are doing. His advice to the Board would be to take a hands off approach while charging RMI to engage the services of a commercial real estate professional with leasing experience, claiming that neither the Board nor the Trumpets task force has the expertise and business wherewithal needed to create a professional leasing RFP.
Rather than continually challenging who is right and who is wrong concerning the ownership of the liquor license for Trumpets, wouldn’t the prudent thing, then most effective thing, the best use of the “business judgment rule” be for a contingent from our board, NOT JUST OUR PRESIDENT, to meet with a few of the officials from Henderson and try to impress upon them the importance of an extension of time in the use permits for the space. It is unreasonable to expect us to have a restaurant leased and functioning in 120 days. It would mean almost taking anyone just to maintain the existing permits and that is NOT using good business judgment. We need time to check out financials, background, have lawyers review the lease, have the lessee make their decorating changes, etc. This is not something that can or should be thrown together and to take the first person that comes along is disaster walking through the door. If the situation were explained to the City I don’t think the answers would be as black and white as the clerks have made it seem.
Ron:
It seems to me that either Pulte or the previous board made the mistake of giving the license to
S & D Cafe and not through the association. If Pulte made the mistake (I believe at that time the board had a developer majority?) they should pay the $30,000 for the license. Their negligence should not impact our operations yet it contunues to be the case. When are we as an association going to do something about it?
I didn't complete the survey because in my opinion it didn't consider an option that I thought could be attractive to Anthem residents.
Question? Was the establishment of a Culinary school and training restaurant considered? It seems to me that such a facility could offer low cost, high quality meals as well as provide cooking classes to residents.