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Town Meeting with Restaurant Owners, Landlords, and Tenants to Find Financial Ways to Survive During the Upcoming Winter Season. (Requested By Councilmember Brill)
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Councilmember Brill wants to have a conversation with Town Council regarding how small businesses will operate with outdoor seating, in the COVID-19 environment, as the weather gets colder in the coming months.
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“I move that the Town of Vienna invite Vienna restaurant lenders, owners, landlords, and tenants to meet at 2:00 p.m. on November 12 at Community Center gym to discuss challenges that all of the stakeholders in the Vienna business community face from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the upcoming winter season (December, 2020 - March 2021), as well as private sector initiatives to help alleviate the situation. Peter Sparber, a community-minded 40-year resident of Vienna, will moderate. The town is not proposing any legislative action as a result of this meeting and Town Council members may observe, but will not participate in the discussion.”
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Other action deemed necessary by Council.