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Kara Brewer: No. 1 2 Barry Katz: So in your cut flower area do you have an irrigation plan? And for your chestnuts as well? 3 4 Kara Brewer: Yes, that’s key. Especially for my flowerbeds, we’ll be using drip irrigation. With the chestnuts 5 it’s not quite as important, they do better when they’re dry. 6 7 Barry Katz: Do you have any idea what the capacity on your property is for actually pumping water? 8 9 Kara Brewer: I don’t, we’re working with a well service now to try to figure all that out. So we’re in the 10 process of doing that. 11 12 Barry Katz: So it’s possible that you really wouldn’t have enough water on that property to actually… 13 14 Kara Brewer: We’ve done some preliminary so we should be fine but again, I don’t know until they actually 15 start drilling. 16 17 Matt Hughes: I did find my other question buried in my notes. Some of the concerns that have been raised 18 are centers around people who may be visiting the farm at night in conjunction with weddings and nighttime 19 events and trespassing on property. What measures would your farm undertake to try and keep folks from 20 where they should not wander off? 21 22 Kara Brewer: We are hiring off duty police officers as security. Depending on what’s going on they’ll be 1-2. 23 24 Matt Hughes: And so would that also involve maybe some sort of patrol beyond the barn, just to make sure 25 or just being watchful. 26 27 Kara Brewer: Sure. While I’m out there I’ll be communicating with them and whatever is needed that’s what 28 we’ll do. 29 30 Matt Hughes: And I’ll assume also off duty because there might also be alcohol, and isn’t it standard 31 practice that if you’re serving liquor that you have someone who can be law enforcement on site? 32 33 Kara Brewer: Well I think that’s probably just a good thing to do generally. And we’ll also have shuttle 34 services available. 35 36 Susan Halkiotis: I had one other question that I’m just kind of puzzled by because you mentioned that this 37 had been the plan all along, that you had looked for this property with the intent to establish a farm and this 38 property met the criteria that you were looking for. Why then, on January 5th 2016 when the original building 39 permit application was submitted was the proposed use a farm event building with the use category 40 assembly? 41 42 Kara Brewer: I just clicked the wrong X. I thought the because we were having people assemble onto the 43 property that that’s what it would have to be but it was not the case. 44 45 Barry Katz: And going back to the original request that we faced last year; there didn’t seem to be any 46 vision at all like this involved then. You were just having a barn to have weddings and other special events. 47 48 46