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LeAnne Brown: So you will have the chestnuts in the refrigerator in the kitchen being used by the caterers 1 <br />for the weddings? 2 <br /> 3 <br />Chris Brewer: We don’t plan to have caterers using the kitchen. That would be only a setup. So there won’t 4 <br />be equipment in the kitchen for a caterer to come in and cook or heat or anything like that. They will be 5 <br />asked to do that off site. 6 <br /> 7 <br />LeAnne Brown: Well that’s interesting. When you submitted your wastewater plan to Orange County and 8 <br />you were required to put in additional septic capacity for the kitchen what was that for? 9 <br /> 10 <br />Chris Brewer: The septic capacity of the kitchen… I’m not sure what you’re referring to. 11 <br /> 12 <br />LeAnne Brown: Are you denying that your septic permit requires that you have separate septic capacity for 13 <br />the commercial kitchen that you have for use of the wedding barn or are you just not aware one way or the 14 <br />other? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Chris Brewer: I’m not aware one way or another. 17 <br /> 18 <br />LeAnne Brown: I have no further questions of Mr. Brewer. 19 <br />Barry Katz: I have a question regarding this operation and your wedding operation. Do you need to have a 20 <br />certificate from the Department of Health for this kitchen, as a restaurant would? 21 <br /> 22 <br />Andy Petesch: I can’t speak for the County on that. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Barry Katz: I just wondered if they need to have a health certificate. It’s like running a restaurant. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Michael Harvey: I’m afraid I can’t answer that. I’m not a sanitarian. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Barry Katz: I just don’t know how processing chestnuts, which are sort of a raw, agricultural product, would 29 <br />interfere with getting approval from the Department of Health for running a restaurant in that facility. I just 30 <br />don’t know. One other question. What do you estimate the additional cost of equipment for doing these 31 <br />chestnuts will be over and above the $50,000 that you mentioned? 32 <br /> 33 <br />Chris Brewer: So we’ve acquired the land, which is the largest. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Barry Katz: Just for processing the chestnuts. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Chris Brewer: Oh, just for processing. I would say $5,000-$8,000. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Barry Katz: And you plan on growing the bulk of your chestnuts some other place and shipping them into 40 <br />this place? 41 <br /> 42 <br />Chris Brewer: Correct. 43 <br /> 44 <br />Barry Katz: Ok. No further questions. 45 <br /> 46 <br />Andy Petesch: Now I’d like to follow up with Mr. Harvey. He was sworn at the last meeting and remains so 47 <br />now. Mr. Harvey, there was testimony at the October 10, 2016 hearing that you had made a determination 48 <br />82