Coffee, doughnuts and a discussion about the future of Burnet on Oct. 17
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR
BURNET — If you’re a Burnet business owner or a community member who wants to get involved with the future of the city, Mark Lewis wants to meet with you Oct. 17.
And he’s bringing coffee and doughnuts.
“This is really an opportunity to begin a dialogue with the business community and even residents,” Lewis said. “We have a good relationship already, but this is just another way to let them hear about community development and exchange ideas.”
Lewis is the director of community development for the city of Burnet. He’s been on the job for a few months now and is looking for ways to develop those relationships with business owners, community members and others. So he’s hosting his first Community Development Coffee Talks on Oct. 17 at the Burnet Meeting Center, 303 E. Jackson St.
“The first one has a fairly simple agenda,” Lewis said. “Part of it is just to let people know what we’re looking at and what we’re talking about.”
The agenda includes an overview of the development services team and what the department offers to the community and businesses. There also will be a discussion on a possible smoking ordinance, which Lewis said the city is considering.
The first coffee talk will be a chance for Lewis to share some thoughts on a possible ordinance, but he pointed out it’s very early in the discussion.
In the end, the coffee talk is basically a way for Lewis to keep an open dialogue with business owners and community members. He said many Burnet businesses are already active in the community and city, but this is another way to continue to foster that as well as, possibly, entice more business owners and residents to get involved.
“We all have a common goal,” Lewis said. “We all want Burnet to prosper and do well. And one way to continue that and improve it is through communication.”
Lewis said he hopes to have regular coffee talks in coming months.
Call Lewis at (512) 715-3215 for more information.
daniel@thepicayune.com
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In response to the city butting into business owner’s business and creating an other city ordinance taking away private control of smoking on business property. I do not like smoke or to be around it, but I already have the right to spend my money with non-smoking establishments, if I so choose. I can also use my right to visit a smoking establishment, if I so choose. The city has no business telling business owners what they can or cannot allow. There are already enough state and federal laws governing smoking in public places, we do NOT need another bunch of bureaucrats creating more rules for businesses to wade through. Let the customers decide where they want to trade.
Pipe down – you’re not getting hurt by anything here. Smoking kills smokers and non-smokers alike. It’s not an argument of choice in this one so much as a decision for the public good.
Yes Illogic, I can understand how scared you must be, worried about making your own decisions for the first time, without your momma reminding you to button up your overcoat. Thank goodness there are plenty of bureaucrats to protect people like you, unable to judge options for their selves. Be sure and ask you mayor what size soft drink you should order, so you don’t hurt yourself. Must be hard watching your little friends grow up, leave home and start their own lives our in the big scary world.