My August 16, 2023, Letter to City of Salt Lake City Officials, Advocating Monthly Award to a Restaurant in This State-Capital City That Meets Specified Criteria, Including Elegance of Background Music System

 My letter to City of Salt Lake City Officials Advocating a Monthly Award to a Restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, that meets specified criteria, including:

"--It highlights elegance, clarity, and beauty of vocalization in the background singing from the sound system of that restaurant.

"--It offers background music low enough in volume that  guests can enjoy having a calm and pleasant conversation with their dining companions at their dining table  inside the restaurant."

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: "Salt Lake City (UT) City Council" <council.comments@slcgov.com>, "Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021" <mayor@slcgov.com>, "Utah Restaurant Association 2022" <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, "newsmedia@ldschurch.org" <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, "Deseret News 2022" <dnweb@deseretnews.com>, "Fox News SLC 2022" <news@fox13now.com>, "Slchamber Info" <info@slchamber.com>, "Joel Briscoe" <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, "Jplumb" <jplumb@le.utah.gov>, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021" <beckiepage@utah.gov>, "Office of Gov. Spencer Cox" <govcomm@utah.gov>, "constituentservices@utah.gov" <constituentservices@utah.gov>, "Uag" <uag@agutah.gov>, "liam.anderson" <liam.anderson@mail.house.gov>, "Joel_wellum" <joel_wellum@lee.senate.gov>, "mark.coffield" <mark.coffield@mail.house.gov>, "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, "Internships" <internships@romney.senate.gov>, "County Council Member Bradshaw" <arbradshaw@slco.org>, "Mayor Wilson" <mayor@slco.org>, "Him-roi" <him-roi@umail.utah.edu>, "University of Utah Student Newspaper 2022" <press@chronicle.utah.edu>, "Kimberly Foster" <kimberly.foster@wvc-ut.gov>, "Utah Public Radio 2022" <tom.williams@usu.edu>, "Utah League of Cities 2022" <lthrailkill@ulct.org>, "Utah League of Cities 2022" <lthrailkill@ulct.org>, "Utah League of Cities and Towns 2022" <swood@ulct.org>, "City Weekly (SLC, UT) 2022" <comments@cityweekly.net>, "Utah Business magazine 2022" <news@utahbusiness.com>

Sent: Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 4:02 PM

Subject: Proposed Monthly Award Honoring Local Restaurants

August 16, 2023

Dear Salt Lake City Council Members and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall,

I respectfully urge the Salt Lake City Council to please establish a special tradition of offering special recognition each month to one City Council-endorsed "Restaurant of the Month"  in this state-capital city that meets the following criteria:

--It is a family-friendly, sanitary, safety-minded restaurant that offers nutritious and healthful menu options.

---It highlights elegance, clarity, and beauty of vocalization in the background singing from the sound system of that restaurant.

--It offers background music low enough in volume that  guests can enjoy having a calm and pleasant conversation with their dining companions at their dining table  inside the restaurant.

---It  highlights clean language and lack of profanity and a devotion to civility and obedience of the law  in the background music that guests can hear inside that restaurant.

---It highlights creativity and a sublime evocation of philanthropic human sentiment in the background lyrics being sung in the background sound system.

---It highlights professional singers whose singing voices indicate that they lead tobacco-free lifestyles and their vocal cords are not irritated or scratched.

----It highlights a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds---- including white non-Hispanic singers who are American citizens, Hispanic singers, Latin American singers, Jewish singers, Italian singers, English singers, Scottish singers, Canadian singers, Australian singers,  Asian-American singers, etc., through the background sound system in that restaurant.

----It  conveys an emphatic  opposition to any and all racial hegemony, racial monopoly, racial bullying, or racial  malice in the  background music  of a restaurant where the menu itself reflects a multi-racial or multi-national heritage or a primary  racial identity heritage significantly different from than that of the background sound system singers.

---If it is a foreign-cuisine restaurant, it offers background music that is sublimely  complementary to the nationality or ethnicity of the foreign cuisine featured in that restaurant.

I hope this proposed new monthly awards tradition appeals to each of you City of Salt Lake City officials.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, a permanently alcohol-free (ever since 1990), permanently marijuana-free ever since 1984, lifelong-illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tobacco-free, clean-talking and non-profane,  lifelong American citizen and a single adult white Anglo-Saxon English-Scottish-German-American permanent official resident of Utah ever since January 1, 2023. I have resided in  Salt Lake City proper on a continuous basis ever since June 1, 2022.

My current solo-occupancy  fully bolt-locked rental 

-home address:

535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

Home phone: (801) 355-0850.

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