Fire Marshall Visit

The ReMax Southern Properties building we will be leasing for our business.

Monday morning, we received a call telling us that the State Fire Marshall was going through the area and would come and do our inspection!  It was very short notice, but we've been waiting for almost a month now for this visit, so we high-tailed it up to Dunlap to meet him!  He was such a nice, friendly person!  He completed our inspection and okay'd our plans and told us what we needed to do before we could be approved and get a license. We're approved to take "up to" 23 clients in our day care.  We are thrilled!!  

Our contractor met us there also, and we appreciated him so much for coming on such short notice.  Especially since he had a badly sprained ankle and was supposed to keep it elevated for several days.  He will start making our changes on June 1st!!  He thinks it should only take about two weeks to complete them. Then we will have to call the Fire Marshall again to come out and do a final inspection  and he has to approve all of the changes before we can get our license.


On our way back to town, we picked up our Staff Shirts with the new logos embroidered on them and they turned out beautiful! 

     

My head is spinning now with all that needs to be done yet before we can actually open!!  Once we've purchased all the things we'll need, before we open, we are planning a "Grand Opening" celebration and cook-out!  We'll invite the City Officials and local business owners so we can get acquainted with all of them.

These days are getting very exciting! And are about to get VERY BUSY!

Monograms!

 

This afternoon, I took our staff shirts to the embroidery place and dropped them off to have our company logo and name put on them!! Tomorrow we'll check with the Fire Marshall's office to see when they can come out to do an inspection of our building!!  It's getting exciting as I think that we are another step closer to opening!!  On Friday, my daughter and I will go for some training at an existing Adult Day Care!

Day By Day, Still Waiting!

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I haven't posted anything lately, because we've been in Chicago this past week.  

We finally heard from the Fire Marshall's office.  Our Consultants had been trying to get in touch with someone there, without success, to find out what the hold-up was and finally, after several unanswered phone calls, used a different number to call.  This time they got an answer!  They found out the request for the Fire Marshall's visit was still on someone's desk.  In all fairness to them though, their office has been closed for a while, due to the flooding in Nashville! 

When asked to try to find it, they emailed me the form to fill out to request the Courtesy Inspection.  The form arrived in my Email along with a request for a check for $250.  This charge was a surprise to us, but I mailed it off today and hopefully, we will be hearing something in the next day or so about an inspection visit.

I purchased some staff shirts last week and checked on getting the logo and company name embroidered on them.  I'll take them over there tomorrow to have the name and logo embroidered onto the shirts.

More to come when I hear from the Fire Marshall's office!