He said that griping offers a temporary release from discontent but it’s better to work for a resolution that offers freedom from it. The task for the immediate future is to educate the city council and give them tools for commonsense solutions they could put into their report. An example of that would be the restaurant grading system developed in recent years. It’s quite imperfect, Kulkin said, but it represents a step forward. He specified five activities that had to be completed in the next eight weeks: (1) creation of a survey, (2) data gathering, (3) research, (4) solution development and (5) completion and delivery of the fruits of such labor to the city council.