The Fall River Licensing Board convened on Tuesday, January 24th, at 1 pm, chaired by Tim McCoy. The meeting began with a public input session, for which no one had signed up or was present. The primary focus of the meeting was the reconsideration of a common victualer's license for 19 Prime Tapas and Wine LLC, represented by Attorney Arthur Frank and manager Theanildo Souza. Attorney Frank explained that Mr. Souza had failed to complete all necessary steps for his license renewal by the December 31st deadline, despite submitting the application and a $3,500 payment on December 22, 2022. The missing items, including the receipt for the application fee, a copy of the insurance binder, and a $75 inspection fee, have since been submitted. Miss Ayesh confirmed that the application fee was received timely and all necessary paperwork was now in place. The board first voted to reconsider the license, with a motion made by Miss Cadero and seconded by the chair, which passed unanimously. Subsequently, a motion to approve the application was made by Miss Cordero, seconded by the chair, and also passed unanimously. The meeting then adjourned.
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my name is Tim McCoy and I'd like to bring this Fall River licensing board meeting to order it is Tuesday January uh 24th 1 pm I'd like to read the open meeting law disclaimer pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio a video recording of this public meeting all may transmit the meeting through any media attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are
0:28being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and I deemed acknowledged and permissible the city Charter section 9-18 mandates that all multiple member bodies develop and adopt rules all policy for public comment we the licensing board have adopted such a policy which in Shore provides for Citizens input on licensing board specific matters at the beginning of the meeting there is a sign up sheet
0:55that is located at the back of the room so welcome to those who are here item number one is public input and I don't believe we've had anyone sign up and there doesn't appear to be anyone here to participate in a public citizens input so I'm going to move on to item number two and if I could just ask for the name and address of the gentleman up front initially please
1:23thank you Mr chairman members of the board Madam clerk for the record my name is Arthur Frank I'm a lawyer with an address of 209 Bedford Street Fall River Massachusetts I'm here on behalf of 19 prime Tapas and wine LLC and to my immediate right is Mr the anildo Souza who is the manager of the limited liability company at this point to open discussion on this reconsideration the chair would
1:48entertain a motion or reconsider I'll make a motion to reconsider consider all common victory's license for a Vita Restaurant Group motion made by Miss cadero seconded by the chair all those in favor aye a motion to reconsider attorney Frank you up the floor thank you Mr chairman this is a situation that Mr Souza is very embarrassed about and he's embarrassed because he is a veteran restaurateur in this city
2:24he knows how things work but he neglected to do some very simple things things he did do right so are as follows he filled out his renewable application he did bring it down to the city clerk's office and he gave them a check for thirty five hundred dollars of which I have the receipt and he did all of that on December the 22nd 2022 okay what didn't he do he should have
2:55brought the receipt up to the fifth floor no no excuse he also should have brought with him a copy of his insurance binder and the fee for the inspection which both of which have now been handed in the 75 inspection fee was handed in and his certificate of liability insurance has been handed in but when all was said and done on the last business day of the year he hadn't done all those steps and this
3:26board cannot be faulted for what they did because you have rules he was supposed to follow the rules for whatever reason he didn't finish those last two steps he got within a few yards of the goal line and instead of running across the goal line he ran out of Bounce he asks for your Indulgence on this he's a local businessman he doesn't run a chain restaurant he's a small businessman he relies upon
3:58this income for his livelihood he's already I told him he couldn't run any functions until he got his license uh he's already lost some some business he just wants another shot he wants a second chance we hope you will give him that second chance he's here if you have any specific questions of him as to what happened that day he will answer them thank you attorney Frank um before I give the floor to my
4:27colleague if in fact she has a question uh Miss ayesh is it fair to say that the application fee was at least received by the city Timely yes okay are you comfortable with you you have all the and admittedly uh no fault of your own or the or the office but do you have all the paperwork that you need now in place I don't have any I mean it's pretty clear-cut what the facts are here I
4:54don't have any questions for Mr Souza um if my colleague does have no questions um then the board would entertain whatever motion my colleague would like to make
5:15motion made by um my colleague Miss Cordero seconded by myself all those in favor I motion to reconsider and approve the application is approved point of order what would be the procedure now Mr Mr uh chairman unless you want to let Mrs yeah okay that's what I was told there's no waiting period there's no letter and that's okay very good thank you uh the chair will entertain motion to
5:52address I'll make a motion picture motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all those in favor meeting is adjourned thank you thank you all thank you thank you