The Fall River Licensing Board convened on Wednesday, June 15th, for its regular meeting, addressing several licensing applications and administrative matters. The board approved multiple one-day alcohol permits for local churches, including Saint Anthony of the Desert Church for events in August and October, and St. Michael's Church for its July feast. Two applications, one for GNN Auto Sales and Transport LLC and another for a change of manager for Our Lady of Light, were tabled until the following month due to the applicants' absence or pending issues with police reports, respectively. A common victualler license for Happy Days Nutrition was denied due to the applicant, Derek Santiago, having multiple open cases, though he was advised to reapply once these issues are resolved. The board approved a common victualler license for Chick-fil-A, noting its planned July 6th opening and seating capacity of 84 interior and 24 exterior seats. A significant discussion involved the transfer of an all-alcohol common victualler license for Crystal DeRosa Inc. dba Iced Out Pub. Initial confusion regarding the applicant's name in the police report was clarified, and the application was approved pending a corrected background check for Crystal DeRosa. The board also addressed the Portuguese American Society dba The 100 Club, approving Louis Betancourt as bar manager and Paolo Filogenio as director with a 2-1 vote, and requested Attorney Arthur Frank to provide a six-month report on the club's charitable activities and state filings. Finally, a new beer and wine license for Macario's Inc. dba Sam's Pizza was approved, along with Mr. Youssef as bar manager, and an open meeting complaint was referred to the law department. The minutes from April 20, 2022, were also approved and signed.
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uh fred tv we're ready to uh start the meeting uh good evening everybody we're going to commence the wednesday june 15th fall river licensing board meeting at this time uh welcome to everybody i'm required to uh read the open meeting law regarded regarding video recording pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may
0:34transmit the meeting through any media attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible okay item 1a and if anyone chooses to speak we have public or citizens input you're welcome to come down and please give your name and address so we'll open that up at this time when
1:03anybody like to participate in public input seeing no one will move on to item number two of the agenda one day permit our first is saint anthony of the desert church 300 northeastern avenue i see monsignor root here good evening good evening monsignor can you just give your address please 300 north eastern zero two seven two three uh monsignor i can see on the uh on your application you're looking for
1:38three one day permits to cover august 26 27 and 28 27 and 28 and an additional one for october 29th yes okay and monsignor this is an all alcohol yes request could you identify the times for me sir good thing i brought a flyer um friday five to five pm to eleven saturday noon to eleven and sunday eleven a.m to seven p.m and father would you have to i mean
2:20monsignor would you have the time on the the additional one in october oh that's an evening that will be from uh seven until eleven or twelve eleven i might i might have it it's our annual um dinner seven to midnight is that what it is okay yeah we never go that late because i get tired so i guess for organizational or simplicity's sake would the board like to entertain a motion for the first
2:55three dates in august maybe we'll do it that way okay i'll make a motion to approve the one day permit for august 26 the one day permit for august 27 and the one day permit for august 28th enough second that motion motion made by miss cadero seconded by mrs esposito all in favor aye passes i'll make a motion for october 29th for the one-day permit and i'll second that motion motion made by ms cadarro
3:28seconded by mrs esposito all in favor aye motion passes thank you monsigno thank you good to see all of you nice to see you good luck thank you very much uh next item 2b st michael's church 189 essex street thank you hello hi could you please state your name and address it's shayna loubles 189 essex street zero two seven two zero thank you shayna shayna would you have the i see that you're applying for one
4:01day it looks like 7 15 7 16 7 17.
4:04the feast correct would you have the times with you friday 6 to 10 uh 6 to 10 and sunday 12 to 8.
4:17that's great thank you so much and this is an application for one day license beer for each of the three days all are beer and wine for each day with the board entertain a motion i'll make a motion to approve the one day permit for july 15 july 16th and july 17th and i'll second that motion motion made by miss gudero seconded by mrs esposito all in favor aye the eyes have it motion passes thank you
4:54thank you next on the agenda item number three uh is it a it is a class two licensed gnn auto sales and transport llc peter d lorenzo
5:19call me once going twice will the board entertain a motion to table i'll make a motion to table it till next month motion to table for a month made by mrs esposito seconded by ms gudero all those in favor aye aye next up item number four change of manager our lady of light sir could you state your name and address sure domingo's camaro 461 smith street fall river mass okay
5:56and this is to change the manager i do have mr camaro we do have an unfavorable report right now from the chief of police i don't know detective if you have anything to add on the report did you have any paperwork to turn in no okay um you think you just have a non-renewable license you have to just get that fixed and then turn it into the carrier the police department non-renewable issues that mean you
6:34probably have some unpaid parking tickets or excise taxes or maybe parking oh okay okay something like that okay it should be a minor fix would the board entertain a again a motion to table until next month yes and to allow applicant to rectify the issue i'll make a motion to table this until next month all seconds motion made by ms esposito seconded by ms kadero at a table for one
6:59month all those in favor aye the eyes have it so if you get that straightened okay get it into the clerk and we'll put you on for july okay all right thank you thank you okay common victory the license first up is uh happy days nutrition
7:31please state your name and address uh santiago 18 picasso street fall river and derek i do appreciate you coming tonight again we have the same situation here i have an unfavorable report from fall river chief of police chief garvin it's recommending that the license be denied at this time because mr santiago has multiple open cases to the letter um again i i'm not sure if it's something
8:08that you could settle in a month i don't know if the board would like to take that off i don't think it'd be said on the market okay so at this time i'll entertain a motion from the board then how you like to proceed yes make a motion to the deny the application motion made to deny the application by mrs esposito full second can i ask the question i'm sorry
8:36um well hold on let us seconded by mrs uh miss cadero all those in favor aye the eyes have it the motion to uh deny the application at this time is upheld miss you can i'll let you come down front and state your piece sure when would he be able to go well he just said he didn't think we were we were willing to consider yeah he's coming back in a month he didn't
9:00he didn't well he didn't think it would be rectified in a month but whatever it is if he if he rectifies the situation he can come back and he should get in touch with yeah and get charged into the detection settled um and he he can print out his court dockets yeah he's i think he's just upset because he's trying to move forward he does have court on june 27th and it's supposed to be closed
9:22so on the 27th if he comes in with it just have him call you yeah if he can print he can get he can get a copy of it at the court on print it and he can bring it to the police station okay and he should follow up though with clerk just once he takes care of that business follow up with with her cases any initial documentation that she needs
9:40excellent okay if it's closed on the 27th you should be okay okay great yep thank you so much thank you uh next item a common victory license application chick-fil-a hi good evening guys how are you ladies and gentlemen if you could identify yourselves please and give your address julie gallagher and the owner of chick-fil-a miss dimitri nice to meet you joey fonseca with bowler uh we're in southborough mass
10:12okay civil engineers can you just explain to me i'm not i'm not sure if i should know this or not what's bowler's relationship to chick-fil-a we're the civil engineers that worked on it yep thank you thank you very much um we'll get a new application you guys uh do you have your hours of operation 6 30 to 10 p.m monday through saturday monday through saturday 6 30 6 30 a.m p.m yes sir construction completed
10:46just about friday almost there yeah yes so what what's your what do you plan to open um right now our estimated date is july 6th but please don't put that in ink it should be we should know next day i think a wednesday july 6th yes sir and can give me some sort of idea of your internal capacity what's your seating going to be over there so 84 interior 24 exterior patio seats
11:14you're gonna have outdoor dining 84 interior 24 exterior 24 exterior okay have you obtained your health certificate yet that will come as soon as we get the keys at turnover so that needs to be in the building so one of the members can go and just sign the back of it just do a quick walk through okay awesome and i'd like to inform the board that we do have a positive recommendation from chief garvin
11:51kerry would we have to schedule a walk-through date at this time nope she'll just give me a call when she's got a couple of ducks in a row and i'll give one of you guys a call just to do a walkthrough inside the back of the house does the walkthrough have to be publicly posted yeah okay does the board have any does the board have any questions i'll make a motion to approve the common
12:16victoryler's license for a chick-fil-a and i'll second that motion motion made by miss gudero seconded by mrs esposito all those in favor hi we're all set applications thank you very much thank you
12:41uh next up item number six transfer of all alcohol common victoria license let's see we have representation attorney frank good evening mr chairman members of the board madam clerk detective for the record my name is arthur frank i'm a lawyer with an address of 209 bedford street fall river massachusetts and with me is miss nicole de rosa the i'm sorry chris crystal derosa who is the president treasurer and clerk of
13:17crystal de rosa inc doing business as iced out pub ms de rosa owns this building she bought it i think a year ago about a year ago and uh it was formerly i think it was the rocking horse at one time if i'm not mistaken um i think it was the rocking horse and then it was another pub which i don't know what it's whether actually opened or not
13:43but uh because of the way the place was set up she's decided that she would like to run her own place she's been involved with the new bedford house of pizza for 20 years so she has a background in this type of establishment if you need to know more about her menu she tells me it's going to be typical pub fare meaning all the stuff you're not supposed to eat when you get to a certain age
14:13that's the only way i can characterize it because my wife doesn't let me eat it but uh i think the when you when they granted the license for the predecessor i think you gave them an 11 am to 2 am license she's looking to possibly have the same hours but be closed on mondays
14:42okay and it's crystal yes okay so right off the bat close the mondays okay okay that's right that's you okay that's what threw me off okay closed monday's attorney frank correct okay and sunday we i don't believe we're allowed to operate until two why are we on sundays i do want i do need clarification on that it's one that's what i thought so what time do you want to open on sunday no
15:18so sunday would be noon to one yes okay crystal any renovations going on at this time at the property or attorney frank as far as i know they're looking now to outfit the um the kitchen equipment okay uh i mean it was it was set up as a bar i'm sure there's also a lot of cleaning that goes on but uh she tells me that uh yeah they get ready
15:42now to start to put in the grease traps and things like of that nature because they are gonna make french fries and other types of fried foods uh her her work staff to begin with i think it's mostly going to be family and friends she's obviously going to carry the brunt of this this operation because of her background but uh we'll make sure everybody is tip certified okay um
16:12my concern is we have uh oh i'm gonna my concern is that everything i have from frpd and some of the documentation here has nicole nicole's the manager i believe nicole so am i missing nicole is her sister okay and that's who the corporation is named after okay but this is crystal okay gotcha gotcha okay all right so we don't have uh we're not an area your sister is not with you tonight my sister has passed
16:47oh i apologize okay okay
17:02right so i have i'm reading the letter from it from chief golovkin and it says and if if i'm missing something here please feel free to connect me correct me i have i have attached a report on miss nicole de rosa 9 salisbury street new bedford 6 12 86 who's applying for a transfer of license for istel oh that's my name that's i mean that's my date of birth that's my address that's not my name sure
17:56yeah we on the quarry request form it clearly states crystal deroza i think what throws everybody else off is the name of the corporation yeah that definitely threw me off but he identifies the individual in his letter as nicole he doesn't identify well that's because that's what i thought i put nicole apparently yeah i did and the manager is crystal so we'd have to just get a i just would
18:23just have to have updated background check okay i mean that's my mistake so i wouldn't want it to hold up would the with the uh board like to entertain a motion pending you know pending the background check i'll make a motion to approve pending the corrected police report thank you motion made by mrs esposito seconded by miss cadero all in favor aye motion passes sorry for the confusion no that's okay
18:55i would think mr chairman it actually would probably be hard to run a background check on a deceased person but now we will and the date of birth was yours yeah yeah okay clearly in in chief corbin's letter clearly says oh yeah and i think we you know all of the photographic attachments to the application we've got her driver's license and we've also got her um passport so that's her
19:20we'll get it we'll get it okay all right very good thank you you're welcome yeah thank you very much you're welcome good luck thank you uh now we move on to item number seven all business new business item a portuguese american society dba the 100 club louis betancourt and we have attorney frank we're presenting correct you you'll remember we were here on the 25th of may mr chairman i do and
19:54uh the board felt it was prudent to uh discuss this matter with the corporation council's office yep with respect to um the uh the non-profit i don't think you correct me if i remember i don't think the board had any findings with respect to the competency of the two gentlemen whose names we put before you paul filigino and louise benton court because at the very next petition you approved them for for the
20:25for the for-profit corporation i think the question was was the late filing of some uh good standing reports uh in any way fatal to this licensee yep so i think that was the issue so and as the the board was supplied with an uh and for the edification of folks at home the board was uh supplied an opinion from assistant corporation council mary o'neal uh stating that the board does have you
20:56know broad discretion to ask questions and review in review of the um transfer um as we know it's it's uh it's arguable that the nonprofit has kept with its uh has kept with its mission um both in its with its filing of the application under the pains and penalties of perjury locally and the and the filings with um the corporations division of the of the secretary of state i i did want
21:31to ask attorney frank did either of the gentleman uh mr bancor and i apologize filogino filigino uh did they offer any additional items as far as adhering to their mission you know these these scholarships yeah we've just yeah we've discussed this and and a scholarship is going to be set up uh i don't know if they've earmarked which school it's going to be for but that is that's on that's on their plate uh
22:03once they get their their approvals um again i think covet threw them a couple of curveballs uh when they finally were open i i think there was a breakdown in who was going to do what um i went so far as to talk to their accountant and he didn't think he should file them he thought i should have filed them and the clients didn't seem to think there was anything to file
22:36so the blame can go all the way around and i did notice on the initial uh application i believe this is not no one has ownership interest in the license the license literally belongs to the nonprofit that's right it does um and uh so as far as up to this point from whenever august november of 20 till now uh anything tangible that they at least were another to the mission at that time i
23:07believe and i don't during the date they did give a um contribution to the boys and girls club okay and and again that's that's one piece of it uh there's also the aspect of the the cultural side a lot of the clubs in fall river also foster certain types of music or ethnic foods i think that's going to be another part of their mission uh and not just uh not just charities that's only a piece
23:40of it well the initial application talks about i believe and again i'm paraphrasing promoting uh portuguese heritage um again i'm i'm paraphrasing but i i did take a glance this morning at the original that that's language that you will find on just about every non-profit portuguese society in fall river application yeah and everybody uses the standard language which and unfortunately again hard to
24:14come up with a tangible example at this point is if that was ever done or if people just gathered there after dinner or was any of that was any anything related to portuguese american heritage even promoted we don't know i i can't say for sure but i do remember having conversations that that was their goal they were going to bring in some portuguese singers that type of thing moving forward yeah um
24:44i don't know if board members would like to ask any questions if you have any questions for attorney frank uh if you feel you've had time to digest and deliberate uh you all received a copy of corporate assistant corporation council o'neil's letter and again reinforcing that we do have broad discretion here one way or another
25:23so he will be doing non-profit so attorney frank is stating that our our principals are stating that going forward um they're looking to open up a scholarship i believe and they're going to have some internal uh internal activities i'll go so far mr chairman if this board wants me to report back in six months i'll come back maybe we'll come back and we know that approval can be made conditional the
25:56board can improve with conditional factors if they so choose so i would need emotion one way or another actually you need two motions one two appoint mr benton court as the as the bar manager and one to accept mr filigino as a director there's no there's no transfer here so the two the two the two officers mr betancourt is the bob manager correct and mr filogini i was uh a director of the non-profit
26:43i'm sorry i'm struggling with his pronunciation it's f-i-l-o-g-e-n-i-o so i and what would you be seeking for his position director so transferring from miss fernandez to him as director yep so the moving party is seeking action via two motions so on the first item replacing i believe it was ms fernandez also as bar manager now mrs correa now mrs correa uh with mr bettencourt as bar manager
27:35would the board might like to make a motion on that particular item yes i'll make the motion to appoint mr bettencourt as the bar manager do i have a second also good so a motion has been made to appoint mr louis betancourt as manager by manager of the 100 club uh all those in favor aye aye chairman votes no motion passes so transfer bar management uh from miss fernandez to mr bank court has passed next item
28:31uh to transfer uh the position of directorship from ms fernandez to miss mr filangino and he'll be the managers yep director director director only sorry you must have been close to me okay i'll make that motion motion is made but we can have a hard time saying isn't it sure to a point what's this first name apollo oh he's brazilian paolo filo genio fredo gino villageno filigena as directorship as director of the uh
29:22100 club motion made by mrs esposito well second seconded by uh miss cadero all those in favor aye did miss cadillac yeah the guy and uh chairman votes no so the motion passes transfer passes um and would the board like to take attorney frank up on his offer to report back to us uh in six months as to how things are progressing related to the i'll come back for your december meeting
30:07okay so can i ask what would the board be seeking from the attorney friend that's what i was going to ask you yeah um i believe frank is going along the lines of me any any additional annual finding filings with the secretary of state's office and um and uh how about notification of scholarships and other yeah why don't i'll put you together i'll put together a written report detailing what the non-profit
30:40has accomplished in the next six months so can we get that in the form of a formal motion again i believe attorney frank is offering a report that will contain uh any actions and reports filed with the secretary of state's office and updates on again we're civic and charitable endeavors yeah we we won't be filing with the secretary of state again now i think until maybe the end of the year
31:11okay um i think it's the end of the year if it's not the end of the year it's january okay but whatever filings have to be made yeah i'll have copies for you right december yeah to the extent i have to do any more filings um i will have them filed by the end of the year so can i get that in the form of a motion okay the first one is
31:36um you're asking for six months to come back in front of the board an issue a report on the an issue a report on the filings with the secretary of state and and the act and the enemy and the charitable activities of the club yes and the charitable activities of the club make a motion to approve all of those okay motion made by mrs esposito seconded seconded by uh miss kadero all those in favor aye aye
32:04motion passes thank you attorney frank thank you mr chairman you are welcome okay item b under all business new business macario's inc doing business at sam's pizza 144 rodman street mr youssef hi how are you sir let me just give me a second here to kind of organize my paperwork here we go okay i believe with mr youssef here before us last month yeah there was a there was a technical problem
32:46with his police report i think it had to do with the yeah you had to pay a excise tax before yeah okay and i do want to know to the board uh that the um forward police chief uh chief paul gordon has no objection to mr youssef obtaining said license to operate his place of business uh can i have the what was the actual because i just i don't have the actual
33:16uh it was a new baron new beer and wine okay as i i had explained to the board mr chairman that i was here in the fall and the the gentleman mr youssef had purchased sam's pizza on rodman street yep and since that time i think there's been some requests by patrons that you're going to have wine you're going to have beer yeah that's right we're back before this board uh he's got a sizeable um
33:44investment in the property um you know he bought the building for four hundred thousand dollars and um this obviously is something that could help to supplement his uh his cash flow and i see from your receipt you you've notified the abutters it looks like their receipts have notice received oh yeah okay uh yeah we said we sent everything in mr i just like to get the times to you what what times are we looking to
34:12sell alcohol yes normal time for open my store like 10 am 10 p.m every day 10 a.m to 10 p.m yep uh sunday 12 to 8 p.m okay so monday to saturday 10 to 10 yep and sunday noon to eight yep okay
35:01it says it says we have a seating capacity of 40 people
35:11any other questions from the board no questions i'll make a motion to approve the new beer and wine license for sam's pizza and i'll second that motion so motion made by ms cadero seconded by mrs esposito all in favor aye applications approved good luck i think you also need to take a photo to point in this bar manager okay can i get a motion to that effect please i'll make a motion to approve mr youssef
35:42as barman
35:56thank you next item item 7c is uh we have a open meeting complaint uh that was uh filed with our clerk um we're looking for a motion to refer said complaint to the law department i'll make a motion to refer the open meeting law complaint to our law department i'll second motion made by mrs esposito seconded by ms cadero all those in favor aye eyes have it the clerk will refer the matter to the
36:28law department and i'd like to get a motion to approve and sign the april 20 2022 minutes and i want to like to get that motion in the affirmative and i want to remind my colleagues that we're going to sign before we adjourn the meeting we're going to sign well we're live so could i get that motion i'll make a motion to approve and sign the april 20 22 minutes motion motion made by miss cadero
36:56another i'll second that motion seconded by mrs esposito all those in favor aye motion passes do you have that if you carry it do i have that in the left side on the last folder so freight tv stay with us for a second please
37:43okay everyone is signed can i get a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion to adjourn promotion made by mrs esposito i'll second it seconded by ms gudero all's in favor hi this meeting is adjourned thank you everybody
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