The Committee on Regulations held a meeting on December 7, 2021, where they addressed two license applications. The first item discussed was a second-hand article license for Robert Bagley, doing business as One Thrift Shop at 1649 South Main Street. The Fire Chief reported issues with uninspected fire extinguishers and the use of electric heaters due to a lack of permanent heat. Mr. Bagley explained he believed his license was initially denied, leading to delays, and that he was actively working to resolve the issues, with a fire extinguisher company scheduled for the next day and the gas company for the following Monday. After discussion, the committee voted to recommend passing the license with the condition that the fire extinguisher and heating issues be rectified within 10 days, pending Fire Chief approval. The second item was a repair shop license for Rodrigo Tasha, doing business as Touche Auto Repair Inc. at 192 18th Street. This application had been previously denied by the police department due to a New York driver's license, but all other issues were resolved, and Mr. Tasha committed to obtaining a Massachusetts driver's license. The committee voted to approve this license. The meeting concluded with the adoption of the minutes and no citizen input.
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0:32uh the minutes uh my colleagues have you looked over the minutes we have a motion motion to adopt second second all in favor aye aye opposed so voted um item number three second hand article saw license for robert bagley doing business as one thrift shop shop thrift shop i said that right one six four nine south main street uh i was referred to the committee on leven321 is there any
1:00uh if any representative for mr bagley would like to come down oh make that gentleman okay yep please come down and chief would you like to come down as well
1:26thank you for coming i guess i'll start with the fire chief it's if you'd like to explain why this matters before us um my inspector paul cody called the uh proprietor of that second-hand store twice for a regular schedule appointment and both times he was refused saying that the owner said he was too busy so inspector cody finally got a hold of the owner and he did do inspection monday
2:04uh he found two small problems with the property which both were supposed to be attended to there were fire extinguishers that needed inspecting and supposedly there was a company coming either today or tomorrow tomorrow and also he had no heat in the store and was using electric heaters which is fine during his hours of business as a temporary measure but he was told by inspector cody
2:34not to have those electric heaters running at night or when he was not in the store front itself a bigger problem on your hands oh absolutely yeah aside from that uh inspector cody didn't find any other problems okay so are you the uh the owner of the uh of the uh one-stop thrift shop correct yes i'm sorry yes okay do you have any explanation in terms of what the fire chief has just stated um
2:59so the fire pro is coming tomorrow they're gonna inspect my extinguishers i'm purchasing a bigger one as um inspector cody suggested i get an additional bigger extinguisher which is why they're coming tomorrow and as far as not being available for the the first um inspections i was under the impression that my license was already denied and i just it wasn't that i was too busy i just
3:26didn't want to waste our time so once i got a call from city hall i believe last week saying that the license did go ahead and you guys um basically approved it so that's when you know we went ahead and scheduled the inspection as soon as possible so the heat is just not on me because i'm simply not open so you know once the store is open and running i'm gonna have well i already do
3:51have the gas company coming out and they're gonna you know get the heater up and running it's just not on because we're not open and uh like i said the fire pro is coming tomorrow to get the extinguishers and uh so everything he um suggested i uh did yesterday okay thank you casper um i think that it's very dangerous to be using electric heaters especially to leave them on all night that could be
4:16huge and potential to cause a fire uh as far as you know misunderstanding or thinking it got denied maybe communicating with the fire department and saying that you were going to be there i i would suggest that we table this until you get fire pro out there tomorrow and you get that gas you know you get the heat running so that then the fire department can go and give you
4:38a clean bill and then it'll be approved where exactly is your location how far up is that it's directly across the street from uh florida house of pizza okay right on the corner and you're not selling gold or anything there no i mean not typically but i buy storage unit auctions yeah like at the auction so i mean sometimes i find gold in there but that's not something i'm like uh i mean
5:05i don't have i don't have no gold in the store i mean but i thought there was a sign there yeah there is a sign i'm not familiar with the uh the sign has been taken down i'm not familiar with uh you know the ins and outs of it to be honest with you i've haven't had nobody like uh explain like if there's a different circumstance for the gold or anything
5:28like that i just wasn't aware and when i did come to uh file for a license it kind of was brought up so since then i took it down but to be honest with you i mean i do find gold and whatnot in the units from time to time so i just i mean if there's anything i do need to know i would just like city hall is here to help you right and we
5:49certainly want people to be able to open up businesses and be successful at the businesses they open so any questions that you have relative to that what you can do can't do call city hall there are people here will give you all that information give you that a list of what you can do so that you can be successful and you don't have people on top of you after saying
6:11you're not supposed to be doing this so you're not supposed to be doing that so i mean you'll know where you stand so now is that something that requires like an extra license so you can't be selling gold there that that's kind of different i believe all right um the guy next across the street from you does right um so there was a concern too you don't want to put competitors in no i like to
6:31kind of be fair with everybody but i think you know doing what you want to do with antiques collectibles etc right and i would check with the with the city clerk but my mo i mean i'm council peckham probably you know has something to add but um and then i'll make a motion okay counselor pekka please um i would second what council pereira said i would i would like to table this
6:55um being that it is a public safety issue and uh with the heaters and whatnot and once you can square away what chief lynch had brought up um then have the inspector go back make sure everything's kosher and then uh i have no problem with this once the public safety issues are taken care of but those are big the electric heat is every year how many fires do we have achieved quite a few
7:17so and even during the day while they're running so it would be better once the gas company comes get the regular heat turn it on you know what i'm saying yeah wherever we were but no it was warm and then we closed it down and uh when it was gone it wasn't even uh i thought because it wasn't cold yet so uh yeah no i've always planned on yeah yeah so
7:42once it squared away and again like i said the public safety issues uh are taking care of like council pereira said the more businesses we can open in the city the better uh we just have to make sure it's done uh properly thank you yeah i'll reiterate do you have a gas bill in your name has the gas been turned on there yet or are you still waiting no that's what i'm
8:06saying i have okay because i didn't i i this was kind of up in the air if i was going to get my license for a while so i didn't know so i i basically was waiting to find out if a the license got accepted or b you know because i for a while there i wasn't sure if i if everything was going to work out opened yeah so i know people
8:25that went there no yes so like i just said we weren't without a license not thinking you needed one correct like i said we were open but it was warm so when i when it was warm it wasn't in my it wasn't like in my mind to turn on the heat or whatever so since then we've been closed and now like i said i wasn't sure if we were going to be able to open
8:42back up so i didn't really go ahead and put the gas on because i didn't know if we were even going to be there yeah okay so my motion would be to table this but to table it for 30 days so you'll have 30 days to get all that stuff that you need to do done and then you can let the clerk's office know we're in december going into january
9:03with a new council we don't know who chairman or whatever will be of this committee so i think 30 days is good and we can kind of update whoever she has this committee so that's fine okay is that enough time for you but that's more than enough like i said the fight the fire extinguisher company is coming tomorrow okay and i believe it's monday that the gas company is coming so
9:25you know i have been closed for maybe a while i mean obviously i'm trying to get it open as quick as i possibly can i'm just saying i don't even need 30 days maybe like uh all right we'll table nominate tv does it make a difference if you come in sooner oh yeah i think we all i'm sorry interrupt you i think um we're all in agreement that it's it's a an issue
9:46especially with the electric heater so um you don't want to lose your business as my colleagues have said right we do not answer shutting business down but when it comes to public safety you have to cooperate and um i don't know if you own a building or not you don't want to build okay but i mean you don't want to go out of business right we don't want to decline your renewal of your license so
10:07let we'll we'll vote on the motion to table and um i'd like to shorten the period of time 10 days okay and if you give appropriate notice to the city clerk that this paperwork's been done uh the chief who i know you have much to do chief then you'll review it quickly and um and then we can actually not even have another meeting because there is a mechanism to put the uh
10:31is it we have a dead file we call it right it still has to be yeah but if you table this it would remain in committee until you have another meeting to list it again all right so you can have enough if you want to yeah i'm fine okay
10:58i was just going to ask chief would inspect the cody be available within the next 10 days to get that done he would alright excellent so what i was going to suggest is i'll give him my card so when he he has the extinguisher company come tomorrow and that's easy all they do is they'll email me the bill the invoice as it's being done and then when he has the gas turned on and
11:20running i can send inspector cody by make sure it is running the electric heaters are not there and we're good to go yeah i agree with you the quicker we can get easier the quicker we can get into business the better so well part of it is we have a meeting coming up on the 14th next tuesday we could pass this with the conditions that those two conditions being met
11:41that he'd get gas hooked up and that he'd get easy to and we can do that too and that way we won't hold you up we don't want to hold you up i don't understand we need to i know i don't think it's like me no no no it's not we're trying to help you too i'm like i don't have nobody to like you know i'm doing this just by
12:00myself and it's my first time so i mean i am learning as i go along to be honest with you so i mean it's just simply uh either not having the knowledge or or just kind of learning by fire i guess so yeah it's just that analogy luckily make the motion please to pass it pending the conditions of thoughtful for call for recommendation to pass with the condition that within the next 10 days
12:31those two issues are rectified pending by a chief approval yeah and i'll notify you once i get everything done by him and i'll send to the clerk's obviously they'll notify you when i i don't have do i have to come back here tuesday or after if ever do i go you don't have to come back i don't have to come back at all okay if you'd like to come back and sit if you're interested obviously yeah
12:55now just televised on television while i'm here i mean the situation with the gold now like i said it's not an issue we can help you with that after yeah it's not even really like something i get all the time so it's not a big deal i mean so that is not included in the reseller's license now is it what if i is that does that mean just buying it
13:17like if somebody came in or saying you know if i buy a storage unit at the auction and i just so happen to find gold in there can i sell it that's not before us the only two issues are before so that exactly the two citations that you receive let's just say we're going to rectify that call me and i'll help you keep communication with uh yeah with uh with the city hall accounts
13:37for any any council with regard to that issue all right thank you okay we do want to help you it's not gonna have any more questions okay good luck on your uh thank you good night thank you buddy thank you you're not on the next one chief that's the next one i touched the police i think it's the police issue with a driver's license i was passing that all right approved it already take care yeah okay
14:01okay we all set on two um three did we do a roll call vote on that no all we had was a motion by council per i don't have a second order you second that's right sorry okay yeah uh all in favor all right so voted um item number four order repair shop license for uh excuse me uh rodrigo rodrigo uh tasha doing business as touche auto repair inc 192 18th street full river referred to
14:31the committee on level 321 may you come down please gentlemen
14:49good afternoon good afternoon good afternoon so my name is carl almeida from euro auto and i have really no interest in this whatsoever then i'm here to translate for this gentleman i'm his neighbor uh next door um so basically he asked me if i didn't mind coming in reviewing his all his documents and uh speak on his behalf so that's why i'm here okay so um i'd like to hear
15:14from the court for what it was in terms of why the uh why they're here and what was the nature of the alleged violation if you have that information right it had been denied by the police department for um i don't have all the specifics in front of me uh he had a couple of things that were taken care of and we have asked the chief to come in or his designee
15:38to just verify that everything was fine like most of the items were all taken care of um i would entertain uh emotionally to withdraw there's no representative from the police department here and well i i can i say that i did talk to um i did talk to um chief cardoza last couple of days ago regarding this so one of the issues was a driver's license that he had a driver's license in new york
16:05and that he is going to get one in massachusetts but the rest of the stuff had all been taken care of so yeah the other items had been taken care of yes so i would make a motion to approve okay very good i'll second that motion made and second all in favor aye aye still voted thank you for coming thank you very much thank you thank you for coming on behalf of yourself
16:26good luck where does he go from here after the full council meeting on the 14th and there's a vote taken uh it'll be presented to the mayor for signature once it's voted on i mean signed by the mayor uh you'll get a phone call or it could just be mailed to you did you prefer a phone call to pick up the license great do you want a phone call to pick up the license yes that'd
16:48be great would you prefer that yes what number would you like we can get that out yeah if he leaves a photo just a moment okay i'll get that from him thank you perfect thank you good luck thank you gentlemen right so um that's about it for the agenda without entertainment motion to adjourn motion submit second second all in favor aye so voted