The Fall River Licensing Board convened on Monday, December 12th, at 5 PM. The meeting began with a public input session, during which no citizens came forward. The board then addressed an application for a common victualer license for Mr. Chen's, located at 210 Rhode Island Avenue. Mr. Chen provided details on the restaurant's 12-seat capacity and operating hours. Detective Monas from the police department noted an outstanding unpaid parking ticket. The board approved the common victualer license, pending the resolution of this parking ticket, with Mr. Chen agreeing to provide proof of payment. This motion was made by Miss Cadero and passed unanimously. Mr. Chen also mentioned plans to potentially expand seating to 16 in the future. The board then moved to old and new business, specifically addressing the approval of numerous 2023 license renewals. These included all alcohol common victualer licenses with entertainment, beer and wine common victualer licenses with entertainment, club all alcohol common victualer licenses with entertainment, all-alcohol veterans club licenses with entertainment, farmer brewer licenses with entertainment, package store all alcohol licenses, package store beer and wine licenses, Class 1 and 3 licenses, Class 2 licenses, common victualer's licenses, and fortune tellers licenses. All motions for these renewals were made by Miss Cadero, seconded by the chair, and passed unanimously. Finally, the board approved and signed the minutes from their October 19, 2022 meeting, with the motion made by Miss Cadero and passing unanimously. The meeting was then adjourned.
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evening everybody I'd like to call this meeting of the Fall River licensing board to order it is Monday December 12th at 5 PM I'd like to read our disclaimer regarding open meeting law pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any media attendees are therefore advised that such recordings
0:24or Transmissions are being made whether perceived the Run proceed by those presence and not present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible City Charter section 9-18 mandates that all multiple member bodies develop and adopt rules all policies for public comment we have adopted such a policy which inshore provides for Citizens input to the licensing board on specific matters at
0:49the beginning of the meeting there is a sign up sheet located in the back of the room so opening up in our gender and if I could ask everybody present to please uh put your phones on silent or vibrate uh item number one on the agenda is public input do we have anybody who would like to engage in citizens input seeing none moving on to item number two common vicular Mr Chen's 210 Rhode Island Avenue
1:17would you approach and state your name and address that's good uses good evening good evening could you state your name and address for us uh Mr Chen uh 210 Rhode Island Avenue Rhode Island Avenue and you're applying for a common picture of a license just a couple basic questions can you tell me what your seating capacity is going to be at the restaurant 12 12 yeah and can you give us your hours of business
1:54um so Monday to Thursday Monday to Monday uh 11 to 9 30 okay uh Tuesday we're off uh then Wednesday Thursday same exact time 11 to 9 30. yeah uh uh Friday Saturday it's 11 to 10 30.
2:13and then Sunday is 12 to 10.
2:18okay now I do want to let you know that we typically have a uh we get a report from the police department and we do have our detectives here today um detective Monas is here uh representing both herself the department and and chief Golf and and we usually would get an an up or down report uh uh from the detective um it does say that you have um and apparently this appears minor there is
2:46an unpaid parking ticket um that item can be cleared up with Detective Monas I don't know if detective Motors would like to add anything on the issue am I classifying that accurately it's just a song something that can be resolved right through the registered motor vehicle so if you go online under your driver's license okay and you should pay that ticket online uh once you've paid
3:11that okay you have a confirmation or a receipt number and you can provide that to me and then everything will be good to go okay all right no it's something that's minor but it's something that comes up that needs to be resolved now what I could suggest to my colleague is pending that resolution we consider improving tonight's application if you're so inclined make a motion I'll make a motion to
3:39approve the common victoryless license for Mr Chen's pending the resolution of the parking ticket uh motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye thank you you're very welcome if you want to bring the statement stating that it's been taken care of to me I'll then send it over to her if that makes it easy for you I'll bring you by tomorrow okay uh we're off tomorrow so
4:03perfect opportunity to go to uh DMV the DMV or you have to do it right online I don't think you have to go the whole person so you might be able to resolve it right oh okay yeah okay perfect thank you very good you're very welcome good luck with everything is that it that's it oh it only took six months and we wish you good luck thank you so much I appreciate every one of you
4:25that's in the big city to uh help me especially people on the fifth floor with uh we'll say yeah yeah you're very welcome Dave everyone's having been really helpful to get me get get the Play Store started up so you're welcome it was really good yeah yeah we're so busy I don't know what to do huh yeah it's so busy I'm still busy right now so we wish you good luck thank you so much
4:49uh ladies and gentlemen uh there's a we gotta head back there right a little busy right now that's it rush hour time thank you thank you so much so right now we're good with the seating yes okay going to get that cleared up and then you can speak with Melissa in the building department I don't think you're going to need a certificate from them because there's only 12 seats okay so I
5:08don't think it's going to be a problem yeah 12C probably max out at six yeah but we're running low on the uh the room because of the all the inventories and whatnot I'm trying to get like this yet in the back so I can move all the stuff to the uh the shed and clear out the uh the dining room more so I probably max out at 16 but right now it's 12 Max okay
5:30okay thank you yeah I'll pay the ticket and uh I'll bring it to you tomorrow sounds good thank you you're welcome thank you sir have a good day you also uh item number three old business and new business we have 3A approval submitted 2023 license renewals uh those renewal applications are attached and um pursuant to miss Ash we can take these uh Renewables categorically so I'd ask my colleague if she would
6:00entertain motions and run down the list a motion to approve the all alcohol common victuals licenses with entertainment if applicable for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor hi motion passes I will make a motion to approve the beer and wine common Victoria's licenses with entertainment if applicable for the year 2023.
6:27um motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor I motion passes I will make a motion to approve the club all alcohol common viculars licenses with entertainment if applicable for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion to approve the all-alcohol veterans Club licenses with entertainment if applicable for the year 2023. motion
6:54made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion to approve the farmer Brewer licenses with entertainment if applicable for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion to approve the package store out all alcohol licenses for the year 2023.
7:18motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion to approve the package store beer and wine licenses for the year of 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion to approve the class 1 and 3 licenses for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero secular by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make a motion
7:48motion the class 2 licenses for the year 2023.
7:52motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes I'll make of the common vicular's licenses for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor I I have it motion passes I'll make a motion to approve approve fortune tellers licenses for the year 2023. motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye Ocean passes
8:22the year 2023 motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor I motion passes moving on to item 3B I request a motion to sign and approve the October 19 20 20 minutes I'll make a motion to sign and approve the October 19th 2022 minutes motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes if I could please ask our friends at Fall River government TV to stay live
8:54so we could sign during this uh during this public meeting before we adjourn carry my way in the back kid here we go oh and you guys can each have a copy of that I wanted to give you that sure thing schedule yeah very good I have one right here in case oh both detectives would like one
9:36I mean with today's date 12 12. to this very welcome
9:51okay the minutes for the October 19 2020 uh 2022 meeting have been signed and the chair will entertain a promotion to adjourn motion made by miscadero seconded by myself all in favor all right motion adjourned thank you everyone Merry Christmas