7.16.2025 Licensing Board

Uh we're going to call the for licensing board uh meeting for Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 to order. Uh to my right is member Michael Pereira and I am attorney Gregory Branch, chairman of the board.

First and foremost, I have to advise everybody that you draw, right?

Yes.

Because we are only going to have a two member board tonight. You have to have a unanimous decision for approval. So anybody who wants to have the right to withdraw and have your matter heard at the next available meeting, we will allow that uh to happen. Um does anybody want to do that? that's here so I can get you out here early.

Okay. Um, pursuant to the open meeting law, any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meet the meeting to any media. Attendee attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unpersceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible.

The city charter section 9-18 mandates that all multiple member bodies develop and adopt rules or policy for public comment. We have adopted such a policy which in short provides for citizens input and license board specific matters at the beginning of the meeting. There is a signup sheet that is located in the back of the room. We don't have any.

Correct?

Nobody.

Okay. Um item number two, one day permit forever public library 104 North Main Street.

Felicia Desaris uh looking for a one-day liquor permit for 92925.

Please could you please state your name and address for the record, please?

My name is Felicia Desaris. Uh my personal address or the business address?

Uh your personal address?

I um it's 86 Merchant Street, apartment 3W, uh Fall, Massachusetts 02723.

Okay. Mr. Maris, um can you just tell me a little bit about the application? says it's a donor social gathering. It's just for beer and wine with an expectation of 150 attendees and it's from 1:00 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Yes. Um so our nonprofit um the library foundation is holding the event. They usually do this annually and we in intend to have beer and wine if that's so you know so they know the rules and regulations regarding police detail so forth and so on.

Yes, we plan to have a 4hour police detail present.

Okay. Um, this is an annual event as you said.

Yes.

Okay. Uh, anybody in favor of this petition? Anybody to oppose? I'll entertain a motion from the board.

Make a motion to grant the one day permit to fall public library.

I'll second that motion. Any questions on the motion?

Nope.

Hearing none. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. All said, Mr. Mask, good luck.

Thank you.

Uh, agenda item three, common viculous.

The Tatty Restaurant, Inc., Uh 1232 1238 Pleasure Street. Elizabeth Medina.

Let's come forward.

Um I'm I'm like interpreting for them.

Okay.

Could everybody please take their name and address for the record?

Um, Lucia Hernandez, 60 Price Place for River.

Esther Martinez, 645 Ramen Street, Far River Massachusetts.

Okay.

Is Is this a a new restaurant?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Do you have any experience in the restaurant business?

Yes. Yes. That's my mother. She has like about 25 years of experience in the restaurant business locally in for River.

Yeah. She used to work at um it's called the Dominican restaurant on Rodman Street.

Okay.

Yeah. She was the cook there for about 25 years.

What are you going to be hours of operation?

Quite a lot.

Uh the 10 morning uh 10.

10 to 10.

10 to 10.

How many days a week?

Every day.

Yeah, every day. Yeah.

Looks like that there's no problems with the police. That's all set. Okay. Um, any question? Uh, excuse me. Anybody in favor of this petition? Anybody opposed?

I'll entertain a motion.

Yes. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to grant the common vict32 1238 Pleasant Street to Miss Medina.

I'll second that motion. Any questions on the motion? M hearing none. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. All set.

Good luck. Good luck.

Okay. Thank you.

Come pick up the license. Okay. Do does she have a board of health?

Uh yes.

No. Uh uh tomorrow the body I when you get that give me a copy and come and get your license. Okay.

Okay. So tomorrow you can pick it up tomorrow if you have your board of health certificate.

All right.

Okay. Have a good day.

Agenda item four Troya Cafe 278 New Boston Road Colo Salana.

Could you please state your name and address for the record?

Yep. My name is Paulo Sa located at Troy Cafe 278 New Boston Road.

Okay, Mr. Sana, I know you're open. I know you came in here. We just recently granted some I think you got to bear in mind your license. Yes, correct.

Yes. Yes. And so now you want to have entertainment.

Yeah. small um probably like run trivia once in a while and uh the small karaoke, nothing like no live band or anything like that. Just keeping it low key.

Okay. Tuesday through Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Correct.

Friday and Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Correct.

We don't do Sundays, right? We can't give you Sunday.

Sunday's fine. Uh, actually you you guys gave me permission to open Sundays for boine and cordial for now, but I'm closed for football season. I'm going to reopen when we can't give you an entertainment. You got to go to the That's fine. I don't want entertainment for Sunday.

Okay. I guess like because we couldn't do it if we wanted to. That goes on.

No, no, no.

I'm okay with Sunday. Yeah.

Okay. So, it's Tuesday through Thursday.

Um, excuse me. Tuesday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11:30 to 11 p.m.

Correct. Okay.

Okay. Recorded music. Karoki.

And what does other mean?

You checked. He checked off other trivia. Trivia wasn't released to death.

So I just check.

Okay.

All right. Sorry about that. That's okay.

No live music.

No live music. He said no live music.

Right.

Uh, no. No live music. No, it's too small to have someone singing that. So, it's not You don't have it checked off and you just said there was not going to be anybody live.

No, no, I'm not planning to do any one live singing over there. No, it's going to be like playing recorded music. Maybe like a karaoke people going to be singing over, you know.

Okay.

Recording music and um maybe run trivia once in a while. No.

Okay. So, recorded music, Karoki, and other which is trivia games of some sort. Okay. Anybody in favor of this petition? Anybody opposed? I'll entertain a motion.

Yes. So, I like to make a motion to grant a entertainment. Is it a permit or a license? Permit. Permit.

It's a license.

License. Entertainment license to the um how do you say the first word? Troy Troya.

Troyer. Cafe. Um 278 New Boston Road.

I'll second that motion. Any questions?

M.

How's it going over there?

Very well.

Is it Well, now it's cafe. Is it coffee?

I I mean I started as a c as a coffee shop until I became like what I want to be now.

Yeah.

But we got so many regulars, so many neighbors that I kept a lot of the stuff but at nights is we do more like you know very good martinis lot of good drinks. The neighbors are very What intersection is that?

How you doing martinis?

Oh okay.

The best martinis in town. We should come try what what does intersect with? What's the nearest intersection street? Where is Stson and uh Stson New Boston?

So was there a question?

I'm right in front of Jim.

Yeah.

Okay. All right.

Yep. That's it. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Okay. All those in favor?

I. All those opposed. All thank you so much. Good luck, man. Take care.

All right. Next, we have New Beer and Wine Vix License. Mona Lisa's Kitchen.

You can stay there.

LLC. Yes.

LLC 241 Jefferson Street. Um, Sha, I don't want to mess this up.

Shahul Islam.

Yes.

Um, could you please state your name and address for the record?

Um, my name is Shahed Shahid Islam. The histo 756 Bitton Avenue in Fall River.

Okay. I know we just gave you the comic book list to open up, right?

And you I know you're closing down the uh the the the bagel shop, right?

Unfortunately, it's like if we can sell it is good. If no, they're not going to keep it.

Oh, good. Okay. Okay.

Because I want to go back to school to finish my graduation. So, okay. Just just because I know we already have the the hours operation on the common Vic, but can you give me the hours operation that the restaurant's opening?

11:00 a.m. until 10 p.m.

Is that 7 days?

Yeah.

Okay.

We are all set with the police. No issues there. I know he's been in business in the in the the city, so he's done a good job and he's trying to make a go over here. And Mr. Fiola filed everything appropriately, it appears.

So, anybody in favor? Anybody to oppose?

Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to grant the beer, new beer and wine common victim's license to the Mona Lisa Kitchen at um 241 Jefferson Street.

I will second that motion. Any questions?

Nope.

I don't have any either. All those in favor? I. All those oppos. All good.

Thank you. You guys all invited over there.

Okay. I'll have to stop in.

Thank you.

Um, item six on the agenda, change of offices, directors LLC managers, Squeegee 2, Inc., 915 County Street, Addex.

How you doing, sir?

Good. Can you please take your name and address for the record?

Uh, Adele.

And your address?

Oh, the address will be your address. Oh, 25 Kimber Road, Baron, Massachusett.

Okay. Um, now this is the old Ogills.

Ogills. Okay.

So, is it going to be the same type of uh format?

It is same type of format. Uh, a little bit different. Um, he's updating and renovating the inside currently. Um, so that's getting a sort of a tear down and rebuild. And uh we're going to have two chefs in the kitchen, one serving uh Cape Verian Spanish food, another doing Portuguese and American cuisine. Um Mr.

Tasher has been in touch with a lot of the staff uh that worked at Ogills and um most of them are being brought on board for this restaurant as well. So it's going to be the same cooks, the same bar staff, same weight staff.

Mix, do you have any what's what's your familiarity with the restaurant business either through council or yourself? Uh so uh just English communications. So um he's had uh more than a decade of restaurant experience. His father operated a family-owned restaurant in Cape Fed for about 40 years. Came to America uh and ad operated the restaurant there with his mom for about 10 years before coming to America. Uh

he's been working in construction stra uh trades specifically for the purpose of saving up to open up a restaurant.

So for the most part, you're just changing over the offices and directors of the LLC as well as naming him manager. Correct.

Okay. And and so that's that's all we're dealing with, right?

Okay.

Uh anybody in favor? Anybody opposed?

Michael?

Nope.

I'd like to make a motion to uh um grant uh change of office directors and LLC managers for Squeezy to Incorporated, 915 County Street.

I'll second that. Any question on the motion? Hearing none. All those in favor? All those opposed.

Thank you. Good luck.

Thank you, sir.

Good luck.

Kevin, you probably could bring that.

Yeah, I'm gonna try and catch it.

It's going to be easy.

Oh, yeah. Please. Thank you.

Number seven on the agenda, old business, new business, Kantique, 52 Ferry Street, Christopher Mine, amended request for 717 2025.

You please state your name and address for the record.

I'm Carl Pelleter, Red Oak Hospitality, 52 Jerome Street, Berkeley, Massachusetts.

I know you came in and at the time you said there were going to be no pouring.

Yeah.

So, originally we had been asked to participate in the farmers market. Uh I believe there's a couple uh of the events that they're turning into bigger events. They've teamed up with Phen Coney Island and they're doing Coney Island hot dog eating contest tomorrow night on Purchase Street and among other festivities. So they've asked us to go into a ropedoff beer garden area instead

of just being a participant in the sales part of the farmers market. So they're turning it into a bigger kind of celebration like midsummer uh event um to be enter you know like a DJ. It's going to be a good it's going to be a good event for the city. So it'll be cool. I I went by and I and I noticed that I saw the the the where the

planters are and you know the area and and I guess you can put people in there.

Is there what you're gonna have police detail to make sure they don't get out of there?

Yeah. Yeah, we already scheduled it just in case. So, police details all set.

Okay. That's the only thing I was a little, you know, down the street because they have that other Was that Blossoms?

Time Blossoms down there. Yeah.

You know, not that they can't go there over there. It's No, no. This is just going to be in that little area there right by I believe it's right by Viva.

Okay.

So, uh, anybody in favor of this petition?

Anybody to oppose? Uh, motion. I'll entertain a motion and then questions from the board of um so so uh we're we're approving the liquor license so we can pour now. Is that what it is?

We can pour and serve liquor.

So how should I from the uh the motion?

Um make a motion to amend the uh we'll entertain a motion. I'll do the entertain a motion to amend the previously granted um one day permit to to extend beyond just the sale of the the uh beverages to also have pouring of said beverages um within that location.

Yeah, correct.

Perfect.

Second.

Okay. Um no questions. Uh all those in favor.

I I All those opposed. All good, Mr.

Okay. Good luck.

Thank you. Uh motion to sign and approve um May 21st, 2025 minutes. Motion second.

That's it.

Motion second. All in favor? All good.

Carry. Show you how we make our tea.