The Fall River Licensing Board convened a special meeting on Monday, March 20th, at 12:15 PM. The primary agenda item was the application from Bob's Place LLC, doing business as Straight Shooters Billiards Hall, for a new all-alcohol common victualer's license for their new location at 30 Front Street. Attorney Peter Celino, representing the applicant, and owner Bob Alban, explained that Straight Shooters was forced to relocate from its long-standing premises at 288 Plymouth Avenue after 30 years due to the sale of the mill building. They had previously secured zoning approval for alcohol sales at the new Front Street location in December and relinquished their existing beer and wine license in February. Bob Alban, who has 31 years of experience in the billiards business and 24 years operating with a beer and wine license without major issues, detailed the proposed hours of operation: 10 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, and 12 noon to midnight on Sunday. The Fall River Police Department had expressed no opposition to the application. Following the discussion, Miss Cadero made a motion to approve the new all-alcohol common victualer's license for Bob's Place, which was seconded by Tim McCoy and passed unanimously. The approval is contingent upon further administrative items with the state and a site visit by board members.
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good afternoon my name is Tim McCoy I'd like to call this meeting of the licensing board to order it is Monday March 20th uh 12 15.
0:11and open up our uh open up our meeting with the reading of the open meeting law pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make audio a video recording of this public meeting or may transmit 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 I deemed acknowledge
0:33impermissible the city Charter section 9-18 mandates that all multiple member bodies develop and adopt rules or a policy for public comment we have adopted such a policy which inshore provides for Citizens input on licensing boards specific matters at the beginning of the meeting there is a sign up sheet that is located in the back of the room noting that we do not have anyone present for Citizens input we will move
1:03on from item 1A to agenda item 2A and I see attorney Selena was here I handed over to attorney celino
1:20the Fort Myers Peter celino I represent the applicant in the petition before you this afternoon uh with me is Bob Alban he is the owner and operator of Straight Shooters Billiards Hall here in Fall River what we're seeking to do is the following uh Mr Alvin was located in the mill known as 288 Plymouth Avenue you may or may not be familiar with the fact that that Mill was sold it's on the
1:41south side of 195. the company that bought it asked all the tenants to leave Mr Alvin was put in a position after 30 plus years in that location where he had to move so he found the new Mill space to the north of the highway known as a 30 Front Street zoning does not allow the consumption or disbursement of liquor in that District so in December we sat at this table and
2:03we sought the approval of the zoning board of appeals to allow him to have an establishment that serves alcohol at the February meeting of your board he relinquished his beer and wine license which he had held for many years and now he's here before you applying for an all-alcohol license to be consumed on premises at the Front Street property the applicant is slightly different in
2:24that he's filed an LLC so the applicant is Bob's Place LLC DBA Straight Shooters and Bob is the only member and manager of Bob's Place LLC he's going to operate pursuant to a lease Michelle Pelletier runs the building there's a copy of the lease paperwork in here as well as the floor plan I've walked the building with him because of ADA he has to have a first floor space where they're going to
2:48have a door in and then there's an interior staircase that is built to the second floor where he's going to have additional billiards tables bathrooms Etc so ultimately the ask here is apply for an available all alcohol license to sell on-premises at the location known as 30 Front Street can you give me a rough idea just on capacity sure um do you have a sense of how many people you have uh the old place is the
3:18same uh footage uh we had 220. I don't have it on this place okay but we know we don't come close to that okay yeah okay Mr Alvin I know you've been in I like to have folks say it on the record Mr Alvin it presumably is going to be the bar manager can you just stay for the record you're experience in the industry do we know you've been a straight shooter 31 years yeah you could
3:42for the record yeah and we've been uh 31 years and 24 years with a beer wine license and um we've had no major issues there yeah and um I like to also know for the record we don't have any opposition from frpd again based on your prior experience and whatnot um hours of operation because that declared yet uh yeah 10 10 in the morning till midnight the weekend's a little longer we stay till two in the
4:13morning on Friday one o'clock on Saturday a.m yeah so can you help me out again Monday to Monday to Thursday Monday to Tuesday midnight uh yes 10 a.m to midnight Friday uh 10 to 2 Saturday 10 10 to 1 and Sunday uh 12 noon till midnight and as we know I believe this obviously will go to the was it the ABCs board and we also this will require a site visit
4:41on behalf of either Melanie or myself okay um anything you folks would like to add no I don't think so do you have anything else you want to add no no I'd like to thank the board for having the special meeting um very important to Mr Alvin and he's very grateful that you've done this for him so thank you you're welcome you're welcome chair would entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve the new
5:03all-alcohol common Victorious license for Bob's Place motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye motion passes application is approved pending other administrative items with the state and the chair would entertain a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjust motion made by Miss cadero seconded by myself all in favor aye meeting is adjourned thank you thank you very much