all right good afternoon everybody real quickly we'd like to call to order the meeting of the license commission for the city of Gardner on Tuesday April 8th 2025 at 4:30 brief announcement any person may make a video or an audio recording of an open session of a meeting or may transmit the meeting
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meeting must be submitted in duplicate to the clerk all documents shall become part of the official record of the meeting the commission consists of three members a quorum of two members are needed for a motion the ruling for a section 14 which is a one-day license lies with the local commission local
rulings on violations can be appealed to the ABCC within 5 days of receiving the written decision when approaching the commission please state your full name for the record sign the sign-in sheet here and our agenda this evening is as follows uh
let's do the uh approval of the February 18th 2025 regular meeting minutes i wasn't here so I'll let you guys oh yeah you Make a motion we accept the meeting minutes as written i second all in favor
i i motion carries meeting minutes February 18th 2025 is accepted okay uh next on the agenda we have the Sawa Asian Cuisine and Lounge they're seeking approval for a transfer
of license how you doing today good good afternoon i'm Tra for Kong LLC okay doing business at Sawa Agent Lounge um as you all know um Sawa moved from its current location in Tippity Plaza to its
current location on West Broadway i think we can all agree it's a tremendous improvement on on that building and um it's been a wonderful addition to the city of Gardener as part of their transition uh back in the fall they had applied for uh transfer of the operation
of the liquor license that was owned by DK Brothers Incorporated to this new location as part of their business plan uh they have uh they they decided to dissolve DK Brothers as a corporation um and all operations of Sawa um are moving
to the new entity Kong LLC ouh LLC is continuing the tenency at the old location and they purchased and took basically took over all the hard assets of DK Brothers Incorporated the intellectual property being the name
Sala Asian Cuisine um and Lounge and the domain name etc and the liquor license the intent was the intent there is to transfer those to the new entity Kwong LLC so that's the purpose for the new new application it is Kenny is who is
here with us today um is a consistent owner between DK Brothers and Kwong his wife Evelyn is also a manager and member of Kwong LLC so it's basically facilitating the departure of David Wong from the corporation and Kenny and
Evelyn taking over the operations so when once the license transfers DK brothers will no longer exist as a corporate entity everything then will be consolidated within K1 LLC uh that's uh that's set forth in our application we've provided the materials because of the fact that this is a family interf
family transaction there really is no money changing hands um so basically we've provided the information here i'm welcome to answer any questions you may have so your brother will be removed from everything on the the license and
correct you want to rename that corporation there's a cor right so it's new it's a new corporation Kong limited liability company uh Kenny will be the manager of the liquor license he's manager of the LLC is white is also a manager of the LLC um so basically David
is departing out of corporate the the old um company that we have DK brothers it was me and my brother which my brother used to be on license holder for the ABC right but he he's no longer
um interesting the Russ business anymore so he would like to get his family move out and that's part of understand yeah yeah you can relax relax place looks wonderful by the for that
night i haven't been able to get into it yet it's It's amazing what they didn't sign oh yeah so do we need anything from him no okay no the votes the votes have all been signed his signature is on the
votes that's really all this is just a this is just a simple transaction transfer of a license from one corporate entity to another like I said there's no real monetary um exchange here basically we'd have the same correct yeah same price yeah just removing somebody okay
are we good with everything on our end we are okay i want to make sure all right i see no issues here john any comments questions concerns great restaurant looks great y perfect
it's almost like a change of management type situation exactly yeah that's when we go with um Hannah yep okay can make a motion to approve the happy make a motion approve the new
license actually transfer of the license under the new ownership second all in favor i approve and see i just want to make sure one thing yep okay
i just want to make sure that it was K wong over there on the LLC so we're good good to go great transfer is approved all right thank you yeah john all right good luck thanks so much you're welcome
the ABC app thank you thank you all right next on the agenda we have fitness concepts seeking two special 1A licenses this is for May 17th 2025 and
June 19th 2025 yes sarah Brown all right we have our cheesy beer run on the 17th of May our fourth beer now um we're doing the same thing as we have been one free beer with sign up and then we'll
have the roped off area in the park as usual for our after party we're guessing around 150 peopleish if we're lucky we bought 200 medals so I hope no more than that comes or there'll be some disappointed wasters so you can't have more than that
um but that's really it and then the June 19th is our summer solstice they'll get two glasses of wine 1 hour apart one um at the beginning and then one about an hour hour and a halfish in in
between and then that's it they don't get to purchase any wine or anything at that event so it's just kind of two glasses yep you you did this last year right three years now I remember we've done a couple different
ones and the beer one is one beer yep they get one free beer they can purchase them after as well gotcha okay so one comes free with with registration yeah and but they're allowed to purchase yes yep they'll be allowed to purchase we're
doing wristbands um at check-in okay doing IDs and wristbands and if they don't have wristbands obviously we want food beverage and then me and Jesse are tip certified as well and Wusid so Wusit's going to and Atlas
are going to be your Y there for the 5K and then we have the showa for the um summer solstice see that certified good and drawing we are good there
uh John anything from the garden on this no they absolutely zero problems okay thank you all right so we're good okay so there's two here we'll start with
um start with something start with the May one which is the another cheesy beer run to be held on May 17 2025 i move that we approve that license
second all in favor all right motion carries the one day license for 517 cheesy beer run is approved we're good there same thing you know the drill just make sure we keep the certificate um right near the serving
area so if there's any questions um all right the next one is the approval for the summer solstice outdoor wine um yoga so that's on June 19th 2025 are there any rain dates planned for
these or They are not we're doing rain or shine this year okay rain or shine any questions on this at all comments concerns no same deal they were on ice ship okay then I move that we issue the license
for the second event for June whatever it's called summer solstice June 19th i second all in favor i all right and one day is approved for the summer solstice outdoor wine on June 19th 2025
yoga thank you all right we're good to go good luck thank you very much guys good all right uh old business we'll jump to that um we have Gardener Lodge
1426 the Elks change of manager previously approved still pending with the ABCC okay nothing that Gardener Lodge has to do it's just on um so it was returned no action on March 12th for missing or incorrect documents the gardener Elks is working on the
corrections to resubmit i believe those corrections were resubmitted um right before Megan left so I'm going to double check i'll text her okay yeah no problem all right so we'll table that one uh the Four Seasons Chinese Cuisine they were seeking approval for a new on premises
all alcohol beverage license and that was lasting yeah so that got approved by the ABCC on March 4th okay so that one's all set okay good fourth
and we have the Lithuanian Outing Association this is the request for change of manager pre previously approved by the commission submitted to the ABCC abc requested amended documentation and are currently waiting for one more document from the club uh the acting
manager there did submit that document on Monday and we're waiting to hear back from the ACBC okay do you know what that was unemployment insurance uh the certification for the unemployment insurance
i think it was out of date the one they had originally submitted was like a month or so out of date this has been going on for a couple of months so I think it was probably in date when we first submitted it but when the investigator gets it I believe everything has to be current okay all right so we'll just put that on
the next agenda just as a followup um I think that's all for old business unless there's anything else that came up okay uh new business so we have the 2025 seasonal renewal packets that were sent out on March 12th 2025 thank you so
the deadline was March 31st and all of the packets have been submitted back all of the um submitted documents have been reviewed um we are pending inspection on the PACC we're pending inspection on the
Lithuanian Club and Zoe's actually passed reinspection yesterday so once their certificate is issued by the building commissioner um and each of the other two previous clubs are issued by the building commissioner I will
upload those documents to the ABCC pending your approval okay so what what I'd like to do is I'd like to just um put it out there for a vote just to approve the seasonal licenses if that's okay you guys okay with that all right
uh so Zoe's Restaurant um which is Zoe's on the Green at the at the golf course um all alcohol club seasonal just want to put that out there for a vote for their renewal i move that we renew
second okay all in favor i motion carries their seasonal license is approved here from the local commission um if you need anything just let us know just want to make sure um on record as a vote for this mhm uh PACC their seasonal
so that is the other building this is the pavilion pavilion building okay um and this is for their seasonal license take a motion on that move that we accept the PACC re i second okay all in
favor motion carries that's approved the PACC there and then the Lithuanian club we just discussed um but we just put that to a vote based on having that
finalized paper set back okay then I move that we accept the Lithuanian officer i second that okay all in favor motion carries go there and we'll just table that one for next
week just to make sure we got move those forward to make sure they're all completed all right so good there um that should do it for the seasonal area uh back to the new business we have uh Sesimmonium he was
requesting the city of gardener request additional off- premises liquor license from the state for the purposes of opening a new liquor store at 326 384 Tippity Boulevard and so that was the old that was the old uh gardener spirit
Sean's place right okay um I think I responded to that email that that's something our city council and our mayor need to petition the state Mhm to get additional licenses mhm so I would kind of pass forward put that into their
hands and they can bring it up at their agenda at their next meetings yep the request was forwarded to city coun sorry the um the mayor and to the city solicitor okay i'm seeing that if we're going to start increasing our economics here and restaurants and everything else
we're going to this is something that probably needs to be done sooner than later just because it might impact our ability to bring business certain businesses to this area so we we do still have some on premise
um beer and malt liquor sorry malt liquor and wine and we do still have some on premise full alcohol licenses available this is specifically for an off-remise package store package store yeah yeah so typically unless there's some kind of special legislation we are
limited by population right yeah understand all right sounds good so we're good there and uh final on the new business so Megan Budro um has resigned from her position at the license commission clerk
and we like to welcome Brandy is it Cassie case case as the new city of gardener license commission clerk yeah she will be preparing all of your documents preparing your stuff and I'll be facilitating meetings for her because she's not available after 4:30 okay all right welcome aboard
Brady all right uh does anybody else have any new business questions comments concerns everything good out there John yeah everything's been really good good perfect fine no it's been all right same steady nothing really big spikes or anything
crazy that's what we like to see all right that's it there's nothing else on the agenda i hear a motion to adjurnn i'll make that motion second all in favor i all right meeting is adjourned
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