What are we on the bottom? All right. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Uh just an opening statement. I'd like to call the public meeting for the city of Gardener license commission. Uh today is Tuesday, October 14th, 4:30. Uh announcement is any person may make a
video or audio recording of an open session of a meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium subject to reasonable requirements of the chair as the number, placement, and operation of equipment use so as not to interfere with the conduct of the meeting. Any person intending to make such recording
shall notify the chair for with all documents referenced or used during the 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 is 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 from the commission. When approaching the commission, please state your full name for the record. Print your name on the attendance sheet over here. And our agenda for this
evening is as follows. Uh first is the meeting minutes from September 9th, 2025. I've reviewed these minutes at length and would like to make a motion to accept them as written. Second. All in favor?
I the meeting minutes from September 9th, 2025 are approved and signed for. Okay. Next on the agendas are only hearing today, we have the guard fish and gun club. This is an application for
a change of officers. Bar to chair. Uh my name is Eric Storm. I'm president club. Okay. Representing the club itself.
So change of managers. How long has it been since you guys had a change of Oh, we change them every year. Okay. There's a there's a election every year for uh president, vice president, secretary.
Um and two three board of directors. Two for two year, one is for one year. Nice. Bill Shay's still on there, too, huh? Bill has he's moved on, but that's okay. Good job. We used to coach kids. Yes. League with each other.
Yep. It's it's a uh lonely job and as you're probably aware quite thankless if you ever want to know the truth but that's it is what it is. Paperwork looks good. Yeah, paperwork looks good. Everything
looks good there. I don't have any issues. Any questions, comments, concerns? Can I? No, sir. Davis is still the treasurer. Treasurer is appointed, but yes, he still is. Yeah.
And I believe this is his 43rd year. It's I think there are some bar furniture that's younger than he is, but that's all right. He's a good man. Good guy. A lot of good people there actually. Not just not just anything.
It's an older club for sure as you're well aware. I think our average age is 63 maybe. John, you might even go a little better, but not it's an older club. Getting younger. We got have some good success with some new members this year. We're averaging
between 4 and 12 a month, which has been historical over the last over the last 8 10 years. That's the most I've seen as a as a member of man officer for sure. I think the range is a big draw for people. There's no issue. Well, it's, you know, I mean, there's
been a lot of places that literally are hanging on by a thread and I think to your point, I think we're actually gaining those folks. But it's a nice nice spot. It's a it's a great place to, you know, it's a one of the things that we thought, you know, we want to enhance all of that as we go along, but it's a hand tomouth thing
just like every other club in town. It's Solar Field is helping us out a lot. So that's that gives us a little bit of a cushion to Yeah, it's great. We're not we're not panicking, you know, every day, every month, and you know, by year end going, you know, what do we do now? But so that's helped us out, which
is good at this point. We're getting getting feeling better every year. Certainly getting that that opportunity. Um, can I just make a suggestion to you that um
maybe future documents that probably probably shouldn't be notorizing things that you personally involved in? Yeah, I as a as a Cy check it's kind of a it's witnessing and it's
I I understand that just a suggestion. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Any other questions, comments, concerns? Make a motion we approve this. Okay. All in favor? All right. Motion carries. Change of management been approved.
Thank you. Good luck. Thank you so much. appreciate it. Have a great night. No problem. Thank you. All right. So, that was the only hearing we had. Uh to jump on to old business.
Uh we had the Sawa Asian Cuisine and Lounge. This was transfer of license. Uh was approved by the commission submitted to ABC on 48, 2025. File was confirmed complete. Uh July 24th, 2025. emailed to
ABCC for status update on 109205 continue continuing to monitor status. Yeah. So I did receive an update um over the weekend and it's still under review by the ABCC. Is that the SA to go? That is No, that's the new SA.
That's the new one. I'm confused. Still this one. Yeah. So the the transfer of licenses from one corporate entity to another corporate entity because one of the brothers um left and they dissolved. All right. I remember that now. Um okay.
And that's the first one number one. Yes. Okay. The next one's coming up. Yeah. All right. So we're under review for there. So that's we'll have to table that and get an update on the next meeting. uh SA to go, which is the one the used to be the original SA, the only
SA um new on premises annual alcohol application approved by the commission on June 17, 2025. Submitted to the ABCC on June 18, 2025. Emma ABCC for status update on 109. Uh continue to monitor status.
So I do have an update on that one. Also, I got another email from the other investigator and they're waiting on additional documents. According to the ABCC, I have a copy of the email that John Flick sent with those documents from June. Okay. And I'm waiting to hear back again from
the ABCC to confirm that they received those documents because there seems to be a disconnect. Okay. So, I will continue to follow that one. Okay. So, attorney Flick's office is still handling this, correct? They are with the supervision of um Mary Beth,
his office manager, and Vincent Pusetaryi who is working um on his open situations. Okay. So, they're still representing. Yes. So, Yep. All right. So, get an update on that or we get one sooner. Fantastic.
Uh Southgard Hotel application for transfer license change of manager. Uh the new owner of the establishment, Justin Johnson, submitted to the ABCC on September 17th, 2025. Still pending ABCC review and approval. Uh still in monitor
status. Okay. So, we just need the approval from that one. Either an approval or a request for additional documents, right? And nothing. I haven't gotten anything. It's It's a little bit early for that one. Okay. Uh All right. So, we'll table out
to the next one. Hopefully have an update there. Uh, Gardener Lodge 1426 Elks change of manager officers application was approved by the commission on February 11th, 2025. Submitted to the ABCC in March 2025.
ABCC returned no action on 312, 2025, 81, 2022, and 812 2022 for missing or incorrect documents. The application was resubmitted on September 17th, 2025. Still pending ABCC review and approval.
Is that we still stand on? Yeah, they did confirm that the application application does appear to be correct and complete at this time. They just have not finished reviewing it. Great. All right. Well, that's one step at least they admit that it's complete.
So, okay. So, hopefully we'll get some finalization on that in December. Um, next is the ABCC issued an advisory regarding local board's ability to allow on premise wine and malt license holders
to trade in their license for an on premises alcohol license. This was briefly reviewed at the August meeting. A copy of the full advisory is in the packet. Um, so we did have a discussion on this and I know it was kind of a little bit of homework for us to all
talk about. Uh but to run down basically some of it is the license commission may vote to amend the local regulations if they would like to adopt a new law to the local regulations. The license commission may also establish additional requirements if
they'd like to do so. Um I just want to make a quick comment. I think we hold on to status quo as we see it now. We just keep the licenses as they are. probably haven't had any issues. Um, there may be
what, two or three premises that are just beer and wine. If they we can also we can revisit this later down the road if something changes, but or if we get an inquiry or an inquiry. Yeah. Or an inquiry. I
mean, it's I mean, it's great that they notify, you know, us of this if we want to go by state suggestions, but that's my thought. I I say we stay as is and we hold. I agree. But that's up to you guys. I mean, we can we can talk have an open conversation.
What do you think, John? I agree. I think the state status seems to be working. Very good. Okay. So, we'll hold that until we get some sort of an inquiry. Ash, down the road. I'll leave it open. Okay.
But I'll remove it from the agenda. Thank you very much. All right, on to new business. Uh, the health department has hired a new administrative assistant who will be acting as the licensed commission clerk. Um, is it Dewan Falsin?
That is her name. Oh, yeah. Uh, she'll be starting on 10:21 2025. She'll be introduced at to the commission at our November meeting. All right.
So, good to hear that. Uh and next is liquor license renewal. Applications are currently being processed. Deadline to complete renewals is November 26, 2025. List of completed renewals will be presented at the 129205
license commission meeting. An establishment representee for any license that has not been renewed or remains incomplete at that time will be asked to appear before the board at that meeting to explain the reason for the late relic. Sure.
Good. Uh thank you very much for that and any other new business? I do actually have um new business. The uh actually it's under old business. We uh had approved the changes for the fees
on the last meeting and I just wanted to show you where they fell in the regulations and give everybody a copy of the current regulations. Thanks and approve the actual formatting and and the information that is included there so that I can get them posted on the city website.
So after review, we can make a motion to accept these new fees into place and that goes into effect January 1st, 2026. Is that back? Well, last got I think that's right on the money.
Yeah. Still seems pretty cheap. Yeah. Yeah. That's an average about for the area though, right? That's what we do. But yeah, we agree. Yeah. I think the addition of the um amendment application fee is a smart move because as we just heard from
Garden Fish and Gun Club, many of these private clubs change their offices every single year and at some point in the year we are handling all of their paperwork again. It's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. Um and maybe this will change some of their uh policies to
maybe go two years or All right. So, let's take a motion on that. We'll vote that in. We did that the last time we did. I thought Yeah. Did we vote? Just approve. Can you just approve the motion to approve them as written? Yes. Thank you.
Make a motion to approve as written. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. We approve as written the licensing fees. And then I do have one other issue. Um, we came up with the November license commission meeting that was going to be
scheduled for September 12th. Chamber is not available. Do we want to do the 12th in here? Do we want to do the 10th in here? November. Sorry, did I say October again? November. November. You said September. November's meeting. Do we want to do it
here on the 12th? Do we want to do it in chamber on the 10th if it's available or I have because I have the tenatively reserved the chamber for that uh Monday. If Monday is not good we can do Wednesday but it would be either here in the mayor's conference room.
Okay. So um the 11th city hall is closed and the 12th the chamber is not available. Mhm. So, our choices are to do it Monday in chamber. In the chamber or Wednesday here,
right? All right. I don't care. Whatever's easier for I'm I'm open. So, do you want to do it on Monday or Wednesday? Wednesday. Say you want Monday. It's okay. Wednesday's fine. Go ahead.
I don't care either. Let's do Monday at the chambers. Monday in the chamber. Yeah. Since we're used to it. I like that better. It's our normal home. Then I won't get lost again. Escorted to the meeting. Sounds good. Perfect. And that's when
we'll meet uh our new secretary. Yeah. Dewan. Dewan. Is she coming to that meeting? She should be. She's from the area. Um I believe she's from Pittsburgh. Perfect. All right. Any other new business?
Good. It's quiet. Yeah, the October Fest went well from what I was told. Um, yeah, Phil Lake kept me posted on everything, but the uh the people that work said there was no issues. No issues.
That's good to know. I I think that brings a lot to the city. The Friday concerts have been going smooth, too. Yeah. Yeah, I noticed that as well. I took a drive by a couple times. Those are done now, right? No, the Friday night concert. Uh, they went
in Mackie Park. Yeah, I think it might be done after. Yeah, I think they were up until October Fest. Yeah, it was good. They had nice band and it was under control. One day I went by the second one they had. It was a ton of people and it was pretty chill.
Good. Good to know. Good to know. Get some news. There's some different things going in. Yeah, it's good to know. The walls and the bars. It's been It's kind of different. Knock on wood.
It's not like years ago. That's for sure. Yeah, I remember those days. All right, sounds good. Is there something else? So to adjurnn motion is second. All in favor? I.
All right, meeting is adjourned. 448.