let's stand for the pledge please standy and justice for all good e good good evening everyone and welcome to the Lawrence Licensing Board meeting i am sorry to be a few minutes late it's a lot of traffic out there
could we please go through roll call good evening welcome everyone to Lawrence Licensing Board meeting on March 19 2024 pressing out of the meeting commissioners Leair here Commissioner
Morales here Captain Cerula and Officer Cano thank you all for coming meeting start thank you i'd like to approve the minutes
make a second make a nomination to approve it we don't have any previous minutes do we minutes for Oh March 19th okay thank you okay yeah commissioner Morales made a motion to
approve the minutes for March 5th second by Commissioner Leer commissioner Morales how do you vote yes commissioner Le how do you vote yes minutes approved thank you great the next uh item on the agenda um we do not have old business or tabled
matters the new items is uh Sper River who's applying to a change of manager and a liquor license at 56 Island Street if you could please come up thank you hi could you Hello can you both please state your names for the record um and
maybe tell us a little bit about the change if it's applicable my name is Michelle Baruby um and I'm here with Peter to do a change of manager okay great um Commissioner Le do you have any questions yes I do you're still the
owner well I wouldn't be moving forward it wouldn't be Spit River anymore okay wait you're the owner right now right yes I'm still the owner currently sorry yes and you're here right yes and who's that joe Ero okay joe now the other guy's not
involved before right no so you're going to be changing it later on to another company or getting out of it changing it to a another company but you'll be still the old Would I still be dealing with it no so you would
be the new owner yeah so she'll she'll be here through the end of the year as the owner her and Joe are technically the owner joe would like to be here on a trip for two weeks uh business trip so okay so you're taking over the whole thing yeah so I'd be the new manager on
site there um and we would keep the license as me as a new manager and then in the next 6 months if things go well we would then apply for a new and a new ownership so I'm I'm technically the manager of Speaker River her company and Joe's company until we And you have
experience doing this uh yeah last 20 years at least in this business yeah one more question thank you Commissioner uh Cap uh Captain Uloo good evening good evening welcome so
again you're familiar with the business like you said 20 years experience uh so good luck thanks if you have any questions and concerns regarding the rules and regulations you can reach out to myself or officer Canó okay uh to go over any of those rule changes or any or
any of the regulations so there's there's no hiccups really happy to sit with you uh and go over any of that stuff absolutely thanks thank you Officer Kel i have no questions i wish him the best
for the record um Captain Laney called me today and he recommended them highly so yeah um so this is mean you guys will open again this is my favorite date night spot so yeah so we're you know what's what's terrific about the community which you know I lived here
for only 2 years years ago but you know Gary's very involved um he's you know not the majority owner like Joe and Michelle but he wants to see another operator in there and I think he wants to see a long-term sustainable thing
that's 5 10 15 years um you know my brother uh Cedric and I I'm you know we've been doing this a while and you know we look at this as a long-term thing as well and it's all about the community and you know uh trying to do the right things and you know that's
awesome great thank you um I'll make a motion to approve this transfer of manager the change of manager yeah Mike had it right commissioner Morales made a motion to approve the change on manager from
Michelle to Peter Daniel second by Commissioner Leer commissioner Morales how do you vote yes commissioner Le how do you vote yes motion pass i'm going to send it over to the VCC and good luck okay so we just hear from them and then we can Gary and I can start the process
of opening after this change is being approved then you can start working on to change the entity name and all of the stuff that you need to do okay okay thank you thank you thank you both okay the next item on the agenda we have
Atlantico restaurant that's applying for a new liquor and common vic license at 170 Union Street we have Gary Ortiz and Jose Luis Martinez um could you please state your name for the record um and tell us a little bit
about the new the reason for the new um common Vic and liquor license my name is Javanni Geronimo um I ran the plates for about 10 years or so okay and um we transferred the license because I'm looking into new business okay thank you
and these will be the new owners yes okay great it's not a transfer you understand it's not a transit um yeah so this is a new applying for a new liquor and a common big license on the premise
of course go ahead yeah remember by November 30 they didn't renew the liquor license and then automatically they had to apply for a new legal license in that process they sold the business to Jose Lewis that's why they're here tonight
okay thank you commissioner do you want to say something else yeah I have some problems with this okay these people ran the place for you before right uh they were there working with me yes working there and they were promoting happy hours they're violating the law on a
number of issues i have all the pictures and all the cards they sent out giving free drinks to women lowering the price for different hours and that that's a violation of the law that ain't going to happen this time no okay no more girl dancing in there that ain't going to happen no more no you're lucky because
you were supposed to come in here before the 30th to answer questions why people got shot out front of it that's going to change okay i've got to give you a warning now first complaint we get from you when they open up we're roll back your hours of
operations and you ain't going to like it when we roll back your hours of operations so these two guys might have ran it before and think they're going to run it the same way they're crazy it ain't going to happen no it's all different now mhm just make sure you they understand it no happy hours no
promotions of the drinks for an hour and go by the law and you won't have a problem yeah I explain everything to them yeah I get it thank you sir happy hour for etc bring the end
okay okay um I just translated what you said and I sound nicer cuz of course hello we understand each other right yes okay thank you uh Captain Cerillo yes so again I think uh Commissioner Le had hit
the the nail right on the head uh this has certainly been a place that's been a problem uh over the years as well as recently prior to their uh closing uh I would like to make one recommendation to the board and and maybe we can adopt it i think these two gentlemen uh should
set sit with me and officer Cano uh and go over the rules and regulations as part of the conditions to make sure they understand how to run the business properly uh and you know a little education C class so that if something goes wrong and they come back before us
there's no claiming that they didn't understood understand the rules and regulations i'm happy to translate quickly um okay great when are you going to be available whenever whenever you you want to meet up and again I would recommend
either both commissioners can be there as well or one of the commissioners could be there whatever you want to do Mike it's policy for both of us to be there i can be there if it's helpful i can be there if it's helpful if we need to translate anything yeah again I don't think translation will be a problem i
have offic I'd rather I'm I'm going under knife pretty soon so I don't know when I'm going to be available so I'd rather have her go there make an arrangement for Anna to go there and you guys handle it but that's going to be part of the comm uh part of the process we approve
it with her and you enable to sit down with the rules and regulations and them okay i agree okay okay officer Kano do you have questions comments concerns no questions i think
everything's been said okay thank you commissioner Leard I'll make a motion we approve it provided they meet with them first and take care of this issue okay and I'm warning you ahead of time don't
mess up okay okay no you'll help us with the coordination of getting us together cuz I need their contact information yeah okay great okay um I'll second commissioner Le made a motion to approve
a new legal license and 170 sub union second by Commissioner Morales with a condition to have a meeting before to issue the legal license so I'll be the one to set up the meeting with them set
up time and end date great commissioner Le how do you vote yes commissioner Morales how do you vote yes motion pass you got approve Antonio congratulations you said 177 South Union 170 170 South
Union that's right there is a problem with our locations that we're trying to to to fix with the building department because that address is 170 no AB Street yeah I understand because the main door is in front of the South Union not on
the AB side i've been dealing with that the past 10 years so that's a we got to fix that yeah okay congratulations thank you thank you very Jose do we have your contact information jose the manager is going to be Jose Luis
okay his is going to be the manager okay the middle the middle one jose okay jose yeah yeah okay so my boys make sure your camera systems up to date too yeah they are i actually was in Boston yesterday
uh from a case that happened okay four or five years ago mhm and the cameras were the perfect catch right there great okay so we'll as long as we have their contact information we can make this happen as soon as possible for them
say hi thank you have a good day thank you thank you byebye okay appreciate it have a good one guys thank you you too um great the next item on the Okay so
uh why are we tableabling it i'm just Okay okay so I'll make a motion to table item number three and item number four an in uh two incident reports yes
i'll second a motion to table Aqua Lounge uh 151 SS Street in Mamasita 206 Lauren Street for April 9th meeting 5:30 p.m
commissioner Morales how do you vote yes commissioner Le do you vote yes okay monsonet thank you great thank you and the last item on the agenda we have Essex Motors um hello good evening um could you please
uh fill us in a little bit on of what's going on here with the license um well first of all my name is Reynolds Pierre hello um I'm a license owner for was a license owner for 631 Essex Street um
Essex Street Motors mhm uh which was a business that was operated by my father for the past 40 some odd years okay um which he had a verbal agreement with the property owner at the time mhm till death do them
part um the property owner passed away mhm and long story short we lost the property due to their the new property owners wanting to go in a new direction with the property okay and so um I haven't I've
been I've not been able to renew my dealer license due to not being able to find an appropriate location um to move and apply the license to at this point it's been having a hard time
um just finding a property that suits me for that situation okay and so uh the address that I have here 631 Essex Street was that your previous address or is that the license the address that you're currently advocating
for for a license no that was the previous uh address okay okay so um and I'll have my my colleague jump in i'm because this is uh I got around two years trying to look
for a property being unsuccessful so I actually don't think that we can approve a license of this matter without you having a location and so uh Commissioner Mike uh any thoughts you need a location
before we can prove this license okay how much time are you going to need to before you get a final location i'm not sure because it's just I've been having such a hard time i've been looking and looking and talking to people and it's most of the you know due to the zoning situation most of the locations I come
across already have a license applied to it which doesn't suit me you know um I already have a license that I want to apply to it so will save me cost in doing so um but I've been looking up and down uh you know trying to talk to
different people um to try to help me out try to find a location that'll that'll that that'll be approved for the for this situation mhm who's that guy that uh has all the property there's money here there's a lot of them
in Lawrence roger like that roger Farah farah you reach out to Roger Farah i I I have uh he does not have anything at the moment that is suitable for a dealer license i
think street Morales used to be there Morales morales he used to be there but he he bought a new business on Rose Street he moved to 29 292
Street so that location is I I believe that that location has been sold to be made into a supermarket or something oh that location that that's true mhm okay
we can't approve the license but we give you some time definitely you don't find that uh probably certain amount of time together how how much time will will you allow me
[Music] i'm going to I'm going to need some time because this is a pretty tough task in this um city's kind of saturated as it is but we've been doing business here for over 40 years so um you know we just
got caught up in a situation you know I was thinking 60 and 90 days most it's going to be tough for me to acquire location at that time i mean I I'm able to to to acquire it but I just can't
find it i have the means someone else wants a license get this license that's why I'm willing to give you 60 or 90 days to find a place if you don't find it we have to give it to open up to the public mhm and
another thing that he has to do is as soon you find a location you got to go to zoning zoning zoning board to see if they can approve the location that you find exactly it's the first that I've been having yeah what I'm trying to say you
find a location right and then you come back to us and then we we'll know you're looking for it and you found the place then we'll give you time to take care of zoning yeah okay okay we'll give you the 60 90 days you find a location and then you come and tell us then we'll stop it
and you let you take care of zoning okay okay okay definitely the best we can do okay i definitely don't want to you know it's my livelihood i don't want to lose my license it's the only thing that my father left me and that's my you know
main source of income and I depend on that so you know I'm not trying to lose my license i'm not you know I'm not brand new in the game we've been here for decades paying um taxes and doing good work being good citizens we own property in
Lawrence for over 40 years um you know just got caught up in a situation where we lost that property we hear you thank you let me pass the mic to Captain Ser i don't have any questions okay thank you Officer
i don't have any questions so I will make a motion uh to approve um for him to have a license for an additional 90 90 days um and be in communication with us with Antonio if you see a place let us know even if it's
offline and if I see a place and we'll just keep the conversation going cuz I do hear the urgency and I understand um we also have to make sure that we're abiding by the laws of Definitely like I said final location yep okay go to zoning board get it approved we'll
start there okay yeah I'll second it commissioner Morales made a motion to give 90 days to find a location second by Commission Le commissioner Morales how do you vote yes
commissioner how do you vote yes motion pass you have 90 days to find a location and then you come back here to talk about the zoning uh process okay okay i thank you guys thank you for coming have a good evening have a good day don't fall asleep on it no I won't i'll try not to officers thank you have a good
night before we close the meeting um I want to know what's the status of Ralph uh for the ABC ralph I'd like to get that I have to say something i want to see if
we get that done before May the month of May i want to get it done May or June okay okay i'm out of commission April 2nd to the 14th so anytime after that we're good to go i think I'll be out of
commission too i'll be gone the April 2nd to the 14th but you'll be in good hands no God you have April um there is a complaint that I would like I would like to let you know
there's license fake license going to option trying to buy cars people who doesn't have to remove the license but they change the name the the day the day
that we issue the license for example I started changed the day that we issue a license for him he put it on January 25th and I find out January 25th is a
Saturday we don't so I got him right there and another thing that he He put the license number without the MP that was a letter that we use for the license i found also another another guy
and also he changed the commissioner stem he bring the license without the stem so there's three things that I found that he was doing a uh using a license what place is this
used to be exactly he said he has 49 street and he's not there so 49 does not allow anyone that has deal
so the other one is they sold another car $4,000 to a lady and she called me the same gentleman we had here yes and I'm waiting for her for her to send me a report in writing because I can't
bring to a meeting without writing mhm so okay um uh oh there's another one using the name ourselves mhm we have one that is
good yeah but the other one is using license MP20 uh 11 and that license is not No longer in circulation speak into the
mic because they do not sure all those people okay so let's do I want to make a proposal that we the first item about the uh fake
license being auctioned we should bring them in okay okay that's all okay i I delivered the notice to him and he lives off um someplace on
Tower Hill his cars are registered in New Hampshire too thanks for the information okay so okay so the next item so we can't do anything about that
until we get the the report well we can do some uh Go ahead Mike we can make a motion tonight to have all these people in at the next meeting or two meetings every one of them who has a wholesale license bring them in
great i will second that motion and then if they don't have a location then we revoke their license right then and there okay commission L made a motion to bring all the business that used to have the location at 49 Blanches Street to
the next licensing board meeting second by Commissioner Morales including Excuse me all of them who has a wholesale license not just Blanch Street anyone who has a wholesale license bring them in all of
them be one of them okay so the motion is uh to bring to the next meeting all all these people to the next meeting yeah let's do it okay wholesale license of course all right second by Commissioner
Morales commissioner how do you vote that's you oh yes commissioner Morales how do you vote yes motion pass okay i got to I got to I got to work oh my god i can help you make calls
commissioners do you think it would be appropriate to move those other two items to the next meeting the discipline ones where you're going to have all those people in here at once well we could do one or the other we do need time to set
this up right tomorrow well I'm just saying we need more time we'll we put them off to the second meeting in April we'll do it that and we'll take care of the other ones you'll be here for the other ones right i I'll be here for the dealer
one but I won't be here for the uh So we're considering switching it so let's keep this for the 9th and then do all the dealers in the following for the 23rd okay okay i rather have him here yeah so I would suggest to do the
dealers first the the dealer licenses first and then save the discipline matters for when I'm here cuz I conducted a follow-up investigation to those so it would be probably better we wouldn't want you to miss anything nobody should
so again in the meantime he can he'll follow up with with the building manager over there and make sure that's the case so that he has the the appropriate information for that okay just before we make sure because I don't want to come in and say none of them are
there and you know get the dealer the the owner of the building yeah so Abel Abel can touch base with the property owner and then at some point we'll we'll do a walk through prior to to make sure that none of those businesses are in see the problem is
when you go to the door like some of I just put the paper away some will say we're here Thursdays some say we're here Mondays no one's there on a Friday because they're always at the auction going everywhere but I I'd like to see we get rid of all class three dealers anyways but again I think the property
owner should if I mean one call to the property owner he should know who's leasing master list a master list okay we could do it yeah i'd like to I'd like to make a motion to adjurnn the meeting
our next meeting will take place on April 9th at 5:30 second commissioner Morales made a motion to adjourn the meeting second by Commissioner Leair commissioner Morales how do you vote yes commissioner thank you very much
everyone for coming thank you thank you