little picture e call water now the meeting will come to order now before we start the meeting we like to have the Pledge of Allegiance led by Lieutenant Randall if you all stand please a pledge of allegiance who the
flag of the United States of America to The Republic which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you very much uh the following matters will come before the r License Commission today this is our regularly scheduled
meeting this meeting has been previously filed with the city clerk the first item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of January 15 2024 would anybody you like to make a motion to uh to approve those me these
minutes I can make a motion to approve I second that very good the minutes of the January 15th meeting uh 2024 is approved the uh next item on the agenda is our application submitted for
consideration the item number one is motive action wellness club LLC DBA of action 220 Broadway
Jia zaro Felina is the manager I'm sorry if I mispronounced your name uh this is an application for an entertainment license the application of motivaction wellness club to be
exercised at 320 Broadway as part of a fitness center operation the requested entertainment is widescreen cable TV and recorded music are your name and address for the record please the button in front face on it
there you go thank you hello yes my name is G or Julia and address 495 rier Beach Boulevard Apartment 2 R and the business addresses to20 Broadway R thank you very much and what would you like to do with
this entertainment license so my name is Julie and I'm the one of the owners of the motive action that is a boutique Cham we are opening right here in Broadway and we are here to request entertainers license to be able to enhance our classes with some
music and to be able to H some uh occasional Fitness events very good thank you very much for that uh do any of my fellow Commissioners have any questions no questions for me is your business already in operation not yet we are in the process of build out
almost very good uh we'll close this part of the hearing are there any proponents or anybody that would like to speak on behalf of the entertainment license for motive action wellness club we don't see or hear anybody we'll close that section is there anybody opposed anybody opposed to the issuing
of this license you don't see or hear anybody we'll close that section would you like to discuss this further or would you like to make a motion I can make a motion to approve that's second very good the motion uh is approved the application for for an entertainment
license for motive action wellness club LLC is approved the uh license will be exercised at 220 Broadway as part of the fitness center operation the entertainment is widescreen cable TV and recorded music thank you very much thank
you good item number two hot dog Al Al Corp DBA boss dogs boss hot dogs 7 Washington Avenue Eleni almea de ala is the manager
this is an application for a change of hours the application of hot dog Al Al Corp to change of hours to Monday through Wednesday 7:00 a.m. to 12: a.m. Thursday through Sunday
700 a.m. to 3 a.m. current operating hours are Sunday through Saturday 400 p.m. to 12 a.m. uh your name and address for the record please gentlemen uh the my name is Francis pH
uh my address at 1251 s stre m m the place at 7:50 on Washington uh Road and R mess okay name is Victor FIA uh live at
197 Reservoir Avenue and R apartment one thank you very much gentlemen can you explain briefly what you'd like to do and um you know what youd like to do with the change of hours breakfast and lunch um he explained to me that he
would like to expand the business hours because he would like to implement breakfast and lunch to the business okay I see that the really the only change that you're looking for is
Thursday through Sunday to stay open till 3:00 a.m. is that is that correct yeah okay um do any of my fellow Commissioners have any questions yeah I'm a bit concerned um at 3:00 a.m so in
addition to you have a full menu I assume in your business right y um why why why is there an interest to stay open all till 3 a.m. he explains to me because he receives a lot of orders at those times at 1:00 a.m. 2 a.m. and
yes yeah and after midnight he has a lot of increasing orders demands understand so you're expecting to to continue to serve until 3:00 a.m. is that is that your plan a.m. through
three so you you you you expect to continue to serve until 2: a.m. yeah but you'll close at 3: yeah are you is it more of a takeout that's yes more take yes more takeout what other food do you serve besides what is it hot dogs hot dog
hamburgers some like G Wing is some do you have seating in um in the uh the uh restaurant and how many people are able to sit
here 25 the most I think it's a train for seat yeah there's the old uh Chinese place that restaurant that closed yeah ch Garden yeah something like that yeah it's a b over well my concern is that
opening um 3:00 a.m. is I mean there that's kind of a residential area there is a Condo building right next door to it right yes and I'd be concerned that you know the noise Factor would be an
issue um would you have any problems with a uh closing it a little earlier on a Sunday U no I can't close the on the Sunday actually especially got it like Saturday to L
late thinking like a Friday and Saturday I know that your your applications requesting Thursday through Sunday but um I share that those same concerns I think that um I wouldn't oppose uh or even I wouldn't object to uh 2 or 3:00
uh in the morning on a Friday and Saturday would see is more appropriate y um and it gives you the extra two hours to continue to service your customers obviously I want you to succeed and do well yep um but it is you know it is a
highly residential area um and it's um it's a bit concerning that you want to stay open till 3:00 a.m. um so I think that uh at least I mean obviously we we'll hear from anyone else that's here whether for or against but um even if if you get approved for
it uh see how it works out and then if you feel like it's still restrictive um then you can always come back right so okay close the section you have any um any questions or concerns that you want to address right now I think I agree with Dan um I think Sunday is pushing it
a little bit with it being a residential area okay okay sir well that's uh this discussion let me just uh open it up to the floor and see what other people think we'll close this part of the hearing are there any proponents or
anybody that would like to speak on behalf of the change of hours for uh boss hot dogs we don't see or he anybody we'll close that section is there anybody opposed is there anybody opposed to the
increase of ours we don't see or hear anybody we'll close that section um well just as a general discussion I think um we are kind of in all in agreement
that we want to preserve the quiet time for the neighborhood at night yep and so if we were to vote to expand the hours I'm thinking that Friday and Saturday would be appropriate
would you be amendable to that so if if a if a motion was made to increase the hours on Friday and Saturday to 3:00 a.m. would you be all right with that is that something that you can
yep okay well so I would make a substitute motion that we increase the hours on on Friday and Saturday to 3:00 a.m. and the rest of the hours would be as they as they are
currently excuse me oh 7 a.m. Monday through Wednesday so be it would just be Monday through Wednesday 7: a.m. well Monday through Thursday 7: a.m. to 12 a.m. yes and the
only yes every day till 12 except for Friday and Saturday right the 7 a.m. part is we have to put in the motion oh I see the current operating hours are 4 p.m. okay I'm sorry about that so yes we would expand your hours
to 7:00 a.m. y opening close at 12:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday okay and then on Friday and Saturday you can stay open till 3:00 a.m. okay so it be Sunday through
Thursday right yep okay so the motion would be Sunday through Thursday 700 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Friday and [Music] Saturday 7 a.m. to 3:00
a.m. and we'll see how that goes if if people complain and you know you have to be respectful of your neighbors if you see people hanging around your parking lot you need to move them along you can't have people out there with their radios on or any stuff like like that
because you're going to create problems at that point okay uh yes I I received call like uh the they expect him he say he see somebody call him have the place open like at two in the morning but uh I
I never have that trob over there I know have like a the head like a salon up up the the place and the people us use over there in the night times for make a p i don't know how him over there sometime
we have some noise but upstairs well we we didn't receive any complaints about your business so um obviously just continue to operate within the the rules that are set with with your license and you should be fine okay all right all right thank you good luck to you all
right so uh I would make a motion that the hours go from Sunday through Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. i' second M very good the motion is approved thank you very much thank you item number three Pato Brothers LLC
DBA lacantina 2024 488 Broadway Omar pado is the manager this is an application for a change of hours is there anybody here from La Cantina we don't see or hear anybody we
will table that and move on to item number four item number four nidal Buu buo Singh sorry about that uh DBA sing's Ro shop too 76 Rivier
Beach Boulevard nandal Buu Singh Is The Manager this is an application for a common victus license uh the application will be exercised at 76 rier Beach
Boulevard requested seating is 16 the requested hours are Sunday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. uh your name and address for the record please sir pleasant good day to the
panel um my name is Ricky Singh they can call me Ricky Singh but my full name is nanal Budu Singh okay thank you I'm sorry if I mispronounced your name uh no problem my address is 14 kingmen I have been revealed yeah very good and can you tell us what you'd like to do with this
common vixus license so um the license is for for the 70 76 reiv Beach Boulevard and um we're going to be doing Caribbean style cuisine on the beach um from the
islands of Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica Barbados we're bringing that that type of food to that um good to that location very good that's the place that's the uh stand right next to Bill Ash's LNG that's right right the wicked e used to be I think yeah they
closed well good well that sounds like it's going to be exciting that's exciting for R year if you may I brought a couple menus for theel see okay are you going to have some traditional Roy from that's correct oh awesome some Curry and that's pretty
exciting that will be a frequent customer thank you very much and you know what's good there's nothing like this right right um I have been in business for for the past 22 years I have an
existing location in Dorchester called Sing Roy so um that's a little history about myself yes and um and I assume it's familyowned and right right so my kids grew up in the business M and um it's a
family based business and we do have some extra help helping out where it's necessary and why did you choose Riv oh I lived in Rivia and it was The Ultimate Dream okay this is what what we wanted to do you may not know me now but I I
have been participating in the Rivier Beach s sculpture festival for the last 15 years I am the pineapple and coconut guy on that beach okay yeah yes we all know that so now we're bringing the the
the the team of Trinidad Barbados Jamaica on that beach oh that's awesome and we're bringing you food like jerk chicken curry chicken roties beef patties hopefully some ox oxel so we're super excited I know the
the city of R every day I'm getting 15 to 20 phone calls every day when we're going to open when is this going to happen so where we are excited as as a residental review awesome very good well it sounds like it's it's a worthwhile
Venture um does anybody else have any other questions so when are you looking to open well the restaurant is ready uh we're going to the um with health department and building department right now we're ready it's already um was
slated after this after this meeting um by the end of this month we should be ready to have um uh how you call it a smooth opening to weed out all the all the type of um problems we're going to have for winter
time so yeah so when did they say it open I would like to open at the end of February okay awesome yes um and I suspect you will as you get close to the summer you will be changing those hours cuz 9:00 is not going to especially on the beach right yes to too close to that
that was my next question if I will I have to come in front of you guys to that again yes so yes all right okay very good well uh let's close this part of the hearing are there any proponents is anybody else that would like to speak on behalf of
sings Roy shop to we don't see or hear anybody close that section is there anybody opposed anybody opposed to the issuing of this common victual license we don't see anybody will close that section would you like to discuss
this more or make a motion I can make a motion to and I gladly accept accept very good the application for common vict license for sings Ro Shop 2 is approved the application will be exercised at 76 R Beach Boulevard the
requested seating is 16 the requested hours are Sunday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. thank you very much sir good luck thank you item number five aam Kelly's rever LLC DBA Kelly's Roast Beef rever 410
rier Beach Boulevard Frank Carolin is the manager this is an application for a transfer of a common victus license the application for a transfer for Kelly's Roast
Beef from Kelly's Roast Beef the said license to be exercised at 410 Riv Beach Boulevard the requested hours are Sunday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. the requested seating is 24 outside
seats yes your name and address for the record please Lisa Whitman 9 Magnolia Way Apartment 932 up in pbd Massachusetts very good Jim ratti Kelly's Roast Beef my home address is 3 Way Massachusetts thank you very much
uh ma'am can you tell us what your plans are for this um transfer you going to be keeping things the same or yes everything is going to stay the same The Establishment name um Frank is the general manager of the restaurant um he will be staying on board um all the same Associates are retip certified
anti-choke and um allergen awareness um we've got an approval from all the departments on all the inspections and all the sign offs um and just keeping everything status quo just change of ownership and upgrade the menu a little bit at all that'll be a Jim question
eventually yes a little bit I think we're going to keep all the all the things that move really well and that we've been selling forever I've been there for 44 years okay so um we'll keep the the beef and the seafood but we'll try to bring in some new stuff and take out the stuff it's a slow mover and
another thing we're doing is you know he brought me some lunch for later um we're trying to improve things for when they take it out especially since this is a takeout we're getting new containers that will keep the food hot longer whereas as always been an issue in the past um that we've heard so we're definitely going to make improvements um
to grow the business more my question to you is so currently right now I I this is a gym question but you have outdoor caum currently right yes correct so what do you what do you have now they're just uh they're just basically round benches right so you you want do you going to put tables out or no they're actually
both of the ground we already have so so it's the same right it's the same nothing's changing nothing's changing right cuz that the the 24 number I was like are you are you looking at increase or just keep things the same no just tables of six that P down keep it exactly the same mhm so how many tables are
outside uh there's uh there's six tables that can SE between six and eight I see okay that makes sense okay all right just one all right all right that's all I have very good do you have any uh any other questions no question okay I think we have covered that um let me just
close this part of the hearing are there any proponents is there anybody that that would like to speak on behalf of the transfer of this common vixus license we don't see or hear anybody we'll close that section is there anybody opposed anybody opposed to the
transfer we don't see her he anybody to close that section would you like to discuss this further or do you want to make a motion I'd certainly move to approve the um the transfer the commic license for K second that very good the application for for the common Vic's
license for aam Kelly's rier LLC DBA Kelly's Roast Beef is approved the application will be exercised I'm sorry the license will be exercised at 410 R Beach Boulevard the requested hours are Sunday through Saturday 10: a.m. to
11:00 p.m. the requested seating is 24 outside seats thank you very much good luck thank you both oh thank you all best luck thank you item number six Gibson Point Restaurant LLC DBA Milas one Gibson way sweet 131
Michael Aldi is the manager this is an application for an all alcohol restaurant license the application for Gibson Point Restaurant to be exercised at one Gibson way sweet 131 to requested
hours of Sunday through Saturday 7: a.m. to 12: a.m. requested seating is 89 inside and 50 outside the requested entertainment is a widescreen cable TV radio DJ amplifiers karaoke votal vocal
and instrumental music and dancing by patrons your name and address for the record please sir my name is demic O'Brien address is 35 Lakeshore Court in Boston very good can you explain what you'd like to do with theas so Redgate
the uh large building concern in Boston who is building quite a bit of these apartment buildings all over the city all over the great Greater Boston area had an idea for a concept for a coffee shop restaurant similar to Tradesmen on Broad Street in Boston they approached
us as we own three restaurants in Riv with the idea that we would know how to operate them better than anyone else that they had known so basically what we're looking at is coffee shop Bakery in the morning um lot of grab and go coffee we also
want to uh you know complement the amount of work from home spaces that the new building does have be able to have that we'll have high-speed Wi-Fi in the in the building outside everything and then it transitions over in the afternoon to a bar restaurant their building if you haven't been there
before is very health focused they have a wellness epicenter within the building so the menu is slightly more healthy than say like the drift or fine line menu that we currently have uh we will or we're working in tanon with the building to provide coal press juices
smoothies and whatnot to order for the the residents in the building the idea ultimately is is they want this to work because they're going to be building I think they said 13 buildings in the Greater Boston area in the next 5 to 10 years is their plan and they want to make this as an amenity in all of their
buildings so the test case for us is the new Gibson Point apartment building very good I'll do my fellow commissioner have any questions I do so I know you very well obviously I I I know how you run your restaurants and I certainly um I
think you do a great job whenever you're on site thank you I have to answer that I have to emphasize that um however um I do have some concerns with this current application in light of um some of the issues that we've had at one of your
recent restaurants um especially when it comes to your request for um the entertainment part of your license um you know part of that concern is is you know obviously I think what you what you plan to do with with um the core of the
restaurant itself is great sure I think it'll be a great thing for Rivier especially for the residents that are going to be residing in that building um however when I when I delve into your entertainment request um you know it it seems to me that it when that transition happens it might turn into something
that's what's going on on the beach at the moment so what I would say so what's the difference there what I would say is a lot of the furniture within Milas is like permanently affixed so there's not a whole lot of movement within the building wants to partner with us on a lot of Resident events so the ability to
have like the residents come down for a karaoke night or on Saturdays we have an outdoor space that they activate we activate that has a bachchi ball court that looks at one area looks at Lynn the other is looking at downtown Boston it's right by the Gibson Park area we're
hoping to grab a lot of you know co-ed softball leagues and whatnot that come off of there so they wanted you know the idea to be flexible so we could have these events if we wanted to nothing big nothing like it is that we do at vivies it wouldn't be like that at all we just want the option to be able to hey if
we're having this resident event there if they wanted to provide a DJ to spin inside or outside during regulated hours that's fine uh you know we're not looking to have this be a club by any stretch of the imagination with the concept being as it is in the interior
photos like if you see it lot of Blues a lot of Earth Tones and again we're making smoothies and coffee and juices so and does the building itself has any restrictions on the amount of uh how late you could stay open did they is
that part of right now we pitch to them Midnight they wanted at least that late uh we stay open till at least midnight at fine line uh because we have a lot of residents that want to come down as like a last place to hang out in the building going to be like a similar like fine line I mean so yeah they if hilariously
enough they wanted a very healthy menu but also wanted the Fine Line Pizza Oven so so we got one of those for uh for them um but no like the vibe and the the the menu is going to be a bit different we do have pizzas but it's a lot of pastries a lot of more health conscious
items because that is what the building requested we're partners with them on this so it's not like as you guys all know Mike um it's not fully on his concept they approached us with the idea of they'll build it we run it we want to make it work for them over the long
term do you have any questions so I love the idea about you know what you're saying the juices the restaurant I'm just a little bit nervous about giving the entire like uh vocal instrument music and dancing at the same time I mean I understand like you know I
like I don't think that the like the restaurant's not designed at all to be able to accommodate like a gigantic party of that of that sort but of course you know we do want to support your business um but it's just that I think that okay
well um I think you've you've answered our questions thank you very much no problem we'll close this part of the hearing are are there any proponents is there anybody that would like to speak on behalf for the issuing of this license Angela Gino so w five counselor
um I'm happy that they are opening up this restaurant um anything Michael Aldi touches is really good as far as food is concerned my only concerned is the two neighborhoods that are directly abut the restaurant of it being open past the 12
p.m. uh 12:00 a.m. license if we can keep it at the 12 for now to just at least do a pilot program to see if it's okay even with the residents above I don't know what sound proofing they have either um but if we can keep it open
till only 12 not go any further than that um I would be okay with that as well I'd appreciate it yeah I just don't want it to go then turn them to turn around and say I want it till 2: a.m. because we have two neighborhoods that are directly abing that thank you you're
welcome thank you counselor um the restaurant itself is it is it going to and now as you look at the building is the restaurant going to be in the back the water end or the yes so if you're looking at the building from whereever 16 you see the lobby in
the front there's a wooden Boardwalk that runs on the channel and alongside the building we're at the very end of that okay so if you go out the like the outdoor patio door you're basically looking between Boston and Lynn and then there's the park is right there okay
thank you very much are there any other proponents anybody else like to speak on behalf of the issuing this license you don't see or hear anybody we'll close that section anybody opposed anybody opposed to the issuing of this licenses um there is no opposition we'll
close that section do you um would you like to discuss anything further no I I I I would I would certainly move to um approve the um the license um as well as the requested
entertainment um however I would I would move move I would make a motion to adjust the time that the music should be off by 11:30 and close by 12 would that be interior or exterior especially exterior yeah
exterior probably like like we do in the other spaces at like at Ryder that's it's set to go off at 10 right yeah right and at drift and fine line we cut them off at 10 that that's obviously reason why um um
but that that's what I would propose which is completely fine very good um so the The Substitute motion would be that you would be able to stay open till 12: but your music would go off at 11:30 downside sounds fine very good
um so the application okay shut off your microphone yeah the the application for the all alcohol restaurant license um the mo current motion is for
the license to be issued and exercised at one Gibson way the requested hours are Sunday through Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 12 a.m. the requested seaing is 89 inside 50 outside the entertainment
would be widescreen cable TV radio DJ amplifiers karaoke vocal and instrumental music and dancing by patrons all to cease by 11:30 very good uh that's the motion I second that motion very good
the application is approved thank you very much thank you thank you the application for the all out alcohol restaurant license for Gibson Point Restaurant LLC DBA MERS is approved uh a late addition to the agenda is item number seven Reise boxing
Inc we're all set sir thank you you still have to hang around right this is an application for a one-day Mall wine and entertainment license the application of Rees boxing Inc Michael Rees the event
manager this this is going to be exercised at the Boston harleydavidson at 649-1200 p.m. to 10 p.m. for a boxing match do you I beg your pardon
Saturday March 15 you said Sunday sorry just want to make sure I didn't write it wrong yeah no I I did I I if I misspoke I'm sorry um Saturday March 15 2025 from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. for a boxing match your name and address for the record
please Michael Reyes one Westshore Drive Marblehead Mass very good can you tell us briefly what you'd like to do with this one day license sure we are uh bringing in some fighters from Ireland and some of the local amateur fighter from Riv boxing and the local gyms
around we're going to host a professional and amateur boxing match inside the Harley-Davidson um it'll start at 4: end probably around 9:30 uh 10:00 that's the plan very good and how is the alcohol
going to be dispensed it will be in the back there'll be a stanion off area 21 plus uh we've already hired three police officers to be there um as well as our security that's there and there'll be uh bracelets for checking 21 plus bracelets
no one can go past that section that's not is this a under 21 event like 18 it's a it's a it's an 18 plus event yeah box okay how long you been doing this I have 26 matches yeah so the last five years last
five years yeah do you um is this the first event you've put on or you put on other events before 26 26 yeah of the past 5 years I've I see this is the first one here are you are you with like a specific um club or so Rey's boxing promotions is my promotional company I
happen to own a gym uh which is Rey's Boxing Club um but we work with some of the local guys as well so did you draw this diagram for us I did she said just not very good sorry hope better way better way better definitely not
engineer yeah I was business school not engineering school I hope you box better than just messing with you but um I think that's cool man um so Harley-Davidson that's should be that's should be exciting yeah so we just actually worked with the they're part of the New England Harley-Davidson Group I
just did a fight this past Saturday in Manchester New Hampshire and we did our weigh-ins at their Sea Coast location it was really great everyone loved it issues right no issues at all that's awesome yeah I'm excited that have we ever had something like this in uh not
at that location they've had them at um Oceanside and couple other more recently yeah you've had a couple there um this is a Harley approached me and said they wanted to do something and we were like okay let's try this so the main events will be closest to to the end of the
night so actually oddly enough I have four guys coming from Ireland because it's St Patrick's Day weekend uh we're going to start the professionals or at least those four at 4:00 go into the amateurs and then finish off with the remaining professionals from around because overseas can watch it at that
time cool very good very good all right we're going to close this section of the hearing is there any proponents anybody like to speak on behalf of the uh Ray boxing event it's a lot of people 200 how big is this place it's huge five 572 is
their capacity yeah it's big in there it's huge okay yes do I have to hit the mic we speak yes if you would I see so you have to turn off yours and I all right very good okay well we're going to we're
going to uh disc continue this part of the hearing and ask for any opponents anybody opposed to the issuing of this license we don't see hear anybody we'll close that section uh would you like to discuss this or would you like to make a
motion as written I'll second that very good the uh the application for a one-day malt wine entertainment license for Reise boxing Inc Michael Reise event manager the license is to be exercised at box
Harley-Davidson 649-1200 p.m. to 10 p.m. thank you very much sir good luck with your event thank you for your time uh that concludes the applications for consideration the next items on the
agenda are hearings uh 21 rever beachs Boulevard LLC 21 R Beach Boulevard Michael Aldi is the manager this is a hearing into reports of neighborhood disruptions from noise and fights and serving patrons
after 2 am. name and address for the record please sir name is demic O'Brien address is 35 Lake Shore Court in Boston okay well we've been getting a fair amount of
complaints about what's been going on at Viv um why don't you tell us what it what's been going on from your perspective so from our perspective we saw an opportunity to potentially grow Revenue at the restaurant by doing more
light night night life after dinner um we're located on an end of the beach that is somewhat shallowly developed right now so we are trying to like at least drum up some sort of revenue for ourselves and we thought that the idea of uh you know having more of a loungy
atmosphere uh would help bring people in late night our license already goes till 2:00 with full entertainment uh we were actually the restaurant that came to the board about getting any sort of language written in about bottle service to uh to
rever um the issue that we had uh I know that there have been complaints from the residents of the building in talking with both managers that we've had the issue we face more is exterior when
around 2:00 when people are leaving um I found that it's somewhat of a jurisdiction issue because only so much outside of the front of our building belongs is rever police past that is DCR so that State Police so sometimes there is a jurisdiction issue there about
getting people out um we were told by one police officer who came in who' said that he had claimed that what he had seen was you guys your music was on past one :0 like I saw like I saw partially full drinks around the restaurant at 2:00 and whatever I obviously wasn't
there for this so once I took that into consideration talked with the police officer and I said okay cool here is like the the plan that we're laying out and we've had police details at all of these events for the past I think four or five weeks at every single one we've had every time they talked to us they said no you guys are great now like it's
been a lot better 1:30 lights are on music's off no guest are in the building past two I had one issue where a man couldn't pay for his tab so I had to sit there with him for a while to figure that out uh we don't get a ton of complaints at least told from us from the building as far as the noise
interior wise uh all the residents didn't sign did sign in their lease that it's a mixed use building so they understand that the the risk inherent is you live in a commercial space but so far haven't heard too much from the residents as far as internal noise what
I have found more is is external noise also securing this is been somewhat of an issue I went in I have experience in clubs College bars and whatnot I used to run a college bar in Boston that fit 400 people I do it by myself with eight door guys uh we were using a private security
company before we found that they were a bit too aggressive with the the patrons that we did have so we hired in to we hired uh guys that have experience work at Oceanside Event Center work at the House of Blues who are far better suited and far nicer about things I also sat
with these guys having the experience that I do I've done ID training with them we do use a scanner but I've been involved in a number of like situations in my time when I was younger working at places like this it's all in the approach with security like approach
them nicely use language that makes sense don't threaten them don't ever come off as you're being any like being any sort of above them or anything don't crowd people always say please and thank you you know there's going to be issues don't ever take anything that they say
personally these guys that you have at the door are they do they have credentials are do they have a security license are they you no I mean we had we had that before we did and those guys were like that company would always send guys but they were far too aggressive
with the patrons like I had an issue with one of them where he was ejecting somebody I thought he was way too aggressive about what he was doing I I was there I was there Friday sure and uh you know I I I went to the door and you know I showed them my badge and stuff and the the gentlemen that were at the door they did scan IDs and they were
doing their job but um they just looked like regular employees you know like there are guys I mean most most places in the city there most of the places don't like not in the city like in Boston in my experience a lot of guys don't have any sort of security license these are guys who just have a lot of experience they work at two like two or
three different places doing this job right you know like it's not like they have a CCP or anything like that they just have a lot of experience doing it I did have an opportunity to speak to a gentleman I think his name was Jay he said he was the manager that night very nice guy um they I did note that um they they did
last call as early as 115 yep everything was shut down like 1:30 as exactly how you said um I do think the fact that there was a uh a rever officer there that obviously tamed a lot of the incidents that we described but I really think the issue has been on Sundays H
Friday or Saturday nights the issue yeah from what I've gathered the promoter that we use on Sunday is he's a resident DJ at a club in Boston uh no the Buu guys are on Friday is that the Cisco no DJ Cisco Cisco does the Grand now right um I seen him there on
Sunday a couple times yeah so and that's also a late arriving crowd because they typically come after his events on Sundays um yeah the last one that I had to oversee was one of his events and we had a few issues we had a woman who was absolutely hysterical about things and
wouldn't listen to her friends which was rather annoying but um but we've talk we've been sitting here trying to work with him like this past Sunday we ended up changing up the configuration of how this was all set up we treated it a lot less like a club there wasn't like the
bottle service aspect wasn't uh enhanced or pushed at all and it was a bit more of a chill crowd more than you would see like on a Saturday there um again that was one time I can't speak for every time but this is why like I I sat with these guys and I was like look
you need to understand like here's the way you need to be doing things after 10:00 this isn't functioning like a restaurant we need to start treating this as a lounge we have security your demeanor is going to change the way we do business is going to change like you know um and it's all part and parcel
with being like more of a a lounge and and you and you have your entertainment until 2: a.m. on Sundays as well yep and you're open until 2: a.m. on Sundays it seems that the a lot of these things have come since the bottle service has been
initiated is that that I mean coincidence we basically we were doing it we've been doing it the whole time like we we when we did it the first week we were like we asked we're like is there any actual language in this and we looked at it and there was none in in lysing and that's why we approached you
guys we're like there's there's no language for this like we wanted to like reach out to make sure that we were covered for for this stuff we run within the state laws for Massachusetts the bottles aren't left with the patrons we had the RFID or yeah RFID caps that can
only be unlocked when you walk over with an app on a phone um all of our servers are tip certified again they're the only the servers are the only ones who are there to pour drinks this isn't like in Vegas where you can just like grab it and run around with it um so we wanted to keep it together because again this
is a holy new Venture it's completely new for up here you know and we there hasn't been like a long history of clubs or anything like that and here so we wanted to at least try to make sure in the attempt that this makes sense and we do it the right way
way very good so do you have a are you having detail officers now is that yep has that been added to the uh security plan yep and what nights are the detail offices so I know that it's pretty much every Friday and Sunday Saturdays I get
we've been trying and sometimes like they don't have somebody to to do it um but our Sunday our Saturday nights are actually far more chill it's more dinner base on Saturdays um and we don't use a promoter on Saturday we just have a local DJ who's from River comes in and
basically spins music during the last part of dinner and it's more of like a electronic music focused crowd so it's a little bit more chill as opposed to like uh ratone or hip hop or something you know do you leave the tables there or you move them out pretty well yeah so outside of we did for Valentine's Day we
had a big influx of of dinner tables but right now Fridays and Saturdays we typically leave those like Lounge tables there we seat the rest of the tables if people want a lounge atmosphere because those are again the window we see them you know but during dinner there's no bottle service you know and that's just
our choice we didn't want to do that because we want we still wanted to keep the vibe of what we had before you know as far as far as our dinner is concerned and then transition over so I feel that having a detailed officer will definitely help with all these issu
issues we have but I see a lot of reports it's talking about you know Saturday 1 2 a.m. Sunday yeah so um this is a concern that I have too um we have several reports for
Sundays um I also have another question for you so last week and I was craving some tapas and um I Googled the hours and I noticed that you guys are only open Thursday no Friday Saturday and Sunday yes for the winter time okay we're only
open there because we were fine again we found that like on that end of the beach it's a bit tougher to get people in so we deci we've talked to the building and they were fine with us like hey cool it's okay you guys can be closed for the early day weeks like that's all right because it was costing us more to
operate than then to staffer uh in the winter in like the the spring and summer we want to open back up okay full on again it just makes sense with the yeah you know what's the percentage of increase of people that come to the beach in the summertime quite a bit
uh Lieutenant have uh have you seen a decrease since the initiation of details uh so far yeah we haven't we haven't had any issues since uh since they've had the detail nothing's come across my desk okay thank you very much well it
seems that the implementation of the detail officers has rectified this problem to some degree yeah and the plan is is to have them from here on out it makes things in my experience of running places at least having one you know uniformed officer there makes a whole
lot more sense it does deter a lot of things it also gives me a far better line of communication you know as opposed to contacting the police via phone having to wait for for them to come by not saying the response times are bad but it's a far easier to just walk three feet and say Hey you know
this is I can see this being an issue you know well I would um think that we would would keep this on file for a while and see how this goes and uh if we have additional problems we'll come back and
look at it and see what we can do to address that all right I hope not that's the Hope very good is there anybody else that would like to uh have anything to say on the on in this hearing we don't see he anybody will'll
close that so we're going to file this for now and uh we'll we'll look at it and monitor it as we go along okay thank you thank you very much thank you recess yes um we're going to have a uh a
10-minute recess a break e e e e e e e e
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agenda is um four Partners Inc Anton is at the beach 492 Rivier Beach Boulevard Rodrigo and julo is the manager this is a hearing into noise
complaints there's someone from Antonia name an address for the record please sir thank you Fernando loisa 484 rier Bish Boulevard Okay so we've been getting
noise complaints from residents and um basically it seems that you're you're leaving your door open and music from inside is is coming out yeah um um first
I want to sorry about my neighbors I mean that's something that sometimes hard to control people open the door and get out even sometime when I when I'm done closing my alarm doesn't go because that door is open uh we um we come with
a uh some kind of plan which is put like an extra door uh and also about the the the music we have something to control the levels of music so we have like a lot of plans with uh right now we have Mr Tony portio that I want to introduce he's going to be a new partner uh in
actually he's going be taking over the manage of the place and I going to still just with the uh parties and function that I do most I like it and I love to do my my my function and weddings so in that side like I say I'm really sorry uh I always try for me it's a lot of stress
and I do just because it's business and and sometimes the restaurant is so slow and night is when we make some Revenue I keep you know you know on top of my DJs so people please please down down but like I said when they open the door keep open and that's when the noise go out
so no it's it's on the side side side actually is the the handicap this this one is not supposed to be used for like just go it's just handicap right exactly so my question is how are you allowing your patrons to open and close it well I
just want to tell something I have a one of my regulars every time he go he just leave it door open like please so it seems like it's something that they're used to doing cuz obviously it seems like it's a managerial issue that yeah you're not preventing your your patrons from well
um something that we we we're going to do and actually there's a good plan is to put like a big label and put something that is only for uh handicap and it's going to sound if somebody use it plus put somebody make sure it's always a standard there nobody goes that door first is because it's to control
nobody goes out with with alcohol or something nobody supposed to be there but like I say sometimes it's look like it's closed but it's little open so all the noise go out um like I say that's something to be H I want to step out cuz I don't to be honest is a lot of stress for me so that Mr Mr Portillo he's going
to be more at night times going to take care more more like a where's Mr oh here you Tony poro 57 ear Sil Drive VMS so um I've been an Anton couple of times and I understand all the issues that we
have there and the communication was not to wait and I feel that that's what we have to fix it not just with you guys but also with the residents that leave next door I just met some of the residents and I promised that I going to work with them to make sure that we are
asset in the community not a headache um I have a lot of experience running this kind of business I had a restaurant for 11 years at East Boston and 12 years in ever and I love that location I think so much that we can do focus on selling food good drinks and I think the
nightland you know we can work together on that to you know because it have to be a way to have extra income and we really need a special in the winter time but I think like I say we all three can work together City residents and us um
look at because some of the neighbors were complaining about the noise late at night um if we can work something that let's say to whatever time we can we're allowed to have a DJ but then after that time we can just have TVs or have the
music load um that' be great and um really appreciate because we really you know the business is not doing that well now you know especially in the winter time we really need the extra income for the business so we certainly can appreciate that I think I think I think
the fact that you're you're stepping in and and once you you know formalize your relationship with this business and actually get on some applications and you submit it before us um and and U make yourself known in that way um um I think it's it's very encouraging because
I think there's a lot on Fernando's plate um I know that he's running everything for the restaurant and it's hard to be the operation uh manager as well as the main person own everything he's everything for the business and I think part of the problems is the a with the communication
with the city B uh there's been a lot of operational issues that things like the door being left open shouldn't be happening you know he's been in business for a long time so we own that door I think um one of the things that I want to implement is on that part of the wall because there a old building if we can
put some um soundproof insulation on that side the wall um fix the door and put an alarm which is what I did at um my other location in a we had the same issue so what I did my clients used to open the door to go out and smoke what I
did I put alarm sounds every time that somebody opened and I put a red sign say and Mees inside exit only and that fix the problem once for all so we want to implement the same um in antonus um so
all we want is I want to show you guys that we want to you know do everything that you guys allowed we don't want it you know C on us I'm not asking for papers I just want to see if you can give me opportunity to show you that uhu you know the right way to run that kind of business knowing that you know we
sell Li we have to be responsible we have to train our staff and work together and I don't mind if we have to hire detail you know Fridays and Saturdays um just to make sure yeah that's not that's not your issue though here I mean it's not there isn't there
isn't fights there isn't you know we don't get those from it's noise we get the noise complaints we we can fix that you know stuff like that so go rob okay um well we understand from your perspective what the issues are are
there any is there anybody in the uh audience that would like to speak on this yes ma'am would you come forward please thank you gentlemen I'll get back to you guys once we uh have a little bit more clarity hello my name is uh Rachel Tran
I live at 495 Riv Beach Boulevard Apartment 102 uh just to give you a little bit of uh Clarity and background I've lived there for a couple of years and it's virtually every Friday and Saturday Sundays included sometimes Thursdays or if there's a special event during the week you can hear the noise pour out of
the building it doesn't matter if the door is open or closed I actually found a video from Antonia's Facebook that shows the door closed from the front and the noise pours out of the building I think it's just a poorly insulated building it was built back in 1948 I did a little bit of
research um and I think unfortunately for the residents here I've I've met a bunch of residents have had the same complaints you can hear the noise in your bedroom in the living room and what I have is an office for work and the noise goes till two and Beyond they
close I think at two it's what's on their website is every day till two and patrons don't leave until about 2:30 and as they're on the street they park on the street it's very noisy they're beeping their horns playing music talking we've had an argument in front of our window police pulled up I didn't
call them but it is rather difficult to live and enjoy our residential space we rent the space and I tend to find that I don't bring a lot of friends around because because it can get rather noisy I don't get to rest on the weekends because I don't get to go to bed till
about 2:30 I've bought earplugs noise machines all the things my fiance who's working right now he works on Saturdays so he goes to bed around 2 because that's when the noises died down he W wakes up at around 6:45 it's a short
sleep cycle for Saturdays I did a little bit of research as to making sure I wasn't just in my feelings and you know being unreasonable with my request uh in the r code it's 9.08 point10 it's
non-measured noise disturbance and in section c it just says if there is audible sound that is it's plainly audible from the building structure it's in violation of the chapter and you could go a couple blocks down the street and still hear it it's very plain and I
have many videos to show it and it's just very frustrating and I think the residents in community want to support this business I would love to take my friends there I'm 30 I'd love a place to enjoy oh yeah I do um why you looking for that video um
can you how often do you hear um music throughout the week because I you know they're openal twoo but I I suspect that Antonio's the uptick in the music is probably Friday Saturdays it's mostly it's definitely Fridays and Saturdays uh it is also Sundays now I've I've noticed over this past year Sundays is kind of
on the roster okay um if there's a special event or if it's the summer I notice in the summer it could be any weekday but I know a lot of the residents have told me that weekday is for them they can also hear it sometimes I take a z equil to just get some sleep um and try and power through it but um
so this is I don't know if I can play it on if you don't mind pass me you know just you can start playing it I'll just watch it so this is from like their Facebook and it's just showing that's it that's what the door
[Music] clst yeah I see okay just that's a good U idea just to get an idea just a good frame of reference but yeah but at least I mean and I I I like I like the fact that you can at least credit the fact that it is a relatively old building
yeah I I assume that that's the problem is just that there's very poor insulation um and I don't know if that means that like Windows or doors need to be replaced or I don't know how you can insulate the walls um but I do know as far as late how late it goes I do see on the boulevard there's a noise ordinance
in place that says from 10 p.m. and on I think it's like 10: to 7: I don't know if that's a state ordinance or for the city but at first when I first moved in I got very frustrated saying oh my God it's still 10 why are they starting at 10: I see what you're saying so I did my research I tried to look it up I found
out they do have I think the light licenses to do their business entainment I just think it is unfortunate that the insulation issue and the level of noise that it is can be a bit egregious and I also want you to appreciate that you know as as as part of the commission you
know we um we can sit here and try to you know ask them to you know but it's it's such an exorbitant amount of money for especially a struggling business yeah to try to you know uh spend money to you know soundproof insulate and you know so obviously that's something that
they would have to and you know knowing that their entertainment license could be affected because of it maybe that's something they would just voluntarily do yeah um but it's it's it's expensive to uh do such a thing I can imagine anything else um I think I think
the only other thing I would say is I from what I looked up I know that this is considered I think like an rc1 Zone which is a residential zone so I'm not sure if that 2 a.m. license is appropriate for the residential Zone and I don't know if the level of music that I kind of shared is appropriate for the
fact that there are residential buildings all around us um but as long as I think we're being heard I think that it's wonderful that we could come to a committee meeting like this and I'd also like to say I think we all want to support the business I again like I said would love nothing more to to bring my
friends over and have a place and then be able to walk home um but at this time it's just very difficult because I have headaches I get migraines from lack of sleep and it's just overall frustrating to hear people ride outside our window and right by our wall thank you very much we appreciate
the input is there anybody else that would like to speak yes sir your name and address for the record please John Tran I'm at 11 Anum Road up in pey I'm the owner of the co-owner of the unit that Rachel lives in I do want to say that the uh either the new owner
or the owner to be Tony had approached us along with the counselor offering to try to mediate and and help everybody put everything together and I think that's very positive and I think we're all going to take steps to do that for the door that was mentioned very brief it's very simple I have multiple
buildings you put an alarm door a sign isn't going to do anything you put where if they push that bar and alarm is going to go off and it's going to deter them but yet it still follows all the safety regulations so that's a suggestion I'm going to give it's not very expensive uh you can go to Granger there's multiple
Outlets you can buy them from but you know a sign won't get it done uh an alarm might so that's something to consider other than that I think Rachel summed it up I would love to see them work it out um you know it's it's one of those things where whether she's our tenant or we have a future tenant or one
of us decide my brother had lived there for multiple years we'd like to know that there's something being done so thank you for approaching us Tony and and counselor and and thanks for hearing our complaint thank you all is there anybody else that would
like to speak yes sir just hit the button there in front of you little you got it thank you okay my name is Cliff tle I have the the cliff tle band for the last five years at
Anton's at the beach on Sunday bunch and before I talk about the music but because I've been there for f five years I got to know Pando pretty well and he's a man that if something anything occurs
he's a guy that's going to want have the heart to want to take care of it and he'll come in he learns of something like something might not be right he's going to fix it he's not going to leave things alone he's got he's got a hotties kept my band which is from 12 to 3 I
don't know I I heard Sunday mentioned by that uh the the lady there we hav acoustic band I play saxophone without a microphone people come to hear us they
love us we are not Rocking The Walls by any means Ian we're not 12 yeah well Sunday was Sunday was mentioned and there is no way that we are creating any disturbance at
all as long as that's understood okay all right um the the other the other point is speaking of Fernando's character this man first of all in my case whether it's the issue or not I think it's something
that you should hear uh he's a man that's kept for the last five years he's kept musicians in my band that don't have any other job working whether it's a couple even
if it's a couple times a month you know and and I've seen how he treats his help they love him and he's very kind to his help so I I'm I'm I'm a little surprised and also at 2: in the morning
I have been there I've been there come at approaching Antonio's at the beach now the door I can understand if the door was open I never saw that but I approached Antonio at the beach and until I get to Anton's at the beach
until I'm at the building I don't hear the music this idea of If a half a block a block away I've been there a couple times late at night and I don't I'm not with all due respect to other others I
hear the music when I get to Antonio's at the beach I don't hear it question sure why are you going to Antonio at 2:00 a.m. in the morning when they close at 2 why am I going there 2 a.m. I just happen sometimes go out oh I'm not going
in there to any other they still open after two is that what you're saying no they're not open I don't know they're not you said you're approaching it at 2: a.m. I'm just curious to no I'm just walking what 2 or 1:00 taking a walk at 2 okay let me apologize if if I said the it's not the thing it sounds like you're telling the truth sounds like you're
walking up at 2: a.m. there's no music late late I've been there when the band I've been there let me rephrase it I've been there when the band the band The Night band is playing are the dis jockey is playing and when I get there you know
it's loud there right but I don't notice it outside I don't notice it when I'm you approaching the I only notice it when I'm at the restaurant and I do a apologize I was giving you the idea 2:00 really it was just when the band is playing you know uh it just happened and
I just happened to be there so this is all I'm saying it could be the case but with a door was open but again two or three times I've seen it like that but as far as the man's character I do know he will fix anything which we credit we'll credit that testimony we appreciate I mean
absolutely and he's been good to us for five years he's case in point there were some floors that flooring that had to be done MH and we were scheduled work that night we were scheduled that afternoon and he called me two or three hours it's
not going to be ready Cliff but you know and and I have people that I I have to pay I'll pay the band that's the character he's got you got it you're talking about a guy that's got hot if there's problems uh he'll fix it I'm no partner
I'm just a guy that comes in twice a month but I've been doing it for five years and I appreciate the guy and the and the staff so call it a character reference but if I was my Sunday brunch that's very acoustic and and I invite
you to be there I'll be there March I'll be there March 2nd on a Sunday please come and and I guarantee you will not need earplug earplugs all right well and I think you might even be snapping your finger sounds good thank you very
much is there anybody else that would like to speak your name and address for the record please siia Peta 495 rier Beach Boulevard in rier and I just want to add to R already said that the music continues like frequently after 2 a.m.
and it happens on weekdays oh it does oh yeah I mean I personally called the police to file a noise complaint I believe a few Thursdays ago um and it's just we've endured countless of sleepless nights ever since they extended their license until 2:00
in the morning and Beyond not the noise I just want to point out that restaurant patrons frequently park over our parking spots and during the summer it's a huge problem because there's no no street parking so you just have to wait in your car until 2 A.M to park in your
designated spot so there's many issues and I understand that like every business has the right to operate but not at the cost of the peace and safety and well-being of the residents thank you we'll credit we'll
credit that thank you so much thank you very much yes ma'am your name and address for the record please vaselina rangelova 495 for V Beach Boulevard Department 301 um thank you for having this hearing so I've been living in this building for about 7even
years now I've been an owner of my unit for about three and the restaurant has always been there which is wonderful it's always wonderful to have options that that you all know that the beach has changed so much in the past seven years and there's definitely a bunch of
restaurants we already heard earlier from a gentleman who was managing a couple of the most popular restaurants that we frequent and visit and they are even closer to their residential neighbors sometimes within the same building now none of us that it's here
expressing Our concern is assaulting the character of the managers of this restaurant the problem we're having is is that the place is being run there's a clear understanding that their vibrant night life will have a cut off time that
is respectable um a respectable hour and also respecting our um our need to enjoy our residential spaces so well when someone has a 2 a. license everybody is supposed to be off
the premises and out by 2:00 alcohol is supposed to not be served after 1:30 well I can't say whether or not they are actively selling it on the premises after 1:30 because I certainly am not going to be there at 1:30 to
police and notice that fact but I could tell you that we are noticing patrons leaving after 2:00 and patrons also parking in our parking spaces because they cannot find parking behind the restaurants or on the street you know there's prohibition of parking on some
parts of the boulevard after 10:00 so that limits the opportunity so we are suffering a lot more than just a noise from that restaurant but the noise being the predominant concern for this particular hearing I'm just bringing this to your attention and this place is
being actively advertised as a vibrant nightlife possibility after 10: p.m. in a residential neighborhood okay well thank you for that we appreciate it counselor thank you Mr chairman um okay
where do I start I I have been working with Tony partillo um the new one of the new owners of Antonia's I understand everyone's issue
as far as the rc1 that was brought up earlier that's a DCR issue it has nothing to do with the city of Rivier and that's called The Quiet Zone it has nothing to do with the business that's inside and the noise that's inside a business but instead the vehicles that
used to park outside and have their has blaring the radios and stuff like that that's where that quiet Zone comes into play um as far as the restaurant their license their entertainment license is
only till 12:30 they are not supposed to be playing loud music after 12:30 as far as their um alcohol license that's till 2: p.m. 2. am. I'm sorry that's till 2:
a.m. they are going to start concentrating more on the food aspect of the restaurant I know Fernando is really really good at doing weddings and and doing um different parties like that and decorating he's fantastic at it so that's the part that he's going to be
taken over the rest of it is going to be Tony portello and he's going to be responsible and speak to every one of their residents that have concerns I made him give them his number so they
can contact him as well as myself to try to rectify the situation the one thing that they are asking for um the restaurant is asking for the entertainment license which is over at 12:30 but they would like to
keep they just revamped the entire restaurant so now they have huge big screen TVs around the entire bar so what they wanted to do is shut that music off at 12:30 like they're supposed to and then have it like a sports bar
that they can watch TV watch like whatever sporting events are on and stuff like that um but that's totally up to the commission to do so but I would for for them to shut that music off that would be n the most important thing for me right now and then as far as that
door being open I'm the one who told him to put the sign up but I I totally agree with the gentleman next door that said put the alarm cuz that is very important so once they open it once and they hear that it's going to stop it will stop and I know that what that's they weren't
talking about the side door you said that door was shut and you heard all that noise it's the the front door it's the side door and it's directly AB budding that apartment building5 yes it's directly that side
door and that's when that door is open forget it it's like being in your living room and I know that for a fact because I've heard it I've opened the door just to hear what was happening so once he takes care of that issue and if they can put the insulation in on that at least
on that side of the house I think it would make um of the building it would make a huge difference with the with the neighbors as well but as long as they are willing to work with the neighbors I will be in full support of it thank you
sir did you want to uh say something if you step to the microphone and tell us your name and address please for the record yeah so it's time stamped Sunday 1:20 a.m. you yes
this is from inside my [Music] house windows closed can you put up a little louder the speak that's all right that's what the windows closed this is what the windows
closed oh well I see what you're saying so basically can I just play it again really quick cuz you were outside at one point I just I'm just playing the video so yeah you can take us cl to you want thanks is 1:20 a.m. on Sunday me and I gotta up at 6 o' once on
Mondays I got nothing against theur of course actually right I don't want to just at the mic real quick yeah just just say what you said just now basically I have nothing against the business at all I you actually ate there multiple times I've done the brunch had drinks there
I've listened to the band before right and it's just the base is it's like the base is like the main killer how long ago was that that video s how long ago yeah that was August 25th okay thank you thank you sir Fernando if
you well you have heard your neighbors what okay uh what are your thoughts first again I want to apologize I'm sorry uh something that I I was mentioned to Angela is I Tred to work
with my neighbors um there are so many people come to me can I park on you parking fine can I and even I call to the person in ch over there cuz I have big problem with the water and I said can we work together she never call me back but i f fix it it's okay yeah um
something I really uh want since day one is if you approach to me and say can we talk nobody and something about the police I don't have reports and actually the last time I was the one who called the police because there was a crazy lady outside talking loud and I called
when the guy come he say uh do you guys call said yeah that was a lady but she already left because I don't want problem with my neighbors nobody else I don't think I have reports about that so for my side looks like uh everything's fine because nobody come to me and I want to show you something I already
started and I I know about the DJs and it's hard to control because sometime they're just there they don't pay attention so I one I want to show you this this is a a new device that I us bought it is going to be set and if you see there are many times that uh I want
to show you this is the levels it's inside so that's you see different different days I always keep it that one and this is the the box it's a brand new so basically set as
onev but about the music it's because the the yeah it's all old building right so even if I try to control this it's hard I'm going to tell you the truth and in my daughters here when this happen I'm like
this I love that I love to make parties and everything cuz it's lowly I just do this business I had to pay my my my employees I had 25 employees and sometime I don't even make money right in Paris unfortunately right now it's only one or two a month I can't even pay
the rent you know I've been I've been struggling so we do that that's why I become somebody to give me more ideas let's do this when he say let's do Sport Bar great there's not a sport bar here and sport bar is always early right so again I try to work with you guys
anything I've been calling you late there I had the number Donna she never answered me Don she never answered me can I talk to you can I talk to you nothing so I approached to my thank you she was actually the you know who
approached you guys hey we want Fernando Antonia they want to talk to you right I don't try to do nothing bad for you guys you have discount come many time I'm your neighbor you have discount whatever I can do anything for you guys but if I don't knew cuz now he comes to me me I mean I'm
outside good sometime they put out can you put it down can you put it down about the time I I I can tell you by 2:00 nobody there I don't know if people with cars outside but I can't control that I mean it's I go outside guys can you please go
can you guys go but inside by 1:30 we do last call 45 lies out and everybody's out 2:00 is just my employees inside the DJ his people H and we have a lot of a lot of a lot of employees because we have around 15
people working so if you see a lot of people inside it's my employees we got to clean we got to do everything side work and everything so music is out right so like I say I'm I'm sorry not been here so many times and and and I just give you the to Mr Tony and I say
you know thank you so much you don't know my last month has been so hard for me and right now when since I'm here I feel a little lie he's like he's taking care of so much stuff from me okay well thank you Fernando Mr poro if you'd step up please you you were going to be
running this place going forward is that my understanding yes I've been there for the last couple weeks just learning the business and I think right now I have a really good idea what's going on you know this is the first time that I we try to approach that building and go and talk to the neighbors before today but
we had no lock I'm glad that I met some of the neighbors I passed my business car and all I'm asking is opportunity and let's work together and I I will you know some of the um residents they invite me to go to the house and try to listen to the the noise and that's great
because we don't want it like I said we don't want nobody to you know not as sleep and have to go to work the next day we wanted to work with them to make sure that noise is not a problem at night uh we also have to understand that it's a business that you know it's a big business we need an income and um if we
work together I think we going to run the business and be a good good asset for the Neighbors there for the city for us to make up you know make money that that's ultimate goal uh but right now we really need to work together because otherwise it's going to be difficult for
us to continue running the business the way it is all I want is opportunity to show I you know what I want to do there like I said so you know during the day we wanted you know continue the branch that uh you know focus on food but I'm asking if you know say if we have a DJ
at 12:30 the DJ's off if we have a band 12:30 um if we can have like the TVs or even you know really low music playing um after that um no you won't be able to do that right away but I just want to say
this um U Mr Portillo um I'll start by saying this okay um the entertainment is Li uh license is governed by um the m general laws chapter 140 section 183 um the License Commission right has
the ability if we receive unreasonable increase of noise complaints um um disturbance complaints uh regarding a business we have the ability to obviously modify suspend revoke any portion of your license that we issue so that's that's what we um are
faced with when we are sitting here in front of um a room full of residents you know complaining to the extent that they're complaining and they're all legitimate complaints um and they're all substantiated by um the videos that they've shown this commission um I also
want to point out the fact that um uh Fernando um uh Mr Lazada sorry Fernando Lazada I want to say his full name for the record um has been before this commission with multiple issues um not aside from the
operational issues there's been a significant amount of issues regarding his paperwork um things not being submitted on time um certain amendments that he needs to make um the abcc just issued a return of no action regarding of one of his paperwork um for not uh
you know being compliant with his requirements with the Department of Revenue so there's just a host of issues that I believe that you have in front of you but I can say this the only thing that's encouraging about this hearing is the fact that you're going to be involved um because I I understand your
history and I understand what you essentially bring to the table and I think for the Neighbors um and the the residents of Rivier it's encouraging that Mr poro is going to be evolved because um I know how you run your other restaurants your other establishments and you've been before this commission with requests that we've always readily
approved because we know how you do business that's the only thing I think prior to your involvement um I was certainly prepared to um revoke or even move to revoke the entertainment license entirely because as you noted uh the
license until 12:30 uh we have an individual that says he's he's showing up you know to the to party at 2:00 in the morning and I'm going to credit that testimony and we also have these residents saying that you know this gentleman just said that he's playing you know they he showed me a video of Music being played at 1:28 in the
morning so it's clearly rules not being followed however I understand I'm encouraged by your involvement I'm encouraged the fact that I think you are going to follow the rules and it can't necessarily be hey let's turn off the music at 12:30 but let's start blasting the TV I mean obviously so you can have your TV on but it's it it's one of those
things that you know I think Antonia's or the the the new name that it's eventually going to be is going to get to a point where um that that Grace that the city is extending is starting to run out a little bit okay no I compl I want you to really understand that and I wanted to make sure that was noted for
the record yeah no I understand it um one of the things that I will make sure it's we follow the rules I mean we can't go against the rules um and like that's what I'm saying if we have to hire detail just to make sure that you know
we follow the rules we will do that for Friday and Saturdays and I will definitely work with the neighbors uh you know to go and make sure that the noise is not a problem for them to sleep a night so Tony I'm very happy to see you here
today and uh Fernando you seem like a nice person but it seems like it's the first time you hear a lot of things from the neighbors and to me that has been like the major issue with noise and everything that the residents are saying
so um having some help like you need Tony um you heard what the complaints are you probably knew some but I think this gives you a better idea on what is needed something so small as like a door
closing that door and that's been going on for months so um in the past we have had other restaurants with uh Sim um issues where we have the owners or managers and then we have the residents
uh but where the restaurants or the owners of the restaurants have done what they need to and we have not heard back from them so I'm hoping you know that this could be one of those cases um Tony also if we don't have any paperwork from
you I think um you need to file paperwork for yeah cuz I was waiting for this meeting to see how was going and we did um fill some paperwork today but I was going to give it to Maggie but um she suggest to wait um after the
meeting well you know this problem is not going to get any better as the summer approaches so this is something that you're really going to have to address and I'm not I'm not really sure on what
the that's the way to address it is I mean I will start um working with the neighbors because they're the ones that suffer so uh I think um that's a good start um you know work with the neighbors to make sure the noise is not
a problem okay well I guess that would that would definitely start it well um do you want to propose a motion yes so I think I think at this point what what I'm prepared to propose to the commission and um I think that we
need to we need to have a show of faith on your part I think that these residents and I have to take their their complaints um not only have face value but obviously credit what they're saying um because they're the ones that are enduring this on a regular basis um so I understand um the entertainment license
is till 12:30 is that Monday through Friday or Monday through Sunday yeah I was looking for it I couldn't find it it's the it's all way at the back right okay so we need to change this so I would propose here um so right now the
current operations um in terms of um um the entertainment license appears to but the problem the one thing was on paper there were no fallowing you know was the music was
going on till 2:00 I think that was one of the biggest issues so here's the thing so Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2: a.m. is that it that's they and then uh Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 2: a.m. yes and uh karaoke dancing by patents is
only on Wednesday Sunday 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. so that's something that's obviously Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday wednes through yeah Wednesday through uh Saturday 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and the entertainment needs to stop by
12:30 so I would like to move to amend the entertainment hours I would propose um Monday Monday through Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. and the M the music and entertainment must cease at 10 p.m. Friday Saturday 12:00 a.m. and that means the music stops by 12:00
a.m. and Sunday and I guess my question now is before I finish is uh 11:00 a.m. to 2: amm on a Sunday but yet on Monday through Thursday it's at 9:00 a.m. that doesn't make sense I'm gonna make I'm GNA amend it let's do 11:00
a.m. on Monday through Thursday Monday through Thursday to 11:00 a.m. to 10: p.m. um and then Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 10: p.m. on Sunday and and I I would like that
motion heard and uh approved by the commission only because that I need to see uh there has to be a show a good faith on the part of Antonius um now that Mr Tony Portillo is going to be involved which I'm I have all the confidence in the world that
there's operationally everything's going to change um based on what I know and heard from his prior businesses um however um the there's been persistent cries from the community that I think the commission has an obligation to respond to when I'm reading these noise
complaints that to come in and can you guys please do something this time can you guys please do something this time and I see that multiple times can you know um how can we not respond to it um I'm not trying to hurt antonus with
my proposal um I would like for the business to thrive you know this is not something that's permanent right you can always come back and obviously ask for an amendment I see the letter that was put put forward by Fernando requesting no restrictions not in light of these requ not in light of these complaints
it's just can't it's not possible again I'm only one of three um although I'm s I'm the sitting co-chair but I'm I'm only one of three and um I I would propose that the the hour the hours be rolled back um at the very least for a
trial period because um you know when you got people showing up at the business at 2: a.m. they're showing up because they there's still a party going on that was as convincing as I needed to hear no and I think that you know this isn't it's not really time for open discussion because we have other
hearings to get to um and I again I respect your time and I I respect everything you've credited um you stated today um so I would propose I would move to propose um just to be clear for the record that Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 10:
p.m. entertainment Monday through Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday Saturday um 11:00 a.m. to 12: a.m. um and the entertainment will stop
at 12:00 a.m. and again temporary um so no TVs nothing after 12 I mean I think I think the issue is the the the DJ amplifying music I I think there's you opens to you can have your TV on I'm not unless we have to specifically say that in license that
the TV can s so I uh so I would I would I would I would keep this restriction to DJs amplifiers let me just look at the license itself to karaoke dancing by pastons um DJ amplifying
music um just want to make sure I uh put all the where is the um sorry I'm just wanted to look for language I apologize give me one second so that it does not include uh widescreen
table TV or um um uh what do they have it like a like like a jukac music we're talking DJ amplifying music subwoofers um live
bands um you know um what else is uh under that the guise of that unless I covered it that's that's that's the where the Restriction is Ian TV uh radio um is
okay can you give us a license with um the restrictions that we're going to have going forward well it'll be clearly spelled out on it okay it'll be clear who spelled out on it that but again that's what I move to uh to uh promote you have any questions
on that I'm fine I think it's it's a trial period we have heard you know the residents we also we also want to support you guys too it's again a trial
period okay must sa something I would just like to ask for one more thing before the end of the night could you have whatever you have a DJ or whatever um whoever is there make
an announcement that when they leave that restaurant the car does not have the music blaring because the car is what's bothering the residents whoever you're going to have a band whatever you're going to have just tell them make an announcement
throughout the night that once everybody is exiting the building the the restaurant that they do not blare your radios in a parking spot because that's waking up the residents we also have a security there that goes outside and
clears the perfect thank you thank you um thank you for the leeway I live on Oak Island okay I am not a business owner on the L Beach at all it is the oldest public beach in the
country these people you're building all these buildings around an establishment that has been there for about 20 or 30 years I'm not sure the amount okay when they buy this place they know where they're purchasing it there's a restaurant near it they should expect
some you know some loud music now I understand what this woman is saying and she's very nice of people that's not on the restaurant's problem it's the person's problem in their car so I think he might be taking away
business tax City business from this these people who just want to have a a restaurant okay that's all I want to say I am not a part of any kind of business there I frequent the Avenue
and most people along that beach they do a great job when was Antonio built do you know what's that when was Antonio's built do when was that building there do you know well well well their building's been there since
1975 okay it's been there4 I mean you know so it's been there for a long time it's been there for a long time I don't want to start an argument it's there there is no argument I don't want to start an argument all I'm saying is when purch a okay okay thanks all I'm saying is
when you purchase a building near a Beach a public beach with a lot of restaurants a lot of clubs you got you know where you're going into it's like me buying a a place near Fenway Park you know you're going to get baseball you know
trafficking and stuff so I'm just saying that you shouldn't take away Ta City tax dollars I'm not here toide an argument but I just think you're kind of handcuffing people that's all and I thank you for your time well sir you know you have to understand
The Balancing Act um people have a right to live in peace I understand that if you had to go to work in the morning and you had to listen to booming base okay so so so so why do you buy a Condon restaurant with has that kind of stuff well because it's it's not being run as
a restaurant if they're pounding base at 1:30 in the morning it's being run as a nightclub which is not what you bargain for when you move next to a restaurant so there are competing interests here and we understand that and that's what this hearing is to do is and try and
balance agree I agree with you as best we can no one wants to hurt the business but by the same token no one wants to have people who can't function with a quality of life that that they're really entitled to okay so trying to balance
that is really what what we're doing here and I agree and it should be balanced I understand that but when you keep building all those buildings along there there's going to be more people well that's that's issue above our pay grade sir then then then then what what
what the heck are we doing here you know I'm I'm just trying to stick up for the the the the the the establishments along along the beach okay I appreciate that thank you just you know I think you know we're just trying to St you can step back what I would like to say for the record before we close this
meeting before we close this meeting because obviously we have another hearing to get to my what I would like to say is this like like Rob said like the chairman said it's a Balancing Act um when when when we look at these hours and you know take in consideration the
city of Riv where we live in the sense of community that we have and you know we have a lot of blueco collar folks we have a lot of folks getting up at at 2 3 4:00 in the morning to me it just doesn't make sense it simply defies all sens of logic that a business is going
to stay open till 2: a.m. with an entertainment license it just doesn't it just doesn't makes sense to me um in this community some in some places that may be acceptable who knows but I know you know where I live I have an issue
with the oceans side you know I deal with it too I'm sitting here in front of you but I have I I deal with you I'm living at 500 Ocean and I I deal with the club right behind my right literally behind my apartment so I deal with it too and I and I have to take the you know consideration that you have
residents here that are like they're not just they're not trying to uh close antonus they you know that their complaints they're not bashing this business they're saying I want to get a good night's sleep they Monday Tuesday Thursday come on I
mean there it's a balance in that and this isn't this isn't closing the door right I mean has my my motion hasn't even been approved I I don't know what the rest the rest of the commission has said but Fernando's been down this road before and he's and he's you know he
he's he's he's come he's come out of it and and I fully Suspect with with Tony's involvement he's in a you know and Ton's will be fine we just have to show we have to show a little good faith to this community and that's what we're that's that's what I'm
proposing very good well we have a motion to uh amend your uh entertainment license and theemotion is to and uh amend the license Monday through Thursday
from 11:00 a. to 10 p.m and that's for Amplified music and things such as that um Friday and Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 12: a.m. again Amplified music has to end at
12: a.m. and Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. and that would be uh that's the most that's on the
table do you want to um second that I'll second that very good so your Your Entertainment license has been amended okay do you understand what we're talking about as far as and like I
say if if this doesn't work we'll come back again and we'll squeeze it a little tighter if it does work then hopefully you know you guys will make some adjustments to the restaurant you will make some adjustments to the denoise uh
situations so we can Abate some of that and maybe give some hours back provided that you know everybody is in a good place and you're able to work with the residents who deserve a quality of life
so that's going to be what we're going to do okay TV TV is okay right TV TV is okay is fine tv and radio is fine yes so you could obviously still play music on radio and you can still have your sports bar to the sense of you can watch
sporting events on the TV you can still operate you just the DJ the the the subwoofers is the base you you got to you have to figure that out okay okay well thank you very much and we we close this hearing Jesus
I don't think uh 4 here thank you thanks a lot sir appreciate itk oh there I didn't think it was going to be shorter than the other
one I thought this was going to be long pretty yeah okay we are going to move to our next hearing which is um item number 10 for partners Inc no um sorry number nine is
Squire R LLC DBA Four Points by Sheridan Boston Logan Airport ReRe 407 Squire Road Steven maril is the manager this is a here ing into a failure to comply with mandated license requirements and
inspection violations your name and address for the record please gentlemen sure my name is Steve we are on right yes my name is Steven Merill um address is 51 Prospect Street West Newbery uh business uh
address is 407 Squire Road and rier very good and you sir my name is saltic 94 King Street business address 407 Squad Road R thank you very much excuse me Sally's our general manager at
the property I'm the vice president of operations for our company as well so we're both here in tandem appreciate you you coment well let's just start out what's going on over there well we have some construction going on over there um and
at one point the fire department had asked us to uh change in the construction area from from um smoke detectors to heat detectors because the smoke detectors as happens I think everywhere we do
construction for the most part they cover them up for a certain area for a certain amount of time in that particular area that they're working because they'd be going off and the fire department be there every five minutes um and then at night time they there's a supervisor that's responsible for making sure that they're taken off
and then the next morning when they start they put them on and take them off it's it's the same sort of thing um when the fire department came in they noticed that they were on the smoke detector so they asked us to change out the smoke detectors to heat
detectors um so this way here you you know you wouldn't have the same issue um with a with a heat detector uh heat detector is about 130 de it goes off because it's it uh it basically um senses large variations in
in temperature um and obviously in heat temperature and then it uh activates opposed to smoke and particles um so the point we we changed that over we did that and and that's
where we are now okay um well at this point the fire department and has not you a certificate of inspection
the fire department has not given you a certificate of inspection and as a result you are not in compliance with state law which requires that in order to have a alcohol license and an inh
holder's license you must have a certificate of inspection so at this point I I don't know what you know what we can do um you don't have all you don't have the certificates you don't have the
inspections do you have plans to get them what is what yes we were inspected today by the fire department uh a different inspector came to the property uh where we were we were on property and uh s is the supervisor on
duty as far as construction goes and when they inspected the property we were supposed to get our certificate today and then come in to you guys today and we' be we would have been fine did you did they P did you pass inspection no because there was a um as we're coming up here I was telling
me about it there was a uh piece of plastic over the heat detector oh I see well we have pictures of that c you a question so just Define the roles again for me so you're the general manager I s's the general manager general manager and you're the vice president of
operations for the company Vice President of Operations I suspect you're you manage multiple you oversee multiple properties right essentially I do everything I'll check people in during covid I mean know everything do everything but you're not really on site like that so it really falls on him it does it well yes yes how been with the
company I've been with the company for 12 years not you him s how long s two years two years okay so this is this is my issue two years here but but more years I'm sure proving your point even more right so here's here's here's the concern here's the concern this is the
third year that you guys have been essenti um found to be um um conducting uh unpermitted construction at your your property meaning that you guys didn't seek the proper um permits to do what
you're doing that's this is the third time I apologize may I interrupt sir uh let me just State this for record then you can obviously speak and then I think and then um now that we had this I see I see multiple pictures here uh with significant violation ations um things
to be seems like in in in significant disarray um that um not only puts the building in itself in um an extreme um hazardous uh position but also the patrons that obviously pay money to stay at this place because obviously you're
doing work on the um the sixth and the seventh floor so I suspect that you have other floors open for business and that's obviously a a really big concern that the fire department um as well as the building department um
hasn't really given you their stamp of approval yet so how come it took for this commission to Summit you in for you to kind of get the ball rolling with with with what you need to do that's that that's my question and obviously you can make the comment that you wanted to make earlier it's a it's a it's a
more than fair question I would say first of all if I'm in your seat I'd be asking the same questions because sort of my job is to make sure that we're doing the right things across the board um as far as the permitting goes the permitting we applied for and got recent
we've already had multiple floors um renovated over there um so it's not like we just started uh renovating uh you know and didn't have the permits we did um we had to stop uh we got busy we had to stop and then we had to rep
permit um not to use Co it's no excuse I mean the picture it it's it's the bottom the bottom line is our our company grew we have 90 hotels our company grew very substantially in a short period of time and we have a lot of construction
projects going on at the same time um and at this particular location you know the right hand and the left hand I guess didn't uh cross the teas and Dot the eyes thinking that the old permit was still good they went in and started construction I mean you'd
have to be not in business or just really silly to be in a hotel tell and start construction and think that nobody's going to walk by or come by especially on Squire Road right um so that's that's where it happened and then when they came in to inspect for us to get our permit
again is when they found the um the um fire fire um uh detector covered right um and that's when they said okay you know we're we're just um we're not letting you go any further here we want
to go to you know obviously a hearing um because we're going to hold up your liquor license and we're going to hold up your inh holders license that's where you guys all got involved well I mean we could we could actually revoke or suspend it at this point and here's here's the issue right as the vice
president operations right um You have certain people that you know that you report to right that you consult with and and that you have that you have to answer to about certain projects that are going on like at at your many hotels um and then you have a general manager manager that's essentially overseeing a
lot of this stuff that I I suspect is making a lot of these decisions that he has to answer to you for sure um and when when when when City officials come in and they see that a decision was made at your your your establishment to do
something like this right that's a that's a direct reflection of your general manager making a decision to to do this because at the end of the day at the end of the day right you have general manager in place for a reason I suspect right and he's on premises to
make sure that things are run accordingly and done um uh um the right way and when you when you see uh some of the pictures that is uh was taken at this at this establishment I mean you
know it's a I mean you could certainly you can finger through this is what we received um you know it's it's uh I I I just asked that you look at just the pictures please I have my personal notes on there yes absolutely sir wores
um you know this is this is what this is what we're we're faced with here so may we may we address picture by picture is that is that okay okay so so there was 27 pictures from the fire department they only gave us nine just
so you know okay you can address please go ahead okay so with the uh smokes um this one right here so they just started uh renovation back up on the six seventh floor today so it was a miscommunication with the um
with the project manager and the uh the workers that up there on the floor they didn't know that we had switched it over so the project manager didn't tell them that was switched over so they thought we still had the old uh smoke detectors instead of the um the heat detectors so they thought that that was the old one
they was the old one that's the only reason why they they taped it up so it was honest honest miscommunication and I was actually downstairs with the inspector while they was prepping up the floor they hadn't started working they was prepping up the floor and they had just started uh taping it up it was around 9:00 9:30 in the morning when
this happened and as soon as I spoke to them when we went up there I explained to them this is not supposed to be like that it's now a heat not a smoke they took it down right away but she said to stop the work and we stopped the work completely what's the next picture that's the one uh the next picture which is uh this over here mhm this is our
restaurant which is currently closed it's been closed for three 3 four years now before I got there so that entire part of the hotel needs renovation or we're trying to lease it off or sell it to a third party but that's where all
these pictures and we're actually using it for some of the storage room that's all this stuff yeah so that's where all that stuff is that's all the no one's in there no Pat are walking through there correct so she just thought it was too many stuff understand I appreciate the clarifications I'm thinking that that's in the main no no that's that's not this
is all storage area that she went inside and she said because if they need EST a well 90 hotels 15 marinot we couldn't be in business 22 uh Hilton Hotels we couldn't be in business the brand would show stuff that makes sense
I think the main concern is that he detected being taped up when it should have been but again that was an honest miscommunication between the workers and the project manager but they aware now that they don't not need to do that to and to your point sir they there
is a obviously a hierarchy of reporting but as you probably know in Hospitality that's got a lot smaller so I'm probably more involved than I ever have been since I was an executive chef 23 23 for 24 years ago I'm always at the property
um Sals are there every single day um you know you have responsible people here that have been doing this for a long time I mean I stand in front of you as 56 years old the 24th of this month uh Al's probably s's probably a little older than me although he doesn't look
it um we've been doing this for a long time we take it seriously and I understand the last thing I want to be doing is sitting in front of you right now when I got to drive to Vermont going through this piece right here um we do care uh people make mistakes it's not three years in a row that this has
happened um continuously there was a gap we grew we came back after Co we have so many projects going on and and just not a lot of people and and you know that's exactly what happened um this this you know and we I apologize
for that but that's that's just there's no sugarcoating it that's what happened so what happened with the so why did it fa today for the inspection because of what you saw on sorry on uh page one there okay so then once that's removed you suspect that you'll be approved is that what you're saying is are there's
other issues that still need to be addressed no that's that's the only that's that's it and when did they come back out uh that's a good question I have to schedule a just that happen so I have to go back and email her and then we just want him to come we just want that time in between to do business like
we have we employ over 90 people there yeah because we I you know I'll be honest with you um you know you know at least I was prepared to to to revolt and I understand that I do being in your position I absolutely understand that I
do I I'm the guy who has to come to this meeting and stand here in front of you and let you know and you don't know me you don't know me like the other guy that stood up here you don't know that I grew up in East Boston right next door you don't know that we're open in a hotel then I'm so proud to open that hotel pretty soon um you don't know that
you know s is is from Brockton we're we're blue color guys you know just because we come to you from a hotel does not mean that we don't know and don't AR on grassroot guys you know um this is what we do to see something like this happen in one of our establishments we
have 90 hotels yeah we grew in the last five years after covid there was built we had so many investors looking to buy properties that were people were letting them go like the one in rever you know that thing probably I don't know what it would have been if we didn't take it
over because it needed so much darn work to it um and that's the truth I know officer I know you've been over there probably a few times unfortunately more than a few times and imagine if we're not running that place like the way we should be what what would be happening
over there you know we had drug rings when we first get in there we had freaking prostitution when we first get in there in the parking lots we got people driving around the parking lots we have our drivers that drive back and forth to the airport we put the lights on the top so they look like security guards so they
prevent some of that stuff happening uh over there I don't know if it always does officer I'm not saying that you know crime is down in the area or anything but but we're trying to um and lights on the building and so on and so forth we're trying to light up the big sign again so it so it deters people
even more because we know that well-lit places deter um things from happening activity and that's digging up the whole ground and and so on and so forth how so how soon how soon can like when you schedule them to come out like is it days or is it weeks does it take a while so if you call them tomorrow to come
back out and do to reinspect the place how how soon would you do think come out my my goal is to is to go to the fire department in the morning okay um and talked to them I talked to them when we first took over the property because they wanted to know what their expectations were and so on
and so forth um so my goal is to go there in the morning talk to them and say hear them out because they're going to they're going to tell me um and ask them when we can reschedule uh to have them come out and take a look around um and even if they
do it I would I would implore them to do it at a time they don't even tell us how's that I would say listen if you want to do a surprise inspection hopefully would you give me a twoe window so at least know that we we can tell the board right um and then you do a surprise inspection and come and you don't let us know because it's kind of
easy to we still screwed it up and we knew they were coming but it'd be harder to do it to to screw it up with uh I mean to to pass by uh and show that we're doing the right thing if they just come in unannounced like the health department does
well sir the bagging of the heat detector was just one one of the issues that uh the fire department had a problem with they also had a problem with uh mattresses boxes and fake
Christmas trees piled up with no access to walk through a room or gain access to emergency exits uh the basement rooms were filled with mattresses and TVs with no e path to access uh for emergency
purposes they had storage of combustibles under the steel well leading to the emergency exit there was construction material blocking the FDC Connection in the stairwell there was an exit impeded by bins and
laundry there was a mattress set up for sleeping in the middle of the basement floor multiple blocked exit signs CO2 tanks in the B basement unsecured in the restaurant there was also a water tank with a portion of the ceiling had fallen
down with mold it was almost unnoticed because of all the combustibles piled in the room uh May address that Mr sylvestri I beg your pardon may I address that certainly um so the areas they're
talking about are mainly the restaurant and what I would say is how did we do that so quickly and screw that up so quickly if that wasn't there before either it wasn't noticed or we probably upset somebody that walked through and found everything they
possibly could understandably at that point because they felt like it was been three years well I mean finding what they what they could that's their job no I understand that but they were there just uh a couple of months ago so I mean either either we really just started throwing things around in that place for
the last two months and didn't care with the same general manager and same VP or some of those things were there because they weren't a problem before but they are now is what I'm saying addressing the problems themselves is the heat detector the other areas if you were to
come by and look are in the restaurant that is closed there doesn't need to be a means of erress through the restaurant that's closed St rooms yes and storage rooms I mean you know understandably the fire department is upset um but they've been there multiple
times and this has never been any issue but we'll still address them well I mean I would hope so I mean a blocked emergency exit regardless of where it is is a blocked emergency exit and it needs to be unblocked understood sir but the
restaurant is locked so there really nobody that can go into that area and access it it's a non-accessible area so nobody should be in there in the first place it's like the storage rooms as well they're downstairs uh lot you know there there
are areas that aren't accessible to uh uh uh guests are those are the mattresses in the restaurant The Mattress I'm not sure as far as the mattress in the restaurant and in the storage area so how about the CO2 tanks the CO2 tanks um I I'm going to assume
but maybe I'm wrong are probably downstairs and that is probably a very common occurrence that they do have to be uh chained up I see that happened a lot of times in restaurants that I've run in hotels as well so that's definitely something I mean we you going to address address at all but that's definitely something that can be
addressed right away well um for the restaurant what is your what is your proposal sir we would just like some uh time to work with the fire department and to see if we can um have them come back out and inspect that they're at their time that
they'd want to and in between um we would take the measures that you would requests we do and and the fire department requests that we do um to move forward I mean I think that's that's the only path um that we're looking for is to move forward
um I understand I understand that there was some mistakes made there but I'm not I'm not justifying that but uh at the same time I I do feel like we can Rectify them very quickly and we're really talking about the fire um apparatus being
blocked more than wow need to we're really talking about the certificate of inspection yes sir so whatever is going to be required for you to get that that's going to be what is going to be necessary corre yes sir and as I said address thing may just be one aspect of
a bigger situation yes if I think you know to your point sir um when I say we're going to address it all I think you know again tomorrow we get a dumpster in and we clean out the restaurant we get everything out of there um and take the pictures as face
value whether it was an issue before or not and just uh it's it's it's in everybody's best interest that we probably do it anyways how many people you have staying at the rest um at the hotel um if you can give me a esate um s
would know better but I know we're running probably about a 30% occupancy sometimes 40 where it's a slower time of year we have more cars being parked at the hotel than with like park and fly but got 9 to1 rooms right yeah so 91 rooms and then um I just I so you
know we've we've dealt with with with issues like this with multiple um not multiple but other um businesses such as yours um and usually you know when when you know this this type of constructions being done um you know we're trying to
understand why by if you're operating about 30% capacity why not just shut down and just get everything right get your appropriate um um inspections done and and and reopen when you guys are ready to reopen
why not just why not just uh shut down but not just shut down the restaurant I mean uh the hotel until you get everything through the the years that we've had the hotel the hotel is not performed very well quite frankly um it's needed a renovation and we've been
successful on many many many many occasions on um balancing both um it's usually not a problem most hotels don't close unless they do a um full renovation all at once um in fact I don't I don't know if many that actually do if you think about it probably even R
all on the stretch none of them really close um but I do understand what you're saying it would be easier but it's still you know 1020 ,000 sometimes a week um that pay the bills on the loans that are there then you can take then you take
out a construction loan as well you go to the bank and take out a construction loan U and you have that piece as well that then all of that is still obviously coming in on a monthly basis it's just it's a it's a big building but it's still a small business in the sense that just like anybody else that's here you
still need the money to pay the bills on a monthly basis it's an independent um what is your what are your thoughts on a fire detail um as far as having a fight of fire uh Department person on property yes until until you get the inspection
certificate until they we have a working system to warn in the event of fires sure I mean if that's what needs to be imposed I I I think you know it's it's uh it's it's a thought in the right
direction um we have had fire details where we've had um a dedic dedicated uh associate on property um because a lot of times the fire department doesn't have an extra person to put on um we would definitely entertain that and have
that person uh be have crowd management control uh training and such um you know does that make sense well it it does make sense to um
to have someone dedicated to the idea of fire prevention I mean I would be more comfortable with a firefighter who you know obviously has got experience so if something does happen uh they're able to deal with it relatively quickly and have
direct communication with the fire department I don't know the availability of that um but I would think that that might be something that we could entertain because otherwise you you are not in compliance sure and you um are a
situation where you're in violation of of the law as far as the licensing goes and so if we were to mitigate some of the safety concerns I would think that
may help get us what are your thoughts as far as uh a fire um firew watch would you need that 24 hours would it be on the overnight hours imagine what the cost would be associated with that that's that's what I'm trying to I mean at that point we might have to close well I'll tell you
this look as we stand today um the building department as well as the fire department as I understand issued a cease and assist so you can't necessarily do any reserv renov you can't do anything work right now and you're meeting with them tomorrow so you can't you can't do anything right now anyway until you get kind of like gu
them on the same page and and they could give you the green light to start working again right sure um I I personally think that that we need to table this um because depending on how that
meeting goes with the building department and the fire department kind of will give us an idea of how we need to move um with their license going forward because they're at a season assistant they can't do any reservation they can't do anything at this point now anyway we
uncover the smokes already so that that was the major concern was the smokes being covered we've already uncovered that there's nobody working on the floors both floors everything has been stopped we're going to clean up I'm actually going to take person making sure those rooms are cleaned up which is the Mega major issue with those rooms being blocked off so I'm going to have
my guys move those stuff out of the way some of it will probably just throw out in the dumpsters it's it's mostly old stuff that was in the room so I'm going to get involved that involved in that make sure we clear some of that up by next week we can have all that stuff you know all set and have a new inspection I'll schedule that with the department and have them come back out cuz the
building inspection went fine we passed the build inspection it's just a fire which was the last piece that was supposed to happen today that day I was just going to uh jump on that as well and say that uh today's Wednesday we'll have it done by Friday okay
pretty so is there a fire is there a uh a fire alarm system in there now yes sir yep fully working fire alarm system everything works it's just covering that was not the right idea 24 Hours by SZ so it's fine the major issue was they just
covered that piece we haven't had any issues with like I said before we haven't had any issues when we're in operational hours with not without construction it's just while we had construction this happened and it set off a course of actions which again I understand all right well I would you know since there
is a working fire alarm there is a cease and desist I guess table in this thing for 30 days come back next month and we'll see where we are and hopefully by then you guys
you'll have your certificates and we can dismiss this and move forward yeah I we appreciate that and I think that's uh that's a good move on our part to get everything we need to get done as well all right well thank you gentlemen we'll we'll table this for one month and we'll
see you back here on uh March 15th on March 19th right thank you I I want to thank you yeah you can't be older than say older than him I'm like no way no
way'll take okay well thank you gentlemen good luck and we'll see you uh next month uh that concludes the hearings the next items uh on the agenda are Communications uh from the Massachusetts
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission notice of a return of no action for a change of manager change of Officer director issuance and transfer stock application excuse me for four Partners DBA Anton is at the
beach another communication from Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission approval of a new malt wine restaurant license for K ARA Corporation de DBA K Ara and another communication
from the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission regarding the approval of a change of manager for R Restaurant Group Inc DBA toan Margarita's Mexican Restaurant uh that um concludes
the communications the next items are license renewals and we have several license renewal common victas um Cafe Monte Cristo DBA Monte Cristo Mexican Grill
f&j Juice Bar Cafe Inc 76 Shirley AV Mass trips Inc DBA s es 194 shleev Mass trips Inc DBA rever Beach Pizzeria 180 Shirley Avenue Queen
Associates twist and Shake 82 rever Beach Boulevard the Delta helenic company LLC DBA R House of Pizza 354 Broadway we also have class one Motor Vehicle Dealer black marble
motorcycle DBA Boston Harley-Davidson 649 D1 Squire Road Class 2 Motor Vehicle Dealer Atlantic Auto Body Inc 529 Broadway Charlie's Auto Exchange Inc 655
notore Road we have an entertainment at Cafe Monte Christo Inc DBA Monte Christo Mexican Grill 364 Broadway and a parking lot license for park and
go DBA Park and 44 railroad station and those licenses um are approved the next item uh would be the motion to adjourn
until March 15th I'm sorry March 19th so moved do you have a second I'll second that very good the meeting is adjourned