 Pursuant to chapter 20 of the Acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter two of the Acts of 2023, this meeting will be conducted by a remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner by emailing steve mccarthy at mccarthy s at mrstma.gov that's m c c a r t h y s at mrstma.gov. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time by a technological means. In the event we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts, we will post on the Amherst website an audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. That done, we'll call ourselves to order, call the meeting to order at 5.34 p.m. and do a roll call, Doug. Here. Hallie. Here. Dylan. Here. Gaston. Here. All right. Next up is public comment. If there's anyone here for general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda. And please hit the. The right hand, the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. I don't see anyone. Do we have anyone? We don't have anyone here. Okay. All right. So onto licenses and we're in annual liquor license renewal season. License renewal season in general. So what's. Okay, so it's just all. And you'll look for licenses this time. Um, Steve, are there anything, any of these who with like paperwork outstanding. Nope. So, so I am still working through and processing everything coming in. So I've been prioritizing the liquor licenses and. This is the vast majority of them. All of these have nothing weird going on. All paperwork's in. They're open. Okay. Everything straightforward. So we'll get these out of the way. And then next time we will get. Um, everything else, the common vixen, any remaining liquor licenses and. Auto dealers and so forth. Okay. So, uh, yes. Motion to prove the licenses as shown on the agenda for. December 14th, 2023. Thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Thank you, Dylan. Um, any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. Doug. Hi. Hallie. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote I that is five to zero and then the licenses are renewed. Great. Um, onto discussion topics. So. Discussion topic a marijuana regulation. Did Steve, have you heard back from town council yet? So I have not yet, I sent 2 inquiries at the same time, which was about the common vixen licenses and whether we can get rid of them and also the marijuana. I think they're putting them up because Brian Riley is the liquor, liquor, liquor law expert and the marijuana went to somebody else. And I have not heard back from marijuana yet. I did hear back from Brian on common vixen. He said that he believes just due to how the law is written and some of the other unintended externalities, it probably wouldn't be possible to, to get rid of them and not cause trouble for, for business owners. So I can forward that email along to you, but I've not heard back yet about liquor. Sorry, marijuana. Okay. Great. So we're just waiting for that before we can move on to the next step. Any questions about this or the process? Nope. Okay. Okay. So we're going to go back to the discussion topic. We have a discussion topic B, lunch cards and food trucks on trace, praise straight. How was the last weekend? Yes. From what I heard, um, it went well, no problems. Um, so I will be, um, double checking with staff as to how that, uh, how, um, that may be brought forward to the, the town council, if the board is still in support of that idea of making it more permanent. And there wasn't any, uh, any problems really with, with, um, disorder or chaos or traffic incidents or anything like that. So I think it was a successful experiment for the season. Great. Good. So perhaps we can do it again in the spring. Make it more permanent. Um, okay. If there are no questions on that, on to see Savannah's Amherst burger company closures. So I have received transfer applications for both of those licenses. Um, so those applications are moving quickly and they will be on the agenda for the 28th. Fantastic. Well, that's good news. Great. Um, any questions about that one? Just out of curiosity, said it was the out of town owner. Oh yeah. Are they in Western mass, or do they have experience in the valley at all? Yeah. Yeah. We both the owners are LLCs. Um, they're, you know, kind of founded for each restaurant. But my understanding is, is that the group that is behind it, um, has experience on the cell shore. And the Cape, but not so much in Western mass is my understanding. So. Just curious. That's all. Yeah. Okay. Right. Um, D APD update on liquor law enforcement. And the response from. Cap, is it captain Ting? Captain Ting. Interim chief captain Ting. Yep. Okay. Um, so he, he, uh, kind of gave an overview on, uh, what their enforcement priorities are and, um, how they do that. And, um, I did pass along that individual complaint to him. Um, so I hope that is a bit more illuminating on. On the things they do. Okay. Yeah. Oh, should I just mention? I don't know if this is related, but I was poking around on the ABCC website last week and they do, do, um, I think they have operations safe campus in the fall, which runs from September 1st until Halloween, October 31st, where they make a considered effort and they send, I don't know what they're called agents into the field to check IDs and, uh, make sure that everyone is compliant. So, um, I didn't, I don't know what they're called agents into the field, but I don't know what they're called agents into the field. I don't know what they're called agents into the field. Apparently they do want to run Christmas too. I don't know if it's worth. I don't know if the police, I'm a police are aware of that, or if it's worth letting license holders know that this is a seasonal thing. Um, Something we can talk about at another time. Some. All right. Any questions. Not this one. Nope. Okay. Onto our last discussion topic. Um, we're going to do December 28th and we have the rest of the licenses. Um, Steve. And I guess we'll do marijuana regulation update. Uh, not do lunch carts and food trucks until the spring. And, uh, what else? Rental regulation. Regulation. If we put that back on. Depending on how it goes. I will. There will be those two new applications as well. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your patience. All right. Any other, um, Discussion topics for the next. Meeting. Or I'm sure they'll be. Yes. Sorry. Go ahead, Dylan. I was going to say, uh, Steve. Uh, in March. The remote provision expires. Am I right about that? Oh. I, uh, actually. Um, don't know off the top of my head that, that, that would make sense. And, um, I guess the question here too is, uh, But what are people's feelings on remote versus in person meetings? We, we get further from the pandemic, assuming we have. Some option in, in the matter. Is that something we want to start thinking about? Um, not that we have to, you know, land on anything now, but. I don't know either one is fine at remote is easy. It's more convenient. It's definitely more convenient for me, but I'd be happy to do some version of a hybrid. Like once a month in person, I think remote. For restaurant owners is probably. A little easier if they're coming rather than having to leave. And come in, they can just go to an office and zoom. Do we have any way at this point to, to schedule one in person for a change of pace? Uh, I don't know, Steve. Can we do that? Uh, there's nothing, there's nothing stopping you. No. I mean, you know, maybe, maybe, uh, we can find one that's convenient for everyone just so we see each other in the flesh. Yeah. Once. Once. I think three years in, I don't think I've seen Marion in person. Yeah. That is funny. I don't think so. You treat. I think you try. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Doug, go ahead. So I, I saw Dylan in person at the gym last night. Yeah. I was just visiting somebody, but anyway, it's a whole separate thing. I just looked it up. Actually the extension of the remote meeting option is till March of 2025. A year to. You know, figure this out, but. No, no opposition on my part of in person. We, you know, it might be a while, but I could see the benefit of. Formalizing and doing an in-person when we vote for our chair and co-chairs. Beginning of a term. Yeah. Yeah. No sooner than that to Dylan. I'll bring treats too. I'd be happy to like, see if there's one in January that we think is convenient for people to 28th. I think that's a good one. For me. Yeah. I don't think I'll be able to do the 28th either. Yeah. We could do January sometime. What have we got coming up? So the 28th, the 11th. Oh no. We're doing the 1st and the 3rd Thursday, right? Steve. So the 4th and the 18th. Well, we certainly could move that around. Or we could do February. Fourth is good for me because. Yeah. I haven't started teaching, but I don't know if that's, if that's a good in terms of the flow of things. We'll just have met. Yeah. And Steve, how does that work for you too? Because you're, you're a part of this. I appreciate that, Hallie. I mean, I can certainly make it work. I guess in terms of meeting dates. You know, we are going to be meeting the 28th. We're going to be meeting the 28th. I mean, we're going to be meeting the 28th. You know, we are going to be meeting the 28th so that we don't, even though we do normally do the 1st and 3rd, we could. We don't have to have to meet in the 4th. I don't know if there's anything that will be coming right down the pipe. Then. And I certainly won't really have any time to work on the, the, our more discussion items type things right, right at the turn of the year. So. Okay. That back a week or, or if you want to meet, we could certainly do that. I could certainly get the meeting work. You could put it back. Oh, her stragglers coming in. Like the 11th. Would that be fine? The 11th and the 25th. The 2nd and 4th. How does that. We're going to like then be right up against the 1st, the next month. I wonder if we get, get away with just meeting in January. That could work. Probably. Yeah. The 18th. Right in the middle. And then. January 18th. And then that puts us to February. February 1st and 15th. And then, you know, if there's ever an emergency or. Right. You can usually find consensus. On a time. Just so I'm getting it right. Are we thinking January 18th, 530 in person? Do we like that? That works for me. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pick off the new year, right? Right. Okay. Well, that's exciting. Doug, can you make that one? Yep. Yep. Okay. Super. Well, that'll be fun. All right. Great. So. All right. So we will meet again in January 18th. Anything else to add to upcoming meetings or agendas? Nope. All right. Okay. Okay. All right. Topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior to the meeting. Any topics. I don't have anything. No, I don't have anything. Well, that was fast. We're ready to adjourn. So is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. Thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Thanks Dylan. We'll take a vote. Doug. Hi. Hallie. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Dylan. Thank you. I'm going to turn it back to zero. We're adjourned at 547. Happy. Have a good holiday season. Everybody. You too. And see you on the 18th. 28th. 28th and the 18th. Oh, the 28th. Zoom. Gosh. See you on the 28th. Sorry. You on the 18th. If there is a quorum on the 28th, I may. Bow out. Okay. I'll be mella Kaleke mocking. And the time zone toys. I'll be there. I got you covered. All right. I'll be there. Okay. Do you want the 28th? Yeah. Have a good trip. Bye. Thank you.