 Go right ahead. Okay, pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 and extended again by chapter 2 of the acts of 2023. This meeting will be conducted via remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting may do so in the following manner. Through the web link and or joining me via a telephone call 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. Be 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 embers website and audio or video recording transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. And with that I will call the role of each of the members to make sure we can hear and be heard and in no particular order Dylan here. Gaston here. And I'm here. So we are now called to order for the seating. Make sure I'm looking at the right stuff here. Sorry. So, first up is public comment. Do we have anyone for public comment? Is there anyone in the in the gallery there, Steve? Yeah, one, but he is a party to an application. So, if you have a related public comment, you can raise your hand. And if not, then we can move along to your application. Right. So, seeing no public comment, we can move on to our licenses for the evening. We have five categories. Who's our person. It's, it's waiting. This is Bruce McCamus from provisions. Provision so why don't we take that one up first, which is actually the liquor license change of location application. And so Bruce, thank you for joining us tonight. Would you like to tell us a little bit about your change of application and we'll take it under consideration. Yes, sure. Thank you for having me. So, we, as you may know, we're currently in the, in the red barn up on the calls property North Square on calls road. And we are applying to move the license and the business from that from that barn across the parking lot to the corner to the corner. The corner of the commercial space across across the parking lot on the same side, the south side of calls road. And where, you know, the build out is now more or less complete. And so it's just a relocation, no, no change in the scope of business or whatever. Right. Are there questions from the, from the board. I don't have any either. So, given that we don't have any, and it's literally, you know, across the parking lot, I don't see any issue with this. So I would entertain a motion for the approval of the liquor license change of location. I moved. Is there a second. I'll second. We have a motion from Dylan a second from Halley. Is there any discussion hearing none will take a vote. Dylan. Hi. Cast on. Hi. Halley. Hi. And I will vote aye. So that's unanimous. Thank you very much for your notification and application to change your location. Good luck in the new spot. Okay. Thank you very much. You too. Bye bye. Next up we have a new common viculars license application from Primo two at 255 triangle street. And I believe that's the one that was in our packet. Yes. So it's not a new business. It is the same business that there's just changed ownership and they had neglected to redo their common viculars license last year. So they submitted a new one under the new ownership. Fantastic. Does the board have any questions for Steve. If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the license application moved. And we have a second. Second. A discussion. Hearing none will take a vote. Dylan. Hi. Halley. Hi. Cast on. Hi. And I vote aye. That passes unanimously. Just mixed up the order to keep you on your toes. All right. Next on our agenda. Is. Renewal applications. We could do these in, in. Well, there's two transfers and a, and a common vic license. So. I guess let me ask this, Steve. Are there anything, is there anything controversial with any of these or any particular pieces of information we need to know about the three. The two transfers and the, and the, and the one renewal. So I guess I would just say about the transfers. You know, as we, we did hear the liquor license transfer applications for these businesses. And they came in, you know, we don't usually see businesses that are kind of. Passing the baton. Usually it's one business closes. Another one opens. So we don't usually have transfers like this and they submitted to renew the licenses under. The new names and I figured it would be best procedurally, maybe just to have the board vote on officially transferring them. Rather than me just editing it. So that I don't think is complicated or controversial. And the other one is this day late renewal. Okay. Go ahead. Just a quick question here. Uptown Grill LLC is Amherst Burger Company's new location, the public houses, Savannah's is that the, the naming respectively, or is it inverted? I don't know if I will ever be able to keep those two straight, but let me look real quick. While you are doing that, I will go ahead and make a motion to approve the license renewal, as well as the transfer of the common Vic and the live entertainment licenses. And you'll soak it second. So that's the remaining items under license rules and transfers for this, this meeting. Yes. So I did look it up. Uptown Chap and Grill is formerly Amherst Burger Co. And the other one is formerly Savannah's. Got it. Thank you. Is there any further discussion hearing none? I'll, I'll call the roll Gaston. Hi. Allie. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote on that's four to zero or we are approving all the licenses that have remained there. So now we're onto discussion topics. First item on and only discussion item other than up cutting means and agendas, the marijuana regulation. So. Dylan, was that last with you? Is that correct? Yeah. And I mean, we had in our last meeting, we talked about a little bit more thoroughly kind of what direction we're going in, but you weren't there for that one. Doug, you missed her in person. I haven't seen you guys in person forever and I had to be so sorry. So the, the way we want to approach thing is try to have the discussion items more so for the in person meetings. Just because we can much more have a easier discussion as opposed to being on zoom. So I'll use this opportunity to just give you a little bit of an update to what we talked about there. The general takeaway it's, it's basically in terms of the regulations for just dispensaries and just kind of preparation for the doing away with. Host community agreements, it's to as much as we can have a one to one, in terms of out of language relating to alcohol, keep it the same with marijuana, anywhere at sites, national law, make it specific to marijuana. But to really kind of keep that spirit of the whole thing, unless there's something specific that anyone can think of that's unique to marijuana, that is an alcohol, which I have not been able to do yet. That's what we're doing with that. The next one is we really are talking about it sounds like recreational marijuana facilities are venues are going to be coming at some point when the state finally gets that together to to allow for that. And we just been talking about getting prepared for that. What are we looking for the general social consumption. Yeah, so the general consensus right now. As long as as long as you people have me in the lead. I am. I'm looking into businesses right now throughout the state that are looking like they're positioning themselves to be you know, these consumption social consumption facilities and I'm looking to start talks in the near future with these people to try to get a sense of what are they looking to do and potentially even try to facilitate discussion among towns and potentially business owners, people who want to be business owners in this space, trying to connect them with some of the right people in town to see if we could be a community that would have something like this. The idea of being much like Northampton was able to open that first dispensary, because they had kind of laid all the foundational groundwork to make something like that happen. I would like to see a similar situation here in Amherst the idea is to explore that idea right now and see very early stages of just even seeing the feasibility of it. So that's kind of where we're at right now with marijuana regs. Yeah, I would say on that topic just a couple couple things I think if we have our regulatory framework in place then it makes us much more able to be for businesses to take advantage of the opportunity. I think and I'll show us again with folks my, you know, my struggle with the social consumption pieces, two things one is not a reliable test for intoxication for operating under the influence as far as driving stuff that's that's a concern. And, you know, and the other one is, is, is more about the staff that work. So in an, you know, an alcohol establishment is strictly forbidden to have the bartender drink while while working. And in, you know, when I think about social consumption in, in, in a marijuana cafe. I have for the workers they don't get it. If it's, if it's a place where you know there's, there's the actual smoking of it is, is can can we create circumstances where they as as employees are not impacted by the, the, the patrons usage, because we explicitly require that about call I think, you know, and part of that so that they have good clear judgment about over consumption and management of circumstances and I think the same things apply here so that's those are things I'm looking for. As this rolls out, but you know, if, if, you know, if a cafe is not going to do any sort of smoking and it's all about, you know, brownies and gummies and whatever. You're not aware of any, any research that shows that people get effects from if other people are smoking in the, in like a lounge type setting. Yeah, well, I think that's the question is, is sort of like, you know, the classic sort of anecdotal stuff about the contact high sort of things like well I don't smoke my roommate does and you know that kind of thing, but, and, and, and, you know, I think you're right though that one of the questions is what's the, what's the research risk as it were. And I think about it just, you know, again from that sort of we want the staff to be able to do their job at a high level of proficiency. And if this impedes that that's, that's, that's a problem, I think, but I don't know if I have answers to any of that I'm just stating it as a thing I'm curious about as we go ahead. I think I think I mentioned this a little bit last time but something in an ordinance could be saying that any marijuana facility that opens recreational consumption. It even has something that it has to be located so close to a bus stop. Because I think the idea of even trying to set up businesses in such a way where it's like we don't want some parking lot down on route nine where you're going to drive there to try to really mandate it's like you can do it but you got to be within so many feet from a bus stop. Because we want to encourage people who are going to these locations to come on a bus. Like, don't take your car. And even maybe see about working with easing, even maybe the town council to some extent to ease parking requirements for these types of businesses, even for bars as well to where you don't want people driving there in the first place. You can make it the primary option with a big open parking lot for everybody to bring their cards to. Yeah, and I think that along the lines another way to approach that would be through a through zoning. Yeah, you can make it part of the zoning regulation for a special permit kind of thing. Because that parallels some of the stuff they do now when they require a certain number of parking spots for certain kinds of things it's sort of the antithesis of that in some ways. Yeah, I think those are all things that we should think about and see if they're appropriate for us or we should be making recommendations to, you know, playing board or council. All right, anything else anybody wants to add thank you for that update I'm sorry I missed the meeting where you guys, you know, chat it through that. Sorry for the repeat. So I think next on our agenda is the upcoming meetings and agendas. The one thing Doug is that the board did elect last time to move to a more hybrid schedule where one meeting a month would be online and one meeting a month would be in person. So as to better facilitate discussion in person. That sounds great to me I was, I was inferring that from villains comments so that works for me so. So our next meeting is, let's say the first so 15. Is that right. That'd be correct. Yeah. And that'll be in person. Yes. And besides the sort of standard licenses or transfers or whatever. The mayor want to regulations on again, are there other topics that we're needing to address or are in process on that we want to make sure that we include. We were going to include a letter. I think Marion's going to work on an official letter and I'll bring a card for Gabrielle. Goldies were stepping down from the bid. We'll say out of curiosity, did they name a new person in her role. That's my knowledge. Okay. I'm not, you know, I think that'll be a, those are big shoes to fill, I guess is one way to say it was really, you know, a good partner with us and I think a good, you know, advocate for the town and business and down so it's a. You know, she got what we were coming after relative to what we're trying to do as far as safe, you know, I'll call you some that sort of thing and and also, you know, we don't want to study business either and. I think we had a good, good relationship there. So that's fantastic. So yeah, a card would be really nice. Any other topics people can think of if not, I'm going to suggest you a send them to Marion for. I, I'll go ahead I'll make the other motion to adjourn. Quick question. It's just to show it is it someone asked me if Garcia's is closing down. Do you know anything about that Steve. I haven't heard anything about that now. Better not be. I just hope not as well. And I would ask because you seem to have a pulse on the Amherst restaurant scene, Steve. I think the thing is a come across my radar for that effect. So, well, I know where I'm going after this, this call and go ask Elvis what's going on over there they better not be closing. No, that would be a no that's really a great sort of anchor on that into town for sure. Great space so hopefully their success. So why don't you offer that motion again. I motion to adjourn. I'll second. All right. This will be a roll call vote. Hallie. Hi. Dylan. Hi. Yes on. Hi. And I vote I we're adjourned at 549 p.m. Thank you all very much. We'll see you in a couple weeks in person. Nice to see you online Doug. It's good to see all of you as well. I'm glad everyone seems to be in good health and, and hopefully it stays that way. So, we'll see you all soon. Thank you everybody. Thank you all then. Thank you.