 to chapter 20 of the Acts of 2021 and extend it again by chapter two 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 by emailing stevemccarthysatmccarthysatmrstma.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 that 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 and audio recording, transcript, or other comprehensive records as possible after the meeting. With that done, we'll call the meeting to order at 5.05 p.m. and take a roll call. Hallie? Here. Gaston? Here. Dylan? Here. And I'm here and Doug is not here, so we are four present and one absent. Okay, so next up is public comment and for any participants, this is general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda. So if you have general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda, please hit the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. No? Okay. Great. So public comment and then we go on to licenses and first up a couple of common victuals license applications. CB128, White Lion, Amherst, 24 North Pleasant Street. Steve, is anyone here for that one? I don't believe so. This is White Lion. You heard their liquor license application not too long ago and they just needed their convict too. So okay. Great. So does anyone have any questions about this application or concerns? No, I think they spoke about their food plan when they came for their liquor license. They did. Yeah, they did. So I think we reminded them also of the snack regulation that we have in place. So if there are no other questions, is there a motion to approve the White Lion seat common victuals license? So move. Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Whoever was first, I don't know, Gaston. Thank you for the second. Any further discussion? Should we wait for, oh hey Doug, we just have a motion on the table for in a second for to approve the common victuals license for White Lion Brewery. And you came in at any further discussion. So I don't know if you have any questions. Hallie already brought up the fact that they talked about their food plan at their liquor license hearing. Okay, great. So we'll take a vote. Hallie. Yes. Gaston. Hi. Doug. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote aye. That is five to zero and the liquor, the common victuals license is approved. All right. And then next up is a new one. And this is CV-129. Takaria del Pueblo 31 bolt would walk. Are there people here for this? They are joining. Oh, great. Good evening. Can you hear me now? Oh, hi. Can you hear me? Okay, I got it. I figured it out. You're here from Takaria del Pueblo. Yes, I'm the owner of Takaria del Pueblo. So we hope to open at 31 bolt would walk in Hammers. It's gonna be a Mexican restaurant and we are gonna do primary takeout. We already do have two existing locations in Worcester. So we're very familiar of what we're going to do our menu, which is going to be tacos, quesadillas, tortas, burrito, burrito bowls. This is a typical no alcohol whatsoever. We do want to open Monday to Sunday. We want to be open if we're allowed to open late till 2am. And that is the plan. If you guys have any questions, I can answer them for you guys. I don't. Did you check off the box for the BYOB? You said no alcohol, right? No alcohol. No, no alcohol. All right. So there's no BYOB on this. Great. Wonderful. Are there any questions for the common license? Dylan? Yeah. Yeah, I just I didn't get the chance to check in the agenda. What are your operations? We want to open from 12pm to 2am. Monday to Sunday. Excellent. Any other questions? If not, is there a motion to approve? So moved. Thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Dylan? Sit down. Any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. Hallie? Hi. Gaston? Hi. Doug? Hi. Dylan? Hi. And I vote aye. That is five to zero. The license application has been approved. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you so much. Have a great one, guys. Yeah, you too. Bye. Okay. So now we have special short-term liquor licenses, SST-23-33 through 45 from UMass. And is somebody here from UMass? Yes, Bill Trisbitt. Who made the motion second in the last one? I think it was Dylan. I seconded Doug made the motion. Yep. Hi, guys. Hi, Mr. Trisbitt. How are you? I'm doing well. How about you? Very, very well. Thank you. Thank you for coming in. I see you have a bunch of short terms. Yeah. I think the first ones that we're talking about are the HTM Marriott meals for the fall semester. Yes. Which are Tuesday nights in September, October, November, December, and it's a hash bar from 545 to 8 p.m. for anyone to move on. Wishes to purchase some alcohol goes to the HTM program's dinner up on the Marriott Center up in the Tomlin Campus Center. Great. Any questions about any of these? Did I'm going to have a need another minute to look them over, Doug? Just a confirmation. Checking, talking about the campus center. This was similar to what we did last year or what you guys did last year where on up, I think it's like you said, a Tuesday night, you got a, you know, as part of the program, you offer meal service with the alcohol as part of it. So it's the same as it was the last time, correct? Yep. It's a program they've been running up there for several years now. Yeah. Yeah, it's open to the public. They can come in in the order just like any, you know, restaurant would, except it's put on by the HTM program for two nights a week. And but they're only going to do the cash bar on Tuesday nights now. So it goes in conjunction with the dinner. Correct. Fantastic. Thank you for that. Yep. You're welcome. Okay. Yes, Doug. Marilyn, I'm also noticing there's a few for Valker and we want to do those as well, or do you want to do those as a separate block? Let's see, the Balker one, SST, is that 23, is that starting at 44? I think it's 42. 42, I think. 42. 42, 34, and 5. 42, 45 are all Balker. Oh, okay. Right. I love it. And this is what you've done before, also, right? The 42 through the remaining, I think, 51, those are the Fine Arts Center performances that alternate between Balker Auditorium or the Concert Hall and the Fine Arts Center. So they're beer and wine or full cash bar concessions, beer and wine at Balker. And they do full alcohol concessions at the Fine Arts Center. Times are generally in the signal. It's in the evening, depending on the time of the performance will affect the start time. But they have a snack bar set up there as well. So people can purchase snacks in addition to a drink before the show. And I think I sent in diagrams for the lobby area and where the bar would be set up and things like that. Right. And has that changed since last year? No, no. Same protocols and same everything, basically. The only thing that's changed is the performers, naturally, different shows. Okay. Should we just do them all at once? I didn't plan to that unless someone has a particular objection. Yeah, is there a motion to approve all of the SSTs from UMass, including both the supper and the Fine Arts performances? So moved. Thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dylan. Any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. Hallie? Hi. Best on? Hi. Dylan? Hi. Doug? Hi. And I vote aye. That is five to zero. The short terms are approved. Thank you so much for coming in. You're welcome. And I didn't want to point out, I have the Fine Arts Center ones that I submitted tonight go through the end of December. Okay. I'll have another batch that handle all the 2024 performances. I just I wanted to get these to you and it was in the mix of right before school started. So everything was kind of crazy. So I just wanted to get these up to you first. I'll send the others in another month or so. One thing's quiet down a little bit here. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, so I think that's it for our licenses. And now we move on to discussion items. So we do have a lunch card application. Oh, right. Sorry. Lunch card application. I'm very sorry. Um, lunch cart food truck license application LCFT dash seven super sweet sandwich shop ink. And is somebody here for that? Yes. There we go. Sony, you should be able to come in as a panelist. I just there you go. Sonia. Sony, you should be able to talk now. I'm drawing your camera if you want. On you. Stay here. You know, we can hear you. Oh, my God. Oh, you tell me, can you tell I'm really good at this? Hi, good evening. Welcome. So you have a lunch cart. I have a food truck. You're a food truck. Okay, I have a food truck. Okay, fabulous. And so could you just tell us a little bit about your food truck and what you hope to do? So I have a full blown food truck. I actually did send Steve photos of it. So we do well, we do soup, sandwiches and desserts. Mostly what we want to do in the Amherst area is sandwiches and maybe some desserts in the wintertime. If we're able to make it to Amherst from Springfield, we'd probably do some soups as well. I have a brick and mortar in Springfield. I went to UMass, so I'd like to travel to the Amherst area if possible. Fantastic. And was there a particular location that you were looking at? So the only places I thought that I could utilize were the areas that were common areas that were listed on the website. Okay. So I checked all of those areas because I wasn't, I'm not aware of any other areas that I could particularly go. So I checked the areas that were common areas on the website, assuming that those were the only places that I could actually go as a truck. Okay. Okay. So I can see your, because your truck looks kind of big. Is it, is it bigger? Or is that just the distortion of the lens? It's a pretty good size. It's probably about 30, 20. Most trucks are 26. We're probably 28. Okay. So not that much bigger. All right. Great. Does anyone have any questions about the lunch cart food truck license application? No. Yeah, I got, I got one same one as before. Just haven't read it on the agenda. Hours of operation that you're looking for? I am looking for hours of operation. I think I wrote Monday through Sunday or Monday through Sunday. And I know we can only go until eight o'clock. Do I have that correct? No, we can do 2 a.m. Am I right about that? So you can buy for more. Oh, see, that's what I'm confused by. I only followed the guidelines that were on the application. So I assume I have to stop at the application times that were listed. I would love to go later until 2 a.m. But I assume that could only go until the hours listed on the application in Amherst. Well, we had, I don't think we haven't changed that, have we? Because we were just sort of almost piloting that with the food trucks that were here in late May. Is that what we were doing? Right? Yeah. So it's by default, it's till eight, but you could apply for later at a specific location. And you can also apply for specific other locations besides the default. But that's kind of the default you get, but you could apply for special. Special hours. Well, that's good to know. Because different towns, depending on where you are, have different. Places that you can go and you really can't apply for other places by default. So it's good to know. So. I would love later hours and what I have listed. So 2 a.m. would be great for me. I probably will not be there till 2 a.m. because I still have a 45 minute drive back. But let's put it out there is 2 a.m. OK, so can we see? Can we just adapt to that? Yeah, it would be a specific location. I mean, there's one that we were using last year. But I would probably be the best one for late night hours. OK, Kendrick Park. So Kendrick Park. So the motion would go like to approve the lunch cart license with the additional that of approval of 2 a.m. hours for the Kendrick Park location, right? OK, does that sound good? That sounds great. OK. Everybody all right with that? I love it. OK. So who is there any are there any further questions? I do not have any. You don't have any. Does anyone on the BLC have any further questions now? Just out of curiosity, do you post on Facebook or Instagram when you're coming to town? We do. So right now, our flu truck is fairly new. I've had a brick and mortar for seven years and this year I decided to do a flu truck. So we are new in the game of this truck. So we are just starting to get out and we are posting like I have a calendar of places that we're going to be as we go along, chug along. OK, great. If there are no further questions, is there a motion to approve this license with the addition of hours extended to 2 a.m. for the Kendrick Park location? So move. Go move. Thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dylan. Any further discussion? Not. We'll take a vote. Hallie. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Doug. Hi. Dylan. Hi. And I vote aye. That is five to zero. The license is approved. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. I'll see you at the truck. OK, great. Bye. See you. See you soon. OK. Thanks. Thanks. OK, so now we move on to our discussion items. Discussion topics. A discussion with Hazel's Blue Lagoon. Steve, did you want to give us an update on that? Yes, so I was able to reach Junior Williams, the owner of Hazel's by email. It's in your packet there. He he told me he was had a prior commitment tonight and would be unable to attend, but had had would be back on the 16th. OK, so OK, back on the 16th. So what do we just reschedule the wait for him on the what is our next meeting after the 16th? The 21st would be our next meeting at all. Should we just push push the meeting off to the 21st and see if we can get him then? What do people think? Yeah, OK. All right. Why don't we just do that, Steve? And it might also be useful to hear from the the people who want to apply for a new license. So we know what their timing situation is. That's an excellent idea. Steve, can you reach out to them and have them at the next meeting? If they are, invite them to the next meeting. I will invite them to. OK, that would be really nice. And yes, Doug. So I think to to guess on point, I think we want to try to be fair to sort of both parties that the license holder might be looking for a new location to give them a little opportunity to do that. But at the same time, I want to hamstring a new a new tenant in space that might be looking for a license. So, you know, we're trying to strike a balance here that seems fair to you know, to sort of all parties, you know, give them a chance to move their license if they've got a new place and new location. So I'll be the critical question. I think we need an answer to when they come on the 21st and having an understanding of what the timing is for the for the new tenants and what they're like to guess on points or what their schedule is looking like and what they would like it to be is helpful as well as we weigh the options here. OK. All right. Great. Dillon, did you have a comment? Oh, yeah, I guess I'm mostly just at this point echoing what Doug said. Yeah, my my feeling is, yeah, it's the applicant's not here. Are they? That's not as in the audience. We do have a hand raised in the audience. I believe it's the landlord. Oh, OK. Does that should we? Does the landlord want to speak? I can allow her to speak yet. OK. Catherine, if your hands raise, you can. Yes. Hi. How are you? Nice to see you again. You as well. Thank you so much. Yes, I know that the occupant, the current tenant would certainly like to apply because it's a minimum of, you know, about a three month process for them. So I certainly would like to voice on their behalf that they would love to apply for their liquor license since they have leased the space since August 1st, and we're expecting that with the eviction of the previous tenant that their liquor license would have gone with that. So it would have been reverted back to the town, but there was a misunderstanding in that regard. So they had expected to have been able to apply. So at this point, they're just waiting for your decision on whether or not they can move forward. Yeah, Gaston, please go ahead. Do you know who gave them the bad information? That would have been part of me and my attorney, to be honest, since we were in the process of evicting the tenants since April. I, you know, I don't think we should feel pressure because of a mistake on your attorney's behalf. Nevertheless, what is the status of the renovations and what do you understand is the project schedule? So they are in the process of demoing and hopefully within the next month or so, they're looking to be completed, but I can't be a hundred percent sure on their completion date. All right, thank you. All right. All right. Thank you so much. Yes, Dylan, please go ahead. I just always kind of my my thinking on this would be well, first, I guess, let me ask you, Steve, did was there was there any sort of indication of how junior will be able to make it to the next meeting then? He did not indicate anything about that now. OK, I mean, my general feeling here is I'm willing to certainly hear what he would have to say. See if we can work with him anyway from to transfer this license. But if he's not able to make it to the next meeting and I'm inclined to go with the the landlord on this one, I think we're we're trying to be a little bit more reasonable on this. But, you know, if he can't make it to tell us what's going on, I don't feel comfortable holding it up longer than one more meeting after this personally. I think that's fair. Could we extend and invite and ask him what his plans, concrete plans are for a new location? Yes, I will. He said he was looking for a new one. I don't know anything about how that's been going, but I will invite him to the next meeting along with the the new applicant. That would be great. You're very thank you, Steve. Anything else on this? Otherwise, we will look forward, hopefully, to seeing everyone involved at the next meeting. Sound good? Thank you. Great. Thank you so much for coming in. I really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Next up is let's see. Oh, marijuana regulation. OK, so Dylan, how has that gone for going? Excellent. So yeah, I said last time I was going to be going camping in the months I get back. I'm going to start working on it. I've just gotten back, so I'll be working on it this weekend. I'm expecting to assuming again, it's the scope of it is what I think it is. I hope to have something to you guys by the end of the month that we can all review, make notes and then hopefully get adopted shortly thereafter. Yeah, that's that's where I'm at in terms of the bylaw. We're not the bylaw. I'm on reg Gaston is bylaw. OK, all right. And Gaston, you're kind of working on this together. So yeah, I'm happy to we Dylan, let's schedule some time after this meeting. Sounds good. All right. Fantastic. Great. Any other discussions? Oh, I remember. So our contact for this with the town council is Mandy, Joe Haneke, and she also says he's been working with Alyssa Brewer, who used to be, as you know, our contact town council. So I don't know if we wanted to reach out to her and invite her to one of these meetings or not. Or if we thought it might be useful. But I mean, I'm certainly happy to reach out to Alyssa Brewer. I planned on giving her a call anyway soon, so let her know. She's invited to come talk. All right, anything else on this topic? No. OK, yes, Doug, I just say, yeah, I think Dylan and Gaston, if you have the opportunity to talk to Alyssa, she's extraordinarily knowledgeable about it and will be a great resource. So she's worth the time and effort to connect with her for sure. Yeah. OK, so much up lunch carts and food trucks, Steve. So I have been trying to schedule. I think, you know, we're all ready to give this a try and trying to schedule a meeting between Paul and the relevant department heads to really kind of hammer out the final details. But to nobody's surprise, Amherst is very busy in September. So we've had a little bit of trouble scheduling that. But hopefully towards the end of next week, we could do that. Find a workable plan and move forward. And then maybe the the license commission meeting on the 21st, I'll have to review the regulations to see if because it is an individual parking district, if that's something Rob could approve. There was administrative approval provision there for the specific trucks being there or if if we would need to go to the board. But we have enough time, either way, if we were shooting for hopefully the weekend of the 23rd and 24th to start. That'd be great. Yeah, done. Do you know the towns, I think they call the block party? Do we know the date of that? It's the 21st. 21st. That is on the 21st. OK, because I think that I don't know that we'd want food trucks to necessarily be there that day. Let our brick and mortar businesses sort of get their opportunity to get their customers. But I think, yeah, having it soon thereafter would be great. Yeah, that makes sense. That street, because, you know, warm weather is always the best time to to have those. That'd be great. OK, super. Sounds great. Thanks, Steve. And finally, we come to upcoming meetings and who does. Our next meeting is on the 21st. We're going to be talking about hazels, essentially marijuana regulation and bylaws, lunch trucks, food trucks, anything else, anything, Steve? Nothing that I know will be coming up at this point. Good. And what about additional? I guess we don't have any additional meetings on marijuana bylaws and regulations until we have a draft from Dylan and Gaston, right? So, OK. All right. So. So that's that. Topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior to the meeting. Any topics? Unanticipated. No. OK. Well, if there's nothing else, is there a motion to adjourn? Oh, can we first thank Doug again for. Oh, yeah, actually, Doug. We think a credit. Congratulations. And thank you. Best wishes. Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be busy. So I'm going to do everything I can to kind of keep engaged with this as best I can as we move forward. You know, so I'll try to be still a good participant in this in this in this group and honor my commitment to the to the town. So if it if it proves to be too complicated, I'll, you know, like, oh, and let someone else serve. So I'll, you know, and if you feel like that, I'm not serving in this role properly. Let me know. OK, well, we hope we hope it doesn't come to that. But yeah. But your mental health is more important. Absolutely. Thank you. OK. All right. If there are nothing else, then is there a motion to adjourn? Oh, thank you, Doug. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Dylan. We'll take a vote. Dylan. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Doug. Hi. Allie. Hi. And I vote I were five to zero. We're adjourned at five thirty four p.m. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Steve. See you on the 21st. All right. I'll see you then. Thank you.