 phone and it didn't quite work. That's right. Pursuant to Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2021 and extend again by Chapter 2 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 will 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 m-rst 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 the meeting to order at 5.03 p.m. and take a roll call. Dylan? Dylan? I'm here. Guest on? Guest on? Immuted. Oh, is he, did he say here? He may be going through a dead zone or something. He's on, okay. He's on here. He's on, he's on you? He's camera froze. Okay. Hallie? Here. So what do I do if I've got a frozen camera? Did he say here? I'm going to say here. So he's on, we have to wait, do we have to wait, Steve? Well, we have a quorum without him, so. Okay. So he just says here whenever he joins. Okay. Yeah. All right. So just to say for the minutes, we could note that he was in attendance with a bad connection, but we have the quorum. So we do have a quorum with three present and three present and two currently absent and possibly joining shortly. Okay. So the next up is public comment. And this is general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda. So if you have general public comment and you'd like to comment, please raise the press the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. Any public comment? Okay. Moving on to licenses. Okay. Special short-term liquor licenses. Up first SST-23-53, Gabrielle Gould, Amherst Bid, all alcohol, December 14, 2023, 5 to 9, 45 South Pleasant Street. And Gabrielle. Hi, Gabrielle. Hey, guys. How are you? Good, how are you? Good, thanks. So this is the sip and stroll? Yep. So this is the old B. R. Exactly. So last year, sip and shop stroll. The sip and shop stroll part is throughout Amherst, but the makers market is what this is specifically for. Last year we did it at the Drake. We outgrew the Drake. We have more makers and creatives in Western Mass and we can fit into that space. And we have a perfect window where AJ Hastings is going to be completed for Amherst College, but not yet belonging to Amherst College, there will be starts on in January. So we were able to work with the owners to allow us to use that space for this year's makers market. Okay, great. And you submitted all the documents and the map or the diagram of where everything is going to be. Did everybody have a chance to take a look at those before the meeting? You want to just look at them again quickly. Any questions or comments about it? As per usual, we will have certified bartenders. We will this is this is a very grown up and the grown up tend to have like little humans. It's not exactly a teenager and college age mix in the pottery and woodworking and glass blowing and things like that. So we're not too concerned about bracelets or anything like that. But it's a very festive evening and one that I think is very beneficial to downtown and local businesses. Okay, fantastic. Is there food served along with the alcohol or is it just there will not be. And we didn't do that at the Drake last year either. Okay, have several restaurants participating in a three for 45. So three courses for 45. And then of course, the goal is to really drive. There wasn't a seat empty at a restaurant last year. That's kind of the goal is to get people out and about. We of course, strong carriage is bringing people from location to location, whether permitting of course, this all could fall apart if there's a huge snowstorm. Right. Okay. All right. Any other questions for Gabrielle? No. No. If not, is there a motion to approve SST dash 23 dash 53? Almost. Thank you. Dylan, is there a second? I second. Thank you, Hallie. Any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. Dylan. Hi. Hallie. Hi. Gaston, are you able to answer? Yes, I sorry. The train was delayed, but now I'm where I should be. Thank you. Okay, fantastic. Great. And I vote I, that is four to zero with one absent. The license has been approved. Okay. Thank you all so much. Hope to see you there. Yeah. Thank yous. Thanks for coming in. Okay. Bye. Okay. Up next, SST dash 23 dash 54. Benson Hyde, Wine and Malt. October 14th, 2023, 1 to 5. Lawn outside 113 Coles Road. Is Benson Hyde. Oh, hi. Thank you for coming. How are you? Thank you for having me. And this is, did you do this last year? No. So what we did, and I apologize, I'm getting over a cold and I'm just getting my voice back. So if it cuts out, I apologize for that. But we did a fundraiser for the International Language Institute in April. Okay. And so this is basically a replica of that, but for the Amherst Survival Center. Okay. Okay. And with a different, you know, that was all Italian wine people. And this is going to be more of a mix of, it's we're working with one specific importer. Okay. All right. Great. Does anyone have any questions about this license application? Nope. Everything look good? I actually had a question. Oh yeah, sure. And I was a little confused when submitting the application because I do have a couple of, I guess they're, I call them local, but they're like upstate New York spirits makers who are interested in attending. I'm able to have them just do like a regular in-store tasting that day that is separate from the event. But I was wondering, because I know that it's for nonprofits, or I was trying to understand the language, but it's, you know, we're doing this in raising money for a nonprofit. Right. And I was wondering if that made it, you know, I was wondering where the line was for the all spirits or the all alcohol license. So thank you for not raising the issue. Yeah, definitely. So do you want to tackle that Dylan? Did you have? Yeah, I was just going to ask it. So for you're doing this event, but then simultaneously, well, this event's happening. There's going to be tastings that would typically just be part of the normal license. Am I correct? That's the idea. Exactly. And it's no part of our normal Saturdays. We generally try to do tastings on Fridays and Saturdays when we can get people. Yeah. I mean, Steve, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there's no issue with that. I think it would be if you wanted that to be part of the event. So you want it to be part of the event? I was wondering if I would be able to move them and include them as part of the event, but it would be the all alcohol license as opposed to the beer and wine. I just wanted to, just because I was having a hard time understanding how that breakdown happened. God, I mean, I think that can definitely be part of this license. Steve, does it just need to be on the application that those folks are part of it as well? Or is that okay to just go with it? I think the question would be, and I spoke to Benson with this earlier and I thought I would just leave it for you all, is there's this weird thing with the short-term licenses where an individual has to apply for them, but the all alcohol can only be obtained if you're doing it for a non-profit organization? I think the principle is that if you're going to make the liquor level of sales, then it should be going to a non-profit or something like that. Yeah, that very well, I don't know. The statute doesn't really talk on that. That makes sense as a justification. I don't really know what it is, but that makes sense certainly. So I guess the question of the board would be, if this is all going to the Survival Center, would that qualify? Which it is. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I would think so, right? So you don't need a license for a tasting though, right? I mean, does a spirit tasting, is that different from a wine tasting? So the tasting is part of the overall license. I know that Light of the Night has had it. But my guess, my question was, I'm doing this for the, raising money for the Survival Center, but I personally am not like an officer of the organization. Oh, that's okay. Okay, okay. That's where I like, I just didn't want to, I didn't want to do anything wrong. Okay. So does that change, does this turn into a different license then or Steve? I could just amend it. Can we amend it? Just a couple of clicks of the button. I guess if Mr. Hyde makes that request formally and that'd be awesome. Leave it to the board. Okay. Do you need me to say it out loud? Steve, can I make a formal request to amend the license so that it is an all-alcohol license? Yes. Short term. And then do we have to, when the motion is made, first of all, does anybody have any questions about the application aside from the amendment to turn it into a, if not, okay. So then does the amendment have to say approving the amendment, adjusting it to a non-alcohol short term? I guess you could just make a motion to approve the application, you know, modifying it to be an all-alcohol. Okay. Does someone want to make that motion? Yeah. I'll just say I moved to approve the license with the proposed amendments. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second? I'll second. Thanks, Hallie. Any further discussion about this one? If not, we'll take a vote. Dillon? Aye. Hallie? Aye. Gaston? Aye. And I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent. The short term, what is this? SST 23-54 is proved. Thank you so much for coming in. Good luck with that. Thank you, guys. All right. Okay. Next up is SST 23-55. Oh, these are both UMass, but these are two different things. Can we make that motion second? Just... Oh, Hallie did the second. Dillon and Hallie, okay. Dillon was the motion. Dillon was the motion. Hallie was the second. Okay. So now we have SST 23-55 and 23-56, which are both top of the campus and all alcohol. UMass student lawn. So are these part of the series of short term, Steve? So one of them is the Fine Arts Center lobby, I believe, is just another event that popped up. Mr. Trisbitt should be here. Oh, yes, here he is. Hello, Mr. Trisbitt. Hi, Bill. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, I just wanted to jump in and let you know that it was a pop-up type of event. Okay. So if you had any questions, but it follows the similar path as the others for the Fine Arts Center lobby, so it really isn't anything different, but I figured I'd jump here and say hello. Okay. All right, great. Super, thank you. And then the other one is? The other is the Student Union lawn. Homecoming. Oh, right, the homecoming. Megan is here. Okay. Hi, Megan. Great. But the homecoming has been done before, correct? Correct. Yeah, okay. It basically follows the same pattern as last year, but my understanding is more or less over a couple of years, like two years prior, we were having everybody go into the whole area. Following them down there, my understanding is that this year they're going to go into the Student Union ballroom for tours, if they want, as my understanding, but Megan can jump in and let you guys know if that's in fact the case. Okay. Sure. Thank you, Bill. So, yes, the block party has been done since 2019. This year we're reimagining it and calling it Homecoming Fest. As we did last year, the Beer Garden would be taking place on the North Lawn, which is the grass area located in between the Campus Center and the Student Union. The difference this year, as opposed to when we did it in 2021, as opposed to allowing individuals to enter the Blue Wall, which is the dining location in the Campus Center, we are having them go through the Student Union and they are allowed to bring their drinks from the Beer Garden on the North Lawn into the Student Union. Okay, and that's the older looking building that's attached underneath to the Blue Wall, correct? It's the newer of the two buildings. Oh, the newer, the brand new one. Okay. Yeah. Our intention is to help showcase the building to our alumni who are coming back for the first time in however many years to celebrate Homecoming. Okay. Okay. So it's the one, but okay, got it. Thank you. Great. Does anyone have any questions about this? Everyone get a chance to look at the documents. No questions. I guess we can approve these together. If there are no objections, is there a- I guess one question I had, Megan, is that the parts of the Campus Center are part of a license premises. I know there's an underground passage between the Campus Center and Student Union. I don't know if there'll be any signs up or anything to say. I believe the license premises of the Campus Center is the hotel upstairs, the UPUB, and, you know, it's like a storage room, but that's kind of the more important parts. So it's fine to have it in other parts of the Campus Center, but I don't know if there'll be signs at the boundary or what you'll be doing for that. Yes, that's correct. So we will have signage throughout the Student Union, and we have actually hired five security guards and one supervisor to patrol five of the main access points, including that underground tunnel of sorts that links them to the Campus Center to instruct them that they are to stay within the Student Union or the North Lawn with their beverage. All right, thank you. Thank you. And is there food available? Yes, we will have food in the beer garden tent, little snacks, for instance, that they don't have to purchase, and then the blue wall will be open as well. So after they've finished their beverage, they will have access to the blue wall, and we are working to have the food truck also accessible on the opposite side of the Student Union. Okay, fantastic. Thank you. Any other questions? If not, is there a motion to approve SST 23-55 and 56? Go moved. Thanks, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Hallie. Any further questions? If not, we'll take a vote. Dylan? Aye. Hallie? Aye. Gaston? Aye. And I vote aye. That is 4-0 with one absent, and those two licenses are approved. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. Okay, so that's the licenses, marijuana discussion topics, marijuana regulation. Yeah, I'll take the lead on this. I haven't done anything with it since the last time I talked to you guys. It's a poor excuse. I've gotten very busy with things, and I don't expect it to take long once I sit down and do it. I am to sit down and do it. I'm going to try to get that together this weekend, and then hopefully get something in for our next meeting in two weeks when I can actually have that together. I've only got the outline done. It doesn't need a whole lot more than that, but it needs a little bit more than that. So I'll get that folks to you by our next meeting. Okay, super. Great. Thanks. And you said last time you'd talked to Alyssa Brewer and thought about streamlining the whole thing following that conversation, correct? Yep. Yeah. So Steven ended up sending me, he sent over all the stuff we had from alcohol licensing, and basically what the work I've actually done is basically dragged out the stuff out of our alcohol rigs and kind of put them together in an order that makes sense, but right now it just says it's just copy and paste of everything from alcohol, and I just have to put in the time to, one, make sure that everything makes sense that it's referring to marijuana, but again, it's still taking that general approach of basically saying, there's the state regulations, like follow the state regulations, these are fee structures, and then that will be, I think the thing that we're really going to talk about with it, and then what we're doing for violations, and that's just kind of, as it stands right now, I've just done what we're doing for alcohol, and if we want to make any changes to that as well, we can, but that's kind of the structure that I have for it. Okay, super, sounds great. Any current questions for Dylan? If not, okay. Super. So next, we'll look forward to that next time, and then lunch carts and food trucks on Prey Street, plus their regulation. Steve, how's that going? I do have an update on that. Okay. The town manager had discussions with some town council members about the plan, and he's willing to go forward with this as a trial run, so I'm going to begin reaching out to different food truck operators, and we will see if we can get three of them, and maybe potentially next week would be the first one. I've left the regulations up there, if any changes were needed for this. I don't think we will at this point. I think the building commissioner's ability to issue short-term permits on the municipal parking district will suffice, but we'll keep that there if anything does need to be changed, and yeah, I will let you guys know, but hopefully if I am able to get three together, we could do it next weekend, next Friday. That'd be great. That'd be great. Thanks so much. That's exciting. Thanks for your work on that, Steve. Thank you. So was there anything else? So we don't need to amend anything on food cart, food truck regulation currently? I don't think so right now. Okay. All right. Great. Okay. Any other questions on this, Dylan? I just wanted to put it out there right now. I'm still a ways away from it, but I've had this conversation with Steve that for any regulations related to food trucks, I will be just recusing myself for those for any sort of votes or discussion on it. I'm looking into pretty seriously right now the idea of doing like a hot dog stand, a much more reduced idea of a food truck. I've been talking with Susan Malone for the health department over at a town hall about kind of the requirements of all that. So whether or not I actually go through with it is yet to be seen, but I think I'm considering it seriously enough that I think it might be a conflict of interest if I were to weigh in on those discussions at this time. Okay. All right. Well, thanks for letting us know. Thank you. Any questions? Any other questions? No. Okay. Great. So we'll look forward to that, Steve. And let's see, discussion topic D, upcoming meetings and agendas. So our next meeting, we could do the 19th or we could just skip ahead to the 26th to give ourselves a break. It takes us off our first and third schedule, but then we could just resume that in November. I think it's a big deal. Does everyone want to, oh wait, the 26th, is that okay for everybody? Or are you burning to meet next week? Works for me. Okay. Great. Six works for me. So anything on the November 2nd then. Yeah, is that all right? If we just do October 26th and November 2nd, or does everybody want to do it next week and then have the last week in October? I mean, what makes sense, Steve, with what's coming? Yeah, I mean, we do have probably that new application for Gabe's underground in the former Hazel space. So I have to check up on, if that'll be ready for the 26th, or if we might push that to the second, but I would assume it'll be ready for one of those two. But probably not the 19th, probably not the 19th, right? No, we would be past the notice deadline anyway for that. So if everyone's okay with doing the 26th and then the second, that might make a difference. Yeah. And maybe if we don't have a lot on the 26th, we can delve more into the marijuana regulations. Dylan, I'm happy to help with anything if you. Perfect. I will make sure to be on my desk. On the 26th? Okay. Awesome. All right. So are there any other discussion topics? I guess on the 26th, we'll do the marijuana regulations. Maybe we'll have an update on the lunch cards. Is there anything else that we needed to discuss? I don't think so. What's the timing on the chair and vice chair votes and all that, Steve? Do you know? The vice chair for the license commission? Yeah. How frequently are we supposed to be having an election-like process? That is a great question. I will look into that. Yeah. Steve, because if you could see if Doug, what his situation is. Yeah. If I can. Yes, Dylan. I mean, I know on ZVA, it was really up to us whenever we wanted to hold the election schedule. I don't think there's any bylaw constricting us on when we want to do it. It's just we elect a chair and the vice chair. So we can do it whenever we wanted to. Obviously, if we should get Doug here for it, we could even do something like mirroring the town council schedule where in January, although it would probably make much more sense for us to do a regular schedule in June when appointments happen or July. But I think we should probably get Doug in here because I think it's a good point. We haven't done it in two years now. So I think we are overdue. Oh, more than that. I think it was 2020, right? Yes. Three years. That's right, because I tried to do vice chair and we got Doug and that was the last time we had one. I'll tell this. I don't think I'm doing vice chair this time. But yeah, I think we can do one whenever. I think we can all get together. I think we should formalize positions again. Yeah, that would be great. Yes. Okay. So we can put, what do we call that, Steve, officer elections or something like that? Vice chair and vice chair elections. That sounds good to me. Who are we going to put on the next agenda? Put it on the next agenda. Yeah, put it down. Great. Thank you, Gaston. Okay. Topics not reasonably anticipated. 48 hours prior to the meeting. Any topics? I'm getting nothing. No. Okay. All right. If there's nothing, is there a motion to adjourn? Thank you, Dylan. Is there a second? Second. Thanks, Hallie. We'll take a vote. Dylan? Hi. Hallie. Hi. Gaston. Hi. And I vote aye. Four to zero with one absent and we are adjourned at 5 29 p.m. Thank you, everybody. See you on the 26th. Hi. Thank you. See you then. Oh, sorry. It was, Dylan did the motion and Hallie did the second. Is that correct? I'll be in pace then. I'm running a little slow today. Thank you guys. We try to make it easy for you. Thanks, Steve. Bye, everyone. Thanks. Bye. Thank you guys.