 should forward. Oh, there's Doug. He done pursuant to chapter 20 of the access to 2021 and extended again by chapter two of the acts of 2023. This meeting will be conducted by remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting and do so in the following matter by emailing Steve McCarthy at McCarthy s at Amherst MA dot gov. That's m c c a r t h y s at Amherst MA 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 proceedings in real time by a technological means. In the event that we are unable to do so for reasons of economic hardship and despite best efforts, we will post on the Amherst website in audio or visual recording, transcript or other comprehensive record of proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting. And with that done, we'll call the meeting to order at 5 34 p m and take a roll call of attendance. Hallie here, Gaston here, Doug here. Oh, you're muted, Doug, but we're here. Okay, one minute. Does that count as here? Yeah, yeah. And then and I can I'm here. So that's for present one absent, but we do expect Dylan. Okay, so next up is public comment. This is general public comment unrelated to anything on the agenda. So if you have that kind of comment, please raise your hand by pressing the right hand, raising button at the bottom of the screen. And I don't know. Do we have anyone here? Any hands up? Among attendees? No. Okay. All right, great. So moving on, we go to licenses application by farmer winery to sell at farmers market. Laurie Perkins doing business at home fruit as home fruit wine. And is Laurie Perkins here? Oh, yes. Steve, could you is I've just invited her to great be able to speak. Okay. Hi, Laurie. Hello. Can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Welcome. And so this is something. Yeah, of course, this is something you've done in the past several times, right? Right. Okay. And so this is just a continuation of what you have done in years past. Has anything changed this year? No, I don't think so. We've done the same thing every year. Either David or I will go to the market. We've both listed as salesmen on there. Right. So he usually goes, but if there's Saturdays, he can't, I go. Okay. So other than that, nothing's changed for on our end. All right. Great. Does anyone have questions about this? No. If not, is there a motion to approve the application by the home fruit wine, farmer winery license at the MS primers market? So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Gaston. If further discussion, if there's not, we'll take a vote. Halle. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Doug. Great. Doug says I. And I say I that is four to zero with one absent and the license is approved. Thank you so much, Laurie, and best of luck for the season. Thank you. I have one question. Yes. I should have asked it before you voted, but it doesn't really matter, I guess. They're working on trying to get a winter market in Amherst. And if that happens, would we need to get a license for each one if it's in a different location? I believe so, but that's a Steve. Is that correct? There'd be need to be a different license. Because in the winter, they wouldn't have it on the common, you know, right? That's a great question, Laurie. I'll have to do a little bit of research for that. We've actually, in my time here, not had any farmers markets, but that on the common. So if you can just shoot an email, I'd be happy to look into that and get back to you. Okay. I know David was looking into it and I don't know if they secured a location yet for a winter one, but I know they wanted to try to keep it in Amherst. Okay. Yeah, that would be great. That'd be new to us, so I'd be happy to look into that for you. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Thanks. Okay. Hope to see you at the market. Yes, definitely. All right. Bye-bye. Bye. Thank you. Okay. So next up is the Common Victual License Renewal Application Oyster Bar LLC. And Steve, is there anything on this? No, just another renewal. Okay. When are they opening? I actually went to protocol with a friend last night and we were talking to the bartender and he thinks end of May. I guess there's some pieces of furniture that are not ready, but they're starting to staff and menu plan and look at vendors. So. Okay. All right. Well, that's good. That's good news. Great. So are there any questions about, did you submit the renewal to us, Steve? We didn't get that in the packet, right? No, I generally weren't so as in sending the renewals. Okay. If there was no changes, there was no changes with this one from last year. Okay. Great. Well, if there are no questions, is there a motion to approve the Common Victual License Renewal for the Oyster Bar? So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Gaston. Um, if there is no further discussion or any questions, we'll take a vote. Hallie? Aye. Gaston? Aye. Doug? Doug votes aye. And thumbs up and I vote aye. That is four to zero with one absent and that has been renewed. The Amherst Oyster Bar LLC opening in May, hopefully. Okay. Great. All right. Next up is Special Short Term License Applications SST-24-17 Levben Ezra Amherst Survival Center, Wynand and Malt, April 6th, 2024, 12 to 4 in the afternoon at 138 Sunderland Road. Is there somebody here for that, Steve? There is. We have Sam here. I've invited him to talk. Fantastic. Hi, folks. Hi, Sam. Hi. Welcome. So could you please let us know a little bit about your event? Yeah, absolutely. So this is our 16th annual Empty Bulls fundraiser. It's our seasonal spring fundraiser for the Amherst Survival Center. The root or fourth year that it's been held on site at the center itself and second year that we're proposing a short term win and all license. So it's called before on that Saturday. We expect around 300 to 400 attendees in the course of the day. Food and adding wine to add some dimension to the event. Okay. Great. Thank you. And did everyone have a chance to look at the application? And if so, are there any questions about the application? No questions from me. I guess one question out of curiosity. I'm just given that nonprofits can get the full liquor license. I'm just curious if that's something that you consider. I take it it's a lot more complicated and maybe not even what is kind of fitting for the event. Just a curiosity question. Yeah. I think wine and malt is easiest for us and it's sort of a new aspect to the event. So last year it was moderately successful and we're curious to see where it goes again after the second year. But being a daytime event, it's slightly less of an appetite. So it's nice to have the wine, but we don't feel the need to see your full license. Fair enough. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions about this? If not, is there a motion to approve the short term? Hold on. SST- is it 24-17? Yes. Amherst Survival Center. So moved. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. If there are no other questions, we'll take a vote. Hallie? Aye. Gaston? Aye. Doug? Thumbs up from Doug. Dylan? I wasn't here so I will abstain. Okay, abstain and I will vote aye. So that is four in favor, one abstention, zero against and the license is approved. Thank you so much for coming in and best of luck with the event. Thank you folks. Okay. All right, number next one is SST-24-19, Michelle Cahan, Hitchcock Center for the Environment, All Alcohol, June 20, 2024, 6 to 9 p.m., 10 East Drive, Amherst College, Powerhouse. And is somebody here for that? Yes, I invited Mr. Spitzer to speak. Okay. Hello, Mr. Spitzer. Um, not Mr. Spitzer. Hold on. I can't. Oh, I'm sorry. That's funny. Yes, this is, here's my video. Okay. Hi. Hello. Hi. I'm Casey Beebe, Committee Programs and Special Events Manager at the Hitchcock Center. Oh, great. Oh, welcome. So could you tell us a little bit about your event, please? Yeah. So the Battle of the Botanicals is an event we held from 2016 to 2019 at the Powerhouse at Amherst College. And it's a fundraiser, a restaurant and so we have seven restaurants participating. So they all come and create a cocktail and a little bite around a botanical feature. It's a ticketed event. We, the liquor provider, the spirit sponsor this year, is Berkshire Mountain Distillery and Berkshire Brewing Company. So, you know, all of course, all of the restaurants are, you know, serve safe and, you know, tip certified because they're all bartender, you know, professional bartender. And, yeah, so I can't say a lot more about what questions are relevant to this. So this is, so you said you did this for three years and then interrupted by the pandemic, obviously. Right. Exactly. Four years. Okay. And then interrupted. And so this is the first year back at doing it again. Right. Okay. Great. And you send around a map, a little map went around. Where is the Powerhouse? Where is this? Is that? The Powerhouse is on Amherst College. It's down by the train tracks. Oh, right. I guess it used to be a powerhouse, the powerhouse, but they've turned it into a venue. It's a very cool venue. So it's very, so it has a, you enter on the second floor and then it's sort of down, you go downstairs and it's all one floor and then it opens out into sort of a closed patio. Okay. And so you'd be using that whole space, but it's very, very contained. Even the patio has sort of a berm. So it's very sort of distinct. Okay. All right. Thank you. Are there any questions about this license? Or not? If there are no questions, comments? Okay. Is there a motion to approve? SST-24-19. So moved. So moved. All right. Who was that? Second? Who seconded? Was that Doug? Doug did. Oh, okay. Great. Any further questions? If not, we'll take a vote. Halle? I. I. I. Gaston? I. Doug. I. Dylan? I. And I vote I. That is five to zero. The license is approved. Thank you so much for coming in. And thank you. Good luck with your event. Thank you. Thanks. Bye-bye. Bye. Okay. Licenses section D. Seasonal liquor license renewal applications. Town of Amherst doing business as Cherry Hill Golf Course. And that's just their standard seasonal renewal. And I'm sorry. Who was the official mover and second or for the last application? I think I think Doug was the mover and no, Dylan was the mover and Doug was the second. Okay. Is that correct? Okay. Yes. This is just the standard seasonal license renewal for Cherry Hill Golf Course. They are a seasonal license. So that happens in March instead of in December. Right. Okay. Um, are there any questions about Cherry Hill seasonal liquor license? If not, is there a motion to approve? Who wants the who wants to be the mover? I'll make it beyond Steve. If I got the first one, I'll let Steve copy and paste. Okay. And I'll second. And Doug made the second. All right. If there are no questions, 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 renewed. Okay. Moving on. Discussion topics. Marijuana regulation. Steve, has there been an update? Um, we are still working on things on the staff side. I do have a call with the building commissioner and our KP law attorneys tomorrow morning to clarify a few questions, but we will we have already reviewed the zoning bylaw and identified some changes we'll have to make. This is all in reference to the CCC changes that we will have to come into compliance to it. And a part of that I believe we'll be moving forward with the licensing. And we are we are still moving forward with all of that. In terms of the normal licensing and regulation, in terms of the hemp derived products, I do not have any particular updates. I do have a draft of the letter to the off premises licensees we can review and Marion did send me along a draft of the letter to the legislators. So, um, if the board would like to review those or has any questions or anything else, um, do you want to send them around so that yeah, would people prefer me to email them to everybody right now or to share them on my screen? What do you think? Okay. Looking on the screen. Okay. Let me pull up the off premises one first. Question the package store. So who are the targets for the various letters just to know what the how we're calling the establishments. So I believe at this point, this letter would be for off premises licensees. Um, I think our consensus last time was that we don't even want to imply to on premises licensee that I want to be okay. Right. I was just thinking through the head in my head. Where, where are we aware of this? And I guess the only place I'm aware of personally is provisions, but we heard about some corner store or something, but we don't have a license with them, right? Yeah, there is a tobacco shop that has it that we do not, we did not license. Okay. Yep. That looks fine to me. Yeah, it looks good. Yeah. I guess the only question is if we want them to report to us besides just giving them this morning, do we want them to tell us if they're selling this stuff? I mean, we could ask, but that doesn't mean they'll do it, right? Were we going to have a in-person meeting in a month that we could say you're welcome to attend if you have any questions or concerns? Yeah. Yeah. But if we pick one meeting so that everybody who gets it can come at the same time, that would probably be the most efficient. Yeah, I can certainly say that if you have any questions or concerns, you can come along to our next meeting and I think we will determine what day that is later in this discussion topics, but I think that's a good idea. Okay. Great. Any other questions about this? No? Okay. Thank you, Steve. That looks good. Thank you. And I will share the other one. I like the title on this one, Delta 89. It sounds like an old's mobile. I didn't want the name to be too long. Who does this one go to? This is going to the legislators, Mindy Dom, Joe Comerford, and what's his name? McCarthy, something? Jim McGovern. Sorry. Not Steve McGovern. Jim McGovern. Okay. It's good to me. Look okay. You maybe include our state senators too, Elizabeth Warren and linking on the other guy's name right now. Ed Markey. Okay. Yeah, we could include all of those, like send one copy to each person. Okay. Well, great. All right. Good. All right. Well, thank you. Super. Well, that's done. Let's see. wage law violations. So Steve, you said you tried to call Paul Tupa. Yes, I have reached out to him. I have not heard back yet, so I will continue to reach out to him. And I believe the consensus we reached last time was to invite him to a invite him to discuss what had gone on with the board in a way that it was non disciplinary at this point. Yes. Yes. Yes. So I will see if he is able to come to our next meeting. Right. Okay. I mean, just like a friendly conversation really, I think, if they're willing would be great. Okay. Good. And then following up on that is the liquor license application supplement, which is that bit we're going to attach. Yes. So I do not have a full draft ready yet, but what I envisioned that to be would be just a document clarifying some that would be, you know, given to applicants to clarify some some questions that we may have, clarify some answers that we may have questions for, such as ours is one thing that is bafflingly not included in the state applications, also how on-premises licensees intend to comply with the alcohol food service regulations. Right. And then they were going to just disclose any wage law, pending wage law violations or have they received a citation recently. Yes. I don't know if we want to say like not in like in the past, like is it ever they've ever received one or just like say in the past five years or do we want to put a I guess I'll pull whatever is in the I believe there was some language to that effect in the waging and tip theft by-law. So I'll see if I can try to put that in parallel with that. Okay. Because we're really trying to get them to comply with that because that does require them to disclose those things, but we don't ask anywhere. So. Okay. All right. Great. Okay. Thank you. Let's see. Okay. Next up, meeting times. So some, Doug, are you having a conflict with meeting times Thursdays at 5.30? Thursdays at 5.30 is generally fine for me. I mean, as far as you know, I mean, stuff comes up and time will get filled if not with this. So, right, you know, it's really okay. Okay. Because I thought there was another meeting scheduled around the same time that someone was having an issue with and we were going to discuss whether or not we should shift this meeting to another day or another date and time. But no, everyone seems to have a has no conflict. For me, it's fine. It's for you. It's fine. I don't know anything. Okay. Great. Guest on your muted. Which day are we talking about? We're sticking with Thursdays at 5.30. Yep. So is that working for you too? Yeah. Just looking at which actual date is our next meeting. Oh, I think it's let's see. It would be the third. No, sorry. It would be the 11th of April in person. Okay. And then we do the 25th on Zoom. All right. Okay. Just, I mean, I don't expect it's an issue, but I have a 7pm Zoom affordable housing trust on the 11th. Okay. So you've got to leave and then get back home. Yeah, I mean, yeah. So I guess I'd be, I'd have to go by like quarter to seven. Okay. All right. I don't think that's a remote one anyway, or is that the 11th is our in person. Right. Yeah. So the 25th would be out. I thought we were talking about the 25th. Sorry. No. Okay. All right. Great. Well, that was easy. If everyone's okay with Thursday at 5.30. Super. So let's move on to upcoming meetings and agendas. So on the 11th in person, we hope to have with Paul Tupa or and with business partner or not in person for a friendly conversation. And then hopefully my update on marijuana regulation. What else? Oh, maybe a draft of the liquor license application supplement. And maybe something else on Delta 8 and Delta 9. Anything else? Was there anything else? I do know that Mexico Lido has departed their Kellogg Ave location right behind the Unitarian Church there. They will be, they have bought Cisco's Cafe in the North Amherst and they will be taking that over as Mexico Lido. So they will be doing a transfer application to transfer their license to their new entity, but they have not submitted a full application yet. So Okay. Great. And then beyond the 11th. But okay. And did just following up on that. Did Garcia's ever submit a change of manager application? They did. They did submit a partial one. Yeah. A partial one. Okay. All right. The Mexicalito was there and talked about this. And at that time, it was a couple of months ago, they expressed the intention of having a brick oven pizzeria in that location. Right. Did you hear anything about that, Steve? I believe they have, I have heard, yeah, they have definitely vacated that premises permanently. Got it. Okay. And then, oh, and then maybe, I don't know if it's important, but the West Street Cafe, we talked about that a little bit on the phone. Yes. I don't know. I don't know of any, really what their status is. Okay. All right. So it just, they had a common victual's license approved two years ago and never opened. So it's sort of mysterious. Okay. Is there anything else that we were going to put on? Hopefully we'll have the letters out. I will seek to send those out tomorrow. Okay. Super. Great. And anything else for upcoming meetings and agendas? Nope. Okay. Topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior to the meeting. Any topics from anyone? No? Great. Well, I guess, is there a motion to adjourn? So, oh my God. As a ready to leave. I know. Who is doing that? Dylan made the motion. We'll keep it easy. Copy and paste. Doug made the second. And we'll take a vote. Halle. Hi. Gaston. Hi. Doug. Hi. Oh, and Dylan. Hi. Oh, okay. And I say aye. So that's five to zero. We're adjourned at six to one PM. Bye, everybody. Thank you. See you on the 11th in person and have a good weekend. Thank you. All right. Bye. Thanks, Steve.