ORDER-2019-101 : Application of Lisa and Christine Kennedy, d/b/a Kennedy's Ice Cream Bar - 888 Main Street, Melrose for a Common Victualler License

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▶ 1:19 Shawn M. MacMaster: motion to close public comment second seeing that no members of the public have come forward for public comment alderman lipa garabedian has made a motion to close the floor to public comment seconded by alderman Tramontozzi all in favor aye any opposed public comment is now closed we have one item on our agenda this evening it is order number two zero one nine dash one zero one application of lisa and christine kennedy doing business as kennedy's ice cream bar 888 main

▶ 1:51 John N. Tramontozzi: street for a common vittler license motion to suspend the rules to hear from the applicants

▶ 1:56 Shawn M. MacMaster: second alderman Tramontozzi has made a motion to suspend the rules to have the applicants come forward that has been seconded by alderman boisselle all in favor aye any opposed for the

▶ 2:13 Shawn M. MacMaster: applicants please come forward and have a seat good evening good evening if you could just both say your names for the record and just sign in we'd appreciate it lisa kennedy o'dowd christine

▶ 2:24 Shawn M. MacMaster: Kennedy again thank you for being here with either one of you like to make a statement or would you like to proceed directly to questions I think proceed

▶ 2:35 Shawn M. MacMaster: directly to questions any members of the committee have Alderman Lippa Garabedian

▶ 2:38 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: yes thank you both for being here it's really exciting to hear about to read about your business proposal and I guess just for the public if you wanted to sort of describe what your vision is for your ice cream bar and what hours you'll

▶ 2:52 Speaker 2: be open and we're just happy to be back first of all in front of you we were for in our previous business for 20 years and we're excited to try a new venture it's gonna be hard serve ice cream soft serve ice cream and chalk something unique to the area some dipping with real chocolate and all kinds of fraps and floats and variety of things like that and we'll be open from approximately 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every all seven days every day seven days that's great and

▶ 3:25 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: what do you have a sense of when you'll be opening we would like to open in June

▶ 3:31 Kate Lipper-Garabedian: okay well that's a good time for ice cream so hopefully yes well thank you so much for being here tonight and this is very exciting for our city to have

▶ 3:43 Speaker 3: another ice cream option thank you thank you mr. chair thank you very much for being here this evening do you plan to have seating in the space yes we plan to

▶ 3:49 Speaker 2: have approximately 12 seats there'll be a bar across the window where they'll be set up with seats and a few tables yes yeah and some outside like they could

▶ 4:03 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: sit outside oh great okay tables and chairs okay okay great well just this is in Ward two which is the word that I represent and we don't have a large business community in Ward two but we do have some great businesses who do some great work in the community and we love having them so we would love to add an ice cream bar I'm sure to that to that list lots of lots of kids and families that I think would be very excited about this so thank you very much for being

▶ 4:30 Robert A. Boisselle: here thank you Alderman Boycelle looking through the filing and so forth there's a lot of information that's this redact or just blacked out is there some reason

▶ 4:39 Shawn M. MacMaster: for that I believe the business certificate filing is blacked out it's redacted as is the lease agreement the the lease agreement I can understand why the lease agreement may be for privacy issues that's what relative to the business certificate is there any reason of which you're aware that that

▶ 5:00 Speaker 3: might be redacted I am NOT aware but I can look into it and get back to you

▶ 5:07 Speaker 4: thank you thank you any other questions from voting members just a point of

▶ 5:09 John N. Tramontozzi: information as part of the reasons for some of the redactions may be as you rightfully mentioned private personal information relative to identification that you don't want to put out in the public for potential well you know disclosure but I do have a quick question you mentioned about some outdoor seating is that going to be in the front or where's the outdoor seating

▶ 5:39 Speaker 2: that you anticipate the sidewalk is the front and then we have the side there's a walk-up window right now also so people can come to the side hmm I just

▶ 5:47 John N. Tramontozzi: check in with the building inspector to make sure you the outside seating is not

▶ 5:56 Speaker 2: obstructing those public side yeah we wouldn't want to do that okay just to be

▶ 5:58 Speaker 1: alert on that thank you Alderman Medeiros thank you thank you very much

▶ 6:03 Monica C. Medeiros: thank you so much and actually I'll just comment that I think the the sidewalk there is actually on in private property it's not public sidewalk so so it's within the realm of the parking you know one area but thank you we're just so glad to have you back in town and enjoy your previous business very much and I wanted to welcome you do you anticipate being open year-round yes we will be

▶ 6:34 Speaker 2: open year-round so there'll be some unique things we're selling so we can keep going I know we've been told that ice cream has become a as we all know it doesn't stop at the end of the season especially in New England I think we're at the top of the list for consumption of ice cream I think we like it year

▶ 6:53 Monica C. Medeiros: round but that's great so I just want to welcome you and thank you and say you know your previous endeavors here you know been a tremendous partner in the community and we appreciate that thank you and I continue will continue to be part of the little leagues and all the other town sports and anything we can do

▶ 7:14 Speaker 2: chamber etc thank you thank you I just like to say for the record that in

▶ 7:18 Shawn M. MacMaster: addition to the two documents that Alderman Boycelle reference that are redacted we do have unredacted documents in our possession we have the application for the license we have paperwork that has been signed completed and signed off by the fire department the building department the health department we also have an unredacted version of the workers comp insurance affidavit and business certificate filing so it looks as if all of the paperwork is in order what is the will of the committee motion to recommend

▶ 7:59 Shawn M. MacMaster: there's a motion to recommend for passage made by Alderman Lippa Garabedian seconded by Alderman Tramontozzi on discussion all in favor aye any opposed motion carries what that means is that we have just voted to send this to the full board for approval record we're recommending it for approval that board meeting will be on Monday you need not appear but if you have any questions between now and then you can certainly get in touch with miss foot and she will do her best to answer your questions thank you thank you for