LIC-2024-20 : Application of Abdinasir M. Ahmed d/b/a Galmudug, Inc. for a Hackney Carriage License (1 taxi cab) at Essex Street Stand

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▶ 1:22 Mark Garipay: application of AB denier Ahed, DBA, glum Dog, Inc. For a Hackney carriage license, one taxi cab at Essex Street Stand. Um, at this time, uh, I would, uh, with no objections, I will suspend the rules so we can hear from the applicant. Seeing no objections, Mr. Ahmed, if you want, would like to come up and sit at this table and just, um, tell us a little bit about your business and a couple, uh, counsels may have some questions. Um, for the record, this, um, this applicant has had a license in the past. They, um, missed the renewal process, so they had to go through the new process. So it is a new, new license, but it is kinda like a, a renewal, but, so Go ahead.

▶ 2:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, my business, uh, I've been running like for, for a, for a long time, a little bit, you know, up here like Millrose license. So, uh, it's a tech service, you know, I invest, I have a website, uh, I get calls, uh, I got clients and, you know, I got another business also, so I continue. So it, it's a corporation, inky g Inky, so, uh, you know, that's, it's tax service. I mean, people can call me, you know, it's, I've been investing, so that's my business as taxi driver license, having me for Millrose, you know, before COVID-19, we are like 16 taxis. I'm the one only left. I know, but, you know, Uber came and, you know, destroy all the visitors, but, you know, still tax taxi, uh, still they surviving, so who knows? Maybe some, you know, it will, it would go back the old day, the old days. So, uh, yeah. Uh, the only issue, uh, the c asking is, uh, before I used to have a official, uh, licensee like this, so the police, uh, you know, they, they check the criminal court check. After that, the, they give me this license. They used to give us this official license, but this year I got like paper, you know.

▶ 3:34 Speaker 2: So, I don't know, uh, you know, it's usual, like I want it, you know, uh, to see if, you know, it can be, you know, bring this documentation back, uh, to the id,

▶ 3:48 Speaker 3: uh, about the renewal.

▶ 3:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, I would like, you know, you know, I'm requesting if I can get like, you know, June or June or June or July, expiration dates, you know, I'm having sometimes tough time. Like, you know, sometimes I go for, for family, uh, you know, uh, travel, you know, uh, you know, so that's why I wasn't available, you know, to renew it, you know? So I need like, you know, a little more extension there.

▶ 4:22 Mark Garipay: Okay. Um, any questions? Uh, from the council, vice chair,

▶ 4:27 Robb Stewart: Stewart? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, uh, through the chair, uh, to the, uh, city clerk. Does he have all his paperwork in order?

▶ 4:36 Mark Garipay: Everything is in order. It's in the packet. Sorry, I should have said that up front. Everything's in Order. Order. Everything is in order. Okay. In order in the packet. Yep. Thank, thank you, Mr.

▶ 4:41 Robb Stewart: Chair. Um, the, the one question I have for you, Mr. Ahmed, is, I, I noticed that you, you're in Boston, but you come out here to Melrose and I just, I want to, uh, pre-position that by. I think it's great because we have, uh, a large elderly segment of the community that lives, um, close by, that can use the transportation from Shaws to their, their homes. And some, some folks choose not to drive. So I think it's great. Um, I'm, I'm just more curiosity, um, by Melrose. So I, is this like your only territory, or are you located elsewhere? Uh,

▶ 5:21 Speaker 2: Well, yeah. Uh, today technology has changed. Like, you know, you have to advertise. I have a Google advertisement, you know, uh, I got calls, uh, I got people who give me jobs also. You know what I'm saying? Same thing, Melrose, I, I try to get calls, you know what I'm saying? So that's how I get here. That's how I survive. Like, you know, connecting, uh, you know, um, you know, uh, especially like oncologist, you know, all of that.

▶ 5:50 Robb Stewart: So you have a, a, a good sustained base of, uh, clients, regular clientele that you serve basis

▶ 5:57 Speaker 2: Yes. From, yeah, from their party, from, you know. Yes.

▶ 6:01 Robb Stewart: That's great. That's great to hear. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

▶ 6:05 Mark Garipay: Any, uh, what's the will of the council? I mean the committee,

▶ 6:09 Speaker 4: Just to make a motion to recommend to full counsel. Second,

▶ 6:12 Mark Garipay: We have a motion to recommend by Council Fanucchi, seconded by Vice Chair Stewart on discussion. All in favor?

▶ 6:22 Speaker 3: Aye. Opposed?

▶ 6:23 Mark Garipay: This order will get sent to the, um, full counsel with a recommendation for passage, which on Monday, which will be heard on, on Monday, this Monday. You do not need to be here, so all your paperwork after Monday, um, will, should, should be all set. We gotta wait for the final vote, but, um, thank you. Thank you for coming in. Thank

▶ 6:44 Speaker 2: You. Thank you. Thank you.

▶ 6:45 Mark Garipay: That, um, that concludes our business, uh, for tonight, uh, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Uh,