Protection & License Committee — 2021-03-22
Attendance
Christopher Cinella ; Mark Garipay ; Jen Grigoraitis ; Jeff McNaught ; Robb Stewart ; Cory Thomas
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Public Comment
- Orders
- ORDER-2021-101 : Application of Caffe Nero Americans Inc., d/b/a Caffe Nero- 530 Main Street, Melrose for a Common Victualler License
- ORDER-2021-94 : Reappointment of John J. Higgins, III, 47 Malvern St., to the position of Constable
- ORDER-2021-95 : Reappointment of Mark J. Snider, 103 Boardman Ave., as a Constable in the City of Melrose
- Adjournment
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PROTECTION AND LICENSE COMMITTEE CALENDAR● MARCH 22, 2021 Web-based remote meeting Committee Meeting 7:00 PM , Melrose, MA 02176 The public should take notice that the Melrose City Council may, on certain occasions, have a quorum in attendance due to standing committees of the City Council consisting of both voting and non-voting members. Members attending this duly posted meeting are participating and deliberating only in conjunction with the business of the standing committee. Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Mark Garipay Chair Present Robb Stewart Vice Chair Present Jeff McNaught Voting Present Jen Grigoraitis Voting Present Cory Thomas Voting Present Christopher Cinella President, ex oficio Present
ORDER-2021-101 License - Common Victualler Application of Caffe Nero Americans Inc., d/b/a Caffe Nero- 530 Main Street, Melrose for a Common Victualler License Recommend Passage City Council
ORDER-2021-94 Appointment Reappointment of John J. Higgins, III, 47 Malvern St., to the position of Constable Recommend Passage City Council
ORDER-2021-95 Appointment Reappointment of Mark J. Snider, 103 Boardman Ave., as a Constable in the City of Melrose Recommend Passage City Council City of Melrose Page 1 3/24/2021 9:24 AM
Transcript
▶ 0:00 Mark Garipay: It begins on the 30th. Sorry, so you may be going somewhere on the 30th. I hope so. So, Councilor Garipay, Mr. Chairman, I started the recording. Thank you. All right. Good evening. It's 7.02 p.m. on March 22nd, and this is the meeting of the Protection and License Committee. I am Councilor Garipay, the Chair. Joining me are Vice Chair Stewart, voting Member, Councilor McNaught, Councilor Grigoraitis, Councilor Thomas, and President Cinella. This provides notice of a quorum for the record in accordance with Governor Baker's March 12th order, suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law in the Governor's March 15th, 2020 order imposing strict limitations on the number of people that may gather in one place.
▶ 0:55 this meeting of the protection and license committee will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible we will post a comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the city of melrose website and on mmtv3.org at this time if there are no objections i will open the meeting for public comment seeing no objections we are in public comment as a reminder for the public this is a portion of the meeting where any member of the public may speak to the items on our agenda if there is anyone who would like to speak or would like to comment please raise your virtual hand do you see anyone no one has raised the virtual hand okay seeing no Member of the public looking to speak i will entertain a
▶ 1:48 Mark Garipay: motion to close public comment i should have closed public second motion to close public The comment was made by Councilor McNaught, seconded by Councilor Grigoraitis. Ms. Foote, if you could please call the roll. Chair Garipay. Yes. Vice Chair Stewart. Yes. Councilor McNaught. Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis. Yes. Councilor Thomas. Yes. President Smilla. Yes. Six yes. Thank you. Tonight we have three orders before us. The first order is 2021-101, and that is the application of Cafe Nero Americans Inc., DBA Cafe Nero, 530 Main Street, Melrose for a common ritualer license. At this time, I will entertain a motion to suspend the rules, suspend the rules so we can hear from the invited guests or the applicant.
▶ 2:54 Motion to suspend the rules. 2nd, a motion to suspend the rules by council and make not 2nd, and by consular Thomas. Miss, what can you please call the role? Yes, yes. Yes. Counselor. Yes. Counselor Grigoraitis. Yes, yes. Counselor Thomas. Yes. President. Yes, yes, thank you. Um, could we bring in, um. The miss miss Katrina Sloan, who was the applicant that she's going to be with us. Coming in now, the Sloan, can you hear us? Hi, yeah, I can hear you. Can you see me? Okay. I miss Sloan. We are, we're here if you'd like to talk a little bit, explain a little bit about your application in the process and some of the councils when you're through may have may have some questions. So I will turn the floor over to you.
▶ 3:59 Okay, hi, I'm Katrina Sloan. I'm a project manager with Cafe Nero. I work on all the design builds that we do throughout Massachusetts and our application is to open a 2700 square foot cafe at 530 main street melrose um seating capacity we have is 90 um 90 chairs inside and then we have a patio in the back as well um i know that a lot of people have been asking about capacity and stuff like that so we'll follow whatever melrose is doing at the time with regards to covid we do plan to put up plexiglass partitions in between the booths um If that's acceptable by the health department, stuff like that. Thank you very much. We all had a copy of it was in the packet, your application, all the paperwork up to this point looks looks in order. So I will turn it over. If any, any counselors would like to ask some questions.
▶ 5:06 Counselor, thank you chair and thank you miss Sloan for being here tonight. Cafe Nero is on Main Street, which is a part of Ward 6, which I represent. So, welcome to the ward. And I just had one question. I know it may be in your packet, but what's your anticipated opening date? So, right now we are anticipating April 12th. That's not set in stone. As you know, we're still in construction and construction can take a turn and we have to wait for all of the Building sign offs, which we're, we're planning on going for that 1st week in April, April 5th is when we're planning to get all final inspections and sign offs. And then, you know, we'll do a little bit of training. And then we plan to have a soft opening on April 12th. We usually do it from 7 a.m. to 3, and then we give out free coffee and other.
▶ 6:02 Drinks throughout the day. Great. Thank you. And I'm hopeful that the patio will be available as soon as the weather warms up given that people are really eager for some outdoor dining. Yes, we have a really great patio actually. I don't know if it's if you're familiar, but it's, it's in the back of the new condo buildings and then it abouts that municipal parking lot in the back and we plan to open with the patio fully open. We'll have, um, we actually have such a nice patio that we have some soft seating going out there too. So some couches and. Stuff like that, so it's going to be really nice. We're excited for the patio. Right Thank you. We're excited too. I have no further questions. Thank you counselor Thomas.
▶ 6:45 Cory Thomas: Thank you. Mr chairman. Um, it's slow and welcome. Welcome to the meeting and welcome to Melrose to Captain Nero. Um. Quickly and briefly, um. For people in Melrose that are not familiar with Cafe Nero's brand. Can you. Just talk a little bit about the interior aesthetics of this, this coffee shop doing this. This is not your garden variety coffee shop. Um, you know, it has a little bit more in regards to interior design. Could you talk a little bit about the concept? Sure, exactly. Caffe Nero is not, you know, a Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, no disrespect, but we aim to have, you know, a really cozy feel. We want people to think they're sitting in a European coffee shop. We have lots of antiques, antique furniture that we've reupholstered locally, but still is, you know, we use the antique frames and then we have them reupholstered locally to adhere to fire code.
▶ 7:48 We have lots of old books on the bookshelves, lots of wood cladding on the wall, reclaimed wood on the floors, old style tile. It's a really nice, beautiful place. There's a fireplace in almost every one of our cafes as well, and there will be one going into the Melrose location also. Thank you very much. Thank you. Councilor Stewart. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Long, thank you for being here tonight. Just a couple of questions about Cafe Nero regarding your prevalence in Massachusetts. How many stores are in Massachusetts right now? We have, let's see, Melrose will be the 29th store in Massachusetts. We also have one in Brooklyn, New York, and one in Darien, Connecticut. We have a pretty heavy flow of stores in the city, in Boston proper.
▶ 8:53 We don't have many. I think our closest one to Melrose is Arlington. How many jobs do you anticipate this Cafe Nero will support for the Melrose community? Right now, we're hiring between five and seven people per cafe, and we will be seeking to hire from the Melrose area for baristas. We have a store manager that's already in place. We have seasoned store managers and area managers, but probably about six to seven baristas will be hiring for this location. Okay. No more questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Ms. Sloan. Thank you. Councilor McNaught. Sorry. Thank you Mr. Chair, Ms. Sloan. I just wanted to say, I'm sure I joined many others in saying that we're excited about Cafe Nero coming to town. And at this time, Mr. Chair, if there's no further discussion, I move for passage.
▶ 10:07 Mark Garipay: Second. Seeing no further discussion, a motion has been made by Councilman McNaught. Seconded by Councilor Grigoraitis. Could you please call the roll? Chair Garipay? Yes. Vice Chair Stewart? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. President Cinella? Yes. Six yes. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Sloan. This order will be sent to the full committee for approval at our next city council meeting. Uh, you don't have to attend, but that's that's the next process. Okay, let me be the 1st to thank you and, uh. Welcome to Melrose. Thank you so much. We're really excited to be joining Maros. Thanks so much. Take care have a nice day. Bye. The next item on our agenda tonight is order 2021 dash 94.
▶ 11:16 Cory Thomas: The reappointment of John J Higgins, the 3rd, 47, Melbourne street to the position of Constable. What what there's no 1 here from the administration when this is a reappointment. So what would the will of the committee be? Sorry. Council Thomas. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Higgins is a long time Melrose resident, long time ward 7 resident from Melbourne street. I just want to thank Mr. Higgins. I know he's not here, but thank him for all his. Contributions to the community, and I was wanting to volunteer work on behalf of Melrose. So I'd like to make a motion for passion passage. 2nd, a motion for passage was made by counselor Thomas, seconded by council and not. This foot, could you please call the chair? Yes. Vice chair Stewart.
▶ 12:13 Yes, yes. Counselor. Yes, yes. Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. President Sinella? Yes. Six yes. Thank you. Next on the agenda is Order 2021-95, the reappointment of Mark J. Schneider, 103 Boardman Ave., as a constable in the City of Melrose. This is another reappointment, so the individual is not with us tonight, so what is the will of the committee? Motion to recommend for passage? Second. A motion to recommend for passage was made by Councilor Grigoraitis, seconded by Councilor McNaught. Ms. Foote, could you please call the roll? Chair Garipay? Yes. Vice Chair Stewart? Yes. Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Grigoraitis? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. President Sinella? Yes. Six yes. Thank you.
▶ 13:17 6, yes, thank you. That concludes our agenda for tonight. I will entertain a motion to the general motion to adjourn. 2nd, a motion to adjourn with me by console. Seconded by council. That's what could you please call the role? Yes. Vice chair Stewart. Yes, yes. Yes. Yes, yes, counselor Thomas. Yes, president. Yes. 6, yes, we are adjourned next up. We don't let you. Thank you. Council. All right, are we, I'm just waiting for our legal and much folks to get on camera. All right, we will get started. Good evening. It is 716 PM on Monday, March 22nd 2021. And this is a meeting of the Legal and Legislative Committee. I am Councilor Grigoraitis, the Chair. Joining me tonight are Vice Chair, Councilor Migliorelli,