Protection & License Committee — 2023-07-13
Attendance
Mark Garipay ; Jen Grigoraitis ; Shawn M. MacMaster ; Leila Migliorelli ; John Obremski ; Robb Stewart
Agenda
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PROTECTION AND LICENSE COMMITTEE CALENDAR● JULY 13, 2023 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 7:47 PM 562 Main Street, 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 Shawn M. MacMaster Present Leila Migliorelli Present John Obremski Absent Jen Grigoraitis President, Ex Oficio Present Non voting members present include: Councilor Karamcheti and Councilor Jamaleddine
LIC-2023-19 License - Common Victualler Common Victualler License Application: Theodoro's LLC DBA Comella's Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 1 7/20/2023 11:39 AM
Transcript
▶ 42:12 Mark Garipay: Seconded by Councilor Jamal. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. That motion passes. Thank You. Thank you. That's all we have. So I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion adjourn. Second. Motion adjourned. Made by Councilor Eccles. Seconded by President Grigoraitis. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? We adjourned. Good evening. It's 7 47 on July 13th. This is a Meeting of Protection and Licensing Committee. I'm Councilor Gar, pay the chair. Joining me, vice Chair Stewart. Um, councilor McMaster is, um, present Council Melli, um, president Grigoraitis, and also non-voting members. Councilor Jamal Dean and Councilor Carmen Shady. Uh, this meeting of the Protection Licensing Committee is being recorded live on MMT
▶ 43:08 Mark Garipay: V and will be available online at the website, city website, www.cityofmelrose.org. At this time, if there are no objections in with the unanimous consent, I'll open the public comment portion of our meeting. Public comment is now open, seeing no objections, public comments is now open. As a reminder for the public, this is the portion of the meeting where any member of the public may speak on items on our agenda. If there's anyone in the gallery that would like to speak, um, to this agenda item, seeing no one in the gallery, is there any, anyone on? Not at the moment, no. Um, seeing no members. I will close the public comment portion of the meeting with the unanimous consent. Tonight, we have one license before US license.
▶ 43:50 Mark Garipay: 2023 dash 19 Common VI license application for the Doro L L C DBA Coms. Um, at this time, I will entertain a motion to suspend the rules so that we can hear from the applicant. You'd like to come up, Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to suspend The rules. Second, I have a motion to suspend the rules by Councilor Stewart. Seconded by Councilor Elli. Um, on discussion. All in favor? Aye. Uh, rules are now suspended. Um, good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Um, welcome. Thank you. And we see your applications here. Um, typically if you want to just, um, say a little bit about your business and, and, um, your hours and, and what you're planning on, um, serving. And some of the counsels here may have questions. Um, so I'll,
▶ 44:44 I'll turn that over, over to you. So, uh, my name is, she's my wife, Karen. Uh, me and my family, we are moved to the Mels right now. Not for just a business, but for living Melrose, like the passion with the heart. You know, I'm a little nervous now. Hopefully we work. So we All are up here. So we both have worked for Kamalas before we, for around four years now. We were managers in Natick, and when they say they were franchising, they offered us either a location in Belmont or one in here. And since we have a baby, a one year old boy, and we were already looking for new places to move in with a better school district, we saw it as a great opportunity to move here and bring our family over and
▶ 45:34 start a business as our own. So since we already know it, and we're gonna keep same hours of operation. So Sunday, Monday, Tuesdays 1130 to eight o'clock. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 1130 to nine, the menu remains the same. Same Italian food, and that's it, I guess. And we gonna do like the fundraisers with the schools, and we wanna help the community. And not just, I told you, it's not just business for me. We have people right here, and I love people, so I'm gonna help the people. And you know, I know it's a business and the world need money, but I think, uh, we need, you know, think about the another people. It's not just that for me. Right. Welcome. Um, thank you. Do any councilors have any questions?
▶ 46:26 President Grigoraitis? Thank you, Mr. Chair. No questions. I just wanted to say welcome to Melrose as a family and as business owners, and make a recommendation for passage. Second, we have a motion for recommend, uh, for passage to the full board by President Grigoraitis, seconded by Vice Chair Stewart. Um, on discussion. Alan, Can I? Sure. Council Jamal. So, welcome to Mar and thank you for investing in our community. Um, what kind of support are you looking from, from us and from the community around you? School. So we basically look for, uh, schools and the people, um, has nothing to feed, you know, and we try helping these people and we try to look like the, we have, I saw a lot of people at the streets.
▶ 47:18 Maybe there's nothing to eat. And I just, I think last, yeah, last week I went to the street and say, Hey, do you want a pizza? Do you want something? Just help the community, uh, community and in the future. We are not like the business, like the big ones we starting now, but we want help every more people. It's better. So I see you are very eager to help us and the community. How can we help you to succeed in Merose? So, do you want business is really hard and I know you know about that. So Melrose will help us go into the Kamalas, help with the, like the, we're gonna do some deals. So I think with the deals, the community will come to us, and this is your help us, because if you got the customers, I've got the money. If I got the money,
▶ 48:07 Mark Garipay: I can help the people again. So, you know. Sure. Two ways. Sure. Well, thank you again. Best of luck and, uh, looking forward to trying the new menu. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, the motion on the floor is to recommend for passage. Um, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? This motion will be, uh, recommended to the full board, uh, for passage is On Monday. Monday. Um, that'll be, uh, come before us on Monday night. You do not have to be here. Um, but it is recommended for passage. Uh, that concludes our business for tonight. I will entertain a motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second motion to adjourn made by Council Stewart, seconded by Council Re on discussion. All in favor?