Protection & License Committee — 2024-05-13
Attendance
Cal Finocchiaro ; Mark Garipay ; Ward Hamilton ; Leila Migliorelli ; John Obremski ; Robb Stewart
Agenda
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PROTECTION AND LICENSE COMMITTEE CALENDAR● MAY 13, 2024 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 7:51 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 Cal Finocchiaro Present Ward Hamilton Present John Obremski Present Leila Migliorelli President, Ex Oficio Present
LIC-2024-18 License - Common Victualler New Common Victualler Application - Big Fin Poke Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 1 6/21/2024 11:00 AM
Transcript
▶ 45:03 Mark Garipay: That's the Unanim I swear. Motion. Okay. Thank you. Good evening. It is 7 51 on Monday, May 13th. And this is a meeting of the Protection and Licensing Committee. I'm Councilor Gar, the chair joining me. A voting members Vice Chair Stewart, councilor Ro Chen Hamilton and President Elli and Councilor Reky. Um, this meeting of the Protection Licensing Committee is being recorded on live on MMTV and will be available online at the city website, www.city morose.org. At this time, if there are no objections and with the unanimous consent, I will open, Oh, okay. I'm sorry. At this time, if there are no objections and with the unanimous consent, I will open the public comment portion of our meeting.
▶ 45:58 Mark Garipay: See no objections. Public comment is now open. As a reminder, this is the portion of the meeting where any member of the public may speak to items on our agenda in person or remotely. Is there anyone remote? Uh, not at this time. Is there anyone in the gallery that would like to speak on this order? Seeing no one in the gallery that would like to speak, um, on this order, I will entertain a motion to close public participation. So moved. Second. Motion to close public participation made by President Melli. Seconded by, uh, vice Chair Stewart. Tonight we have one license before us that requires a vote. It's license number 20 24 18. New Common Vicular application for a big thin poke. Um, and at this time I'll entertain a motion
▶ 46:48 to suspend the rules so that we can hear from the applicant. So Moved. Second Motion was made by to Suspend the rules was made by President Mi seconded by Vice Chair Stewart. At this time, we have the applicant in front of us, Uh, the vote. You are correct. Aye. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Uh, rules are suspended. Thank you. You're welcome. Trying to move it along. Sorry. Um, right now we have the applicant in front of us, the, the Langs. So, um, this is the portion of the meeting where you can explain a little bit about your business. We have everything on file, everything looks in order. So if you wanna tell us, tell us a little bit about your, uh, your business and, uh, what you're gonna be, um, serving
▶ 47:34 and some of your hours, that'd be great. Sure. Um, so we own Big Fin Poque. My wife and myself were the co-founders. We, uh, founded Big Fin Poque about seven, seven years ago in, uh, Westbrook, Maine. Um, since then we've opened four locations and this'll be the fifth one. Um, we actually closed the North Shore Mall location because we wanted to get ready for Melrose. So we did close that location and wanna get this one up and going. Um, our hours are Monday through Friday, um, 11 to 8:00 PM close on Sunday so we can have a family day. Um, the type of food that we're serving, think deconstructed sushi rolled in, um, like deconstructed sushi placed in a bowl. Rice underneath proteins mixed with sauce and vegetables.
▶ 48:20 Mark Garipay: And then on the side we place other, um, choices where customers can choose between, um, seaweed salad, um, crab salad, kimchi, cucumbers, avocado, things like that. And then, um, it's basically think kind of like Chipotle with sushi instead. So, um, I'm not sure what else to say. That's fine. I'll, uh, I'll open it up to the counselors to see if there's, uh, any questions or any questions I'd like to make a motion to recommend unless anybody else has a questions. Second, We have a motion to recommend this to the full council by council Fanuc Chiro, seconded by President Moore on discussion. Vice chair Stewart. Thank you Mr. Chair. And thank you Mr. Link for being here this evening. Uh, when's your opening?
▶ 49:10 Mark Garipay: We hope to open June 1st. June 1st? Yes. We hope so. Excellent. Well, we are all looking forward to it. Thank You. Thank you very much. We're, uh, very eager to open. It's been a long process, so we are, uh, ready to, uh, get going and be a part of the community. Great. Welcome to Melrose. Thank you Mr. Mr. Chair. Thank you. Any other questions? We have a motion on the floor. Um, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? This motion will go, uh, be recommended to the full council. You do not need to attend. Um, and this will be heard at our next council meeting, which will be on the 20th. 20th on, on May 20th. Okay. Okay. So best of luck. Thank You. And thank you very much for choosing Melrose. Thank you very much for inviting us here. Yes.