Protection & License Committee — 2025-02-10
Attendance
Cal Finocchiaro ; Mark Garipay ; Ward Hamilton ; Leila Migliorelli ; Devin Romanul ; Kimberly Vandiver
Agenda
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE PROTECTION AND LICENSE COMMITTEE CALENDAR● FEBRUARY 10, 2025 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 6:53 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 Cal Finocchiaro Vice Chair Present Mark Garipay Present Ward Hamilton Present Kimberly Vandiver Present Leila Migliorelli President, Ex Oficio Present Devin Romanul Chair Present
(ID # 12411) License - Gasoline Storage Change in Ownership at 401 Upham Street Toms Full Service Gas Station Recommend Place on File City Council City of Melrose Page 1 2/13/2025 5:17 PM
Transcript
▶ 0:00 Devin Romanul: Alright, good evening. The time is 6:53 PM on Monday, February 10th, 2025. This is a meeting of the Legal and Legislative Committee. My name is Devin Role. I'm the chair. I'm also joined tonight, um, by, uh, members fro GPE Hamilton Vandiver, and President Exofficio Melli, as well as non-voting members. Jamal, Dean, Karen Treaty and Reky. I get everybody. All right. Alright. Terrific. Good evening everybody. This serves as a notice of a quorum for the record in accordance with the open meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast on MMTV. Good evening, everyone watching online. Uh, I'll motion by unanimous consent to open the floor for public comment. Seeing no objections, the floor is open for public comment.
▶ 0:47 Devin Romanul: This is the portion of the meeting where the public may speak on any items on tonight's agenda. Comments, uh, uh, can express any viewpoint on ma other matters are also welcome. Do we have anyone in the audience who would like to say a word or two in public comment? Alright. Do we have anybody online? We do not. Alright. If there are no objections, I'll motion by unanimous consent to close public comment. Seeing none, we are now closed for public comment at the sea. I'll motion at this time. I'll motion by unanimous consent to approve without reading the minutes from our most recent meeting on January 13th, 2025. Seeing no objections, those minutes are approved. Alright. Um, this evening we have one item on our agenda ID.
▶ 1:28 Number 1, 2, 4, 1, 1 change in ownership at 4 0 1 Upham Street, Toms full service gas station. And I understand that we have some guests with us this evening. Yes. Hi guys. How are you? My name is and my wife Carol Sle. Hello. Oh, hi there. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening. Let's have a seat, if you'd like to say a word or two about, uh, about the change in ownership. Sure. Good evening, uh, members of the council. My name is Sean Beagan. I'm an attorney in Medford. I'm representing, uh, George and Carol Sala. Uh, they will, they're under contract currently to purchase the Toms, uh, gas station up on Upham Street. Uh, Carol's family has been in the, uh, business for decades. She, herself has over two decades
▶ 2:20 of experience working at gas stations, uh, specifically over in Medford, uh, just outside of Medford Square. Uh, and they're very excited to make this purchase and, and, uh, move forward and, uh, bring some new energy to that spot and, uh, get it cleaned up a little bit. And, uh, looks forward to serving the Melrose community. They're both, uh, are residents of, uh, Stoneham. So they're close by. I think Carol's gonna be doing most of the day-to-day management over there. Yes. Wonderful. Uh, do any members of the committee have any questions? Inquiries? Yeah. Councillor Vandiver. Uh, thank you. I just wanna say, uh, congratulations and I can sense the energy and the enthusiasm that you have about the business.
▶ 3:03 Devin Romanul: So I'm, I'm very excited for, for the work you're going through. You. Thank you so Much. Thank you. Any other counselors have any other inquiries? Councilor Occhio Just gonna make a motion to recommend Councilor Occhio has made a motion to recommend Second, uh, second by, uh, Councillor Hamilton. Alright. Uh, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed the ayes have it. The motion passes all. Congratulations. Thank you much. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming down. You guys Gonna be happy? We're gonna see all queue. Yes. Promise. Promise. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Short and sweet. Uh, that is the last item on our agenda this evening. Uh, I'll now motion by unanimous consent to adjourn.