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Description
City of Boston Licensing Board Entertainment Application Hearing - July 20, 2023
B
C
A
A
Is
an
administrative
hearing
before
the
mayor's
office
of
the
consumer
affairs
and
Licensing
today
is
Thursday
July
20th
2023.
This
hearing
is
being
held
conducted
pursuant
to
certain
temporary
amendments
to
the
open
meeting
law.
That
is
what
allows
us
to
meet.
Virtually
this
hearing
is
being
recorded
and
will
be
posted
to
the
city
of
Boston's
website.
A
We
are
joined
today
by
the
executive
director
of
the
Mayor's
Office
of
Consumer
Affairs
and
Licensing
Kathleen
Joyce
and
director
of
operations.
Rebecca
Foo
I
will
read
into
the
record
the
item
on
today's
agenda.
I
will
then
ask
who
is
present
on
behalf
of
the
applicant.
You
will
then
make
a
brief
presentation
regarding
your
proposal,
followed
by
questions
by
the
entertainment,
Division
and
testimony
beginning.
A
A
Agenda
the
applicant
is
Fuentes
Cleaning,
Services
Inc,
doing
business
as
Bill
Yaris
Columbia,
located
at
28
Bennington
Street
in
East
Boston.
The
application
is
to
maintain
and
operate
the
live,
entertainment
categories
consisting
of
disc
jockey
dancing
by
patrons
karaoke
and
instrumental
vocal
music
added
to
the
existing
non-live
entertainment
license
for
Thursdays
Fridays
and
Saturdays
until
1
40
A.M,
who
is
present
on
behalf
of
the
applicant.
E
E
E
Entertainment
licenses,
I
know
that
this
board
is
very
familiar
with
this
licensee
and
it's
had
a
number
of
noise
complaints
in
the
Years
prior,
but
we
have
spent
over
forty
thousand
dollars
this
spring
and
into
the
early
summer
in
a
sound
proofing
organization
of
the
premise,
I
believe
we
have
presented
the
board
with
pictures
of
all
the
soundproofing
that
we've
installed
and
the
invoices
to
show
how
much
we've
spent.
We
think
at
this
point.
E
F
E
I,
don't
have
the
agreement
right
before
me,
but
I
think
I
may
have
drafted
that
so
I
have
a
general
recollection.
I
understand
that
in
April
there
was
a
incident
April
this
year
there
was
an
incident
and
the
police
came
out
to
investigate
and
inspected
the
premise
and
found
that,
due
to
the
sound
proofing
that
we
were
installing
at
the
time
that
the
cameras
had
either
been
obstructed
or
the
electricity
or
the
power
had
had
failed
it.
E
F
F
F
E
F
D
D
Even
in
his
phone
number,
it
will
be
one
of
the
things,
so
they
can
call
us
and-
and
we
can
reduce
the
noise,
but
just
for
the
record,
we
had
had
officers
come
and
they
went
to
the
back
and
they
told
me
put
the
music
as
loud
as
you
can,
and
there
was
absolutely
no
noise
whatsoever,
so
we're
very
confident
that
we
would
not
have
a
problem
with
the
noise.
It's
very
confident.
D
D
D
Promoters
when
we're
not
ready
for
it,
we're
not
I,
wouldn't
say
no,
but
we're
not
ready
for
it.
We
just
right
now.
What
we
are
more
likely
to
try
is
to
have
a
DJ
I,
don't
think,
there's
gonna
be
singers.
I,
don't
think
that
for
right
now
we're
just
gonna.
Try
we're
gonna
walk
little
by
little
to
see
how
we
can,
because
we
don't
want
no
problems.
That's
what
number
one
thing
we
do
not
want
problems,
but
we're
gonna
escalate
little
by
little
to
see
how
we
can
figure
out
how
we
can
work
better.
D
F
D
Have
we
have
two?
We
have
worked
with
that
we
have
two
exits
right:
exits
that
go.
Our
place
is
not
that
big,
so
we
have
the
front
entrance,
which
is,
and
then
we
have
the
rear
which,
with
the
signs
of
working
and
the
city,
could
collaborate
with
that
we
have.
They
came
in
all
the
edges
are
marked.
We
have
the
fire
extinguisher
we're
supposed
to
be.
We
have
two
of
them
in
each
corner.
So
with
that,
we
we
have
planned
that
already
we
have
sold
that
to
the
city.
Already
we
have
done
that.
F
Yeah
I'd
just
love
to
have
one
in
the
file:
it's
a
reference.
If
we
need
it,
hopefully
we
won't
and
attorney
Canal.
Maybe
you
or
your
client
can
describe
for
me
today
when
you've
had
your
community
meeting
or
your
Butters
meeting.
Could
you
summarize
what
the
concerns
were
that
were
raised
relative
to
this
entertainment
request.
E
F
E
B
E
F
E
Well,
I
can
start
and
rigoberto
can
finish
up,
but
basically
what
we've
said
is
that
we
think
we've
solved
any
noise
issues.
We've
spent
a
lot
of
money
on
those
issues.
The
previous
one
days
were
always
problematic.
They
expired
at
a
certain
time
that
was
generally
earlier.
Then
you
know
we
have
a
two
o'clock
license
liquor
license
and
we
think
that
this
entertainment
license
will
be
a
lot
easier
to
manage
without
having
to
always
look
at
whatever
the
one
day
license
was.
E
So
we
think
that
all
the
entertainment
there
that
they've
provided,
which
I've
seen
over
the
years
on
various
videos
and
so
forth,
seems
to
be
very
organized
and
very
nice
and
it's
sort
of
representative
of
the
neighborhood.
We
think
that
we've
learned
a
lot
over
the
years.
Certainly
the
slicing
C
is
paid
a
lot
to
learn
these
lessons
and
I
think
that
going
forward
this
licensees
learns
learned
its
lessons.
It
intends
to
be
a
good
licensee
going
forward.
A
G
G
Butters
that
attended
were
uniformly
in
opposition,
citing
concerns
with
noise
issues
with
public
urination
in
the
neighboring
Municipal
lot,
as
well
as
noise
from
fights
and
arguments
that
occurred
outside
of
the
property,
the
applicant
they
went
out
to
meet
with
the
eagle
Hill
and
the
Maverick
Central
Civic
groups.
Both
Civic
groups
voted
to
oppose
this
proposal,
citing
concerns
that
were
brought
up
from
the
Boston
Police
Department
about
the
number
of
calls
they've
responded
to
at
this
location
with
that
information,
we'll
defer
to
the
board
at
this
time.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
Are
there
any
other
individuals
with
us
today
who
would
like
to
testify
on
this
matter?
I
see
a
bunch
of
people
here
on
participants
in
this
hearing.
So
if
you
could,
please
use
the
raise
hand
function
if
you
intend
to
testify
and
I
will
call
in
the
order
of
that
I
see
you're
hand
raised.
A
C
All
right
so
I've
been
a
resident
of
East
Boston
for
all
my
life
and,
honestly
speaking,
this
is
a
good.
You
know
this
is
owned
by
hard-working
people
who
have
great
intentions
and
have
done
a
lot
for
this
community
and,
to
be
honest
with
you,
this
bar
has,
as
previously
mentioned,
the
problems
that
have
been
outside
I
could
guarantee.
Most
of
them
have
never
been
from
this
bar.
C
A
B
E
G
A
Thank
you
and
for
those
joining
who
do
not
wish
to
testify
verbally,
you
can
also
submit
written
testimony
to
mocal
m-o-c-a-l
at
boston.gov,
without
the
executive
director
will
take
this
matter
under
advisement
and
we'll
issue
a
written
decision
that
will
conclude
this
afternoon's
hearing.
Thank
you,
everybody.
Thank
you.