Chelsea, MA Unsorted, 8 Dec 2022

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City of Chelsea

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The repetitions.

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, tonight is Thursday December 8 2022.. Thank you for joining us for this evening's licensing. Commission meeting. My name is Marty. Mcalpine I am joined this evening by fellow Commissioners, Mike mcateer and Alexandria Christmas, along with the licensing administrator, Naomi LeBron, uh to start things off this evening. We would like to get an adoption of the minutes from the November 10 2022 Chelsea licensing, commission, commission meeting.

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Emotion, second, all.

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Next up, if we could get a Clerk's update from Naomi.

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um I would like to ask for a vote for the New Year's Eve hours up to 2 A.M.

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I'd like to make a motion to approve.

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And um just um an update on the abcc correspondence of the 2023 holiday calendar um that the abcc sends out that will be sent out with all the licenses that will be approved and then I also have the calendar 22 abcc, um just to let um the off-premise licensees to remind them that they cannot sell beverages on Christmas day Sunday, December, 25th and on-premise licensees cannot sell uh alcoholic beverages until noon on Christmas day Sunday December 25th.

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Other than those comments that you wanted to make were there any changes to those calendars of the what they're allowed to do on the holidays between last year's dates, and this year, States.

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No, no, they all stay the same. Okay, yeah! That's it.

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Next on the agenda, we have a public hearing to consider an amusement and entertainment license: application for a disc jockey for Oakwood Tavern LLC DBA tombow 22 at 22, Adams Street, Chelsea Mass. If we could have you approach the microphone, please make sure anybody speaking this evening approaches the microphone and speaks clearly if you could state your name and your reason for applying for this change.

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Dj for tombow 22, simply just to have an occasional DJ night. We work with DJ Eduardo Chacon, who is very familiar in the city of Chelsea, and we've had a few DJ nights already with a granted one-day license from the city.

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Each one has gone very well and our customers actually look to make reservations as they're leaving that day to the next one which we don't you know have planned because we don't have it on our license. So we'd like to just have we're thinking like once a month. You know on a Friday um our hours. Are we don't open past 11? Normally we close even before then. So. It's not like an all-night type of party, it's more just an atmosphere, type of um music for our diners. It's nothing like crazy that we're looking for so.

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I've been there on one of those nights, so I I see that it is more of an atmosphere, sort of a thing. It's not it's.

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Not a dancing, there's no dancing involved, everybody's seated at the tables, so.

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Would anybody from the public like to speak on the matter.

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I see nobody looking to speak anybody from the police department that would like to speak on the matter.

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Good evening um I didn't realize they had one day licenses and um I frequent the place the place is run properly. I, don't believe we ever got unable to complaint from it, so I would say to Grant it based on their location and the hours of operation.

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Wonderful fellow commissioners.

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I'm sorry other speakers outside I thought this is all indoor.

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On in the summer that was outdoor during the day and the speakers weren't super loud, we didn't have any complaints or anything like that. So.

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I attended one that was outside on the patio and it it was atmosphere. It wasn't like it was like some La when you, when people hear DJ, I, think they're thinking like they went to a party there's loud music, and that's not at all. What I experienced on the occasion that I went.

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I have no comment, I think it's a great idea.

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Anything else Mike I'd like to make a motion to approve the change all in favor aye, so granted. You're welcome.

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Next on the agenda, we have a public hearing to consider to amend the recreational marijuana establishment license by adding medical marijuana for Jolo Khan LLC DBA Harbor House Collective at 80, Eastern Avenue, Chelsea Mass. Is there somebody here this evening to speak on their behalf? If you could step up to the microphone.

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My name is Richard Sue I'm, one of the co-founders of Harbor, House, Collective and currently the chief compliance officer. We are here petitioning to add medical marijuana to our permit, or rather our license, mainly because we do want to expand our our reach. I guess in terms of the type of customer that we can accept at our facility, as well as be able to provide a medical and educational benefit and on top of our advertising and and how we Market our products.

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Is there anybody from the public that would like to speak on the matter.

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Chief Houghton.

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Can I ask a question of the other marijuana places? Do they have I thought it was legally to have both? Is this just an amendment? A change of their license to Grant, Medical plus recreational? Is that what this is yes do? Other locations have both.

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Not Chelsea other places too, but not in Chelsea.

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So here so far, everybody's only recreational bookline.

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They have both, but they don't.

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A medical King before recreational, so I, don't think there would be an issue and we've had no issues at the location on Easton, Ave um and my other question is this: do they have to go before any other? Are we the final granting Authority here? The licensing.

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Ccc already spoke to, you uh did.

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You already get it. We currently have an application pending uh with the CCC. We've already gone through a few uh rounds of revision with them, so they are actively reviewing it. We do anticipate to receive some sort of a final decision from them um optimistically in February.

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And another question: just uh for me: the medical is a higher THC level or a potential higher level of like. Will you be growing it I know you have a growth facility and everything is correct.

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So nothing actually changes for us operationally. What you're speaking of is our our Edibles. They are able to have a higher dosage limit.

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Specifically, medical patients, but we are still held to a very low limit when it comes to the recreationally and.

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How would the identification like uh the process work between me, walking in to buy regular Edibles and someone with a medical marijuana like how is, is there identification checked? Is there a log like how was that? Yes,.

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Sir, so uh we actually by CCC regulation, have to delineate a uh turn or specific points of sale for medical patients only, and so that's where those products are only stored, so they won't be commingled or mistaken, with Recreational Products for the other turns house um upon entrance, the medical patients do additionally have to furnish their medical registration.

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In addition to their photo ID as well.

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Okay, that was my only questions. I I have no other issues.

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Thank you. Those were all very good questions.

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Fellow commissioners,.

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I'm curious: how how to fund the recreation.

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Store them differently than the recreational. Yes,.

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We just can't store them together on the same shelf, so we are going to have a separate line with its own storage, which is the same storage being used for recreational. At the moment we do have nine points of sale and currently we aren't using all of them. So we definitely have enough storage space that we currently have to make that separation.

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But nothing changes like the safeguarding, like you know how it's brought to the facility. No.

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Absolutely nothing changes um other than just how we keep them separate and non-commingled at our at our store. Does.

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Anyone monitor he's going to be the first location that has the medical marijuana, so I'm kind of curious I could there's any monitoring that happens like do you have someone who looks over to make sure that it's within the guidelines of the medical marijuana license? Yes,.

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So every single one of our products is tested by the CCC regulation, and so when they are specific or rather different doses, they actually carry completely differently colored uh tags that are used to track and Trace. These products.

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The Recreational Products they typically carry a blue tag on them and then the medical products which have that higher dose they carry an orange tag. So.

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From a visual standpoint and from our organization standpoint very separate.

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And then you have the staff training for that as well. Yes,.

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I have no comments. Thank you.

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I was pleased with your questions because I don't know much about those licenses yeah same.

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As usual as well, obviously we're well versed in alcohol inspections. The uh cannabis industry is not, but there's a state agency that also does inspections for them, which I'm sure they've been visited by the Cannabis uh uh yeah we've had no issues with any of the locations I was I did not know they were the first to look for the Dual type license, but medical became came first, so I think it's probably an easier like segue into their business.

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But if you want like, we could also do inspections once in a while, just like we do for everybody other business, which I think we should for all of them, just through periodic inspections.

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Am I asking because I wasn't on the board when the licenses were approved? Initially, how long have you been in operation with your current license? The.

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Current license actually just got renewed I believe at the end of September, and then we did have that issued the September prior to that as well. So we're about, let's say 14 months into both of those licenses and.

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Perspective I mean so cultivation for us. We started growing plants in May of 2021, so we're about a year and a half into that now, and things are definitely starting to normalize for us now that the building's kind of broken in we're, definitely, you know hitting our Pace as far as the volume we see in and out, we haven't seen any traffic or any real log jams anywhere or bottlenecks in our process. Medical marijuana places are typically required to be vertically integrated, meaning they have the grow.

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They have the process, they have the dispensary as well, and so we we built like that off the start, so this is actually going to be a fairly easy transition for us.

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Makes sense okay, uh would anybody like to make a motion.

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I'll make a motion: okay, do.

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A verb, okay can I get a second all in favor.

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Aye, thank you for answering our questions. Thank.

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You so much appreciate that uh next up we have a vote on the renewals. Can we do these as one.

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A one at a time, I.

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Meant as a batch or do you need them one as a Time.

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Orders in a batch.

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Course uh so I am looking to make a motion for um those renewals that have been completed for liquor licenses, common vicular licenses, amusement and entertainment licenses class. One two and three licenses and renewals of the rooming house licenses can I get a second.

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A guy second, that motion.

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All in favor aye.

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Our next meeting there is a correction to what is listed on our agenda this evening. Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday January 12 2023 meeting adjourned.

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