Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Checking in again with Quincy City Clerk Nicole Chris Bow to get a rundown on this week's Board of Licensed Commissioners meeting. It was a very busy one. Nikki, how are you?
[00:00:08] Speaker B: I'm good, Joe, how are you doing?
[00:00:10] Speaker A: Great. We're really ramping up with all kinds of spring and summertime and even some fall activities to talk about.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: We got the tree lighting in here.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: I saw that. Like, wow, that was a quick year.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Right?
[00:00:22] Speaker A: Might as well get it all done when you can, I guess.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Exactly. If you're coming, you might as well get everything you need. Right?
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Right.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: One Stop Shop.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Did everybody show up for the meeting?
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Yes, full board. And we went to agenda item number one.
Hearing regarding the request of the city of Quincy for one day liquor licenses for the following events on Hancock Adams Common in Kilroy Square. April 18, there'll be a soft rock concert from 1pm to 6pm May 16, there'll be a classic rock concert from 1pm to 7pmJune 20 is the second annual Kids Fest, noon to 6pmJuly 2 is the patriotic celebration from 4pm to 7pm August 15, the 70s, 80s and 90s dance party from 1pm to 7 p, p.m. september 12, QSO and QCS pops concert, 4pm to 6:30pm October 3 will be the food truck and music fest on Coddington lot and Coddington street from noon to 6pm November 27, the tree lighting.
June 20 and excuse me, 19th and 20th, the FIFA World cup watch party at Kilroy Square.
And John McDonald was there along with the representative Daniel from the mayor's office.
And they talked about these public events.
There'll be food trucks, adult beverages, and these are geared all towards family events.
And that went through five to zero.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Unbelievable. Busy, busy year. And they're all free. The entertainment portion anyways is all free.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, and, and at least they hit on every month. And some, you know, they have multiple events in one month, so. Yeah,
[00:02:48] Speaker A: no excuse not to find something to do in Quincy on the weekends.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, the nice weather will be here and go out and enjoy.
Agenda item number two, Hearing regarding the request of the Quincy Police Charitable foundation for a special use permit for their 5K road race. Sunday, May 31, beginning at 10am the race will begin and end at Marymount Parkway Pageant field.
Sean Glennon was out on assignment. He was going to be here, but the chief and I talked about it beforehand and this is an annual event that, you know, does the Quincy police do great charity events? So that went through 5 to 0.
Agenda item number three here regarding the request of Compass Beauty for one day. Liquor licenses for the following dates at 1237 Hancock Street. April 27, 5 to 8pm There's a wood flower making event.
May 11. There's a resin board making event from 5 to 8 on 4 25. There's a sip and shop from 11 to 3.
And there was another event on 5 14.
Oh, mahjong class.
So Kim Buini was there and spoke about these events.
You can certainly go on to Compass Beauty and inquire if. If there's tickets left.
And that went through five to zero.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Come to find out these are hugely popular. I didn't know, but there's like this cult following.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Yes, they are very popular, so. And also you can go on to two trunks and find out some information on those events as well.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: Okay, great.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Agenda item number four here in regarding the request of the Merry Men foundation for a one day liquor license for their charity hockey game with the Bruins alumni on Saturday, April 25th at 3pm at Quincy Youth arena at 60 Murphy Memorial Drive. Jay Southwood will be doing the bear. Walter Hannon is helping with this event and he as he always does and that went through five to zero.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: All righty. I wonder if my childhood hero Bobby Orr will be there.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Austin alum. He's usually around, right?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: I know. Yes. Yeah.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Agenda item number five, he and regarding the request of Bella's Enterprises llc doing business as Bella's Creamery for common victual license for the premise located at 652 Washington street which is the Dairy Queen.
Proposed manager Mo Albahari. Proposed hours of operation are 12pm to 10pm during the week, Friday and Saturday till 12am Mo was there. He owns two other ice cream shops and is looking forward to opening up Bella's Creamery.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Okay. Wow. That's. That's major for the point because Dairy Queen was there forever and ever and ever.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess the franchise is no more.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: I see.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: So.
So they sold it.
Agenda item number six here regarding the request of Aliad Pizza Inc. Doing business as Tony's House of Pizza at 662 Hancock St. For a common victual license due to change of ownership.
Proposed manager, Tamar Ahad, no operational changes planned.
Tama Ahad has two other pizza shops, Pizza Connection and one in Easton.
He actually there was one change in operational Friday and Saturday night. They, they asked to be open till 3am for delivery and just pick up.
So. Okay, so that went through five to zero.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: All righty.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Agenda item number seven here regarding the request of Quincy Market Lawn Corp.
Doing Business as Quincy Market for change of ownership interest transfer 25% ownership from Hugh McDonnell to the the Hugh McDonnell Revocable Trust for the premise located at 33 Washington Street. The license premise is an 1800 square foot retail convenience store with wine and malt beverages.
Attorney Teresa Bodoro was there and spoke about this matter. This license had been transferred a while back, but the ABCC just wanted to see, wanted us to hear it again so that because there wasn't enough time for the revocable trust to mature before we voted last time.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: Gotcha. Okay.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: So we voted again and that was noticed in the quincy sun on April 2nd. No one was there opposed. It went through five to zero.
And our next hearing will be on Tuesday, April 28th.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Okay. Getting things done, Getting really busy here. Sure.
[00:09:17] Speaker B: Yes, yes.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: And then there's another date we want to talk about too, Nikki. Right. Regarding the city census.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: Yes.
So this election department is very busy finishing up our city census that we have returned thus far and doing state nomination papers.
But we did want to give a shout out to the residents and ask them again to go ahead and return their city census that we mailed out in late January, early February because we have deadline dates that we have to meet.
So come June 15, we want to be all done so that we're required by law to make anyone who hasn't responded but who is a registered voter to become inactive.
Out of our almost 70,000 voters that we have in our city, 17,339 have responded.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: That's all?
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Okay. That's pretty low.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: So yeah, The. Actually these are households.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Oh, households. Okay.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: Yeah. So we have 32,877 that have not responded.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: So we're hoping, you know, to remind people that if you don't return it, you go on the inactive list. And then if you go on the inactive list and you go to vote in September, September 1st this year. That's right.
You will have to show your license, you'll have to show your ID and fill out an affirmation form.
Also, if you've lost it, you can certainly go onto the city of Quincy website and we have an electronic form on there. You can just fill it out.
It can populate right on online and submit that that way. Or you can certainly call our office and we'll get one out to you, another one if you need it. Okay.
The, the last thing we want to do, you know, is make people inactive.
Oh, excuse me.
We're going to make them active, inactive, six, one. So June 1st, June 1st okay. June 1st.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: So you know June 15th is your deadline, right?
[00:12:05] Speaker B: May 15th. Yeah. So, yes, it is.
But we want to make sure that.
We can avoid that as as much as possible.
Right now would be sending out 23,000 plus cards telling people that they're now inactive.
So in order to avoid that, just send back that census or do it through the city of Quincy website and we'll be happy to. To process that as soon as we get it.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: Okay.
And you know this is, as you said, per law, right? The National Voter Registration Act.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: So you have to. Yeah, it is. So unfortunately, you know, even if. Even if you sign a nomination paper, even if you vote every year, you still have to answer that annual census.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Okay.
All right. Good reminder for folks. And what number should they call, Nikki?
[00:13:11] Speaker B: 617-376-11-441143.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Okay, excellent. Very good. We will certainly remind folks about that.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Thank you. And we gave you a flyer so you can put it up. Thanks, we appreciate that.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: Absolutely. And we'll catch up with you on April 29th, if that's okay.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: Sounds good. Thank you.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Thanks so much, Nikki.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Okay. Enjoy the weather.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Yes, you too. Bye. Bye.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Bye.
