Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Checking back in with Quincy City Clerk Nicole Crispo to get a breakdown of this week's Board of License Commissioners meeting and of course, Preview of the November 3rd election. Hi, Nikki.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Hi, Joe. How are you doing? Okay.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: We're ticking down here. The months are going by quickly. Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Mid October. Crazy.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Unbelievable. Yeah.
Was a busy meeting.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. We get. We get some things we took care of.
Agenda item number one here in regarding the request of the city of Quincy for a one day liquor license for the Meet Me at Kililroy's event on October 24th in Kilroy Square featuring live music beginning at 3pm John McDonald was there to talk about the event. It's food fighters music and some others actually gearing towards a younger crowd to offset all the disco and all that other jazz and all that that we've had throughout the year. Something for the younger folks and the. That begins at 3pm and that went through 5 to 0. Also, John McDonald made mention of the Heritage Day and that got rescheduled to this Saturday.
So Drifters will be there and they'll be giving out little samples of drinks from 1700.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: That went through five to zero as well.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Okay.
A lot of cider, I'm guessing.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Agenda item number two here in regarding the request of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce for a one day liquor license for the autumn after hours event October 22nd.
Oh, they, they pulled back on the one day liquor license for that. They're going to do it as a morning meet and greet. 8:30am to 10pm at the Dragon Boat Museum at 1229 Hancock St.
So the autumn after hours is now early hours.
At 8:30am it's before hours.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: At the Dragon boat Museum at 1229 Hancock street and also requested were one day liquor licenses for the annual Kilroy holiday market on November 27th through the 29th and December 6th, 4th through the 6th.
And Rock Brewing will be there. Drifters, along with a slew of vendors, local vendors, and Sharon Driscoll was there to talk about that. And that's always a great event.
That went through five to zero.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, this is. It's gotten really popular over the years. Yeah.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a nice event.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Hard to believe we're talking holidays here. But that's Thanksgiving weekend.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: It starts well, I mean, the election's right around the corner.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:03:43] Speaker B: End of the year.
Agenda item number three here regarding the request of Ginger Betty's Bakery at 2:15 Sam A.B. for a one day liquor license for their 31st anniversary block party celebration on October 18th from noon to 4pm Beth Venito was there celebrating 31 sweet years.
From 12 to 4 there'll be kids games and picture taking and things like that.
And that went through five to zero.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Okay,
[00:04:23] Speaker B: agenda item number four here in regarding the request of the New England free Jacks for a special use permit and a one day liquor license for the annual fall festival at Veterans Memorial Stadium, 850 Hancock St. On Nov. 7. This is their second annual Fall Fest.
It was a great event last year and Griffin Kirkwood was there.
They'll have food vendors as they always do.
And that went through five to zero.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Okay. I know they usually hold some like rugby clinics for kids too to teach them how to play. So it's kind of fun.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Good event for sure.
Agenda item number five.
Hearing regarding the request of Cafe Quincy LLC doing business as mix you for a common victual license for the premise located at 451 Hancock Street. Proposed manager Jimmy Wong proposed hours of operation 11:00am to 10:00pm Attorney Robert Fleming was there this morning. This is the old wheelhouse diner. Oh location. And it's going to be ice cream.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Okay.
And that went through five to zero adjacent to that.
Agenda item number six here regarding the request of Ms. You Quincy LLC doing business as Cafe Quincy for an all alcohol beverage restaurant license for the premise located at 4453 Hancock street proposed manager Jimmy Wong. The proposed license Premise is a 3,000 square foot street level restaurant with table seating.
The hours will be 6am until 11pm wow.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: Yeah. So there's about 50 seats in the restaurant.
And we did talk about Mr. Wong's deliveries because it's busy down there.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: Right.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: So he's working with the delivery vendor to make sure that the deliveries come on the same day and on the same time.
That works for the neighborhood.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: And so. And it's only going to be one delivery for both places.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: So you know that went through 5 to 0.
There was no one there that you know was opposed. There was no one there in opposition. So there was an application that will go into the abcc.
All the abutters were notified.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Okay. Agenda item number seven here regarding the request of the Walgreens of Massachusetts LLC doing business as Walgreens number 18361 at 132 Granite street with respect to an off premise all alcohol beverage license for a change of LLC managers and ownership interest. The license premise is a retail store of a private approximately 21,000 square feet. Attorney Dawson Cooper was there.
This is the Walgreens on Granite Street. There will be no changes to the operation there. This is simply new owners of the, the, the business and the ownership interests.
So that went through five to zero as well.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Okay. This is the one next to Star Market.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Okay, gotcha. Okay. Yep.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: So there'll be no changes to operation at all. It's just an in house change of managers.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Gotcha. Okay, very good.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: And our next hearing will be on October 27th.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Okay. We'll be here before you know it. Yep.
And it'll also be here before you know it is the election.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Early voting. Early voting this weekend at Central middle school from 8:30am to 2:30pm in the gym.
So the Hancock street side.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Gotcha. Yep.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Yep. So that's the door that will be unlocked.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Okay, good job.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Yep. We're going to have a sign on the other door just to let it go around front. Yep. Come around front. It's the Hancock street entrance.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: Okay, excellent.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: That's both days, right? Saturday and Sunday.
[00:09:27] Speaker B: Yes. Okay, and Sunday and then Monday back here, 8:30 to 4:30, October 19th through the 23rd.
And then we'll do the next weekend here.
8:30 to 2:30.
That's on the 24th and 25th.
And then October 26th through October 30th, 8:30 to 4: 30 here at City Hall.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Okay, so the 30th is the last day of early voting.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Yes. We'll have our designated spots out front working with T Pal to do 10 minute parking.
So know your ballot before you come because of those questions and we don't want anyone to get a ticket but we do designate you know, 10, 15 minutes for the, for the parking. I forget which one it is, but the parking will be out front and they'll also be designated parking over behind the Quincy T and the Monroe building.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Okay, very good.
Okay. And I know mail in ballots have gone out, right?
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Mail in ballots went out last weekend. We were, we got the ballots delivered on Friday afternoon.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: We stayed Saturday and Sunday and we did over 10,000 ballots and we got those out in the mail to the, to the mailing house on Monday morning. They hit mailboxes. Thursday. Friday we mailed out so far 11,003 ballots.
And we've, we have, we've accepted quite a few back. I think 4560 but still a lot more out there.
There's 35 today that we received to go out in the mail.
There were 230 yesterday with the, the weekend and the holiday and they're getting out daily we're doing it as we go, so there's no delays, you know, certainly not on our end where the Dropbox will is full over the weekend.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: So the Dropbox is really a, a good way to get your ballot back.
And that's out right out in front of City hall. And that's open all of the time right up until election day at 8:00pm Right, right.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Last day to register y vote is October 24th here at City hall till 5pm so that's also the last.
That's also a day that we're going to have early voting here.
But early voting ends at 2:30.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Right. Because it's a Saturday. Okay, Right. But the registration goes till 5 o'.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Clock. That's right. Okay, Yep.
And online, you can register up until midnight on the 24th. Yeah.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, very good.
And then the 27th is the last day to request a mail in ballot. Is that right?
[00:13:05] Speaker B: That's the last day. Yes.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: All right.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Absentee voting applicable noontime the day before the election.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Right at City hall.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Okay.
So there's many, many ways to vote.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
You know, if anyone has any questions at all, please don't hesitate to call us. 617-376-1144-1143.
We have boxes of the red booklet available, so if anybody needs one, we'll be happy to mail it out to you. We have it in English, Chinese and Vietnamese if anyone, you know, needs one. If there's one missing, we have plenty here. You can come up and get one in person.
My, my biggest suggestion would be to know before you go, those questions are tricky and they're cumbersome.
But the ballots, Ballots.
There's three ballots for every person, so we're lucky. We did upgrade our voting equipment last year.
They're twice as fast as before, so we're not anticipating lines at the polls. However, we do need to pack our patients because, you know, one has to drop before you put the other one in or it'll just jam up. You can't put them all in together. You need to put one in at a time and it does process quickly.
However, you know, it is a couple of seconds, I should say, to get the three of them through.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: All right. Yeah, we kind of. We overshadow the actual election day. November 3rd. Right. 7:00am To 8:00pm Yeah, I know.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: We didn't even talk about that, did we?
There's so much going on before that. Right.
You know, election day, all 31 precincts will be open.
We're working with the Quincy Public Schools. We're working with the churches and the halls that we still have in Quincy for voters.
If you voted in the primary, you know that at the Elks, you're voting back up in the Terrell Room and you will be there again.
They're accommodating us there and everything else. The Nickerson Post, of course, is the temporary location.
We will get back there in 2027 to the Squantum School. But for now, it is the Nickerson Post. We will make sure that that's accessible for election day. I know they're doing some work up there, but we're working with public buildings and DPW and we hope that everybody has a good election day.
Let's hope for good weather.
And if you're around taking up the festivities in the city, we're going to be here for early voting. And come on in.
We have a full staff here as well. I know people love it.
It's another way to get your vote done so you don't have to wait for election Day if you don't want to.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. So many different ways now. Exactly.
Any preliminary predictions, Nikki, for turnout this year?
[00:17:00] Speaker B: I think we're looking between 50 and 52%.
Yeah. So it's a busy ballot. It's a busy ballot. So we're hoping that people, you know, pack their patients, but know before you go, and I think we'll have a seamless day.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Excellent. All right. Appreciate the update, as always. And we'll catch up again before. Before the election, certainly.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Of course.
