April 16, 2025 — Beverage Licensing Authority Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:09] It looks like. We are recording. Remember car? I will look to you to open the meeting. All right. Are we recording? OK. Great. I'll call or the meeting of the Beverage Licensing Authority for Wednesday, April 16th, 2025. Thank you so much and I will start by sharing my screen. The instructions for virtual hearing and rules of decorum. The city has engaged with community members to Co create a vision for

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[2:01] and it should not be used for public comment. And again, thank you so much for making the switch over to teams for today. This is not our normal format, but zoom was down. So that's why we are on teams. The next item on our agenda is new members, oath of office. I will hand it over to Elisa Darrow and then Elisa. I'll let you know if our other new Member comes in. Perfect. Thank you, Caitlin, and welcome, Ginger. We're so excited to have you right now. Thank you. I'm going to administer your oath of office. Do you ginger barns solemnly affirm that you will support the constitution of the United States, of America and of the state of Colorado and the charter ordinances of the City of Boulder and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Beverage Licensing Authority, which.

[3:03] You are about to enter. I do. Thank you. I will be emailing you your oath of office to sign after the meeting. Thank you. And I will turn it back over to Caitlin. Thank you. Our other new Member, Mr. Crane, has not been able to join us at, but I do believe that he is working on it. So I'll let you know when he comes in and we'll skip back. In the meantime, I will just do roll call really quick if you will speak your presence aloud. Member Ginger Barnes. Here. Member Michael Carr. Present. Remember Brendan Haggerty? Sorry. Remember Hagrid, I don't.

[4:01] Let me know. Yes. Yes. Thank you. And then member Leah Roberts. Member Roberts present. Thank you. And then again, member Lansing Crane is working on getting in. Next we have the election of Chair and Co Chair. Yeah. So I think we at this time we can make nominations for chair. That's where we would start, I guess. And then Co chair is the second one. I would like to nominate Member Lee Roberts for chair of the VLA. I second it. I I see member. Or chair Califano on here. I was wondering what was going on there.

[5:05] He can tabs on you guys. Hmm. Can we still nominate you? I am no longer a member. Got it. Just a Community member joining. That's so cool. I don't know how this works. So I think we have a 1st and a second. So I would say all in favor. You know, member Karai. Remember Haggerty I. Remember Robert sub stain? OK. Hey, Roberta. I'm nervous too, Roberto. Hi. Hi, everyone. So when you abstain, it's actually a no vote.

[6:02] So you're actually saying no, that you're voting against yourself? I recommend you reconsider that if you still want to, that's fine, but I just want you to reconsider that. About me. Oh, OK. Member Roberts aye. All right. Awesome. Congratulation Member Roberts, chair Roberts. Wow, thank you. I'm excited. I have really big shoes to fill, so I'm very nervous. Yes. I think he'll do great, yeah. I appreciate that and. Member car. I'd like to nominate you to be Vice chair. Still if that. Yeah. I second that nomination.

[7:02] All right, all in favor member Carr, I. Ginger Brown's eye. Gregory aye. Member Roberts aye. OK. Thank you so much. Thanks everyone. So we have Member Roberts as our new chair and a member car as our Vice Chair. Welcome Member Barnes to the team. Thank you. I'm excited. All right. Next we have approval of beverage licensing authority minutes from March 19th, 2025. Does that mean I'm taking over? I think so. You got this. Guys have a lot of trust in me.

[8:00] I might need a little guidance. If that's OK. Has anyone? Has everyone had a chance to read the minutes from last month and do I have a motion? Is there a motion to approve? I did have a moment to read through the Minutes. I had one edit to them, which was just that I don't. At the end, it said. Sounds like you're in. Yeah, haven't got the camera yet. I'll. Go ahead, member car. OK. It didn't. It's not a material issue, but it just said authority members and city staff thank members Absalom and Carr for their many years of dedicated service. But it was really remember California. Thank you so much for checking that. I will make that correction. Thank you. But I would make a motion to approve the Minutes with that. Correction. I'll second the motion to approve the Minutes.

[9:02] All those in favor say aye. Hi. All right. OK. So if you weren't. Sorry I'm late and zoom. So. I was hanging on. Zoom didn't get the the memo on team. You will run back to your and get you sworn in, and then we will move on if that's OK. OK. That's great. Perfect. Goodbye. I had a nice long speech, but it all froze up on this end, so I don't know whether you got my hello or not. Mm hmm. We got your. Hello. Thank you. All right. Well, we'll we'll make it work. Thank you, Caitlin, and welcome member Crane. Just a quick introduction. Thanks Alisa.

[10:01] Caitlin Kellogg, our amazing BLA clerk and Sarah Riggs is one of our licensing specialists who is training to be a BLA clerk. I will administer your oath now. Eliza, did we want to finish 'cause? They were right in the middle of a vote Oh, you are correct. for the for the Minutes. Do you guys want to finish your vote for your minutes? And then we can scoop back that to that. Let's do that. I'm sorry I froze for a moment. No problem. Yeah. I think we all might have. OK. Remember Karina Member Barnes? You can both abstain from this vote, since you weren't members of the last month's meeting. All those in favor of approving the Minutes say aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Carr aye. Member Haggard EI. OK. Meetings, meeting minutes approved. Thank you, chair Roberts.

[11:01] I am going to now give it back to Elisa and she'll finish with the the oath of office. Perfect. Thank you, Caitlin, for keeping me in line, Mr. Crane. Do you solemnly affirm that you will support the Constitution of the United States, of America and of the state of Colorado and the Charter and ordinances of the City of Boulder and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of the Beverages Licensing Authority in which? You are about to enter. I do. Perfect. Thank you. I will be emailing you your oath of office to sign after the meeting, and I will turn this back over to Caitlin. Thank you so much and welcome member Crane. Thank you. No problem. Next, we have hearing agenda issues from licensing clerk. There are no agenda issues for you today.

[12:00] Agenda item 2 is matters from Boulder Police Department Officer Lia Rec Center. Regards, but she is absent today. She said that she didn't have any major updates for you, but she will have some things to discuss with you next month. So you can. You'll get that update next month. Next, I have agenda item 3, which is general public comments for future beverage licensing authority hearings. If there is anyone present at this meeting who is here to give a general public comment for an item that is not included on this month's agenda, please use the raise. Hand function. And I will allow you to speak. Once again, if anyone is here to give public comment on something that's not on the agenda, please raise your hand. I'm not seeing any. Next is agenda. Item 4 matters from Deputy City Attorney

[13:02] Roberto. Do you have anything? I have nothing. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. Next is. Matters and licensing clerk and we just have one boundary setting for you today. I'm going to go ahead and pull that up. And share my screen. The boundary setting is for Twisted Pine Brewing Company, Rctva, Timberline Brewing, 3201 Walnut St. unit, a Boulder, Co 803, oh two, and that is for a new brew pub type liquor license I have taken suggested boundaries from Walnut Cafe, which is right next. To this business at 3073 Walnut St. That was approved in April of 2024.

[14:02] And those boundaries are. Hang on. Let me show you the map. All right. The suggested boundaries that I have for you. Are Valmont on the north? Arapaho on the S, 55th on the East and Folsom on the West. Here's the location. Here's where I took the suggested boundaries from. Happy to zoom out if needed. Oh gosh, sorry. Member Carr will make a motion to approve these boundaries. Remember, Roberts will second the motion to approve these boundaries. All those in favor? Say aye, member Roberts I. Barnes, aye. Member cart. Member car I.

[15:01] Remember haggardy I? Member craney. All right, perfect. Thank you. Did Member Burns did we hear from her? Yes, I said hi, yes. Yeah. Oh, sorry, perfect. Thank you. Amazing. Thank you so much. We do have one liquor license transfer that is under the administrative processing and that is for hotel boulderado. And that's included on your agenda? And then besides just the normal things that are also included in your packet, like the special event list and your renewals, we will just have a quick discussion of BLA retreat dates. I've compiled three dates that. All of our the city staff is available for, and then you all can let me know if those dates will work for you. If you would prefer a different date, I have Wednesday, May 28th, Thursday,

[16:05] May 29th and Wednesday July 9th, so unfortunately not a ton. Of options in the next couple of months. 'cause, there's there's a lot going on over here, but if any of those dates would work for you, if you wanna, you can take them and think about them. Check your calendars or if you wanna have a discussion. Oh, and decide that's totally fine. Whatever works for you guys, let me know if you need those dates again. Yeah, Caitlin, could you repeat them one more time please? Absolutely, Wednesday, May 28th, Thursday, May 29th and Wednesday, July 9th. And what would be the? Hours. It's like an old day thing. I believe that you guys chose to have it begin in the afternoon around two or three. 00 or 6:00. You can set whatever hours you believe would work best for you. Evening,

[17:05] afternoon. We usually provide a meal and it is in person at the Brenton building in the city. I'm out of town. The 28th and 29th. OK. But I am here the 9th and would love to do it then if it works for everybody else. I can do the 9th member car. July 9th it was July 9th, correct. Yes. OK. That should work for me, yeah. Perfect. Works for me too. OK. Me also. Amazing. Yay. Hey, how about that? So. Do you guys have a time you would prefer? Hmm. Let me tell you what time you started last year. Sorry I should. It appears. It appears we started at four, I think last year. 00 last year. Yeah.

[18:00] I can possible? So if somebody has. Work. Conflict. Just I know member Carr sometimes early is hard for you. Yeah, forward. Probably the earliest that I could do it in person. Yeah, good for me. 00 PM is there. Any issues with that? No. Amazing. That was much easier than I expected. Thank you. OK, perfect. Wednesday, July 9th at four PMI will be sending you some information. I'll also be sending you an e-mail. About the food that we're gonna order, if you have dietary restrictions, that kind of thing. So just keep an eye out for that. And that is all that we have for monitors from licensing clerk. Last item on our agenda is matters from chair and members of the Authority Chair Roberts. If you have anything or anyone else.

[19:03] I do not have anything. Does anyone else on the board have anything? No. I all I wanted to say was, you know, welcome to the new members of the board. Plant and I'm sorry, what? What did ginger? Ginger. Yes. I'm sorry. I could have changed. OK. Yeah, ginger. Nice to meet you both. Thank you. And just as as a a way of flow, I think Ginri started to pick up on it. But when we vote on motions, we typically go by an alphabetical order. So it's, you know, the chair and then alphabetical order. So then it would go you ginger, and then it would go me. Lance and then uh, Brendan, just for us to have a so. So we're not talking over each other, yeah. Happy to be schooled. And looking forward to meeting you all in person. Think that was the only thing. Awesome. Me too. That'll that'll be the first for me as well. When did you come on Brandon?

[20:02] It's last end of last summer, so you know, coming up on a year pretty quick here, Uh huh. but it'll be the first time I'll meet everyone in person. That'll be great. OK. Welcome and. Now I'm not sure what to do. I think we all. There's nothing else you can call for adjournment. That's what I thought. OK, cool. This was a short one. Motion to adjourn. Yeah, nice and nice and easy. My first one. I'll second the motion to adjourn, yeah. Great jobs. All those in favor say aye. Member Roberts I. Remember Barnes? Aye. Member car I. Remember crane? Aye. Integrity. Aye. 26 PM.

[21:02] Wow, that's going to be a record. That's right. I think so. That was that did not happen. I deserve it. My first meeting, I'll tell you that much. Oh yeah. No, it. Yeah, I remember. Thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you all so much. Bye bye bye bye. Thanks. It's in June. Thank you. Bye bye bye. Thanks. Thank you, Caitlin and Sarah, for getting us on teams. I really appreciate you working so fast to get that done. No problem. Happy it worked out. Thank you. Thank you, Caitlin. Thanks, Kaitlyn. Bye guys. Take care. Bye bye. Lance, do you have any questions before you go? No, I did. I miss anything critical. No. We call the meeting to order. I gave the oath to Ginger and then we went into the. Yeah, we did the oath and then we were doing minutes. And then you came on. And you voted chair and Vice chair. Yeah. So cheer is Leah Roberts. Or Co chair. I gather that. Your chair is is member car. Ann.

[22:02] Great. I have a small suggestion. Mm hmm. Knowing my habits and and I got stuck on. On zoom, because I hadn't reviewed any new e-mail. Mm. I've been out doing stuff. Came home time, just booted it right up and got on zoom and so I wasn't aware that there was an e-mail coming in that that zoom was out and teams were the new the default. I just suggest under. If that ever happens again. I ask that you text me. Rather than e-mail me that way, if I'm running around I'll I'll be sure to get it and I think. Our the phone numbers right there. Is that feasible? I mean, I suppose. Absolutely. I sorry to have delayed people at all, but I it never occurred to me that it wasn't gonna be soon, but.

[23:00] Yeah, we didn't either. Zoom had a nationwide. Oh, I'm sure. They had a nationwide outage. It was. I. I'm in new orlean. In New Orleans right now with my son. Oh great. So I was even having like I was trying so hard to get in from my hotel, and I also found out at the last minute it's very. Oh. I'll say I'll say something to Sarah and make sure she knows what my mobile number is, and I'll also of course I will, knowing that this could happen. I will check very close to the beginning of the meeting in the future so. There's kind of a default two ways, but. Sometimes sending me something by an emails is not gonna get to me in a timely fashion. What's your mobile number? I can. I'm actually I can put it in the group chat for the meeting right now. OK. It's 4138226101.

[24:00] Perfect. We will definitely text you if anything like this happens again. Probably it won't, but. And. Yeah, shortest meeting ever. Yeah, that would. That will probably be your easiest meeting that you ever have. I'm just. I'm expecting that it will be. OK. Well, listen, enjoy New Orleans. That's it. I've been there in a few years since pre COVID, but it's it's a it's a wonderful place. Lots of fun and and good people there so. Well, thank you. I'm only here for one night. My amazing son just graduated from flight Yeah. attendant school and we're Rd. tripping to DC so. Yeah. Yeah, you're you're off on your on your trip now, which is great. Enjoy. Thank you. If you need anything before the next meeting, you can reach out to any of us. We're always happy to help. I will. I'm I'm glad that the retreat got scheduled on the 9th. That's. I'm really happy that it could be done then. So alright, take care. Great. Take care.

[25:00] Enjoy yourself and enjoy DC. Thank you. Have a wonderful night. You too, elisa. Bye bye. Bye.