June 18, 2025 — Beverage Licensing Authority Regular Meeting

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[0:01] Perfect okay, recording started. Okay, just this is public notice for the city of Boulder beverage, licensing authority. Hearing Wednesday, June 18, th 2025 at 3 Pm. Agenda. Item one. I gotcha sorry I was muted. Oh, no worries. I will now share the instructions for virtual hearing and rules of decorum, and read that. All right. you're good. The city has engaged with community members to co-create a vision for productive, meaningful, and inclusive civic conversations. This vision supports physical and emotional safety for community members, staff and council, as well as democracy. For people of all ages, identities lived experiences and political perspectives. For more information about this vision and the community engagement process. Please visit our website.

[1:12] the city will enforce the rules of decorum found in the Boulder revised Code. Participants are required to sign up to speak, using the name they are commonly known by, and individuals must display their whole name before being allowed to speak online. Currently, only audio testimony is permitted online. No attendee shall disrupt, disturb or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of any meeting in a manner that obstructs the business of the meeting. This also includes, failing to obey any lawful order of the presiding officer to leave the meeting or refrain from addressing the board. Only one person at a time is allowed to speak, unless an accommodation, like an interpreter is required, all remarks and testimony shall be limited to matters related to city business. No participant shall make threats or use any form of intimidation against any other person. Obscenity. Other epithets based on race, gender, or religion, and other speech and behavior that disrupts or otherwise impedes. The meeting will not be tolerated.

[2:05] Thanks. Caitlin. Alright. No problem. Next I'll go into roll call if you'll just speak your presence aloud. Member Ginger Barnes. I'm here present. Thank you. Member Michael Carr. Present. Member Lansing Creek, Member Brendan Haggerty. Present. And share. Roberts. Present. Thank you so much. Next, we have approval of beverage licensing authority. Minutes from May 18, th 2025. Has everyone had a chance to review them? And are there any edits. We reviewed them. And there's just one edit that I saw. It's a small thing, it said. The retreat will be held in June. And it's gonna I think it's gonna be in July, our retreat. So that's the only thing I saw. Thank you so much for catching that I will make that change. Sure. With that change being made, is there a motion to approve the minutes.

[3:02] Removed a second, so moved. How's that? Yes. Remember barn, seconds. Okay. All those in favor say, Hi, member robbers! Aye. Member Barnes. Aye. Member. Carwell abstained since I was absent last month. Member Crane. Aye. For Haggerty. Aye. Thank you so much. I will move on to hearing agenda issues from licensing clerk. We just have one for you all. Embassy suites was scheduled for a renewal hearing, but they were unable to pick up their poster for posting, so they didn't post. So we're going to ask that you make a motion to continue that. I'll make a motion to continue. Embassy. You said it was Embassy. Embassy suites. Yeah. Agenda. Item.

[4:00] 11. Stefan. Yes. I'll make a motion to continue. Agenda. Item 7. Big. Member Carr will second that motion. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member car. I. Numbered granai. Member Haggerty. I. No problem. You so much. I will move on to agenda. Item 2, which is matters from Boulder, police department and Officer Rock is here. Good afternoon, everybody. I don't have a ton to report. We've been super super busy as a department, but as for the alcohol stuff, things have seemed to have slowed down a little bit with the students gone. Thank you so much there. Any questions for officer. Rec.

[5:03] All right. Thanks. Thank you. I will move on to general public comments for future beverage, licensing authority. This is a time to make public comment on anything that is not on the agenda or not in public hearing on the agenda. So this includes, if anyone is here to make comment about something that is being heard for boundary setting, because those aren't public comments. So we would need to hear those during general public comments. If you're here to make a public comment, please go ahead and raise your hand. Perfect. I see one hand raised, so give me just a second.

[6:02] Give me just one second Mr. Saban. I see that your hand was raised first.st I'm just pulling up the is the 3 min timer. Okay with you. Chair. Yes, that sounds great. Thanks, Caitlin. Sure. Alright! And Mr. Steven, I you should be able to unmute yourself now. and if you'll just share your name, and I will get the timer started for you. Thank you. Can you folks hear me? Okay. Yes. Okay. Great. Alright! Go ahead! Thank you. sorry. 1st of all, I apologize. I thought this would have been an interactive visual audio and not just an audio. So I apologize. I was having a difficulty and send an email or 2 but my name is Adam Stapen, STAP. EN. I'm an attorney license to practice law in the great State of Colorado. My registration number is 2, 7, 5, 0 6.

[7:00] I represent Rocky Mountain paddleboard, Llc. Doing business as lakeside for a potential license at 52, 75, reservoir reservoir road, which is a boundary application setting for you folks designated as Matter 11 a 1, and I believe we have other individuals here as well. I can't see who's attending or who's not attending. I believe Eva Gerritsen, with liquor pros is also going to be speaking to this. But we're gonna be requesting that the boulder beverage licensing authority expand the designated area from it's proposed area to include a further distance to the east. I believe you're gonna hear more position on this from Miss Garrison, but it's my understanding there's only 18 residences within the proposed designated area, and if we move the designated area

[8:07] to the same direction to the east. you will capture more city boulder residents. I believe it will add another 120 residents to the city of Boulder versus the 18 residents that are within the proposed area itself. And essentially, what we're looking at doing is expanding out the designated area to allow for greater input of residents, business owners, and business managers that actually reside within the city of Boulder, in which the licensing authority has jurisdiction to issue. If you gauge this, and Miss Gerritsen should hopefully be here and give you more information on this. But the way the boundary is currently set up is, it extends further west than it does East, and there's a lot of residents within unincorporated Boulder County, living there in along with a lot of

[9:06] vacant grass space, if you would, without having residents, business owners, or business managers. So we're looking for your approval. To expand out the proposed designated area to include more residents within the city of Boulder, for the reason that the license will be satisfying the destination needs of many residents within your community that do not live within the area, but that reside within boulder and outside of boulder. That will be using the reservoir. I think my time is almost up. Thank you. Thank you for the comment. We will definitely take that into consideration. Thank you alright, and then I see that liquor Bros also has their hand up. So I

[10:02] well, let's see. Ask them to unmute, and then let me share my timer again. Okay, if you'll just go ahead and state your name, and then I'll start the timer. For the record. My name is Eva Gerritsen, one of the owners of liquor licensing professionals, doing businesses, liquor pros, and I'm here today. Once again speaking on behalf of Rocky Mountain Paddle board the boundary area for that one. The last time this was handled the East Cutoff was diagonal highway, however, when we looked and did measurements, and we came in later in the game. but looking at at all of the maps that Boulder has provided, we did some looking into this particular map and boundary area. If the west boundary area extended out 1.6 1 miles where it is the whereas the

[11:11] east boundary line just to diagonal highway, was only about 110. However, it did come down at an angle which cuts off significant. A significant amount of residential folks that are very close in proximity to Boulder Reservoir. As it is right now. There is almost 200 Boulder County unincorporated Boulder County residents in there, and only right now, as the maps is, is being presented to us. 15. I do apologize. I provided the wrong information to Mr. Stapen, but there are only 15 houses that are actually Boulder City within the Boulder City limits. If that, for instance, say 66 3rd Street extends all the way down to J road and across. You are actually getting in that cloud core in that Wellington road area which does extend this out and adds another 1 95 Boulder City

[12:19] residents, and these are homeowners. These are not just apartments. These are actual homeowners. So I feel that those folks, in order to be fair, because these are people that pay city taxes as well. I feel that the the boundary should be extended all the way down through 63rd and across through J. You can keep the other boundary areas as is. But I do feel because of that area to the East that was neglected last time should be included, because they are city boulder City folks as well. And really and truly, if we're going to do a fair and unbiased, you would want to make sure that you counted a lot of those folks that actually live and own a house within the city boulder limits, and as it is right now. The maximum you have right now is only 15,

[13:17] and I thank you for your time on that. Caitlin. Is that an agenda item that we're gonna that's in our boundary settings today, right. Yes, that's correct. That will be. You will get to discuss that at the end of the meeting, under 11 agenda. Item 11. Perfect. We'll take it up then. Thank you. Sure thing. All right. I will do last. Call for public comment. If anyone else would like to make public comment. Go ahead and raise your hand.

[14:06] I'm not seeing any, so I'll go ahead and move on. I will move on to agenda. Item 4, which is continued show cause. Hearing concerning an alleged violation, and whether the hotel restaurant type, liquor, license, El Taco, Imperial del Texcola, Llc. Dba el Taco, Imperial de Texcola, 2 8 5. 0 Iris Avenue suite 8. Boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3 0 1 should be suspended or revoked. If you are here to speak on this matter, go ahead and raise your hand, and I do know that we have an interpreter for this matter as well. So I'm going to go ahead and promote our interpreter, and I will swear her in, and then I will continue. Something, or else.

[15:02] Hi! Tanya. Hi! I'm not sure how you want to proceed here. But yep. No problem. So let me get my little swearing in up here. Okay, so Tanya, I'm gonna go ahead and swear you in 1st and then you can begin the interpretation. If you will just go ahead and give your name and spell your name for the record. Oh, okay, yes. Hi, Hello! My name is Tanya, TANY. A. Thank you and your last name. And my last name is Bellato BALA. DO. Thank you. And do you solemnly swear or affirm, that you will make an accurate, complete, and impartial interpretation from the English language into Spanish, and vice versa, of all communications during this proceeding, using your best skill, judgment, and ability.

[16:02] I do. Yes. Thank you. And are you a certified interpreter. Yes. Perfect. All right. Sorry. One. Second. Okay. Okay. Interpretation can begin now. Okay. Moving. And I will go ahead and let's see. Hand it over to the board. I pasar la boss Al consejo. There is not a stipulation in this case. No, ay, UN en este caso. Is it possible to request video. Est posible. Pedir. Video. That was kind of a legal question. Yes, yes, we can request that. Could you guys could we him? Yeah, I did.

[17:02] You, too, Tanya. European, okay. And I'm sorry. Chair. Would you like me to swear in our licensee first.st Queres quelamento en la lisencia tambien primero. Please. Okay. See, what power! Margarita, are you the only one. Better get it. This matter. Mariarita de launique estas apareciendo para este tema. Team. And do you have an attorney. Tienes unavogado. Ayerne abrona persona. Yes, yesterday a person called me. Okay, but you are not represented by an attorney. Okay, pero, not esta representando unavogado. No, no. Okay, no. Will you say your name and spell your name for the record. Puedes deception, nombre tambien.

[18:03] Sin. Margarita Castrejon, MAR re e te r se a ese tere hota o ene. Yes, Margarita Castrajon, MARG. A, RITA. Castrejon, CAST. REJO, n. Thank you and provide an address. Please. Si espenciocho sinkuenta Yris Avenida. Yeah. 2850 Iris Avenue. This boy's gay. Sweet Archie! La in la in the suite h. Perfect, and if you'll please raise your right hand. Puedes Levantar Co. Favor to Mano derecha.

[19:02] Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give before the beverage? Licensing authority is true. Puras que tu testamento que vasadar en frente de las disencias de vividas es correcta. See! Hold on! Perfect. The board can proceed. Thank you. Thank you. Consejo puede procedure. Okay, so, Tanya, I will be reading in these. this hearing, and it's a bit lengthy. So let I'll try to be on a good cadence with you. Thank you. This is a public hearing before the beveraging, licensing authority of the city of Boulder. Estes UN audiencia publica ante la autorida de Vidas de Lisencias de la ciudad de Boulder. To determine whether or not the licensee of El Taco, Imperial de Ta. Llc.

[20:04] Doing business. Oh. Yeah. Thank you. Para determinar. Si elisencia de el taco el Imperial Llsa. Doing business is El Taco, Imperial de Tlaca, with a hotel restaurant type, liquor, license. Puede acer negocio con una licencia de tipo de hotel. It restart. Shall be suspended or revoked on the basis of the violations alleged. Sespendera, o se quitado en la in presunta infraction. In the order to show cause, served upon the licensee. Enorden. En senaar la causa en ensima de la Lisencia.

[21:05] And requiring the licensee present here today. Receriendo la presencia de la la persona que tiene la Licencia aqui mismo hoy. Because this is a disciplinary proceeding. Ya que estes es una procedimiento disciplinario. The authority shall not ask for or allow comment from members of the general public on the guilt of the licensee. La autoridad nova apedir mi autorizar e commentarios publicos. Or the appropriate discipline to be imposed. The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony presented by the city.

[22:05] El proposioto de esta Audencia es recibirun testimonio de la ciudad. And by the licensee. In order to enable this authority. Y tamien de la Lisenciada para poder permitir esta alteridad. To make findings, and to determine, by a preponderance of evidence. Para en hacer en contramientos y en buscar evidencias. Whether or not the licensee has violated the various laws, as alleged. Para determinarci la persona con que tiene la licencia aviolado hacho las presentas violations or no. If, in the course of this hearing, testimony or other evidence establishes guilt

[23:16] of the licensee of a violation of some other law, rule or regulation to those stated in the notice. Encuenta cul pabilidad de la que en lleba la licencia de una violation. O ya seda de alguna otra le. The licensee shall be afforded a reasonable continuance upon any offer. That evidence in defense. Le dara una la que yaba la Licencia leda una para podegar una defenza razonable. Explanation and mitigation is not then available to the licensee.

[24:06] No esta entonces dispornible para la persona que diebar la Lisencia. But can be obtained within the period of continuance, not to exceed 10 days. Se puede en el se pero se puede el periodo de diaz yas. Record is being made of these proceedings. Estes procedimientos. All testimony shall be given under oath. Todo los testimonios sevanadar bajo purar de decir verdad. The rules of evidence and requirement, of proof and procedure.

[25:05] Sorry. Can you repeat that. The roles of evidence and requirement, of proof and procedure. Las reglas devidencia y recommendo de procedrimiento. Shall confirm to the extent practical to those in civil non-jury cases. Let me. Shall confirm to the extent practical to those in civil non-jury cases. but when necessary to ascertain facts affecting the substantial rights.

[26:06] Pero cuando necesario de acesorar los hechos que affectan los derechos susten tablets, sustenidos tenidos. Of the public or of the licensee. Del o de la persona que tiene lleva la lisencia. The authority may receive and consider evidence not admissible. La auditoridad puede recivi evidence. Yeah, not admissively. Under such rules. If such evidence possesses probative value. Ajo sie siertas regas siesta evidencia preva de tenercierto Valot.

[27:04] Commonly accepted by reasonable and prudent persons in the conduct of their affairs. Can you repeat that? Please. Yes, commonly accepted by reasonable and prudent persons in the conduct of their affairs. I can break it down if you need. Yes, please. Commonly accepted by reasonable and prudent persons. Personas, imprudentes, razonables. Conduct of their affairs. En conducta de sus asuntos. The rules of privilege required by law. Las regas de privilegio recedridas por le. Shall be respected in this proceeding. Deben de ser respetadas en estos pro sevenientos.

[28:03] And the chair may exclude incompetent and unduly repetitious evidence. Unruly. Do you want me to repeat? And the let's break it down, and the chair may exclude. Y el Consejo puede exploir. Incompetent and unduly. Inas echible. Repetitious Evidence. Evidencia repetitiva. The chair shall rule upon all questions of evidence. El Consejo puede acer una en cuanto la toda la evidencia.

[29:00] And procedure. Y procedimiento. Subject to being overruled on motion. Sujeto a que la la el tema hay asido, so superado portal quest. Sustained by a majority vote of those members of the authority who are present. I can. Voto en el momento. We're almost done. Should a licensee request wish to request a fine in lieu of active suspension days. Okay. Can you break it down? Please. Should a licensee wish to request. Okay. Yeah, Si el la persona que yalicencia quire peticionar.

[30:06] A fine in lieu of active suspension days. a fine instead of suspension days. Okay una multa en lugar de dias, Si a la persona quencia de se a o tener una multa en lugar de dia de tener dias suspendidos. The licensee should notify the authority of this after a penalty is determined. Una determinacione. If any, but before suspending posting is discussed. Suspension.

[31:03] And the licensee should be prepared to supply an estimated per day suspension dollar amount. Do you want me to break that down? And the licensee should be prepared. To supply an estimated per day suspension dollar amount. Dar UN costo de dollar, estimado por dia. For the authority's deliberation. Para el tiemposer una de. Great. Thank you. Are there any members of the Board who have a conflict of interest. or have had any ex parte communication regarding this item.

[32:05] Conflicto de interes. Remember Roberts, no. Mie, Embra Roberts. Member car, no. Member, Barnes, no. No, no. Member, Haggardy, now. Remember, Karin, you're muted. Miambro estas e silenciado. Member, Crane, no unmuted. Thank you. Yes, yes. Okay? And in this case there has been no stipulation. Navido Ningguna Negatai. Stipulation.

[33:06] Okay. I see you are on here, Miss Keller. Would you like to present. Yes, please. Por favor. Yes, the city would like to call Officer Leah Rec. Yeah. Maral, officient. Officer wreck. Could you please state your name and spell your last name for the record. Do I need to be sworn in, or. Or. Thank you, Officer Rick. Say your name and spell your name for the record.

[34:03] I'm officer, Leah reck LEAH. RECH. Soil, la official. And if you'll raise your right hand. Su puentosa. Do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to give to the beverage? Licensing authority are true and correct. A la que son. I do? See. Thank you. Thank you. Officer. Rec. Where do you work? Official, rec donde trabajas. I work for the city of Boulder Police Department.

[35:00] Yo trabajo para departamento policias de la ciudad de boulder. And how long have you worked at the Boulder police Department? Y que tanto tiempo has trabajado para el departamento policias de boulder. For over 24 years. Por de antiquatronos. What are your duties at the Boulder police Department? Obligacione. I'm currently assigned as the alcohol Enforcement officer. La el Emporzamiento del Alcohol. And as part of your duties, do you conduct enforcement of Colorado and boulder liquor laws and regulations at licensed liquor establishments. A la parte de the.

[36:06] Yes, I do. See see Luau. And are you familiar with El Taco Imperial, the Lax cala. Estas familiariza con el taco imperial de Tlaxcala. Yes, I am. Generally. How are you familiar with them? From conducting a compliance check at their establishment. For acer una une unchequeo de complicid en su establis simiento. Officer wreck. Were you on duty on April 4, th 2025. Estu vista trabajando en abril dementia. Yes, I was. See.

[37:00] What were you doing that day. Estavas haciendo estia. Officer Kaufman and I were conducting compliance checks at liquor licensed establishments throughout the city. El official de complimento de la leciudad. Can you explain to the bla how an underage compliance check is conducted. We utilize 2 operatives who are under the age of 21 to check that. The establishment is following the liquor rules. Sorry. Can you repeat that. Yep, we utilize 2 under underage. So under 21 years of age operatives to

[38:03] check the compliance and make sure the licensed licensed establishments are following the rules. Esta comprehendo con la le. Is this a standard procedure. Esto es UN procedimiento estanar. Yes, it is. CC. Lewis. What is the purpose of an underage, compliance, check. Cuel se proposito de UN czeque de complimento de la le de me not. To ensure that the liquor licensed establishments are adhering to the liquor laws and codes and rules. Las, Regento de la.

[39:07] On April 4, th 2025. Did you conduct an underage? Compliance, check on El Taco and Burial de Laxcala? Flaxcala. Yes. See. Why did you choose this location for a compliance? Check. Complimento de la le. So we do. Compliance checks on each of the liquor licenses in the city. En la ciudad. And they were up on the list to be checked.

[40:03] En el czequeo. Can you describe the April 4, th 2025, compliance check for the members of the Bla. Puedes por favor cinco. Yes, we had. We utilized him by we. I utilized 2 underage operatives. Menores, deedad. One male, one female, both 19 years of age. UN hombre una mujer lo ambos de dia Si nueve anoos de la. And on their person was their driver's license, vertical, indicating that they are under 21 years of age.

[41:05] Can you repeat that again? Please. Yep on the so both of the operatives, a male and a female. Ambos operativos UN nombre una mujer. Had their vertical driver's license, indicating they were under 21 years of age. Tenan su ambos el hombre y la mujer los operativos tenan su lisencia de conducir vertical indicando queran menores de la conos de la. They went into the liquor license establishment. Tiene Li sencia de alcohol. They approached the bar. sat down and asked and were handed food. Menus. Se sentaron y selesiaron e menus para comer telecom.

[42:06] They asked the server if they could look at drink menus. Ellos pidieron Al mesero, Si le podia otorgar una UN menu devidas. After looking at the they were handed the drink menus. El Meno de Vidas. After looking at the drink menu, the female chose a frozen Margarita. Despues de Ver el meno de vividas el a mujer video una margarita el lada. The mail, ordered a mojito. El omre ordeno video UN mojito. Both of the operatives were served. The beverages that they ordered. Las Vebidas, que pidiron.

[43:03] And they'd never showed their id or were asked for it. Y ellos los operativos nunca, ehron e su identification Otampoco seles video sue identification. Then they called me on the phone or sent me a text to let me know that they had been served. Tele. Mia! Do you want me to continue. Queeres que continue. That's okay. I think that's good. Thank you. Estabian croque su esta estav. So officer Rec. For the record. Both underage operatives were served, alcohol.

[44:00] Y official record ambos, operativos, sele servio alcohol correcto. That is correct. Sos, correct. And neither one was asked for their id. YA minguno de ellos se espidio su identificacion. That is correct. So is correct. If they had been asked for, their ids, would either Id have shown that they were 21 years of age, or older. Sorry. Can you repeat that. Yes, if the operatives had been asked for their ids. would the Id have shown that they were 21 years of age or older. Si a los operativos de le suberapedido su license su identificacion esto esta ubera de mostrado que 10 0 mas.

[45:00] No, they both had vertical ids, valid Colorado vertical ids indicating they were under 21. No Ambos Tenan identifications, Validas Verticales de Identificaciones de Colorado. Officer wreck did El Taco, Imperial Dan Loxcala pass the underage Compliance check on April 4, th 2025. Complimento. They did not. No. And why not? E porque no. As our underage operatives were served. Alcoholic beverages.

[46:05] Porque nuestros, operativos, menores, dedad se le servieron, devidas, and colicas. Which is a violation of our Muni code and the liquor code. What was the 1st code? Sorry. It was a violation of the boulder municipal code. Esolacion del Todigo municipal de boulder. As well as a liquor code. Asimism. What happened after El Taco and Periel failed. The underage compliance check. Que paso cuando el taco imperial e no paso la el chequeho de de complimento de la. Officer, Kaufman and I entered into the establishment.

[47:01] El oficial y yo entramos el establecimiento. After getting the information from the operatives on who the individual was that served them. Alcohol. Despuade que nos los operativos. No, sir, el encuanto aquiemfo el individo que le servio el la vivid Al colica. Ms. Castrojone was identified as the server. La Senora castrejon fue identificada como la mesera que los Silvio. So I approached her and explained what happened. A Si que me acer que a ella y le explicque lo que a sucedido. I asked her for her identification. and handed that to Officer Kaufman to complete the ticket. Para que la.

[48:03] Well, I spoke with her a little more about the violation. Mientras leable UN poquito sobre la infraccion. This is when she apologized profusely. Muchas, muchas ves. And said that she doesn't typically work the bar area. Y dijo que ella tipicamente no traba, general. And she said that she is the owner of the establishment. Imiento. And officer rack is the individual you spoke to the same individual who's appearing in the virtual room today.

[49:09] Thank you, Officer Rack, I have nothing further. Gracias, officer officials. Thanks. Ms. Keller. And I do have a brief closing if the board allows it, depending on how we're doing on time. Unavoque. Yes, Roberto. Hi, everyone the licensee may ask questions of the witness.

[50:02] Thank you. And that comes now. Yes, was our. Do you have any questions for our witness? Tienes alguna prejunta para nuestro testigo. See. Yes. You may proceed. Puedes a Sedora. Si mire cuando paso eso del delicor solamente obio dos personas pararon aprentar por UN contrago pero solamente a una a la muchacha fuala que yole servi el trago verda Si fue meror no Pedro, id.

[51:03] Hold on! One second Roberto. - Please do the interpretation first.st Yeah. When this happened, just 2 people asked for a drink. I only served this to one to the women. That's. So that is not a question. She'll have an opportunity to provide any information that she wishes to. Esa no es una pregunta vasa tener el momento para total. Okay, it's time. Right now you may ask any questions of the witness. Pero aurita es po es momento para cuadier pregunta que tudes acer le testido. You have any questions of this witness.

[52:00] Para esta testivo. No. Thank you. Gracias. Thank you. Then at this time we would ask for Ms. Castrian to provide any testimony. Testimonio. And mitigating circumstances. Personas menores de vinci uno. Yes, the the witness, my witness my testimony is that yes, to minors.

[53:06] Came in. En el aria de la caja. Si mese UN po con herbiosa y opense empedir los adiz como todo el tiempo nos dejeron en la classe. I practically only work in the in the cash cashier area. And I did get nervous. And I did think about asking for ids, as I was taught in a class. Ayo las vividas.

[54:06] El liberta referendo se a la rosettas. Si porque lla metiene la resetas en una libreta porque ledigo ella es la bartender yo practicamente casino no se de eso. I practically, only I'm only in the cashier area. I got nervous the the bartender got sick that day and had to go home. So I had to even look at the recipes that the bartender left for me, the the recipe menu for the drinks, and and constantly call the bartender home to to tell me how to make them. Como miudiciendo la bartender sela diala a la muchacha el otro el que me pido el muchacho esse yolo prepare perese no se lo servi nada servia el lo que fue de la muchacha.

[55:11] 2 people asked for 2 different drinks. I called to get the recipe. I gave it. I gave the drink to the women but I didn't make, and I didn't serve the drink to the man. Como de masia dot que yo no le penid la vivida. When I was serving the drink I thought in my mind that I had to ask for an id, but then it was too late, and I had already served a drink.

[56:06] Okay. Thank you. Anything else. Okay. Muchas. Gracias. Pues no no croque que estodo aurita Si pues ento sillan nos asegramos de pedir le suaid. Puede repetitres authorized. Primero pedirs, le se la id cuando biden Alguna vivida con alcohol. Well, nothing nothing, that's all. Now I I tell the waiters I try to make sure that they are asking for ids when they're serving drinks.

[57:00] Okay. Thank you. Yes. Oh, I was just gonna point out, and she's online that the prosecution has the ability to cross. Examine this witness. See solo queria solo queriache estaras segura que el fisca el el fiscal del distrito puede examinar la persona titular de la dicencia and it will do it. I have no questions for this witness. No. Tengo nigunas preguntas para este destigo. Thank you. Gracias. Okay at this time. Then

[58:01] Ms, Keller, would you like to make your closing statement? Please. Okay. Sultimo de Colacion. Yes, please. C. Members of the bla. Los Miembros de la Delia. The city has proven by a preponderance of evidence today. La ciudad ada terminado por una videncia e significativa oy. That El Taco, Imperial de lax cala failed. An underage compliance check on April 4, th 2025. Que el taco Imperial de Tlascala, e no Paso, and and La Encompa.

[59:00] They did so by unlawfully procuring alcohol to 2 underage operatives. Y loy Sieron y Brindando, Levidas, alcolicas, a dos operativos, menores de la. You heard credible testimony from Officer Leah. Rec. That the operatives were served. Alcoholic beverages. Las, Devidas, Arcolicas. As Miss Castrojone admitted. At no point were the operatives asked for their ids. A Si como la senoran cas rejo momentos el estidron las identificaciones a los tos operativos. It is not unreasonable to expect a liquor licensed establishment to check patrons, ids before serving them. Alcoholic beverages.

[60:01] Could you repeat that? Please. Yes, it is not unreasonable to expect a liquor licensed establishment. No espra de razon esperar que UN establesimiento que llevaldas arcolicas. To check patrons, ids before serving them. Alcoholic beverages. Queda que los est. This should be a minimum standard. Este debenzer UN standard minimo. If the operatives had been asked for their ids, it would have been clear they were underage. Si a los operativosions. We ask the Board find today that El Taco, Imperial de lax cala.

[61:01] Pedimos Al consejo el dia de hoy que e taco imperia de Tlascala. Did unlawfully procure alcohol to a minor. A UN demonor. In light of Officer Reck's testimony. E con la yuga del el testimonio de el official rec. Thank you. It does. Yes. Thank you so much. Ms. Keller. Killer. Ms Kes around. Did you have any closing statements or final remarks. Que decir. Was no another message. Okay.

[62:10] accepto que Si lead les le serbie el Alcola esta persona. See. Yes, it was my fault not to ask for ids now I've learned to 1st ask for ids and then serve. I felt nerve. I was nervous. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Muchas. Gracias. At this time we will close for deliberation amongst the Board members. En este momento e vamos paradar e la la de los Miambros del Consefo.

[63:01] Alright. So I didn't see any specifically mitigating factors. Were there any that we're we're submitted. I don't think there's anything. I didn't see any either, nor an alcohol policy. But Tanya, should Tanya be interpreting this as well. Probably maybe Roberto. Okay, can you? Can you repeat that? Please. So I I asked the I asked other members of the authority if they had seen any mitigating factors. I hadn't seen any. Oh, consejo! See Otros, a factores, a tenuantes antes dedicalas intensia.

[64:01] Roberto. Thank you. You normally wouldn't. In a case that is being litigated. Esta en. So, okay, I don't know. What does that mean? We do. S Okaymos. No, that is to say, that you see them in situations where there's been a stipulation, and they have agreed that they violated the law. Oh, I'm sorry! Y ves y. For clarification. I was asking about interpreting during deliberation.

[65:02] Who's that? Does that address? Para! Clarification. I was addressing what member Carr had brought up, so that so that the authority so that's a license. C is not prejudiced by that. By, not. Para que la Ti el titular de la Lisencia no se a prejuiciada por eso. By not providing mitigating material. Porno dar materiales de factores attendantes. Ahead of time. Contiempo anticipado.

[66:05] Okay. Okay. Hi. I I you know. I guess the my other concern is, I didn't even see a proof of training either. And all that information there which was submitted to licensing. But we hadn't gotten anything back. De la Licencia. Yeah, for me. Forgetting or being nervous to check. I just don't feel like that is a valid defense for the owner, especially since

[67:06] the owner is who should model compliance. I agree with you, Member Roberts, and I propose that would make a motion that we would go with table values here. Go, with what sorry? Table Values. Cable. Table Table. Yes. Is Joe propongo, A los a los valores.

[68:15] Go ahead! Roberto! The issue of punishment is not yet ripe. El tema de el Castigo is not yet what sorry. Right Appropriate. Es aprotiado. The board must 1st discuss the evidence, and consider a motion to decide whether the licensee has violated the Crs provision. Got it. Thank you. And and the can you repeat the last part.

[69:07] To determine if the licensee has violated the Crs provision. Y determinar Si el titular de la Lisencia aviolado la provision de se reese. Member car where you. I I was gonna say, I would make a motion that. I believe the licensee has violated the Crs provision of serving alcohol to a minor. Avio lado e la lolly.

[70:05] I would second that motion based on the evidence that we saw today. Yo tambieno esa propuesta. El Diadoy. all those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Remember Barnes, I. Those are probably Joe, Joe. Member Cray and I. And Member Haggerty. I. Imien, Bro Hagerty, Joe. So the board has decided there's been a violation. and now we will move on to the sentencing.

[71:00] Intencia. Member Carr would make a motion to go with table value, and for 2 counts of sales service to a minor 10 days, served with 20 days in advance. Can you break it up, please? Thank you. Sure member car will make a motion to go with table value of sales service to a minor. Yeah. Dos, cargos. With 10 days served, and 20 days in advance.

[72:02] Condes de acervidos y vente dias de. I second the motion ginger, member Member Barnes. Yo puesta. All those in favor. Say I, Member Haggerty, I'm sorry. Were you raising your hand. Nope, right. Just as a reminder to the board. We can have deliberations about this anytime. Encuadquier del momentos. But all those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye.

[73:03] Those of our. Remember Barnes, eye. Member car. I. Crying, no. Member Haggerty. Aye. Okay. The motion has passed. Okay. La mucion propuesta a pasado. Would. We usually begin the sentencing the following Monday. Is that doable? Caitlin. Semana eso Estabien, Caitlin.

[74:01] So tomorrow is Juneteenth, which is a city holiday. So I actually, I can make the posters tonight. And have them prepared for pickup or what would be most convenient for city licensing. El consequo. Would be to start the following week. Serie a mi proposta em pesar las guiente semana. But I'm happy to do whatever the Board wishes. I don't see any issue you requested. The following Monday. Caitlin.

[75:00] To begin on. Let's see, it can begin anytime. After the 25.th Y pueden pesar ualquier momento despuz del venti cinco. Maybe. Don't have any issues. Does anybody on the board have any issues. In problema. No, the 25th is good. No, and the event is in Costavel. And I believe you'll need a motion for that. Para eso. I would make a motion to begin the sentence. But the what do you.

[76:06] Thank you. I make a motion to begin the suspension. On June 25.th Ago, una la peticion solsitudenti cinco. Member Haggerty Seconds. The motion. Yesterday, Acuralo. Okay. Thank you. Margarita. I will create suspension posters and instructions. Voya crear posters de suspencione instrucciones. And email them to you. Y te los voya mbiar por porreo. I'll be ready for pickup on June 24.th

[77:02] June 24.th See you. Elventicuatro de Juno. Okay. Okay, it's fine. I just I I don't understand. I just need to clarification. Will. I just have my license for. Perfect. For lick my liquor license suspended. Correct. See correcto. You may still be open and serve food and continue just no liquor. Si correctoda villas. Okay, y eso sera comocieerto tiempo nadamas. Will will that be just for a certain time?

[78:02] 10 days. Or the S. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay, thank you. Is there anything else from the chair? The board. De los Miembros del consejo. No, thank you. No gracias. Okay, I will move on to agenda. Item 5, while I'm doing that I'll just get everyone where they're supposed to be. And Tanya and Margarita. Thank you for your time. Tanya Margarita agreses por su tiempo. Anyone.

[79:16] Okay, we're good. Thank you so much for your patience. Everybody. Okay, we are moving on to agenda. Item 5, which is show cause hearing concerning an alleged violation, and whether the hotel, restaurant type, liquor, license of La Katrina, Mexican Restaurant, Llc. Tba la Katrina Mexican Restaurant, 4 8 0 0 Baseline road suite, E. 105, boulder, Colorado, 8, 0 3 0 3 should be suspended or revoked. If you're here to speak on this matter. Please go ahead and raise your hand. and I see one hand raise, and we're gonna go ahead and get them into the panelist view. And as they are coming in. I will let the board know that there is a stipulation in this case.

[80:03] and I will hand it over to Miss Keller. Thank you, Miss Kellogg. As you said, there is a stipulation in this matter, so we would move for the Board to accept that stipulation. At this time. Thank you. I'd make a motion to accept the stipulation by the city. Is there a second. I, second member Barnes. Great all those in favor say, aye, Roberts, aye. But I don't see the stipulation agreement here. Maybe. Am I missing it? Let me give you a page number one second. I'm sorry there's it's. You're okay. 500. It's theirs. It is page 43 of your packet. Oh, 43.

[81:00] Oh, okay. I missed that. Thank you. Member Crane. Aye, I heard the motion. I know. Member Haggerty. I. Never car. I. Great stipulation, accepted. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Caitlin, are you? You're doing your thing. Chair. If you would like, I can swear in the licensee for any testimony they'll give. I think Ramon is here. If you'll go ahead and turn your camera on and see if you can unmute yourself. Okay. And are you able to turn your camera on? Let me. Okay.

[82:01] There we go. perfect. If you'll just go ahead and say your name and spell your name for the record. Okay. My name is Ramon Saldana. Ramo, NSAL DANA. And if you'll give an address for the record. 39, 0. 5. Ireland Court, Denver, Colorado, 8, 0. 2, 4, 9. Thank you. And if you'll go ahead and raise your right hand, do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give before the beverage. Licensing authority is true and correct. Yes, yes, sir, is correct. Thank you. And is anyone else gonna be appearing with you today? No. Okay? And are you represented by Attorney. No, I'm not. Okay, that's it. Okay, thanks, Caitlin Ramon, since you're not being represented by an attorney, I'll go ahead and read the procedure into the record.

[83:06] Okay. This is a public hearing before the beverage licensing authority of the city of Boulder to determine whether or not the license of La Catrina, Mexican, Llc. Restaurant, Llc. Dba. La Catrina, Mexican Restaurant. with a hotel restaurant type. Liquor license shall be suspended or revoked on the basis of the violations alleged in the order to show cause, served upon the licensee and requiring the licensee's presence here today. because this is a disciplinary proceeding, the authority shall not ask for or allow comment from members of the general public on the guilt of the licensee or the appropriate discipline to be imposed. The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony presented by the city and the licensee. In order to enable this authority to make findings and determine by preponderance of the evidence, whether or not the licensee has violated the various laws as alleged.

[84:15] If, in the course of this hearing, testimony or other evidence establishes the guilt of the licensee of a violation of some other law, rule, or regulation than those stated in the notice. The licensee shall be afforded a reasonable continuance upon any offer that evidence in defense, explanation, and mitigation is not then available to the licensee, but can be obtained within the period of a continuance not to exceed 10 days a record is being made of these proceedings. All testimony shall be given under oath. The rules of evidence and requirement of proof and procedures shall confirm the extent

[85:01] to the extent practical to those in civil non-jury cases, but when necessary to ascertain facts affecting the substantial rights of the public or of the licensee, the authority may receive and consider evidence not admissible under such rules. If evidence possesses probative value commonly accepted by reasonable and prudent persons in the conduct of their affairs. The rules of privilege required by law shall be respected in the proceedings, and the chair may exclude incompetent and unduly repetitious evidence. The chair shall rule upon all questions of evidence and procedure, subject to being overruled on motions sustained by a majority vote of those members of the authority whom are present. Should a licensee wish to request a fine in lieu of active suspension days, they should notify the authority of this after a penalty is determined, if any. But before suspension posting is discussed and the licensee should be prepared to supply an estimated per day suspension dollar amount to the authority's deliberation

[86:26] at this time. Is there any ex parte or Does anyone have a conflict of interest on the board for this item? Member Roberts? No. Member, Barnes, no. Member car, no. Member crying, no. Member Haggerty, no. Excellent

[87:00] we have received a stipulation in this case. I'm just Okay, so we do not need to. We will not be hearing any evidence or witnesses do we? Would Ramon like to? Or Roberto? I'm sorry. Can you help me here? Is it. Of course. Yes, he he will have the opportunity to provide you any factors in mitigation that he considers relevant for your consideration. Thank you, Ramon, at this time. Would you like to provide any mitigating factors? Explanation? The floor is yours.

[88:03] No, I don't have any explanation. Okay, then, at this time we will close for deliberation. Okay. So. Caitlin, do you know if this establishment is in good standing with the city of Boulder.

[89:01] Yes. they are in good standing with occupation tax. We did not check sales tax before this, and I'm so sorry, but I can send them a message to ask if they would be in good standing with sales tax. But besides that, yes. Okay, thank you. Okay. Well, any deliberation discussion amongst the board. Stipulation, you know, shows that they, you know, did serve alcohol to 2 monitors. Yeah. I think it's about how do we want to? Well, you know the the punishment, the suspension guidelines. Yeah, there's not a lot to to work with here. So.

[90:05] I would I would make a motion to go with table values. I don't see any argument against that. So yeah, Member Carl will make a motion to go with to for 2 counts of sale and service to a minor 10 days served with 20 days in advance. Remember crying a second. Okay, all those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. For Burns. Aye. Number car. I. Member Crane. I. Memory haggardy. I. Okay. And Caitlin, would the city be requesting that same date.

[91:01] Yeah, we can make a poster whenever is convenient for the board, but next week, because tomorrow is a city holiday. So the 25th would be preferable. Okay. Member car will make a motion to start the suspension. On the 25th of June. Amber burns. I mean check alright. There you go! All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member car. I. Member Crane. I. Member Haggerty. Aye. Perfect. Thank you. And, Mr. Sabana, I'll have a poster for you. I'll send you an email with the information of how to pick it up on the morning of the 24, th and then it will just need to be posted by the 25.th There will be instructions included with the poster.

[92:00] I'm sorry. Do, do I have? I have to go and pick up the poster, or I'm gonna get it on email and print it. You'll get an email that it's ready to be picked up. But yes, they will be physical posters that will be ready. That will need to be picked up from our office on June 24.th On June 24.th Yes. Okay. and they have to be posted on on that day right before we open for business. On the 25.th Yes, so the suspensions are midnight to midnight, so it will be midnight on the 25th to 10 days, which is 9 10, which is midnight of the 5, th so like this, the 5th going into the 6, th if that makes sense. Okay. And there will be instructions on the posters of when those that happens. Okay. Okay, if there's nothing else. Well, from the board I will go ahead and move on to agenda. Item 6.

[93:04] I I have a question. So just just to make a sure just to be clarified on the tenant. They serve in 20 in advance. So that means I'm not going to be able to serve alcohol for the 10 days. And what's the 20 in advance means. That means that if you were to have another violation within a year, then you would have to serve 20 days. 20. Okay, okay, so there's a how's okay. Understand? Thank you. Yeah, hopefully, that won't happen. Hopefully, not yeah, hopefully, not. Perfect, any other questions. I'm good. Okay, great. I'll move on. We're just gonna get everyone situated really quick. If you'll just hang on. Do you have.

[94:08] Thank you so much. I don't know if I mentioned this on the record, but we are training Sarah, who's going to be a new clerk for us. So thanks for your patience. Us getting through all the steps here. Okay, we are moving on to agenda. Item 6, which is continued public hearing and consideration of a renewal application filed on August 1st 2025 from Vitamin Cottage, natural Food Markets, Inc. Dba. Natural Grocers, 2685 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3, 0 2. Kemper Eastley, Co-president Zephyr, Eastley, Co-president Heather, Eastley, Vice President and Secretary Michael Pelicori Manager of record with a premises, business mailing, address for a renewal of a fermented malt beverage and wine retail, offlicer type off. I'm sorry. Retail off premise type, liquor, license. If you are here to speak on this matter, please go ahead and raise your hand, and we will let you in to speak.

[95:07] I see we have one hand raised, and they are coming in as panelists. and while they are getting situated I will let the Board know that this Licensee is in good standing with sales, tax and occupation tax. and it looks like Carmen is here. Carmen, are you represented by an attorney. No. Okay? And are you the only one who will be appearing. Correct. Okay, I'll go ahead and swear you in, and then I'll hand it over to the board if you'll just go ahead and say your name and spell your name for the record. Yes, my name is Carmen Silva. It's spelled CARM. EN. Last name is SILB. A. Thank you, and if you'll give an address for the record. Yes, 1, 2, 6, 1, 2 West Alameda Parkway. That's in Lakewood, Colorado. Zip code is 8 0 2, 2, 8.

[96:09] Thank you. And if you'll just state your affiliation with the licensee. Yes, I am the licensing specialist at natural grocers. Thank you, and if you'll raise your right hand. Okay. Do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to give before the beverage licensing authority are true and correct. Yes, I do myself. And do you swear that you or your employees have posted the premise for at least 10 days prior to today's hearing? Yes. Perfect. Thank you so much. I'll hand it over to the board. Great. Thank you. Hi, Carmen! Hi. Since you're not being represented by an attorney, I'll go ahead and read the procedure into the record. This is a public hearing before the beverage licensing authority of the city of Boulder to determine whether or not the application of applicant.

[97:02] Natural sorry, my vitamin cottage, natural foods, market Dba. Natural grocers for a renewal of a type, fermented malt beverage, and wine retail off premise, type, liquor, license, license shall be granted or denied. This hearing conducted pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado and the rules of the beverage licensing authority of the city of Boulder. The purpose of this hearing is to receive information, data, and testimony by interested parties. In order to enable this authority to make findings, and to reach the conclusions required to be made by the State law as to whether or not the license shall be renewed. Interested parties are the applicant residents of the neighborhood, affected by the license as previously determined by the authority, and the owners and managers of a business located within the neighborhood. This hearing shall be limited to questions of whether there is good cause not to renew the license

[98:07] as set form in this notice of hearing. dated June 18, th 2025. Okay, please proceed, Carmen, what's going on? Why are you here? Wait, Leah, shouldn't we do a Make sure there's no conflict of interest. Oh, thank you so much. board. Is there any conflict of interest, or has anybody had any ex parte communication? Member Roberts know. Member Burns, no. Member, card, now. They require no. I'm haggardy now. Great Carmen, are you ready to proceed. Yes, Hi. Yeah.

[99:00] Yes, I am here, and due to the renewal which was renewed. I believe it was like 10 days after the renewal period. And I had just, I uploaded the renewal, but I uploaded it in last year's renewal, which didn't you know? Pop up but I did reach out to to. I believe it was Sarah and you know I send an email. And you know, because I had not received an invoice yet, and that's when I found out that you know, we needed to upload it into this year's renewal. I see. Yeah. Anything. Which the so the renewal was after like 10 days. So I think it was like the 21, st I believe. And I can get the dates. let me see.

[100:27] But yes, the due date was the the 21.st What about the it looked like? There might have been some missing paperwork associated with this. Has that been taken care of as well. To my knowledge. Everything was on the application. So the certificate of good standing. All the training documentation.

[101:02] I I believe we might have missed one one training certificate. But that was that was emailed over. Okay. Any questions from the board. No. Oh, sorry! Sorry. So it it sounds like this in this situation. It was just uploaded to the wrong year. And that's why, you know, it was missed. And then you know what was your plan to for the next for next year? To make sure this doesn't happen again. Correct. I I do have written on my notes. To make sure that it's, you know, applied to the correct year. And just do it, you know, a little bit more earlier. So instead of you know, the 45 kind of start working on that 60 days prior to the license expiring.

[102:02] Fantastic. Thank you. Sarah. Hi, yeah, Hi, Carmen, Hi, board I am the one that was processing the renewal. So I just wanna make one clarification. It was uploaded to the original license which doesn't trigger our renewal. However, I do want to be clear. It was uploaded to the original license, past the due date as well. So it wasn't simply that we didn't see it, and that we were being overly harsh. It was that it was late when it was incorrectly uploaded. To begin with. Thank you for that clarification. Any other questions or discussion from the Board. There, I don't know. I mean, I've been looking through these certificates of training, and I'm missing. I'm not seeing one for infinity. Maybe I'm missing it.

[103:03] But I saw that was required for this renewal, so I was curious. If that had been submitted after the packet was, or if I'm possibly just missing it. because there's a lot here. I also didn't see that one. Did you see Jack's. Hi, I can speak to. I am still waiting for 2 different training certificates. But since it's a renewal, I simply wanted to get that before the board and then figured Carmen and I can get that worked out after the fact. Okay, alright. Thanks. Okay. Any. Any other discussion? Seems like a user error

[104:02] and sounds like Carmen has a plan to begin her renewal efforts 60 days instead of 45 days. So I would make a motion to accept this renewal. Member. Carr would second the motion. Great all those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Barnes. I. Member car. I. And we're trying not. I'm Raggerty. I. Great renewal, accepted. Thank you. I just wanted to see. Thank you as well. Thanks, Carmen! Good luck! Oh, sorry!

[105:02] Okay. Sorry about that. We are sitting right next to each other since I'm training, and we are getting some crossover. But we fixed it. Okay, thank you so much. Agenda. Item 7 is continue, was continued at the beginning of the meeting. So we're going to move on to agenda. Item 8, which is public hearing and consideration of a new application filed on April 21st 2025 from Ltf. Club Operations Company, Inc. Dba. Lifetime, 1821 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3, 1, 8, 2, 1 sorry. Steve Kurzman, President, director and chief financial officer, Eric Listeth, secretary and director, with Jarek's Cogswell as proposed registered manager with a business mailing address of 2 9, 0 2. Corporate place Chell Hanson, Minnesota. 5, 5, 3, 1 7. For an entertainment, facility, type, liquor, license. and if you are here to speak on this matter, please go ahead and raise your hand.

[106:04] and we will let you in alright, and I see that we have some licenses, and I see that Mr. Bynford is here, and Mr. Bynford, you are attorney for this matter. Yeah, so oh, there I go alright clicking. yes, I'm James for the record. James Bynford, BEIM. FORD. Attorney. Registration 1, 3, 1, 4, 2, appearing on behalf of the applicant Ltf. Club operations, Inc. Doing businesses, lifetime. Thank you so much, and who will be appearing today that needs to be sworn in. Both Carol Johnson from liquor pros and I'm looking

[107:08] It looks like Jared Coswell here. Jared Coswell. Does he log on? Yes, yes, he was on. I don't. I just don't. I don't see him. He's here. I see him. Oh, there's Jared. Okay, I'm sorry. Mr. Console. I'll start with you if you'll go ahead and say your name and spell your name for the record and give an address. Okay, it's James Jared Cogswell. I live at 31 30, Dover drive in Boulder, Colorado, 8, 0 3, 0 5. Thank you, and if you'll just spell your 1st and last name for me. James Jared, JARO. D. Cogswell, COGS. WELL. Thank you. And how are you affiliated with the licensee? I am the general manager of our Lifetime Boulder location. Thank you. And if you'll just leave the right hand raised for me, do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to get before the beverage. Licensing authority are true and correct.

[108:08] Yes. Perfect, and do you swear or affirm that you or your employees have posted the premise for at least 10 days prior to today's hearing? Yes. Thank you and Miss Johnson, if you will do the same, say your name, spell your name, and give an address for the record. Harold Johnson, CARO. LJOH. NSON. 1,200 Park Meadows Drive, Littleton, Colorado. Thank you and if you'll just tell us how you're affiliated with the licensee. I've representing liquor pros. Who did the petitioning for the this application. Thank you so much if you'll leave that right hand raised. Do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to give before the beverage. Licensing authority are true and correct. Yes, I do. Thank you so much. I'll hand it over to the chair. Great. Thank you. Attorney Bemford. Would you mind if I waive the, or would you wave the reading.

[109:07] Food. Wavering is the procedure. Okay. Awesome. Great. And members of the Board. Is there any conflict of interest, or has there been any ex parte communication member? Roberts? No. For Barnes, no. And Member Carr. I just wanted to state for the record that before we proceed I would like to disclose that I recently joined the club. I have met various member people in the management staff, including the general manager, but I have no social connections with anyone who works there, and I have no financial stake in the outcome of our decision, so there is no actual or potential conflict of interest on my behalf. And you feel you can be fair and impartial. Yes. Thank you. Excuse me, Member Crane. Somewhat similar to Member carp I when lifetime was originally soliciting. Several years ago, I put my name on the list and received an invitation to explore further, maybe 6 or 7 months ago.

[110:14] and did not participate any further. But if you explored the list of people I'd be in there somewhere. have no conflict. Great. Member Haggerty, no. Okay, we can proceed. Okay, we we would ask Carol Johnson to testify 1st from liquor pros. Okay. Good afternoon. Oh, I'm sorry. I was just good, Carol Tell. You've told us your background, who you work for, and you conducted petitions for the new lifetime on on 30th Street. Yes. Did you explain the methodology and the results of your petitioning.

[111:00] Certainly liquor pros was asked to do the survey for this license application. We are a neutral petitioning company. Do not guarantee the results. We try to start the closest to the location for businesses and residents if there are some available and radiates outward. So we have samplings of the varying neighborhoods in all 4 quadrants. If that is available. We had 2 circulators on this job. Businesses were done on Thursday and Friday, May 29th and May 30, th and the residents were done on Saturday, May 31, st we made 124 attempts at businesses, and 321 residents for a total of 445 attempts. From that we obtained 107 signatures. We had 56 signatures from businesses, 100% in support, and we had 51 signatures from residents, 50 in support and one in opposition. The one who signed an opposition gave no reason for the opposition. We had 57 who declined to participate. 19 not interested. 19 too busy. 11 businesses was against their company policy to sign

[112:14] 5 did not sign petitions or surveys. 2 were against alcohol, and one gave no reason. There were 57 who were not qualified to sign 38 of those were businesses that did not have an owner or manager present at the time. 10 were under 21, and 9 were nonresident, so I do believe, with one signing in opposition, and that one not even giving a reason that this does show that there is a need and desire for this License to be issued, and I would answer any questions you may have. No further questions. If the Board has inquiry. So how many people in total just responded? Just how many response.

[113:03] That's the numbers that I just gave you. I know, but I heard a lot of this person didn't, because they were underage. I just. There were. There were 107 people who signed. There were people that came to the door, and they either chose not to sign, or were too busy to sign or were underage or something, but there were total 107. We approached 445 people, but there 107 that took the time to sign the petition. That is probably as as good as an average is on petitions, especially in an area like this. The residents are very few and far between. Close by and the farther away you get the less participation. People. Really. any other questions. Thank you. Okay, you may proceed.

[114:00] Okay. But ask Mr. Cogswell. Jared, will you tell us your name? You already spelled it for us? Yeah. Jared Cogswell. And what's your position with the applicant? Lifetime supplied for an entertainment, facility, license. General Manager. And you're the registered onsite manager at lifetime. That's correct. Okay? And do you have prior experience in the sale of alcohol? We're either working at restaurants or managing athletic facilities of alcohol service. Yes. What you explain your background for us. I've been in the fitness industry for 35 years serving as a general manager for 28 of those years. And we in most of those establishments we did have a liquor license as well. I also grand, opened our Beaverton Oregon location prior to coming to Boulder, and we had a full liquor license there as well.

[115:06] And will you be actively involved in the operation of lifetime? Boulder. Yes. Okay? And you also have employees and assistant managers have prior experience in alcohol sales. Correct. Yes. Have you ever had a liquor? Violation. No. As lifetime, with over 60 locations and multiple licenses ever had a violation to your knowledge. Yeah, we actually have a hundred 79 locations with no violations. Okay, I I think the the number. I think you have a hundred 79 liquor licenses. But lot of your app, a lot of your locations have multiple licenses. So with that 200 and some licenses, you've never had a violation. That's correct. Okay? And will you train your employees regarding liquor service, and will the training be tips. Yes, we'll require tips as well as safe. Serve alcohol, certification and and food handlers as well.

[116:05] In addition to tips you include, serve safe training material as part of your employee, your food service and and alcohol service employment manual. We do? Okay, what policies do you have requiring checking Ids. We check every id especially those that look under the age of 40. And do you have a policy on vertical ids? Yes, we don't accept them for alcohol sales. And what kind of food do you offer. We have a variety. We've actually even expanded our menu since our our grand opening. A few weeks ago. We have wraps, sandwiches, burgers? You know what else I'm thinking of salads, protein shakes, smoothies, things of that nature.

[117:01] And will there be food available, that food that you described available at all times? Alcohol served. Yes. And based on lifetimes multiple locations, liquor licenses. What are you projecting in? Food sales versus alcohol sales? Well, during the summer, when we have our our pool opened for what we call our bistro it will be anywhere from 10 to 15%. Alcohol sales versus food. Yeah, 85. Yeah, roughly, 85% food, 10 to 15% for alcohol. And then year round, is the alcohol number less when the pool's not open. Yes. Okay? And that's consistent with your other liquor licenses. Yes. And so you have a large outdoor area with the swimming pool. That's correct.

[118:00] And is the outdoor area. Is it well staffed? Or you have observation of of customers? And who's drinking? Who's not in the outdoor area? Yeah, absolutely. We actually have servers and bartenders roaming the the pool deck during operational hours for food and and beverage. And they're also monitoring alcohol consumption. Yes. Okay, how would you describe the primary purpose of lifetime? We provide every everything from fitness, sports entertainment. We're a a full service, what we call an athletic country club. Is the sale of alcoholic beverages incidental to your primary business. Yes, absolutely. Is sale of alcohol. Only a small portion of your total sales. Yes. Please describe the sports you provided the public the sports

[119:04] part of the sports facility license. Well, we we've only been open for 3 weeks, but you know, we provide obviously fitness and training for sports. But we will also be hosting sports, related competitions. We will be hosting, hybrid fitness, events, and competitions. We also have a partnership with our Leadville Race Series team, which is also owned by lifetime. We'll be also administering hiking clubs, running clubs, cycling clubs, even uphill skiing during the during the winter months. We'll have you know, we'll have even some movie premieres with local athletes. For special events.

[120:01] we'll have keynote speakers. You know, really a a lot of different things beyond exercise and fitness. And then you also, occasionally have live music, either indoor or outdoor. Yes, live music. Definitely indoors and outdoors. We'll have a a Dj every couple of weeks on the pool deck. Yeah, that. And we may even have some sort of concert series like we, we have done at our other locations. Okay? And then portion of the premise is also indoors, and that's a a defined cafe. Yes. Okay? And then, do you instruct people to keep their alcoholic beverages within the cafe unless you're having an event. Yes, we'll have signage where they cannot move beyond the area of the cafe itself.

[121:05] and the same thing with our outdoor facilities. Okay? And then, when you have some of the events like the movies, and what have you activate a portion of the indoor premises for those activities. Yes, we we have, 4 different group fitness studios, one of which we would use for special events. Okay, I have no further questions. If the Board would like to inquire. I have a question. You said that you're going to limit where people can walk around with their alcohol. What's how are you going to monitor that. We'll we'll have signage posted. But everything is within viewing we have the way the the club is set up. For example, our our cafe employees would be able to see if somebody was moving beyond that area within the club, the same. And on the other side of that we have what we call a member concierge.

[122:14] And everybody's going to be trained properly on on what the boundaries are. The same thing goes on the outdoor location. We'll have signage posted. And there's virtually there's employees roaming all the the areas of the premises at all times. Are people going to be able to take their alcohol from inside to the pool across the street like that? No, no, and there, there's not a street anymore. We everything is continuous. We change that with the the remodel. But no, it would actually again, it would say, no alcohol beyond this point. and they wouldn't be able to take something from the cafe and and go to the outdoor area.

[123:05] Thank you. In thinking about the outdoor pool area. It's it's pretty big. Just thinking about. People may bring in their own alcohol or something like that? How will the staff there be approaching that? And will they be keeping an eye out for those types of things? How would you deal with the situation. Oh, yeah, we we don't allow any outside beverages. Even non alcoholic. I mean, you could bring water. But that's that's the only thing that we we allow. So that is something that we would enforce on the premises. ex-, especially because of the liability. Thanks. Just a couple of questions on my part. This is Member Crane. 1st of all, I mean, it's a remarkable record cited by your attorney about the 200 licenses, or and or facilities that are without

[124:05] any violation nationally, that that's remarkable, and a Testament to what I assume is an overall corporate discipline about how to do this right. If I got that right. Yes. And and the the people here in Boulder will be trained in the same discipline. Absolutely. The only other question is, is there limited access to your facility to your premises? Limited access. Yet you have to be a member or a guest to, and and when we say guests, you have to be a guest of a member to utilize the facility. So that yes. Yeah, it. People who are known, or their guests. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions from the board.

[125:00] Okay, you may proceed. Wait. I just have a clarification question. Jared. A member of the public who's not a member, can purchase a day pass save lifetime. Is that correct? They right now they cannot. We don't allow that right now, because we're trying to protect the the capacity of the club, but they what we do do is if somebody would like to try the club, we will invite them in to allow to allow access. So in in most of those cases it's it's not a. It's not a fee base. It's it's for them to try the club. Okay. Yeah, most of our facilities, most of our facilities do allow a- a guest pass. But for now, just on- on the at least in the 1st 30 days. We're just allowing member and guest access only.

[126:00] For the 1st 30 days. Yes. For my clarification. If you did do that which would not be unusual, I would guess, for clubs is you'd have name, address, or maybe date of birth, or some identifying factors that would be connected to the day pass. Yeah, absolutely. We always check identification for anybody who enters our premises. Yeah, that that's thank you. I have another question. So our members id! Every time they go to the bar, or are you tracking members who can just go. So they they have to show identification at the bar. Every time they order a drink. That's how you get to 200 facilities without a violation. I suppose it's 1 thing. Yeah, you don't. You don't want to mess with our CEO on on these types of things.

[127:03] Excellent. Any other comments, questions. I have no further questions. Okay, then we can go ahead and close for deliberation. I'll just start by saying, I believe the alcohol policy was like the best I've ever seen possibly coming before this board. I thought it was terrific. I some key points were the photos shown along with asking questions throughout. It felt so thorough. I really appreciated them, including the safe serve documentation with their policies. I agree. I thought that was very impressive.

[128:03] Yeah. I threw that it was. It was. It was a good policy. I had no other questions or concerns. Is there a motion to approve this license? I'll make a motion to approve lifetimes liquor license. Member Carr will second that motion. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. For Barnes. I. Member car. I. Amber crane. I. I'm Regurgi. Okay. Congrats. Good luck. Right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I wish I was a member. I was so impressed with the entire thing, top to bottom up. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks.

[129:00] Thank you, and I feel just give us a second. We'll get everything situated here, Mr. Weinford. You'll be hearing from Kristen Teague with next steps for approval, and all that, so. Great thanks a lot. Sure thing. Appreciate it. And we will move on to agenda. Item 9, which is public hearing and consideration of a new application filed on April 24, th 2025 from Kura, sushi U.S.A, Inc. Dba. Revolving Sushi Bar 1, 8, 5, 5, 29th Street, number 1152, boulder, Colorado, 8, 0 3, 0 1 Kurasushi, U.S.A. Inc. Is publicly traded with Hasami Ubi. President CEO and Board Chairman Jeffrey, Utz, Cfo, CEO and Treasurer Brent Taco CIO and Secretary Seanan Ala. Coo, Robert Kluger, Cdo. Arlene Pitokas, Cpo. Shintaro Asako Board, Director Kim Ellis Board, Director Karen Stutz. Board director Teresa bowers, board Director with the business mailing address of 3 17 East Carson Street. Suite 3,

[130:07] 3, 3, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1, 5, 2, 1 9 for a hotel restaurant type, liquor license. If you're here to speak on this matter. Please go ahead and raise your hand if you're not already in there. and it looks like Mr. Profit is here, and you are the Attorney for this Licensee. Sorry. Yes, Brian. Profit registration number 31,101 on behalf of the applicant here this afternoon, Kurasushi, U.S.A. Inc. I hope and believe I have a couple of other people joining us, including our general manager, Dennis Zakatinko. and someone from alcohol beverage, petitioning services or alcohol petitioning services. Yes, I see miss, one is also here. Okay, great and then, Mr. Zakitenko, if you are able to turn on your camera and unmute yourself. I'll start with you. But if you need a second, that's totally fine.

[131:09] Here we go. We see you okay. And then, Mr. Zachatego, if you will go ahead and say your name, and spell your name for the record and give an address. Hello, yes, my name is Dennis Akatenko. It's DENN, ISZA CATE, NCO. Thank you and an address for the record. 1,800 Laurel Avenue. Thank you. And how are you affiliated with the licensee? Yes, I'm the store manager in Kuro. Sushi! Thank you, and if you'll go ahead and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to get before the beverage. Licensing authority are true and correct. Yes. And do you swear or affirm that the premise has been posted for 10 days prior to today's hearing?

[132:00] Yes. Thank you so much. And, Miss Lynn, if you will go ahead and say your name and spell your name for the record and give an address. Absolutely. My name is Laura Lunn, LAUR. A. LUNN. I live at 2 0 3, 2 overland drive, Johnstown, Colorado, 8, 0 5, 3, 4. Thank you so much. And how are you affiliated with licensee? I am representing alcohol petitioning services. How we did the petitioning for Kira sushi revolving bar. Thank you so much, and if you'll go ahead and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm that the statements you're about to give before the beverage. Licensing authority are true and correct. I do? Thank you. I'll go ahead and hand it over to the chair. Hey? Thanks, Caitlin and attorney profit! Would you be willing to waive the reading of the procedures. We'd happily wave Ms. Roberts. Perfect. Okay, then, the no board. Is there any conflict of interest, or has there been any ex parte communication member? Roberts? No.

[133:04] Amber, barnes, no. Member, Cardinal. Member Haggerty, now. Member, Crane, no. Excellent can. You may proceed. Chairperson Roberts, members of the authority. Thank you. Again, Brian. Profit on behalf of the applicant. This afternoon. Cura sushi U.S.A. Incorporated, seeking to do business in Boulder as cura revolving sushi bar, and I'm sorry about my dog in the back who is ready to come in. We are making application this afternoon for a hotel and restaurant liquor license for our location at 1855, 29th Street Unit 1152 in Boulder, Colorado. I'll have 2 witnesses this afternoon. Mr. Dennis Zakatinko, who will be our general manager at the facility, and Ms. Laura Lunn, who, you saw both of them moments ago, were sworn in. I think I'll start with Ms. Lunn, because I have a feeling she may have to appear at another

[134:04] authority meeting a bit later before much longer this evening, so without any further ado, we'd like to call Ms. Lunn, Ms. Lund. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. There we are! You stated your name. You spelled your name a few moments ago. You work with alcohol petitioning services. Is that correct? That is correct. I'm a manager with them. And what kind of work does alcohol petitioning services do. We do a neighborhood survey for new liquor, licenses, or liquor licenses in general. And was Aps hired to do a needs and desire survey for purposes of this application. Yes, we were. And did you do so. We did. Were the results of that petitioning effort. Pre-filed with the licensing authority. Yes, they were. Okay, thank you. Can you describe for the authority the results of that survey process. Of course we were hired by Cura Sushi U.S.A. Incorporated doing business as Cura sushi revolving bar, located at 1, 5, 5, 29th street unit 1, 1, 5, 2, boulder, Colorado, 8, 0 3 0 1.

[135:09] Our survey methodology is all circulators are over 18 years of age or older. Each circulator had a clipboard with the following, a map of the designated area provided by the city of Boulder, liquor, licensing authority describing the boundaries of the defined neighborhood to include a list of existing liquor licenses within the designated area. A petition signature page, where people contacted could indicate their support or opposition for the license and a tally sheet to record the results of those who did not sign. People were shown the petition, the neighborhood map, and were verbally told of the new hotel and restaurant liquor license being applied for site, location, applicant, name. Each person who signed the petition indicated. They were either an owner or manager of a business or resident located within the designated area, and were 21 years of age or older. Each signature was freely and voluntarily given without any influence from the circulator

[136:02] we are able to have 3 3 circulators. On Tuesday, June 3, rd and 2 circulators. On Thursday, June 5, th we were able to get 92 signatures, of which of businesses or 59 signatures, residents were 33 signatures in favor were 59 for businesses, 32 for residents, for a total of 91 in favor signatures in opposition was 0 for businesses, one for residents, for a total of 92 signatures, total statistical awareness or analysis of the signatures is in favor is 98.9%, and opposition is 1.1%. One resident was opposed to the hotel and restaurant liquor license. They did not provide a reason why we were able to go to 420 businesses and residents. 92 signatures were obtained for 21.9% 236 people were not home for 56.2% 53 people were not willing to sign for 12.6%.

[137:00] Business owners or managers not available was 29 for 6.9%, and a business was closed or vacant were 10, and for 2.4%, for the reasons of contacts not being willing to sign. There were 23 people that had no opinion, 10 people who were not interested, and 20 people who were too busy for a total of 53 people. the summary of ratio of signatures to contact attempts we were able to go to 288 residents with 33 signatures for 11.5 point 7 11.5%. We went to 132 businesses with 59 signatures for 44.7% for an average of 21.9% of attempts to contact people obtained a signature for the petition, actual people contacts, which means when we were actually able to talk face to face with somebody, whether it was a resident or a business or owner. We had 89 contacts with businesses for 59 signatures for 66.3% residents. We had 59 contacts and signatures were 33 for 58.9%. For an average of 63.4% of eligible, eligible people. Contacted provided a signature for the petition.

[138:11] There are no disqualified signatures. There was one signature in opposition to the liquor license, as I mentioned earlier, in order to show needs and desires, it should consider whether there are enough same license types in the designated neighborhood. In my opinion, the signature does not fit the definition of the needs and desire. Therefore we have the final analysis. 32 residents are in favor businesses. There are 59 for a total of 91 in favor is 100%, and opposition is 0%. Okay, I have no further questions to Ms lawn at this time. I'd make her available to the authority. Thank you. Thank you any questions from the authority. Do you think that those numbers I'm used to hearing like higher percentages?

[139:04] Do you have an explanation for why, that they're lower. Sure, you know, it's kind of we are in an area where there is a lot of student housing, and with there not being students in right now it was a little bit lower. The actual people contact was actually relatively high. For what we usually see. We were people that we were able to contact with 63.4% being overall. It was, that's an actually a pretty pretty good representation. Okay. Thank you. Anything else. From the board we can proceed. Thank you, Ms. Robertson, I would ask. I don't know if Ms. Lund has to be at another authority meeting. I know there are a couple starting in about 40 min, but may she be excused. Absolutely. Thank you.

[140:00] Thank you very much. You're welcome. Good evening. Next. I'd like to call Mr. Dennis Zakatenko. Mr. Zocatenko. Good evening. Can I have you state your name mostly. My name is. Me. There we go! Dennis, Sagotenko. Thank you, and though it is spelled in our zoom here, can you spell your last name for the record? Please. Yes, it's ZACA, TENC o. Now, Mr. Zakatenko, you are anticipated to be the general manager for cura revolving sushi bar. Is that correct? Yes. Correct. How long have you worked for Kura? Sushi! I work with the company for 8 and a half years. And where are you currently stationed or employed. I am currently stationed in Cypress, California. Can you tell us a bit about your history with Kurosushi? Yes, I've been working in the company for 8 and a half years. Now I start off as a dishwasher, and I slowly move my way up into the company as as of now. I am the GM.

[141:03] And for which location is that. Cyprus, California. And you'll be moving to Boulder, Colorado to open this restaurant. Is that correct? Yes. Correct. Okay. Now, in your capacity with Kurasushi, are you familiar with the business operations of one of its restaurants? Yes. Correct. And are you all also familiar with this proposed location, which I believe is still under construction here in Boulder, Colorado. Yes. Correct. Now cura revolving sushi bar is a new concept to the State of Colorado, so I doubt anyone here on the authority has either ever been to one, or is particularly familiar. So could you briefly tell us about the concept behind cura sushi. Yes, kura sushi is a restaurant with a conveyor belt serving Japanese dishes prepared with fresh, healthy premium ingredients we serve nigiri, tempura rolls ramen and desserts.

[142:00] Okay. Now let me ask, how many restaurants does Kura sushi operate nationwide. Yes, so we have about 80 stores in the Us. And we have 200 stores over in Japan. Okay. And what was it about this location in Boulder generally that attracted Kurasushi. For that specific reason. Koro sushi is expanding into a seal market boulder is an ideal. 1st location at is at, as it is, a college town with a varied student body, a strong tourist destination, and has very vibrant dining scene. Okay, can you describe? You've touched on it. But the menu for Cora revolving sushi bar everything. That's not everything, but generally the items that we can find there. Yes, so some of the stuff you could find for Nigiri will have to be salmon tomago, sockeye salmon seared beef. We also have items like rolls and hand rolls for the rolls. We have golden crunchy yo hand roll for the ramen. We have takatsu ramen udon, and before juice.

[143:19] Okay. Now, you mentioned earlier that this is what makes it kind of fun is it's a conveyor Belt restaurant. Can you kind of. Yeah, correct. That for those who maybe haven't been to a conveyor belt. Sushi bar. Yes, so pretty much. When the cedar sits you down for your table, you could start ordering food off the table, or, if you look to your right side when you're when you're dining in. We have a conveyor belt that goes around the whole store. Any play that you get off. The conveyor belt costs $3 $3 and 85 cents, and that's a different variety of items, as in the Geary and Rose, as well. Okay? And you touched on how much the Nigiri coming off the conveyor belt is. But how much is it? A meal approximately at Kurosushi.

[144:04] So every sushi plate that we have on the carrier box costs $3 and 85 cents. Okay? And when you take something off the conveyor belt, how is it that you're charged for? That is somebody coming by and just making a check on a piece of paper? Or how is it that you know, to do the bill at the end of the day. Yes. So any plate that you get off the choir belt. Which is a sushi plate. When you're done eating, you put that in the plate slot, and that gets counted after the end of the the your meal. Okay, thank you. And of course, we're here making application for a hotel and restaurant liquor license which would allow you to sell beer, wine and spirits in the restaurant. Can you tell us what alcohol offerings does kura sushi make available to its customers? Yes, we serve draft beer we serve sake, and we serve wine. Now, are these servings in single service containers? Or do you serve larger, like bottles of wine or pitchers of beer, or things similar to that.

[145:06] So as of right. Now we serve 12 ounce and 16 ounces of glass beers and bottle beers. Okay, and how about the sake? Does it come in bottles? And are they smaller size bottles meant for maybe one or 2 people, or are they larger? Format bottles. Their smaller bottle usually serves up to one, to 2 people, one to 2 guests. And what are your anticipated hours of operation for Kurasushi? Yes. So Monday to Thursday we'll be opening from 1130 to 9, 30. Friday, we will. We'll be opening 1130 to 10 o'clock Saturday. We'll be opening from 11 to 10 o'clock, and then Sunday. We'll be opening from 11 to 9 Pm. Okay, thank you. And when you anticipate, you'll be ready to open to the public. Yes, we're anticipating opening on July 21.st Now, next, I'd like to ask you about your policies and procedures. And but before I do that, obviously we need to know how many people. Do you anticipate that you'll hire for this location?

[146:07] So we'll be hiring around 45 employees. Okay? And how many managers will oversee those 45 employees. 4. Now which groups of employees will handle, sell, and serve alcohol in the restaurant. That will be front of the house, which that would be the servers, head servers and management. Okay, and approximately, how many people will that involve. That would be around 16. Now, can you generally describe your training process at your store? Specifically a new restaurant opening such as this one. Yes. So we go through protocols. We usually have a module on our own website called college. That's where we do the alcohol beverage certificate certification. Once we pass that we get a certified certificate to serve alcohol.

[147:03] Okay. Now, that is that an internal training course that's provided then by Kurasushi. Yes. Correct. Let me ask you even a bit more broadly, with a new restaurant opening. Do you have a training team that will come to boulder and help you and the remainder of the management staff train. Yes. Like, people. Okay, yes. Correct. Like we. Please go ahead. Sorry about that. Go ahead! Yes, we have a. We have our own personal recruitment team that will come to our opening team. They will go ahead and train the front of the house and back of the house. But the they will be taking care of front of the house when it comes to the alcohol beverage training. Now, approximately. How large is this training team that will come to Boulder. It's around 15. And are they full time trainers for the company? Or are they other managers or service staff from other restaurants across the country who make. Yes, there are full time.

[148:01] team members, and also we have on site assistant managers that are full time as well, that are training the employees. And how long will the training team that comes to Boulder actually be in boulder on site, helping you to train in the restaurant. Yes, so from they will be coming in. Usually they stay no longer than 3 months. Okay. And so several weeks, or even maybe a month before open. Yes. Correct. And then remaining on site after you've opened. To make sure everything's running smoothly. Is that right? Yes. Correct. Okay, thank you. Now, you touched on the alcohol training that was provided a bit earlier. It's an internal training program. Does it include testing for your your staff members. Yes. So we, we test the employees based on the modules that we get through the core college. But yes, we do test. Does the training also involve shadowing or role playing before customers come into the restaurant?

[149:05] Yes, correct. We have about. We give it about a week to have the front of the house train specifically before we start opening and serving the guests. Now, in addition to your internal training program, is Kurasushi working with any local training programs for your staff. For us. Specifically, we have our own recruitment that does the training for our employees. Let me rephrase this. Has. Kurasushi reached out to a state approved a Colorado State approved vendor to schedule, a training that would be required by Boulder for your staff. Yeah. Yes. Correct. Okay? And is that alcohol beverage training that will. Yes. Correct. Meetings. Okay, thank you. Now, in addition to the training that we've described, do you hold any sort of soft openings or friends and family events to work through any of the bugs from training there. As you get ready to open the restaurant.

[150:09] Yes, correct. We have a soft opening. I was. I was a part of that a couple of years ago, and lucky enough now that I'm able to do that again. So yes, we do do a soft opening before we actually open to the public. Okay. Now, last question about training after your training team has has left, you've been open for a couple of months. Now. Will new hires go through the same training program as the people who were there from the beginning. But it'll be administered by your own management staff. Is that how you handle the training. Yes, correct after the recruitment leaves, and after we're done training for the people who have been there for the opening. If any new new upcoming hires. We do do the retrain for the alcohol servers. Okay. It was a terrible question, but you knew what I was going out with, and you answered it. Well. No. Sorry about that.

[151:00] That's good. Next. I want to ask you about some of your service policies themselves, but it might be a bit helpful if you could describe for us if we're a patron coming into the restaurant, just kind of how it works. Are we seated at a table, just walk us through what it would be like for a patron to come in and order from you. Yes, so as soon as you come in we either ask you we have a reservation or a walk in. If you have a reservation. We just ask you for your reservation number. We manually input you to with the table. We go ahead and sit you down. The introductions are in the tablet as soon as you start ordering. So also, we could provide you with a manual introduction as well. As soon as you come in you can start ordering the food off the menus. We have beverages as well. We have the drink menu on the tablets, and we have the conveyor belt off to the side where you're dining in. And so I can order both off the menu with my server, as well as pulling certain pieces of sushi, or whatever off of the conveyor belt in both manners. Is that correct?

[152:04] Yes, correct. And we also provide a mobile ordering. Okay, now, the alcohol, sale and service, though how would I order an alcoholic beverage? What does that physically look like? Yes, so if you for your table where you're dining in, you have to look up to your either left or right hand side. We have the order panel. That's where you could order your drinks. Menu off of anybody who orders any alcohol beverage before we serve the guest. We go to the table and we verify that they're 21 and older. Okay, thank you. And then how is the alcohol actually served? Does it come by the conveyor, or is it brought to the table? We manually bring the alcohol to your table? Before and that's after we verify you for your 21 older. Okay, thank you. Now, what is your policy for asking for identification? Or what's the age limit that you typically look at from a guest asking them for id.

[153:06] Yes, we usually the age limits that we usually see. That's from 30 30 years or younger. Okay, thank you. And does Kurasushi ever accept vertical ids as proper identification for purchasing alcohol? And I'll remind you, here in Colorado we do have vertical ids for our underage drivers, which are good identification for a couple of weeks after somebody turns 21. Yes, for Colorado. This would be the state that we're doing 1st for id verification through vertical that will be approved by management. Okay. So if, if presented, if a regular hourly server is presented with one of these vertical ids, they need to call a manager over, to, to verify. Is that correct? Yes. Correct. Okay, thank you. Just want to make sure. I understood that. And can you confirm that your staff is taught to recognize the signs of intoxication in a guest.

[154:03] Yes, correct. That is also done through our training process. Through our alcohol beverage. That explains to us signs of intoxication. Okay. And how is a server taught to handle a situation where maybe a guest comes in. Maybe they've been somewhere else, and they've come in, and they begin to order alcohol, and they appear intoxicated. Or maybe they've been enjoying your sushi for an hour or more, and they order another drink, and your servers feels that there are signs of intoxication. How are they trained to handle that situation? Yes, so we would ask the guests that we would have to close down their bill politely, and we would politely escort them if they need any transportation, if they seem to, go above intoxication, especially the amounts of the drinking but we offer them any transportation if they seem to have any toxication.

[155:02] But for us personally we have to ask the guests to close the bill, and we will have to assist them. Now, when you say we, is that the management staff, or is the server entrusted to do that themselves? We as a management, we do that ourselves. You. You encourage them to call in a manager to help with this situation. Yes. Correct. Okay, thank you. And what would the consequences be for an employee of Kurasushi, who violates your own alcohol service policies, and, let's say, were to serve alcohol to a minor. How are they handled. Yes, so we usually do a disciplinary action. We will talk to the employee itself. But the management will get involved to do any disciplinary actions. Okay. And is that an immediate termination, or is it maybe more of a progressive discipline where maybe there's retraining? And they're allowed to continue to work there if they were to make such a mistake.

[156:02] Yes, it's more progressive. Okay, thank you. Now, next, I want to ask you about the layout of the restaurant itself. Do you have a copy of the floor plan, which was submitted as part of the application. There with you. Yes, I am. Looking at the layout right now. Okay. And I would encourage all of the Board members to do the same. When can you mine up as well, Mr. Zakatenko? Can you walk us through the restaurant as though we were a patron coming in through the front door, which is actually on the west side of the building. So as soon as you come in you'll be where the parking lot is at. You'll be answered by the main entrance. By your left side that will have all the server stations. That will have. We have a B and C sections, so you'll be greeted in from B section

[157:07] off to your left will be the server station will be the a station. Usually that will be one through 8 tables. The middle sections will have to be the bar sections all the way to the right side of the of the store. Wise! That will be the main hallway. The back. Ha! The back of the store will be the restrooms. also, that would be located with the kitchens every station, whereas in ramen nigiri desserts, the fish cutter prep. And as the back of the store that would be the office. I do want to ask you a quick question. You had meant the bar area. Are you referring to like an alcohol bar? Or is there more of like a sushi bar? Feel where you would actually sit shoulder to shoulder at a bar where the conveyor goes in front of you? That will be a sushi bar. You won't be sitting side by side by guests. You won't be served alcohol. It would just be the conveyor belt, passing by.

[158:04] And do each of these rows you mentioned? I think they were a B, and maybe C do. They have separate conveyors of sushi? Or does the sushi go through the entire restaurant on the same conveyor belt. Yes. So the sushi goes around the whole conveyor belt. We we have shortcuts that go around the whole store. We could close off sections, and we could open them, depending on how busy it is or how idle it is. But yes, we could customize the shortcuts from the conveyor belt. Okay, and all of the alcohol service. And when I say service, actually, what I mean is where the alcohol is stored and kept before it is served. Where is that located. That is located on the alcohol storage station by the server station. Okay. thank you. And is there any patron access to that area? Or is that considered kind of back of the house? There. That's usually in the side of back of the house.

[159:03] Okay, thank you very much. What is your seating capacity for the restaurant? Approximately. 78. Okay? And you can. Can you confirm the kurosushi? Here is a full kitchen with adequate personnel equipment and food to prepare meals. Yes. Correct. And will meals always be available during all of your hours of operation? Yes. Correct. And, lastly, can you confirm that the sale of meals from this location is expected to account for at least 25% of the gross income from your sale of food and alcoholic beverages. Yes. Correct. Okay, thank you. Let me just double check. Mr. Zacatenko. I think that's all the questions I have of you this afternoon. At this time I would make you available to the authority for any. Follow up. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Mr. Profit, for such a thorough direct. Does anybody have any questions.

[160:03] I did have one question. To clarify. Dennis. These mentioned there was a bar and it was a sushi bar. Is there also, like a standard bar where you'd order drinks? Or is it just the sushi bar. It's we just have the regular tables and the sushi bars. Okay, got it. Thank you. Oh, Member Crane, 2 questions, actually, one's a follow up of of something. Attorney profit asked you a second ago, which was the the relationship between the alcohol sales and the food sales. Your application says 95% food, 5% alcohol. Is that more closer to what you expect it to be in this location. if not kind of, where does it fall? That so if correctly, that will be 95 food and 5% alcohol.

[161:07] Okay? And the only other question I have is, is, Who is Malka Klein? That's the system manager. Assistant manager. Yes. Okay. And Mister Crane, if I may. You're the manager. Well, just a quick follow up. Of course we complete these applications sometimes months in advance of us, getting to this point, and with the information we had at hand when completing the application. We were of the belief that Ms. Klein was going to be the general manager, but we learned at a later time she'll be the assistant manager, and it's Mr. Zocatenko who will be the general manager of the facility, and we will report that change once the application is fully processed, and we have that opportunity. No problem. Just my my follow up to that was Mr. Zakatinko is familiar with the responses in the application, and agrees with them. I assume if he's going to be the manager.

[162:05] That sounds like a yes. I think I. Correct. Yeah. Sorry. All right. Thank you. I have a question regarding the number of restaurants that already exist for cura. Do you have an idea about previous alcohol violations that any of the other, and you can just speak on the ones in this country. Yes, from my behalf I would say no. There hasn't been any. No, from from my knowledge, no. Chair. Chairperson. Roberts, let me just double check that And I do apologize. I had the application up on my computer a bit earlier. I thought I did. But I wanna like I said, I want to double check. Thank you. That's correct. We've we've never had a revocation or suspension. At any of our

[163:04] Us. Locations. I do apologize. I can't speak for the Japanese locations. I don't have that information available to me. Thank you. I do see that there was a citation with a thousand dollar fine paid to the State of Minnesota. I don't. That wasn't necessarily a suspension or revocation. But Any clarification on what happened, or in that situation. Mr. Carr, can you help me with that? Is that in the individual history records which actually asks a slightly different question than the overall application. Yes, that is in the individual. History records. Okay, give me just a second. Hmm. Mike, what page are you on there.

[164:00] It's on each of the individual history records. So it's on each one. Yeah. So you go like, page 4, 69, yeah. Okay. For example, or 4, 63. I see it on 4, 33, number 5. Sure. Good. Alright sorry it did take me a moment. Well, it was. Oh! And then answered so there could be some connection there. Well, no, that's actually absolutely correct. So the questions on the individual history record are asking if these individuals have ever received a violation, notice suspension, and so the answer is, no, not for them personally, but they are disclosing that the company did receive a citation for sale to a minor in September 2023, which was handled as a fine, as opposed to a suspension or revocation. So there's the question in the liquor application. The Dr. 8,404 for the company that simply asks about a revocation or suspension, and we answered that no. And then there's this question which is addressed to each of the individuals. But to make sure, we give a complete answer. This is how we chose to answer that.

[165:18] Thank you. Member car. Any follow ups to that. I I don't think so. Just a comment on the alcohol training. Did we lose. Still here. Yeah, the applicant, though he's gone. The. It does seem like a very internal, robust training. I am kind of like not. you know, I don't think that the actual paperwork and the policy that's being handed out

[166:04] is very light in comparison. I was just going to ask if maybe there's a manual that goes along with the internal training, because there's really just 3 pages of of alcohol policy in this huge packet that they gave us so kind of a comment. Kind of a question. To the best of my knowledge, and I'll answer that as best I can, my understanding that as much of the training is done as an interactive online module which we tried to find for purposes of your packet, maybe an ability to give a link to it or something along those lines, and at the end of the day we chose to provide the paperwork that we had, and then I don't know if we've lost Mr. Zakatenko. If we have. I can certainly email and see if we can get him back on, because he does still need to be here.

[167:06] And he could give some greater depth on what that looks like, but we just couldn't figure out a good way to present it to you, at least in a physical form. I guess my concern then would be. do the employees need this in a physical form to reference? How are they able to reference what they're learning in the online. Training like he's back. Great. Dennis, are you there? Hello, yeah. Sorry about that. My computer had died. Well, we're glad you're back. We've got a question for you from Ms. Roberts, and is she? Well, I'll let her. This has to do with the training, since much of the training is through a module that's online. Miss Roberts has some questions about how, after that's complete, your people will be able to reference what they had learned or remind themselves. But, Ms. Roberts, I'll let you ask that question again. I don't want to misstate it.

[168:13] Thank you. Yeah. I was just noticing that with the huge packet that you gave us, there was really just 3 very simple pages on your alcohol policy for customers. There was a lot more for internal consumption, and so I was just wondering. It sounds like you have a very robust team that's going around. But what if somebody but I was wondering if there was more internal training material we didn't see, Mr. Profit said that you guys are doing a lot of online training and so you couldn't present us with anything physical to see. And that led me to wonder, well, what about your employees who need a refresher or. Are they studying for this? How, or they forget something? But it was all online. How are they able to reference this information.

[169:07] Yes. So we have a platform called Core College, which is the modules that we do the California alcohol beverage. They could have they have access to that? 24, 7. So if what we could do during their work shifts we could pull them to the side and have them retrain. Also, we could have those managers in hand. Train them in hand while they're working the shift. Okay, cool. So there is a place to reference. If they have questions. Yes, correct. I'm more than welcome to help my employee. From whatever they need. Great. I have a follow up question on that. What would be posted within the the establishment? Could you just refresh me on what you plan to have posted to remind employees, you know, about some of the requirements and duties. Yes, that's usually posted in the server station. That's where we post any notifications as in food, menus, allergies, alcohol beverages, anything that the team needs to be aware of that is posted in the Server station.

[170:11] Got it. And what does that typically consist of for outground alcohol policies. Yes, so that includes anything from when it comes to guest intoxications signs. The ears to confirm that they're 21 and older. and then anything when it comes to The wait for the guest as well. Got it. And then we'll do. You typically have a guidebook for ids, as you know, it's a college town, right? So there's a lot of out of state students. Guided through our cooler college module. I'm sorry you cut out there for a moment. What was the response. That's also provided through our module through Core College. That's everything is through digital.

[171:00] Okay. So if it's just a in a situation where a server has a question about an Id, they would be able to. You, you know, access that in the moment, and look at, you know, to verify that that is a a legitimate Id. Yes. Correct. Okay, great and will you be utilizing any sort of scanners or anything of that nature? As of right now. We don't have any scanners but in the future we could implement those. Okay? Great. yeah. And the reason that we ask some of these questions is because, as you know, you have mentioned, and we are aware this is a college town, and there's a lot of lot of students here, and things get really busy. So Yes. Correct. Really paying attention to those things is is really important. So. Yes, today. Yes, correct. That's awesome. So a location that a lot of people will need to drive to. It's not really on the bus line to the university. So that was kind of a flag of concern. If we're targeting college students, though, they'll have to be driving there, most likely.

[172:08] Okay. Any other comments, questions from the board. Great. Do you have a closing. Just briefly, and there we don't have any other witnesses this afternoon. Ms. Roberts. Thank you. We do believe that to summarize these proceedings, that the applications in good order, and both procedurally and subsequently proper. Proper notice of this hearing has been posted and published. that we do have possession of the premises as are required. The applicant and its employees are also good moral character, as shown by the background investigations as well as the discussion here today regarding its history as well as policy procedure, and finally, and in some ways, perhaps most importantly, the needs and desires of the neighborhood are also consistent with granting this application, as demonstrated by the neighborhood survey and the testimony of Ms. Lunn, and as a result we would ask that you would grant this hotel and restaurant liquor, license, application. Thank you.

[173:13] Thank you. Okay. At this time we will close for deliberation any discussion or motions. Well, I think it's it's interesting and different that there's an online portal for a lot of these things. But I don't necessarily think that's a problem. At least it it exists right? So That was kind of a hangup of mine as well after going through the packet, but after listening to the way the company runs, and how successful they've been. It definitely puts that at ease for me. Yeah, yeah, having 80 restaurants in one, you know.

[174:02] one violation is is not bad. Agreed. Any other comments or questions from the board deliberation. Okay, well, I'll make a motion to approve this liquor license. Is there a second. Mcrain. I second it. Great all those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member car? Aye. Crane, eye. Member Haggerty. I. Great you've been approved. Good luck! It's exciting. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. No problem, and Mr. Profit, I'll be in touch with next steps. Thank you so much. Take care! I'm older.

[175:01] All right. I will go ahead and move on to agenda. Item, 10 matters from City Attorney. Roberto, did you have anything. I have nothing. Thanks. Thank you. All right. I will move on to agenda. Item 11, which is matters from licensing clerk. The 1st matter is neighborhood boundary settings for application for the July 16th hearing. Okay, so we have quite a few things happening with the boundary settings. So we're just gonna go down the list here. The 1st one we have is Rocky Mountain Paddle Board, Llc. Dba. Lakeside at Boulder 5, 2, 7, 5, reservoir road, boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3 1. This is for a new hotel restaurant type, liquor license. Just to remind the Board this. You did hear public comment about this matter earlier in

[176:06] the hearing, and I'm going to go ahead and share my screen so that you can see a map. I have questions. Around this. Not just, but there was a lot of talk about before I kept hearing them say, like the last time they've done this. and I was wondering if that's something that the Board can be privy to knowing. Has this been before us before? Are we allowed historical. Yeah, so this is so. This specific application has never been. Brought in front of the board. The applicant Rocky Mountain paddleboard, Llcba lakeside at Boulder that has never been brought in front of the board. There was another application. In. I believe it was 2022 for a hotel restaurant license at this location, and it was denied

[177:01] the boundary setting for context at that time was under Covid rules. Which means and actually, I have it right here for you. Not that one does it. No, hang on, let me find it. So this is the what the the boundary looked like at that time, and it was just a mile radius, because that's what we were doing. And during under Covid rules. So everyone got a mile radius. There wasn't like a boundary setting like we're doing right now. Where you guys determine the boundaries. So that is what is being referred to from public comment, from earlier. Thank you. You're welcome. Alright. So for boundary setting, could you zoom out a little further. I see the the concern here right with

[178:02] just being a lot of open space. suggestion was go to 63rd Street and across through J. Road. Let's see, where is that? I see 63rd and J. I would almost say, go all the way to. I don't know. 75th Street. Jump the diagonal there. Yeah. Gun barrel, you know. Well, it's like a nice area. So I just wanna bring up that the previous, I mean, well, I don't. Maybe this doesn't come up now. But if the previous little area denied this. Are we just like watering out? Are we just saying like, Okay, well, then, we'll ask more people. I guess. I just.

[179:03] I just putting that out there as a comment. And I thought that thinking about that does seem small just a mile radius, especially with all this open space. But do you know that. Yeah. Think the it does. It does offer an opportunity to have more opinions. Which may, you know, play a role in this approval or denial, or, you know, based on the community sent sentiment at least. But I personally think it's better to always have more voices. And people who are, you know. over in that gun barrel area, I I think, would be U utilizing the reservoir. I used to live in gun barrel, so I I used to go there all the time. That's that's my opinion, which is, I think it's better to have more voices than not. I don't know if anyone else disagrees with that.

[180:01] Yeah. Yeah. Member, I I agree with that. You know it does. You know, we're not. You know, voting on anything right now. Right? So it's I think it's just more voices, is better and just a better opportunity here for more of the community in in regards to this. And you know, we're not deciding one way or the other. It's just opening it to a larger population, of people, for feedback. Absolutely. I agree with that, and I also agree with the. So I. Oops. Go ahead, Member Haggerty. I'm sorry now you're muted. I can't tell if Member Haggerty is talking or not, because the. He's saying no. Yeah, okay. Oh, okay, I was like, it's so small. Yeah, okay. Great.

[181:04] Do you want to say? 75, 75th Street to the east? I don't know. What do we say, J. To the south or and then Broadway. You know, we're all the way to city limits on the west. It's city limits 36, or is that old like I? I think it would go to like Wonderland Lake, and like Broadway. Oh, West Broadway! It's not J. Would you? Could you zoom out a little bit again, Caitlin? Sorry. Caitlin, would you mind zooming out a little bit? Please.

[182:00] Oh! Thank you. You're saying, J, all the way to like to Broadway, or even more west of Broadway. I was gonna say, sit just city limits. City limits. Cast. Yeah. Jane. City Limits. Jay J. To the South City limits to the west, 75th to the east, and then I don't know what what are city limits on the north. That's a good question. Let me find out! We can see your, yeah, okay.

[183:00] Sorry. Give me one second. I think this map will tell us where city limits are. Awesome, nice. So let's see, I don't know if I can put an address. Oh, oh, gosh, okay. I think it's just loading. There we go. Is this helpful, or do you want me to zoom in more. Could you zoom in. I can try to put the address in and see what that does. Let's see. Oh! Perfect!

[184:00] There we go. Okay. Nice. Thanks. There you go. Is that helpful? That's awesome. So this red area looks like would be city limits over here. And then this is the location that we're looking at. So then it seems like maybe, like monarch to the north. Order. Does that seem like a fair? It's great for everyone. Good amount. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Alright! Let me repeat these really quick. So I have 75th to the east, Jay to the west. I'm sorry. J. To the South city limits to the west and monarch to the north. Yes.

[185:00] Member Carr will make that motion. And Member Barton seconds it. Great all those in favor say, Hi, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns, Hi and I. Remember Kari. Never cry, an eye. Member Haggerty. All right. Thank you so much. Okay, so next we have, I'm actually gonna stop sharing real quick. Next, we have Bsg group, Inc. Dba Tandoori Grill, 619 South Broadway Street, boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3 0 5 for a permanent modification of a hotel restaurant type, liquor license. I'm going to give you some context about this one. So this one and the next one that you see on there, siren, which is a tavern license. They. So basically, Tandoori grill is shrinking their premises. And then tavern. Or I'm sorry siren is applying for a tavern license to go into part of that premises. So I was going to ask you guys if you wanted to see boundary settings for the Tandoori grill modification. You'll still see the application for the modification next month. But they're just shrinking their

[186:13] premises. They're not adding anything or anything like that. so that's kind of like the context of that, and then siren will be going into part of their premises. So it'll be 2 establishments with 2 liquor licenses in one. Yeah. So that's it's like a. That'll be. Yeah. I understand. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a, you know, like a strip mall situation. And here is siren. So it's kind of like siren is here. And then Tandoori Grill is right next to it. Oh, sorry I'm not sharing. There we go. So this is where siren is going to be. And then Tandori grill is kind of like right next to it. So it's like a strip mall situation. So Tangore Grill is just making their modifications smaller like their premises, smaller.

[187:09] That's not where it's. I think I think it's. Think it's a little bit yeah, is across from southern sun. Yeah. Get 10 door girls like right? Or or under the sun. Yeah, wow, did you do that? They're over here. Over there. Okay, there we go. Sense. My bad. Yeah. You're making me. And so what the question is, do we need to do boundary setting for them? You're asking us if we need to do boundary setting next next month, or next. You can. Yeah, so you can do. You can set boundaries and have them do so the boundary setting would be today. So you can set the boundaries, have them do petitioning all that stuff to shrink the premises, or because they're only making the premises smaller, and you're doing a boundary setting for siren you cannot. You can waive the the requirement for the boundary setting, for the permanent modification.

[188:14] I would make a motion to waive the modification for Tangoy, because they are downsizing, and then we can move on to the next one. Member card would take on that motion. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Never car. I. Number Crane. I. Member Haggerty. I. Great. Perfect. Thank you so much. So then next we'll do. Jungle 2 Llc. Dba. Siren. Excuse me. 6, 2, 5 South Broadway suite, a boulder. Colorado. 8 0 3. 0, 5 for a new tavern type. Liquor license. I'll have you set the boundaries first, st and then I'm gonna ask you another question about this one.

[189:03] So the suggested boundaries are from Southside Walnut Cafe, which was approved last year, and that was Dartmouth to Broadway on the north city limits on the South highway, 36 to Moorhead on the east and city limits on the west. That seems fair to me. Yeah, I agree, large enough. Great? Is there a motion. Member. Carl will make a motion to accept those. There's boundaries. Remember Byron seconds it. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member car. I. Great, High. The Mahaggerty. I. Perfect. Thank you so much. So this is a tavern type, liquor license, and in

[190:03] the State statute there's a provision for you to be able to do an undue concentration study of tavern licenses to decide if there is a needs and desire and the the tab, the tavern license would be appropriate for this location. I do have here a map of all of the license types that are in the city. This is where the license would be, or I'm sorry the where the premises would be. And then what type of licenses are near it? There's 1 tavern license currently, at this location or in this area. And I can give you more information about that. If you would like the last time that we didn't undo concentration on a tavern license was probably like 5 ish years ago, 4 or 5 years ago. And you have approved 2 tavern licenses without undue concentration studies

[191:04] in since then, if any of that is helpful. What's the other tavern that's over there? Sorry. What's the other establishment? The tavern license. This is southern sun. and I will tell you that they have. Southern sun has submitted a surrender to the State. so they haven't submitted a surrender to the city yet, but they have surrendered a city submitted a surrender to the State. So we are working on getting a surrender from them. So it's very unlikely that that will exist much longer. And just to clarify. That's southern sun, not under the sun. Correct. That's southern sun. Yes. Okay. All the sons that's like. I don't know. I'm not sure. News just kind of like, drop the. I I would especially with that. I I don't know. We I wouldn't say we need to do a undue concentration study. But how does the rest of the authority feel.

[192:02] I don't think so. I have a question about this key, though, because it says it's brew pub, and tavern. Are those interchangeable license? Is that just different? Oh, yeah. Good. Point. It's just because it's on top of something. Oh, I see. Yeah. Oh, you know what that is. A brew hub, not a tavern. I'm so sorry I just saw the color, not the shape. So the shape is this. So there's not a tavern license in this area at all right there right now. But you can see like up here is where a lot of them will be. Where are they? Anyways? Yeah, they're like over here. If that's helpful. And I can't see the colors because I'm color blind. So they all are just squares and circles. Okay? And so this means food is not required with that type of license.

[193:06] Correct. Do we need a motion or a decision? I think. Yes, if you can make a motion on whether or not you would like an undue concentration study to be done by city licensing. That'd be great. Could you just explain a little bit more about what that is? Yeah. So I actually have this statute up here. It's regulation 4, 7, 3, 0, 1. So you can kind of it's not super long. It's right here. I can zoom in a little for you. Yeah, thank, you. And then Roberto can also give you some context, too, if you need more. If you have more questions or anything like that, basically, it would be a study of the of the impact of the tavern license on the area on the city. in the past we have

[194:03] included law enforcement in the under concentration study. So ask them what they believe. The impact of having another tavern license at this location would, if it would, impact their workload or calls for service. That kind of thing. And you can kind of see in in the statute here, like what what we would be looking at with that concentration. To to clarify, though. Is is there another tavern license over there, or did we just There is not. I'm sorry I said that there was, and I was wrong because I was looking at the color, not the shape. So this is a brown circle, and that's a brew pub. Okay. You can see when you click on it, it's brewpub. And then these green guys which I know member car, I'm so sorry you can't see the color. But these guys are all hotel restaurants. So hotel, restaurant, hotel, restaurant, hotel, restaurant, hotel, restaurant, hotel restaurant. And then this red guy is a retail liquor store.

[195:04] So it would be the 1st and and only tavern license in that location, or within that area. I don't know if it would be the first.st I don't know the historical. I mean first, st for first, st as of now. As of. There are no, there are no, no other ones there. Correct. The closest one is gonna be Gosh! The closest one is gonna be up here in the hill. It looks like it would be box the. So what would the purpose be of a of a concentration study. Well, that's up for you guys. Education. I guess that's my question. Can we? Would we even be? Is this even applicable? Given that there isn't any other tavern license. You have to decide whether or not you want one, but you don't have to have one. We you can waive the. You can waive the study. We don't. We won't do it if you don't think that it's necessary.

[196:05] That's a big decision. I would ask the city if they think it's necessary. Then that would be us. We would do the study. If you want us to. I don't. I don't know. I don't know how to. In my 4 years this has never come up. Yes, this one is. This one's a little weird. 1st chair, Califano. You know. Well. well, it I mean. It says here, just in reading it, it says that the purpose of the regulations to establish factors, to consider that we may consider when determining whether certain new licenses would result in undue concentration of the same license type. And there's no other license types that are the same. So I, you know, in reading that I would say that we should not do this because there's no concentration. Let's be the first.st I agree. Swayed. Makes sense.

[197:01] Great. Okay, I'll so I'll make a motion that we will waive the undue concentration study. Number hang on a second. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member car. I. Member cranai. Member, Haggerty, yeah. Perfect. Thank you. All right. That's the end of the really weird one. So the next one is Yotsuba, sushi inc dba yotsuba sushi, 5,290 Arapaho Avenue, boulder, Colorado, 8 0 3 0 3. This is for a new hotel restaurant type, liquor license. And this is located right here, I take. I took the suggested boundaries from Sherpa's kitchen, which is right next to it, right here in that same little strip area. and it. That is Pearl Parkway, on the North Baseline Road, on the South City limits, on the east Foothills, Parkway on the west.

[198:11] Goodbye! Me. That emotion, member Crane. Yeah, I hope that we adopt those boundaries. Member Carr will second that motion. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Burns. Aye. Member Carr. Aye. Very nice. Memory, haggard. Yeah, so. Perfect. Thank you. And last, we have 4 noses brewing Company, Llc. Dva. Wild provisions. Beer. Project 2, 2 0 9, Central Avenue boulder, Colorado, 8 0, 3 0, 1 for a new brew pub type. Liquor license. I don't have suggested boundaries for you for this one, because it's kind of far out here. There wasn't anything really around it.

[199:04] if you can see. And it might be helpful for this one, too, to put it into the the city limits map, so I can do that for you as well. No, we're looking right here. whichever map is more useful. Let me know. Do you zoom in? So we can see Salem is on the east, where it is basically on the edge of the city. Okay. Right? Here, yeah. Okay.

[200:00] Things, I mean, I'd I'd say, see, when it's on the east at the least. 55th seems a little too close, so maybe. Here, no. Do you want to say 1, 19. Sure I don't see it. I think it's 1. It was on 19. And one is the same. Okay. And then on the south, we want to say. What's the Colorado on the south? And then I don't know. What do you guys think about Belmont to the north.

[201:04] Good. That's good. That makes sense. You think Belmont's far enough north, cause it's just right at Flatirons. Oh, true, it's like, yeah. It's like, not that far away. I was thinking more like. Okay. I just don't know the street names. Can you zoom in a little bit. Sorry over here. You want north, right. Yeah. We could just see limits. That's what I was. Gonna say, we could just do. Sounds fair to me. Sorry, which one. Go ahead! Member Carr. So city limits to the north also. Okay, so I don't know if I got this right city limits to the north.

[202:02] Let's see Colorado on the south. I don't think I heard east or west. I'm so sorry. No worries. East would be city limits. Yeah. And West one, did we decide on 1, 57, or 1, 19. 1, 57, which I think is the same road. So yeah. No, I think 1 19. Well, I don't know. Oh, no, you're right. It doesn't it? It turns into 1. 19. Thank yeah, yeah. But 1, 57, and. Yeah. Who cares? Okay. No. Yeah. Foothills. Exactly. Got it. Oh, and Member car will make that a motion. Remember, like Barnes, will second it. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye.

[203:00] Member. Byron's eye. Number car. Aye. We're Crane, are you. I'm Haggerty. Perfect. Thank you so much. That is all for boundary settings. Thanks for bearing with me on those weird ones. There was no processing of transfers for you for this month no breweries, wineries, or distilleries. You have your special event. Liquor permits list and then you also have your liquor renewal sent list. There's also a bulletin in your packet from the State. That's just concerning signage and some changes that they made for signage. So that was just an fyi for you. Nothing, nothing super exciting there. The last thing I have for us to discuss is, if anyone has any agenda items for the Bla retreat on July 9th that they wanted to discuss, adding to the agenda.

[204:03] Like to discuss when we have an interpreter present, and maybe we can discuss kind of procedures and and things. Procedures, absolutely. So unfortunately. And I don't know why I just got really dark. I'm not gonna be able to make it to that training session. I'm gonna be on military duty. I'm gonna have somebody there. and I can certainly talk to him about that. But is there anything in particular that you have questions about, because there is one thing that I wanted to talk about this evening that I should have talked about during my portion, and that is in the future, when we have an interpreter we will provide them your script so that you won't have to go as slow and have to repeat. So when Interpreter actually has the script that you're gonna be using, they won't even be listening to you. They'll just go off your script.

[205:08] That was going to be my request. Okay. Thank you. Perfect. Yeah. Member Roberts, did you still want to add an agenda item to their retreat? Not not if I mean that was gonna be my discussion. So looks like. Perfect we are. Gonna have a mandarin interpreter at the next hearing, so we'll get to. That'll come in handy. Okay, perfect anything else from anyone. Roberto will have some things, or the attorney that will be present will have some things on the agenda. I think Leah will have some stuff to discuss with you, and then city licensing. We will have some suggestions for changes to the rules of procedure. But if there's any specific topics that you guys wanted to discuss, I'm more than happy to put on the agenda. When do we have to have those topics to you? Let's see, the retreat is July 9, th

[206:02] and I am on vacation the week of the 30.th So, if possible, by next Thursday, the 26.th If you guys have any suggestions that would be great. I'm about to send you an email because we're getting catering for dinner. So you'll have an email from me. And you can just respond to that email if you have something that you would like to add. Perfect. And it's gonna be at 4 PM. At the What is going to be at the Tate Missile Building? Is that correct? It's gonna be our office, which is the Brenton Building, and that's 1, 1, 3, 6 Alpine Avenue. And I'll add that to your email as well. At 4 PM. Is that correct? 4 Pm. Is correct. Yes. Perfect. Well, yep, you guys feel free to think about that. And then, if you have anything, just send it to me, I'll send you an email a little bit later.

[207:03] and we can move on to agenda. Item 12 matters from chair and members of the authority. I don't have anything in particular. Does anybody on the board. The only thing that I wanted to bring up is I will be absent from next month's meeting as well. Unfortunately, I have a work trip I'll be out of town, will not be able to even join remote oops. But will you be able to be at the Retreat. I will be at the retreat. Yes, looking forward to it. Cool alright. Well, then, I will. Oh, oh, sorry! One other question about the retreat. Caitlin, are you gonna send out menus for us to order our dinner. We are gonna have. We're switching it up a little bit. So we're gonna do catering from illegal Pete's this time. Great. Yeah, I'll send you an email asking if you have dietary restrictions or anything like that. So make sure you respond to me with that. But yeah, we're gonna have a nice, a nice little spread. We're excited.

[208:05] Love it. Nice. Keep it local. I like that. Perfect. Okay? Well, then, with that shall we adjourn this meeting? I'll make a motion to adjourn. Like of the motion. All those in favor say, aye, member Roberts. Aye. Member Barnes. Aye. Number car. I. You're very high. Member Haggerty. Member Haggerty, you always you're pressing mute a little too quick on your. That's good. I remember how I've got. I've got some people joining me here, so I'm trying to keep it quiet. But bye. Perfect meeting is adjourned at 6 31 Pm. Thanks, guys. He's good. See you soon. Bye-bye. Okay? Bye. Job, Leah.

[209:00] When you can.