2019-05-02 Liquor Commission Minutes

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Rankin: Yes. Greenwell: So, if they kept on serving up until 9:30 or they kept on feeding people until 9:301 it would not be a problem. It's the music that is the issue? Rankin: We don't all want to have a concert in our living rooms. Greenwell: I understand that, but I'm looking for... Rankin: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, when Habaneros was there they closed at 9:00. Past that, it generally took them an hour or two to clean up. That was the most brutal part for us, and that's why going into this with music, and it saying "amplified music" scared all of us. It scared us all because we're thinking Led Zeppelin's going play and we're going to have to listen to it; not an ukulele playing and something no more than what I hear from the Royal Kona now, basically. We hear the Royal Kona directly across. One thing we will say is, because you said something about the noise, the complex that is directly next to us and actually across from you (Nguyen), their pool is right there. Their pool is directly across from the restaurant. It's normally not that noisy there either. I believe they probably have pretty strict rules on noise, and I never heard amplified music coming from there. They have a pool house there. The fairness of 9:00, to me, is more than fair. Like I said, I'm all for compromise on it. Greenwell: I think we need to make a decision as Commissioner Ibarra said, we need to put a control someplace. If we change this to 9:00 instead of 9:30, and she can keep it to once or twice (a week), possibly. You say you already have a 9:00 curfew on your recreation area. Rankin: Yeah, on our recreational area. On the property, no. We have a 10:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. on the property, but our pool is a 9:00 to 9:00. Nahale-a: Any other Commission questions? We'll hear Mike and then Claude after. Hughes: Question more for Gerald, I guess. If she's asking for a 9:30 ending time, if we grant the full open permit to her with no barriers and everything goes well, but all of a sudden there becomes a problem, the Liquor Commission can still step in and say we need to do something to curtail the loud music or rowdiness or whatever? Takase: Correct, we always have the authority to take action against any of the licensees. She's tried to give you her best guess as to what her business will be like. We talked to the applicants to try to get an idea of how they're going run it. We didn't see this as a problem. As for the letters that we received, and I agree in part that maybe the notices don't explain enough about what the premises would be, but that's what's required by Statute, we will check if we think there might be problems. If I thought there would be a bigger problem, we would have tried to bring the two parties together, but I didn't see this one as being a problem. We have a luxury; she has had a business in Kona for a long time. Nguyen: Seven years. MAY 2, 2019 -- LIQUOR COMMISSION MINUTES 10