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Hatch: We are a high-end casual restaurant bar. <br /> <br />Nishimoto: Have you received the application report? <br /> <br />Hatch: I have. <br /> <br />Nishimoto: Are there any changes to the report? <br /> <br />Hatch: No. <br /> <br />Nishimoto: Director, are there any report of protests? <br /> <br />Gonzalez: Chairperson, this is a sale and transfer, so mailed notices are not required, <br />only publication in the newspaper. However, in this application for sale and transfer, the <br />applicant did mail 60 out of 80 notices within 100 feet, 361 out of 453 notices within 500 <br />feet, and three notices to condominium or cooperative property owners. There were <br />302 total properties entitled to protest, and we did receive six written protests on the <br />form letter to this application, and a petition with seven names. The main concerns <br />regarding the petition and the protests are that loud music cease at 10:00 p.m. Thank <br />you. <br /> <br />Nishimoto: Are there any public testimony? <br /> <br />There was no public testimony. <br /> <br />Nishimoto: Seeing that there are none. Commissioners, is there any discussion or <br />questions? Go ahead, Commissioner Greenwell. <br /> <br />Greenwell: This is directed at Brandon, has there been any reaching out to talk to the <br />licensee about his time, and being able to comply with the 10:00 p.m. shut down of <br />music? <br /> <br />Gonzalez: Thank you, Mr. Greenwell. The licensee has been working with our <br />investigative staff in Kona. Right now, they are not doing live music, they are doing <br />recorded music. His clientele has been more the mature crowd, listening to things like <br />Fleetwood Mac, or whatever else. They don’t operate that late into the night right now, <br />but I think Mr. Hatch could probably answer the question better. If the question is <br />specifically on whether or not the licensee has talked to any of the owners in the <br />condominium about the noise concerns, I’m not aware of any yet because we only got <br />some of the letters in the last couple days <br /> <br />Hatch: Yes, I can answer that. There has been since we started the process, a handful <br />of condominium owners who have stopped by, poked their head in and talked to me, <br />and all of them have voiced their concerns about what had gone on prior to us taking <br />over, where there was a lot of late-night partying and loud music. And, I assured each <br />and every one of them that that’s not how we operate, and that’s not our plans to <br />operate in that manner. We may have live music in the future, but it will definitely end <br />MINUTES – LIQUOR COMMISSION MEETING – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 – HILO PAGE 4 OF 27 <br /> <br />