2024-12-19 Liquor Adjudication Board Minutes Kona

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There was no discussion by Board Members. Fuke: If not, all those in favor please say "Aye." The Board Members voted "Aye." Fuke: Opposed say "Nay." There was no opposition by Board Members. Fuke: The charge is unanimously carried. The motion was carried unanimously Fuke: Prior to assessing the penalty, Mr. Ueoka, you may proceed with your presentation of the circumstances surrounding the violation. Ueoka: Great, thank you. This occurred in late 2023, it involves not having an employee with a manager card on duty. We were issued this liquor license in June 2023, about four to five months prior, so we're still in the process of developing our operations. We were short staffed unfortunately at that time. Since this incident, we did make various corrections, for example we added now have eight people with manager cards, I think at the time we only had about three. So, we shored that up and made sure we had more coverage with people with manager cards. Obviously, we're going to make sure that a person with a manager card is on duty at all times we're open. We've also revised our job description to require a manager card for any person working in the golf pro shop. I just want to put that out front as far as corrective measures. As to this specific incident, what happened was we had an employee that was on duty, he did have a liquor card but he was not 21. He was on duty at that time, so what we did at that time, we had a sign saying "No alcohol sales" when he was on duty. Since then, of course we revamped the operations, we eliminated that possibility, so now we do have a required person 21 years and older with a manager card on duty. We realize, maybe the interpretation is having a sign, "No alcohol sales" and having a person under 21 on premises could be acceptable but we realize that's not acceptable, and we did cure that so that will never happen again. And like I said we'll make sure to have a person on duty that is 21 and older with a manager card in the golf pro shop. Fuke: Board Members, do you have any questions of Mr. Ueoka or the Licensee? Davenport: So, you see the receipts here, and I understand that it doesn't show every single receipt individually, but it's a lot of American Express, Visa, Mastercard, what about cash sales? Because I don't see any receipts for cash sales, and how are those handled because that could be different than a card that is being swiped, a receipt that is being generated, and you have it and then the customer has it? MINUTES - LIQUOR ADJUDICATION BOARD MEETING - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2024 - KONA PAGE 4 OF 56