2025-12-04 Liquor Commission Minutes Hilo

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Okabe: Can you state your name and relationship to the business? O'Brien: Shane O'Brien, and I'm the President and owner of GKM, Inc. Okabe: Okay, can you please describe your business? O'Brien: So, the overall business is a boat yard and shipyard facility that leases space to numerous different businesses. This location that we are opening up the restaurant in has been two previous restaurants and have been vacant for the last two years, so we are going to operate a restaurant in the space ourselves. Okabe: Did you receive the report? O'Brien: Yes. Okabe: Any changes to the report? O'Brien: No. Okabe: Director, are there any reports of protests? Takase: Mr. Chairman, the applicant mailed 65 out of 65 notices within 100 feet, 69 out of 69 notices within 500 feet. There were 37 properties entitled to protest, there were no protests to the application. Okabe: Any public testimony? There was no public testimony. Okabe: Commissioners, do you have any questions or discussion or anything on this? Morifuji: I do, Chair. According to the report, you were waiting for a building permit? O'Brien: Yes. Morifuji: What's the status on that? O'Brien: We are probably a few days away from the permit being issued and construction is going to be quick, it's a single unisex ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) restroom. Our restrooms on file, we have a separate womens and mens ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) restroom currently, but we wanted to put in another ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) unisex in the building itself. So, we're probably a week away from getting that permit, and construction itself will take another 4 weeks. Morifuji: The distance between your proposed restaurant and the common area bathrooms, there's no lights in the area, yeah? MINUTES - LIQUOR COMMISSION MEETING - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025 - HILO PAGE 4 OF 28