2017-02-02 Liquor Commission Minutes

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Gonzalez: In addition to what the licensee said, it was in the mid 2000 that the Commission had fielded complaints from couple of residents residing in the Kona Ali`i Condominium, which is little over 500 feet away from the licensee. If you are familiar with the Coconut Grove area though, there's a lot of licensees in that proximity. As the Director stated, we took measurements from Kona Alii Condo at 20:45, 8:45, and there wasn't anything registering on the meter that went over the noise violation threshold. The sound conditions, the ambient sound was light wind and regular vehicle traffic from Ali`i Drive. Takaba: Any further questions? Lopez: Going back to this period, you're requesting a trial period? What do you have in mind for time? S. Hull: The trial period we had, I know, was two Sundays ago. Brandon and I had spoken and we were doing from 6:00 to 9:00, was the trial period. We were requesting a month for the trial period and we can revisit this if we needed to do a trial period. T. Hull: And really, if there's complaints in the community, we just can't do it. If I remember right, one of the Inspectors, were telling me as they remembered back originally our levels were not actually over the required level, there was just some people that weren't enjoying the late night music. To get back to the question, even if our levels are low and people are not happy with it, we won't be able to do it. So, if we can have a trial period forever but the minute we have the complaint if somethings going wrong, we understand that's over, we can't do it anymore. Lopez: So what I hear you saying is, we'll grant you a trial period? T. Hull: Yes. Lopez: Let's say 30 days, as you suggested. If you get any complaint in that 30 days, you'll cease? T. Hull: Immediately we'll try to fix the problem as far as getting the level down but we should be on top of the levels already. There shouldn't be a problem. Yeah, if it can't be fixed if it's just too loud to have the windows open for some reason, we're not going to come in front of you folks if people are complaining. Takase: Let me ask you this. If we give you 30 days, will that run the whole gamut of different types of entertainment you'll have? S. Hull: It should, but, right now we are also having trouble finding bands and reggae bands. T. Hull: Sunday is kind of going to be the rock night. Rock and roll afternoon/evening. And Friday and Saturdays will be more of the reggae bands and the DJ's will start up later. So we've kind of been still working out the details of when we would want the FEBRUARY2,2017-LIQUOR COMMISSION MINUTES 28