Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions for Entertainment without Dancing to Third Planet, LLC, dba Vine, at 2142 East 4th Street.  (District 2)
Thank you so much. And I think we are all a little bit more conscious about Native American Heritage Month heritage. And we'll definitely do what we can to be more intentional with our support and recognition and acknowledgment. Thank you so much for your presentation. So I'd like to go to a hearing number 13. Item number 13 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions for entertainment without dancing to Vine at 2142 East Fourth Street District two. This does require an oath. Please people participating. If you can say I do, I will. At the end of the statement to you and each of you solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the course now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you. I do. Thank you. Uh, so I'd like to go to staff for presentation. I'd like to introduce Tara mortensen, our business services manager, for a brief presentation on this item. Good evening, council members. Before you tonight is an application for entertainment without dancing or a third planet LLC, DBA the vine at 2142 East Fourth Street operating as a bar with a Type 42 ABC license for serving and selling beer and wine, but not distilled spirits. All of the appropriate departments, Health and Human Services, Development Services, Police and Financial Management have reviewed the application and have provided their recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet. There is one correction, however, that's in the condition section, section one, item number four is part of our regular standard conditions, but it's not applicable on this in this situation as it applies only to restaurants and will be deleted from this item. I, as well as Commander Burford from the police department who was on the phone this evening, are available to answer any questions that you may have. That concludes my staff report. Thank you, sir. We have a motion by Councilmember Allen and second by a councilmember that they have. We'll turn it over to Councilmember Allen. Yes. Thank you. I just want to thank the staff, Emily, also Emily and Dustin from the Vine for all their hard work on this fourth street and the retro row area. It's just an awesome, fun part of our community. I know the bid and all the businesses there do a great job at managing the area and the vine is just a very popular spot to go. So I am fully supportive of this entertainment license. Emily and Dustin are great operators and I know that they will comply with all the conditions listed and staff has not received any issues. So I don't think there's any reason why we wouldn't move forward with this license. That can come from within the data. Very supportive of this item. Okay. Remove the second and I don't see any further comment. I'll go to public comment now. Will the following speakers please line up the podiums? And I can say Justin Lavelle's, Tamara King, Morgan Hughes, Carl Stinson. You each have up to 3 minutes. You don't need to use all of that time, though. Careful, the one of these groups might say you're trying to, you know, disqualify the Brown Act amendment. Gentlemen, I am speaking in favor of this entertainment permit being received by the Vine Bar. I find Emily Anderson to be running and maintaining one of the finest examples of creativity within the city of Long Beach. This is a destination hub for a wide spectrum on the age bracket. But most importantly for me, as a participant in live music within the city, it's one of the few places that younger acts and older acts can simultaneously mix both in performance and in and attendance. I think that seeing them make the wonderful turnaround of Retro Row as a resident in the city of Long Beach has been inspiring. And it's it's finally due to the hard work and good nature of people like Emily Anderson. You know, it takes a lot, both as a musician and as a young family, to run an establishment such as this. And it's purely been done just for the good nature of maintaining a culture or a music culture here in the city of Long Beach. So I'm appreciative, appreciative of that. I think that it's one of the imperative pieces that holds together the whole retro area in itself. And I'm always glad to be in attendance there for any of the events that they have. And, you know, very rarely, but at times they do have a lovely root beer selection. And so I always find myself going there at times to just make sure that they they have that intact. So thank you and for support. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name's Steph in love with. Thanks for having us. This is Emily, my wife. We owned Vine together and Vine is served the Long Beach Music Community, music and arts community for over 12 years. The venue provides a safe environment for all walks of life to engage in and share their music and art. Our patrons and staff are extremely community oriented. We look out for the space as well as for street as a whole. We believe having a space like Vine open in the evening greatly benefits Fourth Street and its future. It brings new people to the city, brings all people to the city that have been here for a long time. In regards to sound, Vine has always and will continue to strictly follow the rules outlined in our entertainment license. Music will be over on time. Doors will be shut during light performances. We have a double pane sound, glass windows and our storefronts from the previous owner. And the ceilings are lined with soundproofing material as well. And I have submitted about ten letters from people that live nearby. People have really literally closed as well as the Fourth Street Association. And we have the full support of everyone in that. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Tamara King, and I'm a voting member of District two. I'm one of the residents that abuts the vine bar. And it is not quiet. It is not soundproof. I soundproofed my residence. There's apartment buildings. We just talked about density and cooperative living. This is a residential area. I love Fourth Street. I love live music. But it's seven nights a week and it doesn't stop at 10:00. There's usually people screaming in the alleyways. For those of us who actually do live there, it's a very loud. You know, it's residences on all sides. Apartment dwellers were renters, and no one has tried any sound mitigation whatsoever. So this is out on the parking lot. The door is not closed. The trash is gone through. Please think of the residence. Thank you. Hi there. Thank you. I am Morgan Hughes. I am also a resident very close to Vine. I actually live along the alleyway that butts up to the same alleyway that Vine is located on. So it is a very, very close location. I am here in front of you today fully in support of a small business and a staple to our community. And I echo what one of the other members here said about the cultural impact and the art and the value that Vine provides to our community. As I mentioned, I live very, very close, um, and for a very long time they have always followed the rules. We have never had any issues with people being disrespectful to our property. We do have an open yard against the alleyway and we have knock on wood. Never have anybody disrespect our property. We've never had any issues and we've always been very, very impressed with the way that they have followed the rules and been respectful of the noise curfew so fully and support. And I look forward to the next live venue. Thank you. This is our final speaker on this. I'm Carl Essence and I also live really close by to the vine. Also, musicians have the opportunity to play there sometimes. Yeah, they've done a great job. I think it's a really important part of our street that they keep this license. I think it's a big part of the community and the culture there. Especially on Retro Road, there's a lot of business, I think, that locally has driven through there as well as people come to visit from out of the area. I think it adds a lot and I would agree with the last speaker that sound wise we can hear pretty well down that street and they're always on curfew. Like when I've been there drinking late, there were the second curfews that like we all get put inside, doors are closed out that they do the best they can . I think it's more than enough, and I think it's really important to keep that place there and let them do what they're doing. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take it back to Councilmember Allen. I yes. I just want to speak to the resident and just just know, I. I do hear your concerns, and I just want you to know that we will make sure that, you know, all the rules are being followed. And I trust that they will abide by all the stipulations of entertainment permit. Okay. The motion and second it we've heard from public comment members please cast your vote. Motion is carried. Before we go on to the next item, I'd like to hear from the city attorney to report out from closed session. Thank you, councilmember and members of the council this evening in closed session, the council by a vote of 8 to 0 authorize the city attorney to initiate litigation and participation in the national prescription opioid litigation. Case number 17, M.D., to No. Four in the United States District Court. Thank you. Thank you. So the next item is I would like to just kind of combine our fund transfers. Item 14, 23, 24, 25 and 26 as one item. Let me get a motion in a second on that.