Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Shamrock Hospitality Group, LLC, dba Muldoon's Saloon, 5646 Paramount Blvd., for Entertainment Without Dancing.  (District 8)
Motion carries seven zero. Thank you. Hearing number three. Hearing Item Threes Report from financial management. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record concluded the public hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Muldoon Saloon, located at 5646 Paramount Boulevard for Entertainment Without Dancing. District eight. And it does require note. Thank you. Mr. Modica second reading. Please raise your right hand. You in each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the court now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. I do. Staff presentation will be done by Brett Jockeys and Emily Armstrong from the Business Licensing Division. Honorable mayor and members of the City Council tonight you have before you an application for Entertainment Without Dancing for Shamrock Hospitality Group LLC doing business. As Muldoon Saloon. Located at 5646 Paramount Boulevard operating as a bar tavern lounge in Council District eight. All of the necessary departments have reviewed the application and have provided their recommended. Conditions as contained in the hearing. Packet. I, as well as the police department, stand ready to answer any questions Council may have. And that concludes Stout's report. Thank you. Councilman Orson. I'd like to hear from the applicant first. Okay. We're opening up the option for the applicant to say a few words. See. I can hear. Please come forward. Thank you, counsel. My name is John English Modern Saloon, North Long Beach. But we're still here. We appreciate your consideration for our opportunity to provide a safe environment. For our. Mostly millennials up there that want a place to hang out. And we. Thank. All of the different departments of the recommendation and approval on their side. That being said. We look. Forward to. Many years of entertaining and servicing the community. Do you have any questions of me? That'll be okay. Just the comment is perfect. Thank you so much. Is there any other comment? And public comment as well. So if you have public comment, please line up right now. Although Council of the City of Long Beach. My name is Patrick Coughlin, co-owner of Muldoon Saloon. And yeah, we had a rough start at Muldoon Saloon, but I just want to let you guys know that we've been pretty concerned about the community. You know, we've been helping cleaning up the neighborhood in various ways. And I hope that's considering, you know, the goodwill that we've had in the community or the goodwill that we're building up in the community is taking in consideration for live entertainment. So, yeah, no further for the government. Thank you. And any other public comment on this. Sir, please come forward. Anybody? This is our last call. So. So we are last public comment on this hearing. Go ahead. Is a gentleman at City Hall? My name is Roger James Smart, and I've been living at 2712 East 56 way for 40 years. And I party that more, do it for 20 years. But they've changed owners in the last couple of years, in the last seven months. They started this live entertainment. Right. And they get three bands come that three man tonight, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday right. From ten Sunday. They they set up out there right in front of my house, play the drums. Annoying right doorstep. Play loud music. They drink out. They hang out. The drinks turn to people. Every night they later they piss in the yard. They put down the block. Church, right? The music just bothered me. I've been going crazy. I have called the police many, numerous times on record. They came up there in module I kid I they picked me up so much, I throw the ball at him. I had a gun out of him. Well, sir, sir, sir. Okay, sir, I'm going to. I think that's not appropriate to say, sir. Okay. So that's a that's a threat. We're going to we're going to go ahead. And I think you're. Sir, look, finish up 200. They're not even there at nighttime. Can you address? You can address. Address me. And I'm right, sir. And I ask members of my family to come with me, but they're so embarrassing me, you know, being a. A maniac towards these people and I hate him nightly. And they hang out. They hang out to three or four in the morning in the bar parking lot right there, riding skateboarding stuff. Sure. I'm not judging you. It comes right in my window. Thank you very much, sir. My window. And I do not like it. Thank you. Big. Can't count on Austin. Yes. Well, I want to also get us we heard a staff report her from the public. And I want to just say to the the ownership, I appreciate their attempts to raise the standards of the bar. However, I do have some serious concerns about approving approving an entertainment permit at this time for a number of reasons. First of all, my staff reached out to the neighbors of Muldoon's this past week to see if they there were any thoughts about an entertainment permit. Our office spoke with it and heard back from several residents on 56 way and other blocks where well done is located. And of the residents we contacted, several of them were strongly opposed to the city approving the entertainment permit. One person had no opinion. One person was very supportive because they said their brother was a patron of those who were opposed. The concerns were consistent about the public nuisances that they'd have to deal with on a regular basis. These ranged from loud noises, trash bottles left in yards that they can hear music from the bar until late at night and other disturbances coming from the bar. Secondly, Muldoon's has really not shown a willingness to comply with the existing city laws and regulations to date. I'd just like to confirm before I go further with city staff with the question has more done Saloon received any temporary permits for live entertainment prior to tonight's hearing? No, they have not received any temporary entertainment permits. Have they requested any? Not that I'm aware of. Okay. In my staff, also check with special events the Office of Special Events, who also indicated that they have not issued any occasional event permits to models yet. Models has consistently hosted live bands at the bar without an entertainment permit. They even have a banner outside their building promoting live entertainment for several months. According to their Facebook page, they have had live bands perform on at least 26 different nights within the first nine months of 2018. In my opinion, this shows a complete disregard for our permit process. One that we just had a great big conversation about. Finally, I like to take into account the owner's own words about the conditions at his bar. He's contacting my office and Mr. Conlin, who's contacted my office on multiple occasions about bad elements in the neighborhood that he was having to deal with at his bar, which he's attributed to other businesses in the area. On May 2nd, 2017, just over a year ago, he came right here to city council and even addressed our council and spoke about the problems that he stated even his security could not handle at the bar. And I think we have a clip. Low technical difficulties. And you're speaking to. Come on, forward. Go ahead and take me. Well, yes. We are. This is not. This is incorrect that we fixing this tech textbooks call. Hello? Yeah, hi. My name is Patrick Common on a modern saloon in North Long Beach. And I took over modeling. Saloon. Last August, and we cleaned it up quite a bit since we were there. It was not really a notorious bar, which is low profile, but it had a lot of, you know, bad things happening there. Ever since I've taken over the Bible, I've always had this problem with a bar called Daly's cocktails across the street. And there was kind of a lull period where I didn't have as much of a problem with them. But for six months just because, you know, I just got there. CROWD Not to go in. But ever since it started getting warmer, the temperatures started getting warmer. I'm getting more and more of this crowd coming into my bar. And, you know, I never really needed security in the beginning and now I have security. But the problem is, you know, the problem is so bad that security's not going to solve it, where if you have like 20 guys that are packing heat, you know, rolling up to your bar sometimes, you know, for, you know, get out of prison party, you know, it's not, you know, I kept my security can't handle that. And, you know, I and I did some research on the dunes. I mean what happened was last. Thursday the incident on my. Well, I think you get the picture. And so so I'm not only her. And furthermore, I got an email just less than two months ago. He said he's trying to eliminate all of the drug fronts around the bar. This is problematic with issuing an entertainment permit. So I've only heard from this applicant applicant about the problems that he's having at his bar. And I've never actually heard from him about the application for entertainment permit, which is also concerning when and based on these factors. I would not I would be inclined not to support this application today, however, before making a final decision, I like to be fair and to allow some more time to give the owner an opportunity to become a better neighbor, to demonstrate an ability to comply with the city's laws and regulations, which includes not having unpermitted entertainment or other violations. And with that, I would like to make a motion that we continue the hearing and understand that we need to provide a date certain for the continued hearing. So I'm thinking about 120 days, which would put us on January 22nd, 2019. In the meantime, I will request the police department to monitor for any violations, and we'll check back with the neighbors before the next hearing and to see if the notices, if they notice improvements. And they would encourage the the bar proprietor to reach out to his neighbors and build some some goodwill, because there are some some serious concerns from those who live close by. Then at that time, we'll consider the entertainment permit as appropriate or if any conditions, additional conditions are necessary. So my motion is to continue this hearing to January 22nd, 2019, and I ask my colleagues for their support. That's the motion and the second members, please go ahead and cash for votes. Motion carries seven zero. Motion carries it's. The motion is continued. Next up is a consent calendar. Please think of motion in a second for the consent calendar. Was there any public comment on the consent calendar? 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