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)
With that, we do have a couple of hearings. And so, as everyone knows, we're going to be doing the hearings first and then after the hearings will go into the start of the meeting and and go from there. And so with that, let me begin. We have hearing number one, which I will have the clerk read. Hearing item one is a report from financial management. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Muldoon Saloon. 5646 Paramount Bulwer for Entertainment Without Dancing District eight. And it does require an oath. Anyone wishing to testify regarding this item, please stand and 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. Okay. Well, thank you. I'm going to go and introduce our assistant city manager, Tom Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We will have a staff presentation on this given by Emily Armstrong from Business Licensing. Good evening, 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's Saloon located at 5646 Paramount Boulevard operating as a bar tavern lounge in Council District eight. This application originally came before you on September 18th, 2018. The hearing was continued to allow the business the opportunity to address concerns from the community and the counsel office. The application then came before you on January 22nd, 2019. The hearing was continued for an additional 30 days to research a potential ownership change of the business. The 30 day continuation period has now concluded all of the necessary departments are recommending approval of the entertainment permit, subject to the 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 staff's report. Thank you. Can we go to public comment first? Can public comment, please, on the hearing in front of us? If you'd like to make a comment. At the time. Seeing no public comment on hearing number one. Let me go to Councilman Braxton. Okay. Well, thank you very much. So council public, when this hearing first took place in September, I had expressed several concerns. At the time. There were numerous cases of unpermitted bands performing and other issues raised by neighbors. I asked my colleagues to continue the hearing for four months to give the owner ship an opportunity to address the issues. I met with one of the owners in Mr. English shortly after September's hearing, and he made assurances that he would work to address many of the concerns that were raised. One of the representations that he made was that he had bought out the other owner of the business, Patrick Coughlin, who who many of the issues were attributed to just prior to January's council meeting when this item was continued to be scheduled to be heard. Mr. ENGLISH And further informed my office that he was actually selling the business and that it was currently in escrow. Councilman Orson Just 1/2. In talking to the city attorney, I know I called public comment and no one came forward, but just to make sure the applicant does not want to say anything, is that correct? Does the applicant want to say anything? I heard that it was approved. Okay. So. Well, nothing. Nothing is approved. I just want to make sure that I call public comment and the applicant is not interested in making any comments. Is that correct, sir? Okay. Hi. And so just prior to the council meeting, I was informed that the the the the current owner was in the process of selling the business and was currently in escrow. I felt was best continue the hearing for an additional 38 days to sort out the information we had just received and hopefully have a chance to meet with the new owner at this point. I do have a few questions on regard to staff in regards to our modules. First of all, two, PD, does the police department have any information as to whether there have been any changes in the ownership of modules on the state's ABC license since last September? Honorable mayor, respective city council members, Commander Rudy Comisar representing the police department. According to my research, per ABC contact today, there is no pending transfer of ownership with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at this time. Can. Does the police department have any information as to whether there are any pending applications with ABC to change the ownership of the ABC license? No, not at this time. Okay. So is Mr. Patrick Collins still listed as the managing member of Shamrock Hospitality Group, the owner of Modo Saloon and Art? And are there any pending applications with ABC to change that designation? No. There are no attempts right now to change that. As far as any research that I was able to find in referencing the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control License CORI System as of February 18th, 2019, Mr. Patrick Conlin is listed as one of the owners managing member and there are two additional owners listed on the application with California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. And to your knowledge, has business licensing received any applications or inquest inquiries from a potential new owner about an entertainment permit for modern saloon? No, we have. Not received any communications from any. New owner. And if the business is sold with the new owner, how to apply for a new entertainment permit regardless of the council's actions today. Yes, entertainment permits are not transferable, so any new owner of a business would need to reapply for an entertainment permit. Okay. Thank you. So since the January hearing or item was before us. My office has not heard anything from any new potential owner of Muldoon's. Although Mr. English has indicated to my office that the escrow is supposed to close this week for the sale of the business. I appreciate the work that has been done to address the concerns raised by the community back in December and that he is now in the process of selling the business. However, considering that the entertainment permit is specific to the applicant and the new owner would have to apply for a new entertainment permit based on Mr. English's representations to my office about the status of the sale, and that the new ownership would take ownership as soon as this week requiring a new entertainment permit application, and considering that despite representations otherwise last September, there have been no indications of any official change of the current ownership structure in either the city's or state's records. To address the concerns that have been initially raised, I would have to move to support received the supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and deny the entertainment permit for Shamrock Hospitality Group doing business as Muldoon Saloon. So moved. There is a motion and a second. Councilmember Austin. Remember your range. I read Austin twice on my list. Did you have any comments? No, but just for clarification, so to get this straight is that this current application is under review and it is a possibility that the owner who originally applied will not be the owner of record. Right. Thank you. Seeing no other members of the council have any other comments. We have a motion and a second. I'm going to go out and close this public hearing and I've the members to please cast your votes on the motion by Council Member Austin. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Let me where. There's been a couple of requests on moving a couple items. So is is there a hearing? There's a hearing. Two and three and. Correct. We withdrew hearing two. Is that correct? I'm quick. Okay. So we're going to move over to item 16 and 17. I think both have folks here, some large groups. So I want to get to those two items. So we're going to do 17 and then 16.