Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Gaslamp Partners, LLC, dba The Gaslamp Restaurant and Bar, 6251 East Pacific Coast Highway, for Entertainment With Dancing by Patrons and Performers.  (District 3)
Item two report from Financial Management. This item requires a note recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the hearing and grant entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Gas Lamp Partners at 6251 East Pacific Coast Highway for Entertainment with conditions I'm sorry for entertainment with patrons by I'm sorry for entertainment with dancing by patrons and performers. District three. Thank you. Should we do the oath, Madam Court? Please raise your right hand. You and each of you to solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the cause now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The staff item will be the staff report on. This item will be presented by Jason MacDonald Purchasing and Business Services Manager. Mayor Council members. Jason McDONELL Tonight you have in front of you the application for entertainment. With Dancing for the Gaslamp Partner's. Diva, the Gaslamp Restaurant and Bar on 6251 East Pacific Coast Highway in District three. All the necessary departments have reviewed the application. The application of proposed conditions are contained in the packet that was provided. We are prepared to address any. Questions or concerns along with the police department regarding the application or those. Conditions. Our office was made aware of at least one complaint regarding this application. That concludes my presentation. And we're available for questions. Thank you. With that, I'd like to open this up for any public comments on the hearing. Please come forward. Very good. You clear as the address, one of the items that needs to be addressed with this. A facility within the restaurant is a real problem. I see. Almost every evening that I pass it and I think it's easily corrected if the right people are brought into the picture. They have a mobile sign that's on a trailer. More often than not, that mobile sign is brought out across the public sidewalk. Which creates a problem for people that are in wheelchairs. It forces them either have to hop onto the grass or more dangerously so, out into the street. There are that that is a heavy, heavily trafficked corner. People coming from the little shopping center, their sandwich shops and the other restaurants there across the street and then back across. Back, trying to make their way back to Golden Sails and being forced up either into the grass or into PCH is inviting a disaster. For which the city would end up paying. So I'm suggesting that you set in. The requisite requirement that it be clearly marked off where their property ends. Where are the cities? Where the public properties? And right now, I'm not sure anybody knows. But clearly, forcing people to take a wheelchair up across the grass or out into PCH at night is dangerous. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment on this item? CNN. I'm turning his back over to the council. Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I'm going to be recommending that we approve this item with some one modification. And I see that Councilman Andrews has seconded that. So again, Gaslamp is another great partner to the third district. Good, good corporate citizen in terms of being responsive to issues that have come up. I want to commend Michael Neufeld, his the owner who for really trying to change some of the operations and the image of the Gaslamp. And he's done a very good job. We've hosted several third district community events there just to show the residents what kind of an establishment it is, because in the past it was a little less focused on food and being a restaurant than it was a bar, and he's really changed that. So I'd like to make a modification to item number seven, which is you must operate and maintain your licensed premises. As a bona fide eating place, you must make actual and substantial sales of meals during the normal meal hours that you are open at least five days a week. Normal meal hours are breakfast 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., lunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and dinner 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.. Premises are not open five days a week and must serve meals on the days that they are open. The premises must be equipped and maintained in good faith. Mr. McDonald I believe, and it's not reflected here, but I understand that the kitchen stays open until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Is that your understanding? We do not have that Information Council member, but that is my understanding from communication during this process. So I think that the owner understands the importance of maintaining this, this establishment as a restaurant first and making sure that as a condition of their ABC license that their food sales exceed their alcohol sales. So with that understanding and that amended condition to the entertainment permit, I'd move this item. There's been a motion and a second. Members, please go ahead and cast their votes. Motion carries seven zero. Okay. Thank you. Let's go ahead and get a motion on the floor to pass consent calendar. There's a motion and a second public comment on consent. See now and please cast your vote.