Speaker 0: Dr. Allison Diggins class over there. How are you doing? She's a great instructor and thank you to the class for being here from class at Long Beach. So thank you guys also. Next up is our is our next hearing if we can please have that read. And I'm Kirk.
Speaker 1: Report from financial management recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Ashley's located at 1731 East Fourth Street for Entertainment Without Dancing District two.
Speaker 0: Mr. MODICA.
Speaker 6: Yes. I believe an oath is required for this one.
Speaker 1: We're witnesses providing testimony. Please stand. Do you and each of you solemnly state that you will, 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.
Speaker 5: So help you God.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. We will have a staff report by Sandie Singh Palmer.
Speaker 3: Our purchasing and business services manager.
Speaker 1: Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council. Tonight you have before you an application for entertainment without dancing formal hospitality LLC doing business as Ashley's. Located at 1731 East Fourth Street, operating as a restaurant with alcohol in Council District two. 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 staff's report.
Speaker 0: Thank you. The transfer of the council appears.
Speaker 5: Yes. Thank you very much. I want to thank staff for your work with the applicants. And I want to give a little bit of context because I know I've had some dialog with some of the constituents in the area. As many of you guys know, Fore Street and Between Cherry and Alamitos is one of the key areas that we are trying to make sure we have monthly cleanups, that we have our businesses meeting. And I just want to say that the owners of this establishment have done a fantastic job about opening up. And we've had not just community meetings there, we've had public safety meetings where we've had our commanders come down not only work with the community members, but work with the business owner and making sure that we do our crime prevention through environmental design with them. And so I wanted to invite the applicant up just to give a little bit of context to the history of of Ashley's and ask them to speak. And then I'd ask for my council colleagues full support on this. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Hello, Mr. Mayor and Council. Thank you for taking this time to review. We took over. Ashley's back in February now. And what is. What a journey it's been? Being down in that area is much different than the other businesses that we have and being coming from. Broadway and Councilwoman Susie Price's district and opening of the attic and cleaning up that area then going to saloon and fourth and cherry over there and trying to clean up what was over there. And now being a little bit further down, we've we've noticed the amount of work that's ahead of us. What we plan to do here. We're obviously restaurant people. We're not bar style people. But what the place is now is is a bar. And we plan to take take what's there now and make turn it into a restaurant for the future. And what we're asking for is to continue operating the way it is now and give us that time to make sure that we we do the right things there with what's what's there now that can only support so much. And so what we're asking for is give us the time. Let us put the right, right business in there to help clean up the area and to connect it all together. If you guys have any questions, I'll be more.
Speaker 2: Than happy to ask.
Speaker 0: Great. Thank you very much. Is there any other public comment on this hearing item? Please come forward.
Speaker 7: Hello. This is out of my arena. So sorry for my quavering voice. I own a property across the street.
Speaker 5: From the restaurant.
Speaker 7: And it's allowed. It's allowed bar before they bought it and they've had a dance competition that was loud. Uh, the people that I live, I purchased in across the street at 1738 East Fourth Street, the apartments in the front turn over quite a lot already because of the noise. Parking is incredibly hard at night and and tenants cannot just easily park in front. So having something that's creating more congestion at night will be hard. The parameters have not been made clear to the people that live in our building. We've gotten a notice from the police department and we've called in thinking that was enough to to create a stir that we don't want this. But now we have a poster that was dated May 23rd, 2013, that was on the public hearing paper. So people were throwing it away, thinking it was mailed egregiously. I was told we couldn't get this on a later date, that this was good enough because buried in the in the text is the real time for this meeting tonight. And people couldn't take time off of work. I did. I getting a I had a run around just trying to get somebody to tell me what are the parameters? Well, how is this going to go if we do have Senate Bill 905 pass? Are we having live music till 4 a.m.? I mean, I just think we really need to think about this a little harder before we go. Yahoo! They've got some nice businesses. I wish they would do something a little more like what he's got in the attic. And salud. Across the street from my building. But I guess we just because we are on the other side of cherry, we're going to go loud and crazy. It's a beautiful 1923 building that we've got and we've put a lot of money into it to make it nice. We we sweep the trash, you know, twice a week and we've redone the the the outside plants and it's newly painted. And now we're going to get a bar that's open till 2 a.m. with live music. I don't think that's really going to be adding to my property value. I really wish you would reconsider and really have some parameters. They're very clear about what it's going to mean for that. About one block. I thank you for your consideration.
Speaker 0: Thank you. With that, we'll go back to the council on this public hearing. Councilmember, did you have anything, Councilman Austin. Nope. Back to Councilmember Pearce.
Speaker 5: Great. Thank you. I do want to ask that you or my staff will follow up with you in every body that sent the letters that we haven't talked to so you can see the parameters of the night. I do want to clarify for the forum what's on the table right now is a is just for downtown, an entertainment district that I would not at this current time should it pass impacts where you were at. And I also want to echo that. I'm not sure if you guys have had the opportunity to work together, but definitely want you and my staff, Connor, who's sitting up there to work with Steve as well. I think that the vision for the property is what we need to have on Fore Street. And it's I know he came in hoping that that was going to be what he could open with and it's going to take him some time to get it to be that establishment that we want it to be, as though it's a commitment of partnership, I think, between the three of us and the city to make that happen. And again, I encourage my council to to pass this because we know that doing the step is the right step and that we can continue to work on noise mitigation and other issues as we have them there a little bit longer. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. There is a motion and a second on this item. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you. Okay. We're going to we're going to go ahead and continue here. We had two hearings. We're going to go to we have a series of items. We also have some public comment. Let me also I want to make sure that just for for the for the mother with the baby as well. I want to get to your public comments first. So I think we have some groupings. Is Melo. Melo, Desiree. Pamela Fields and Betty Trotter. Yeah. So what if you can come first, please? In that order. Mello, Desiree, Pamela Fields and Betty Trotter.
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Mel Hospitality LLC, dba Ashley’s, 
1731 East 4th Street, for Entertainment Without Dancing.  (District 2)