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The Lee Select Board met on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM. The meeting included approval of previous minutes, a public hearing for an alcohol license transfer, public comment, consideration of a hawker peddler application, extensive discussion of the 250th anniversary committee formation, and several routine approvals and appointments.
um all right seven o'clock seven o'clock i'll call the meeting order thank you and uh before we get started i'll read that pursuit to mass general law chapter 30 a section 20 um i'm informing everybody that a video and an audio recording is being made of this meeting that will our first order of business is approval of the minutes of our Tuesday October 21st meeting and Mr. Chair I move that we approve the minutes from October 21st meeting and I will second any further discussion hearing on all those in favor all right all right next order of business we have a public hearing and this is in regards to an ownership slash change is it a it's a transfer of license because of a new ownership of a restaurant so do we have the applicants here you guys yeah so do you wanna just tell us what what's going on and yeah hi I'm Grace Enchel here representing uh Viva Senco de Mayo LLP and all three members of the LLP here and they are purchasing the restaurant business Helusco Cantina 8587 Main Street there and we are applying for transfer of the WICA license we have our proposed manager set up here and she's been hit certified in Massachusetts has experience managing restaurants during Alcohol New York as well and the concept the restaurant only remain the same the name the hours the license premises really smooth seamless transition change of ownership and then transfer of the license eat we have an a lease there to occupy the premises and we will assign that lease from the current to uh do the three and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. Yeah sure um it seems to me that every we have all the documentation Bob did you have anything you wanted to ask you changing the menu just teasing there may some new menu I have so we have the fire detail there's any authentic Mexican would be well it's a good it's a great restaurant family business and family restaurant would be a great addition to channel and remain a great gathering spot yeah and just uh just for clarity no change hours or operations days or anything like that um there's nothing further Bob from you I will open this up for comment is it being a public hearing gotta let anybody who wants to comment the giving them the floor so there's anybody on zoom or here in person that has anything they'd like to say now is the time I don't see any hands on Zoom or anybody stepping forward so um I don't have anything I have any further questions um seems like everything's in order so I would entertain a motion for approval um it was a transfer Mr. Chair I moved that we uh we approved the transfer of the annual all alcohol license from East Co Cantina LLC doing business is Jalisco Cantina uh Mexican Cafe to vivo cinco de mayo LLC doing business as Jalisco Cantina uh at 8587 main street uh and I will second and if there's no further discussion on transfer of license hearing none all those in favor all right aye thank you thank you nothing thank you and good luck thanks to you okay so next order of business we have uh public comment um so if there's anybody on zoom or if you're in person that would like to make a comment at this time I see one hand raised the cathy unmute yourself and introduce yourself and what do you have going on and you gotta unmute please Kathy there we go thought I hit the button but I guess not but anyways Kathy Hall um I have a question and it's um do we have somebody um representing the cable company uh I know we used to we do the you mean on our advisory cable advisory board yeah you know because I I have a question about um and I don't know if it's appropriate here or it's something else but for spectrum that um they do allow streaming except for channel one three oh two which is the education channel and Uh I know we used to we do the you mean on our advisory cable advisory board. Yeah you know because I I have a question about um and I don't know if it's appropriate here or it's something else but for Spectrum that um they do allow streaming except for channel one three oh two which is the education channel and the only way you can get that is if you um get the cable box and my question is why is that so different from getting this channel um on you know spectrum or getting um the public um access one as well um it's very confusing um and I just wondered if there was a committee or somebody there we do actually have a member of the on the advisory committee but did you have something yeah well I was just gonna say she's been appointed but they haven't met since then yet so she's a brand new member but if you want to email me Kathy I can forward it to her they they did the renegotiation of the contract last year um and they haven't I don't believe they posted any meetings since then um so our new member hasn't been to anything yet but I do have contacts for the chair and we can send it to them too if you want okay thank you very much okay that's it thank you anyone else have a comment they would like to meet anybody so we will move on into general business which our first order of general business for tonight is a hawker peddler application we have considered Christopher on Zoom the applicant Chris do you want to just uh introduce yourself and let everybody know what you're uh trying to do