Note: The minutes and transcript date this meeting as Wednesday, September 23, 2026, while the meeting metadata records the date as September 24, 2026 12:15:00+00:00; this summary uses the metadata date in the title.
The committee met via Zoom. Chair Emily Hardt called the meeting to order at 6:32 p.m. and adjourned it at 6:42 p.m. Members present were Ward Six Councilor Lance L. Davis, Councilor At-Large Ben Wheeler, and Ward Seven Councilor Emily Hardt. The committee voted unanimously to approve the prior meeting minutes and recommended approval of one new extended operating hours license.
Hello, everyone. Good evening. I'm Emily Hart, your Ward 7 City Councilor and Chair of the Licenses and Permits Committee. Welcome to the September 23rd meeting of the licenses and permits committee. I will read this statement that allows us to conduct this meeting online. Pursuant to chapter two of the Acts of 2025, this meeting of a city council committee will be conducted via remote participation. We will post an audio recording, audio video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the City of Somerville website and local cable access government channels. And we are joined tonight by Clerk Delaney Fisher Cassio. And Clerk, could you please call the roll? That I can. Counselor Davis. Here. Counselor Wheeler. Here. Chair Hart. Here. Right. With that, all members are present. So we do have core. Okay. Thank you so much. We have a very short agenda tonight. But the first agenda item is the approval of the minutes of the last meeting, which was June 24th, 2026. Committee members, does anyone have any comments or questions about those minutes? All right. I have read them and they look uh complete and good to me. So I'll lay them on the table until the end of the meeting. So our second item is a public hearing. So it is item 26-1068, new extended operating hours license for Wingsover Somerville, located at 519 Somerville Avenue for in-store takeout and delivery service until 2 a.m. Um and this is if you look at the specific application, this is for Friday and Saturday um nights only until 2 a.m. So Clerk Fisher Castle, do I open the public hearing or have the applicant um introduce themselves and speak to it first? I can't remember. So okay, so the applicant will speak during the public hearing. So we'll go ahead and open it. So just officially say it's okay. Uh now declare this public hearing open. Um is the applicant or representative here? And if so, if you could raise your electronic hand. Okay. I'll give give folks just a minute in case um the applicant is here. But perhaps not. Okay, is there anyone else here who would like to um speak to this application? If so, just please raise your electronic hand. Okay. Seeing no hands and no one interested to speak on this item, I declare the public hearing closed. Um, so committee members, I have uh spoken to the ward counselor and haven't heard any concerns um about this application for extended um operating hours. Um, so I'm inclined to approve it. Love to hear your thoughts. Yes, counselor Davis. Thank you, madam chair.