| 12/5/2008 | 0 |
LICENSES COMMITTEE
| HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR
Minutes note: Applicant at the table, 5051 N. 19th Place, as is Asst. City Attorney Adam Stephens.
Atty. Jeff Purnell, counsel for the applicant, at the table with the applicant. Mr. Purnell asks that the matter be held so he can have more time to develop a case, because Ald. Coggs is not present, and because Ms. Peavey did not receive adequate notice of the hearing. Mr. Schrimpf confirms that there was adequate notice by law to the licensee.
Atty. Adam Stephens summarizes the complaint from the police department. Atty. Stephens says that the property has been declared a nuisance and that she no longer is acting as the person in charge of the business despite being the agent.
Capt. Anthony Smith of District 5 of the Milwaukee Police Department at the table.
Neighborhood objectors present:
Sarah Noble, 2916 N. Richards St., moved at the end of September from across the street from the bar. She says there are parking problems and people standing in the streets not moving in the early hours of the morning. She found a person sleeping on her front porch and had to call the police to have him removed. Ms. Noble says that there is no control over the crowd at the house. She related an incident in which she was threatened with shooting by a patron of the bar that was loitering in front of her home.
Mr. Purnell asks if Ms. Noble ever saw guns being fired and Ms. Noble said no.
Ms. Noble says that she had a clear view of the bar from her home and could see problem patrons coming from the bar.
Kyla Fernandez, 2737 N. Buffum St., seven homes south of the bar. Moved to the neighborhood in June of last year. Says that she had to call the police about the bar a few times in the months between moving to the area and winter, but that in winter the problems slowed down. Since winter ended, there has been loud noise, loud voices, and fighting in front of her house. She has also heard shots fired and called the police.
Ald. Bohl asks if Ms. Fernandez can identify the problem patrons as having come from the bar. Ms. Fernandez says yes.
Frank Dettloff, 2526 N. Dousman St., owns 2764 N. Buffum St., where Sarah Noble was living. Had an agreement with Sarah Noble for her to buy the home. Says he noticed bottles and beer cans on the lawn of the home when he would visit the property.
Ald. Coggs back at the table at 4:45 p.m.
Ald. Coggs asks Ms. Peavey if she sells beer in cans in the tavern. Ms. Peavey says no.
Jackie Reid-Dettloff, also owner of 2764 N. Buffum St. She says that there have been 26 incident reports at the tavern since the license was renewed.
Gordon Kaufert, 2765 N. Buffum St., two doors from the bar. He said that he called the police whenever he saw problems at including loud music, large unruly crowds and shots fired. After one incident of shots fired, shell casings were found on his porch. He says he feels patrons have tried to intimidate him because he calls police so much. Mr. Kaufert says that the bar doesn't get busy until after midnight, even though it closes at 2:00 p.m. He says he never had a problem with the tavern until Mr. Green took over operating the establishment.
Ald. Zielinski moves to make notes taken by Mr. Kaufert indicating dates and times of calls he made to the police part of the record. Prevailed 4-0. (Ald. Hamilton excused)
Mr. Purnell asks if Mr. Kaufert has ever been inside the bar and Mr. Kaufert says no.
Ms. Peavey asks Mr. Kaufert if he recalls a meeting between at which he said that he was going to make sure that the Groovin' Inn was declared a nuisance property. Mr. Kaufert admits that he said it at the
Mr. Kaufert says that a fight with gunshots occurred between patrons that he saw leave the bar and a gunshot narrowly missed his wife.
Neighborhood supporter:
Lorraine Luckett, 2744 N. Buffum St., says that the two other bars in the area cause traffic. She says that the same things happen in the day as they do during the day because it is a ghetto environment. She says that no police are called when things happen during the day. She says there are no new problems since Mr. Green took over and that cruising is going to happen regardless. She says that Club Timbuktu has caused more problems that the Groovin' Inn has and sees people parking and walking to Timbuktu.
Mr. Stephens asks Ms. Luckett if is a patron of the bar and she says yes. He also asks her if she knows Mr. Green, and she says that he is an acquaintance and met him through the bar.
Doris Mosley, 2803 N. Buffum St., says that she has not seen the problems alleged at the establishment now that the age limit has been raised to 25 at the bar on the weekends.
Mr. Stephens asks Ms. Mosley if she knows Mr. Green and she says that she only has contact with him when Mr. Green comes around to talk to neighbors.
Ms. Peavey says that Mr. Green is a bartender who works for her and does what she tell him to do.
Ald. Kovac makes the two letters from Miguel Green to neighbors part of the record. Prevailed 4-0. (Ald. Hamilton excused)
Ald. Bohl asks Ms. Peavey why Mr. Green take the ownership lead of sending out letters to neighbors if he is just a neighborhood. She says that she instructed him to send out the letters and to go around the neighborhood so he could get to know everyone in the neighborhood.
Ms. Grill says that Miguel Green applied for a Bar Manager license on Monday, December 1st.
Ald. Kovac moves to make a letter from Ms. Peavey to the District 5 police department date-stamped October 28th part of the record (Exhibit 2). Prevailed 4-0. (Ald. Hamilton excused)
Ald. Zielinski moves to hold to the call of the chair. Prevailed 4-0. (Ald. Hamilton excused)
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