* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the Matter of: MARTINI MIKE'S Class "B" Tavern License MICHAEL KOZAK, TEN THIRTY INCORPORATED, "MARTINI MIKE'S" 730 Old World Third Street * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Proceedings had and testimony given in the above-entitled matter before the COMMON COUNCIL CITY OF MILWAUKEE on the 4th day of May, 2010. 1 * * * * * 2 I N D E X 3 4 Examination: Page 5 Mr. Gimbel......................................... 6 Mr. Schrimpf....................................... 14 6 7 Exhibit Identified: (None) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 PRESIDENT HINES: We'll continue with 3 the Committee's report. And with that, for the 4 next several items, we will use the services of the 5 court reporter. Let the record reflect that the 6 court reporter has been sworn in. Will the city 7 clerk please identify the next items before the 8 Council? 9 CITY CLERK: Item No. 5: The Licenses 10 Committee recommends approval of File No. 091488 11 motion to approve the recommendations of the 12 Licenses Committee relative to licenses. Included 13 in the file are the following recommendations: 14 Nonrenewal of the Tavern Amusement 15 License and renewal with a 60-day suspension of the 16 Class B Tavern License based on a police report and 17 neighborhood objections of Michael C. Kozak, agent 18 for Ten Thirty Incorporated, for the premises at 19 730 North Old World Third Street known as Martini 20 Mike's in the 4th Aldermanic District. Written 21 objections have been filed. 22 PRESIDENT HINES: Have the members of the 23 Common Council read the report and recommendations 24 of the Licenses Committee and the exceptions filed 25 in this matter? Roll call, please. 1 CITY CLERK: Alderman Hamilton. 2 ALDERMAN HAMILTON: Aye. 3 CITY CLERK: Kovac. 4 ALDERMAN KOVAC: Aye. 5 CITY CLERK: Bauman. 6 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Aye. 7 CITY CLERK: Bohl. 8 ALDERMAN BOHL: Aye. 9 CITY CLERK: Coggs 10 ALDERWOMAN COGGS: Aye. 11 CITY CLERK: Wade. 12 ALDERMAN WADE: Aye. 13 CITY CLERK: Donovan. 14 ALDERMAN DONOVAN: Aye. 15 CITY CLERK: Puente. 16 ALDERMAN PUENTE: Aye. 17 CITY CLERK: Murphy. 18 ALDERMAN MURPHY: Aye. 19 CITY CLERK: Dudzik. 20 ALDERMAN DUDZIK: Aye. 21 CITY CLERK: Witkowiak. 22 ALDERMAN WITKOWIAK: Aye. 23 CITY CLERK: Witkowski. 24 ALDERMAN WITKOWSKI: Aye. 25 CITY CLERK: Zielinski. 1 ALDERMAN ZIELINSKI: Aye. 2 CITY CLERK: Mr. President. 3 PRESIDENT HINES: Aye. 4 CITY CLERK: 14 ayes, 1 excused. 5 PRESIDENT HINES: 14 ayes, 1 excused. 6 CITY CLERK: Are any of the following or 7 their counsels present, and if so, do they wish to 8 address the Common Council: Michael Kozak? 9 Counsel is present; Stojan Coralic? No response; 10 May Xiong? Counsel present. 11 PRESIDENT HINES: Alderman Bohl moves 12 that the Common Council resolve itself to the 13 Committee of the Whole for the purpose of hearing 14 oral arguments on behalf of the licenses and 15 opposition to the report and the recommendations of 16 the committee report and the statement presented by 17 the city attorney. Is there any objection? Seeing 18 and hearing none, we are now in the Committee of 19 the Whole. 20 Each side shall be limited to five 21 minutes and the arguments shall be limited to the 22 subject matter in the report and recommendations 23 and the written exceptions. 24 CITY CLERK: The first item before the 25 Council is the recommendation regarding the 1 premises at 730 North Old World Third Street known 2 as Martini Mike's. 3 MR. GIMBEL: Good morning, Mr. President. 4 Good morning, members of the Common Council. My 5 name is Franklyn Gimbel, and I'm here on behalf of 6 my client who is Michael Kozak. 7 You have all received, and you have all 8 acknowledged here this morning, what my friend 9 Alderman Witkowski called "the Great American 10 Novel," that is the 14 pages that my office has 11 submitted relative to our specific objections to 12 the in-kind findings of facts and conclusions of 13 law that were issued by the City Attorney's Office 14 in connection with the recommendation of the 15 Licenses Committee here this morning. I'm not 16 going to reread those things. I'm going to trust 17 your good judgment. And I assume that everybody 18 here has done their homework as they have 19 acknowledged on the record. 20 What I would like to say is that in three 21 weeks, I will have been practicing law proudly in 22 the City of Milwaukee for 50 years. I have, during 23 that period of time, come before this body on a 24 great number of occasions both at large and in your 25 committee. And I have great pride in the fact that 1 everybody in this room -- I don't mean to pander to 2 you, takes their job seriously and they attempt 3 conscientiously to do the right thing. 4 I have been here in connection with 5 license matters most often. And I think the reason 6 I've been here most often in connection with 7 license matters is because the system that we have 8 in place, which you are at least taking some steps 9 to modify by your action here today in terms of 10 adopting some new rules suggested by a task force, 11 which was headed by former Supreme Court Justice 12 Butler, is a step in the right direction. 13 But, nonetheless, without disparaging 14 your intentions, I think that the License 15 Committee -- 16 PRESIDENT HINES: Excuse me, Mr. Counsel, 17 I'm going to give you a little difference, but you 18 have to speak to the items that have taken place by 19 the committee report as it pertains to the 20 suspensions. 21 MR. GIMBEL: Thank you very much. It is 22 my intention to suggest to you that based on the 23 findings of facts and conclusions of law that are 24 before you today to support the recommendations of 25 the nonrenewal of the Cabaret Dance License and the 1 renewal with a sanction on the Class B License is 2 not supported by the evidence in this matter. And 3 in fact, unlike most of the situations where I come 4 before this body as a whole, this was a 5 recommendation that was objected to by two of your 6 members, and one of the members who supported it 7 was out of the room during a period of time when 8 the licensee was making a presentation of 9 witnesses. 10 I think that if you look at the document 11 that I have submitted, and I assume that you all 12 have done that up front of this meeting, you will 13 find that the essence of the objections are related 14 to neighborhood complaints that suggest that on two 15 nights of the week, there are some situations that 16 arise in and around the neighborhood of my client's 17 licensed premises. 18 I was attending a town hall meeting 19 yesterday in my condo association, and Alderman 20 Bauman was there, by the way Alderman Bauman is the 21 alderman, local alderman for this particular 22 establishment who recommended that both licenses be 23 renewed with a 90-day suspension, and we talked 24 about Summerfest and the difficulty that Summerfest 25 arises in the neighborhood. And I can tell you, as 1 a person who pays about $20,000 a year in real 2 estate taxes, that when Summerfest is in bloom, the 3 people in our neighborhood have noise, they have 4 traffic, they have the same kinds of things that 5 were brought up in a significantly lesser extent 6 with regard to the recommendation that supports 7 this license action. 8 And so, I ask you today to use your good 9 judgment, to support downtown entertainment within 10 walking distance of the major hotels downtown and 11 the convention center, to reconsider by sending 12 this matter back to committee, or by adopting the 13 recommendation that was made by the local alderman 14 of renewal of the Tavern Dance License with the 15 sanction that he recommended. 16 Thank you for your attention, and thank 17 you, I know, for your thoughtful consideration. 18 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you. Thank you, 19 Counsel, can you remain here? And we'll have 20 members of the Common Council ask questions of 21 Attorney Gimbel. The chair recognizes Alderman 22 Bohl. 23 ALDERMAN BOHL: Thank you, Mr. President. 24 Mr. Gimbel, I appreciate your commentary 25 here. In your written objections, you point to a 1 number of instances, including a shooting, 2 including an incident where there is a citizen that 3 testified to glass being in the alley adjacent to 4 this establishment, including one alleged customer 5 who had a horn in their vehicle, that had a 6 locomotive-type, when you pushed the horn, it would 7 sound like a locomotive train's horn. In each of 8 those instances, you speak in a way that the 9 licensee here cannot be held responsible for the 10 actions of patrons outside of the licensed 11 premises. Is that an accurate reflection of your 12 viewpoint? 13 MR. GIMBEL: No, I don't believe it is. 14 I think what I said was that my client did admonish 15 the person who had the locomotive-sounding horn, 16 that if he ever did splay that horn in the area of 17 this tavern, he would not be welcome back into the 18 place. 19 I said, with respect to the gunshot, that 20 that was an incident that occurred down the street. 21 There was testimony that it was a smaller group of 22 people than was reported in the police report by 23 eyewitness observers. And we had sworn testimony 24 by an eyewitness observer who was working as a desk 25 clerk in the hotel on the corner of Old World Third 1 Street and Wisconsin Avenue and also the security 2 manager of this place, that there were about 15 or 3 20 people out there, and there is no way that 4 anyone could relate whether the people that were 5 assembled at that place came from Martini Mike's or 6 another location. 7 So I'm not suggesting globally, Alderman 8 Bohl, that licensed proprietors are not responsible 9 for their patrons' actions outside of their 10 premises, but I think there has to be a much 11 clearer nexus of demonstrating that something 12 either the proprietor did or didn't do to manage 13 his or her premises appropriately is something that 14 ought to factor into the recommendation of the 15 Committee. I don't think it was factored in 16 appropriately. 17 ALDERMAN BOHL: I don't know that you 18 have your findings of facts before you, but -- 19 MR. GIMBEL: I do. 20 ALDERMAN BOHL: On the top of Page 7 21 relating to one of the incidents, the first full 22 sentence on page 7, "Under no circumstances can 23 Kozak control the character or behavior of persons 24 with whom his patrons associate with outside of the 25 area of the licensed premises." Is that 1 inconsistent with what you just stated? 2 MR. GIMBEL: I don't believe it is. I 3 think there was testimony that Mr. Kozak gave and 4 so too did his security advisor, that they were 5 outside the premises, they tried to shoo people 6 home, and they tried to accommodate the behavior. 7 But there comes a point in time when they are not 8 the police, they don't have the ability to sanction 9 misconduct outside of their premises. They don't 10 have the ability to actually direct people's 11 behavior outside of the premises. But they do have 12 responsibility to taking reasonable actions towards 13 seeing to it that the people who are exiting from 14 their premises are behaving in a way that is not 15 inconsistent with the requirements of a peaceful 16 neighborhood. 17 ALDERMAN BOHL: If I may, Counsel, direct 18 your attention to Page 5 of your written 19 exceptions. It's the second-from-last paragraph, 20 the sentence that is above Sub 7, near the bottom, 21 where it states, "Martini Mike's. In fact, no 22 establishment should be blamed and cannot be 23 expected to police the activities of patrons for 24 their inappropriate actions by third parties after 25 they leave the premises, off the licensed 1 premises." 2 MR. GIMBEL: I don't think that is 3 inconsistent with what I just said, Alderman Bohl. 4 ALDERMAN BOHL: The final question I have 5 for you, and it relates to one of the incidents 6 here in which a gun was pulled, and it pertains to 7 Page 4 of your written exceptions. You state there 8 that it is, in the last full paragraph, that given 9 that Martini Mike's had closed earlier at the time 10 of the incident, it's very likely the assembled 11 group had just left another establishment on Old 12 World Third Street and were returning to their 13 hotel or vehicles when the incident occurred. Are 14 there other licensed establishments nearby? 15 MR. GIMBEL: Yes. 16 ALDERMAN BOHL: And what would they be? 17 MR. GIMBEL: Well, there is a Hyatt 18 Hotel; there are the bars in the Hilton Hotel. 19 Those are within one block of this establishment. 20 ALDERMAN BOHL: And it would be your 21 speculation that those individuals maybe left -- 22 MR. GIMBEL: I guess my speculation is as 23 good as anybody else's speculation, Alderman Bohl. 24 ALDERMAN BOHL: Thank you. 25 PRESIDENT HINES: Are there any 1 additional questions of the counsel? If not, thank 2 you. 3 MR. GIMBEL: Thank you. 4 PRESIDENT HINES: We will hear from the 5 City Attorney's Office at this point in time. 6 Again, he will give his presentation of five 7 minutes, and we'll ask him questions as well if 8 there is a need. 9 MR. SCHRIMPF: Thank you, Mr. President. 10 Bruce Schrimpf from the Milwaukee City Attorney's 11 Office. 12 First of all, whether or not you renew 13 this license, actually the two licenses; the Tavern 14 Entertainment License as well as the Class B, with 15 or without a suspension is, of course, reposed to 16 your own sound discretion. 17 Let me just comment on a couple of things 18 here. The essence of this matter was the fact that 19 there were a number of neighbors who came forward 20 who testified to disorderly patrons, disorderly 21 conduct occurring outside of the premises during 22 its hours of operation as well as, of course, at 23 closing, which is sort of normal. 24 The neighbors pointed out that the worst 25 of the problems occur on Saturday nights. This 1 operation is only going usually two nights a week; 2 Fridays and Saturdays. A number of them testified 3 that they have these disturbances every night that 4 the place is open. The conduct involves cars 5 coming up in front of the place picking up or 6 discharging people who are attending the place. 7 The cars will stop, the individuals have parties. 8 The neighbors testified to glass 9 containers being taken out of the place at closing 10 time. There was testimony that at least one 11 eyewitness saw people actually take the glass 12 containers out under their coats. 13 The licensee countered that since 14 December of 2009, he has gone to using only plastic 15 cups, and he does not serve in glass containers. 16 However, there was photographic evidence of a 17 number of the glass containers appearing on the 18 sidewalk and in the alleyway. 19 There were complaints by the neighbors 20 about parking in an alleyway. The licensee 21 countered that he has corrected that by putting up 22 cones. And there was some testimony that that 23 apparently has alleviated some of the parking 24 problems. 25 There was, of course, quite a bit of 1 testimony about the patron that operates the car 2 with a locomotive horn on it. Now, those of you 3 who know me, know that I personally would not have 4 much of a problem with a locomotive horn. However, 5 I generally have locomotive horns, or hear 6 locomotive horns when they are used to signal the 7 movement of a train in appropriate circumstances or 8 blowing for a grade crossing, again, under 9 appropriate circumstances. 10 The individual with the horn was told by 11 the licensee that he should stop it. And the 12 individual apparently took that to mean he 13 shouldn't do it directly in front of the place. 14 There was testimony that now the horn blows about a 15 block or two away, but the neighbors still hear it. 16 There also was testimony to the effect that one of 17 neighbors who was really complaining about this 18 locomotive horn talked directly to the individual 19 who owns the car, who replied to him, without 20 objection by counsel, that he cannot be responsible 21 if other people blow the horn. So apparently, 22 what's going on is that this is a very popular 23 item, and other people also blow the horn. 24 This is the sort of conduct that the 25 neighbors are putting up with every Saturday night. 1 Now, a reference has been made to 2 Summerfest. I don't know that that is an 3 appropriate consideration at this point. But to 4 the extent you want to consider Summerfest, 5 remember this, Summerfest operates ten days out of 6 the entire year. This is a situation where you 7 have every Saturday night the neighbors being 8 disturbed by the operation of the premises. 9 Finally, the police report dealt with a 10 lot of disorderly behavior, and there was, in the 11 objections, there was a notation made that that is 12 hearsay. Well, first of all, an administrative 13 body such as the License Committee can consider 14 hearsay. And on top of that, it can consider 15 hearsay where that hearsay is corroborated by other 16 evidence. So here you have a police report 17 describing a lot of these disorderly events that 18 came to the police department's attention, but in 19 addition, you have the direct testimony of the 20 neighbors that backed up the fact that there is lot 21 of disorderly behavior at this location during its 22 closing hours. 23 If there are any questions, I'll be happy 24 to try to entertain them. 25 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you. 1 The chair recognizes Alderman Bohl. 2 ALDERMAN BOHL: Thank you, Mr. President. 3 Mr. Schrimpf, you referred to a number of 4 items relating to resident testimony. In the 5 findings of facts, I look under Sub B, and it 6 refers to May 30, 2009, a shooting outside this 7 location. 8 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 9 ALDERMAN BOHL: That is one additional 10 item the Committee considered, is that correct? 11 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 12 ALDERMAN BOHL: One person was shot two 13 to four times. 14 Sub C refers to a fight that took place 15 with one of the employees. 16 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 17 ALDERMAN BOHL: That additionally was 18 something that the Committee considered? 19 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 20 ALDERMAN BOHL: Moving on to the next 21 page, Page 3, an incident of alleged cruising by 22 the police department, which someone, a neighbor, 23 called police indicating that a burgundy Cadillac 24 was circling the area with a passenger waving the 25 gun out of the window? 1 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 2 ALDERMAN BOHL: Additional item the 3 Committee considered. 4 Was there additional testimony, Mr. 5 Schrimpf, from a neighbor indicating that she had 6 come outside and saw a beating right in front of 7 her where someone had their head stuffed into a 8 wall? 9 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 10 ALDERMAN BOHL: So in addition to the 11 general synopsis that you made about quality of 12 life concerns, noise, glass, there were several 13 instances of violence, were there not? 14 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. There was also 15 testimony, there was direct testimony from one of 16 neighbors about the incident of March the 6th where 17 some patrons came out of the place, a woman was 18 running down the street, two of the patrons were 19 males, they entered a car, the car started 20 circling, and at one point, a gun was flashed 21 outside of that car. There was no evidence that 22 the gun was fired, but somebody had a gun. 23 ALDERMAN BOHL: Are you aware of where 24 the Milwaukee Hilton is located? 25 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 1 ALDERMAN BOHL: Is that on -- what 2 street? 3 MR. SCHRIMPF: Well, the Milwaukee Hilton 4 would be on, as I understand, Fourth and Wisconsin. 5 ALDERMAN BOHL: Is it Fourth, or is it 6 Fifth? 7 MR. SCHRIMPF: I'm sorry, Fifth and 8 Wisconsin. 9 ALDERMAN BOHL: On the south side of 10 Wisconsin? 11 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 12 ALDERMAN BOHL: Is there a parking lot 13 that's between Fourth and Fifth immediately 14 adjacent to Wisconsin Avenue? 15 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 16 ALDERMAN BOHL: Immediately adjacent to 17 the Hilton? 18 MR. SCHRIMPF: Yes. 19 ALDERMAN BOHL: Are you aware of the 20 substantial amount of parking south of Wisconsin 21 Avenue where Martini Mike's is located? 22 MR. SCHRIMPF: Well, there is some 23 parking in the area as you go further south towards 24 the Amtrak Station, the bus depo and the post 25 office, there is parking there. There's also 1 street parking. 2 ALDERMAN BOHL: Thank you. 3 PRESIDENT HINES: The chair recognizes 4 Alderman Bauman. 5 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Thank you, Mr. 6 President. 7 Attorney Schrimpf, do you have any 8 information regarding how long this particular 9 licensee has been in business at that location, and 10 whether there is a history of any previous 11 suspensions? 12 MR. SCHRIMPF: I do not believe there is 13 a history of previous suspensions. I'm not sure 14 how long the place has been operating. I have 15 reason to believe it's about five years -- nine 16 years. 17 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Thank you. 18 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you. 19 The chair recognizes Alderman Dudzik. 20 ALDERMAN DUDZIK: Thank you very much. 21 Mr. Schrimpf, was there any testimony to 22 the effect that there were problems outside of the 23 two nights that they're open? I would think that a 24 location such as this might see problems from other 25 bars in the area on, say, nights like Thursday. 1 MR. SCHRIMPF: There was no direct 2 testimony about problems -- in other words, if the 3 place is not operating, are there no problems? Is 4 that -- there was no such testimony. 5 ALDERMAN DUDZIK: Thank you very much. 6 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you. 7 Are there any additional questions of 8 Attorney Schrimpf? If not, thank you. 9 Alderman Bohl moves that the Common 10 Council resolve itself in the Committee of the 11 Whole, motions that we now rise. Alderman Bohl 12 motions that we now rise. Are there any motions 13 relative to these matters? The chair recognizes 14 Alderman Bauman. 15 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Thank you, Mr. 16 President. 17 With respect to the Tavern Amusement 18 License and Tavern License for the premises known 19 as Martini Mike's, I would wish to propose an 20 amendment to the recommendation of the Committee. 21 And that amendment would be for a 90-day suspension 22 of the Tavern Amusement License rather than a 23 nonrenewal, and a 90-day suspension of the Tavern 24 License rather than a 60-day suspension. So a 25 90-day for the Cabaret License and a 90-day for the 1 Tavern License. 2 And very briefly, this is precisely what 3 I recommended at committee. And given the fact 4 that there have been no previous suspensions on the 5 record of this establishment, I believe that, given 6 the record, a 90-day for both licenses would be 7 appropriate. Thank you. 8 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you, Alderman 9 Bauman. That is an appropriate motion. Any 10 discussion on the motion that is put forth by 11 Alderman Bauman? The chair recognizes Alderman 12 Bohl. 13 ALDERMAN BOHL: Thank you, Mr. President. 14 Mr. President, I will support the motion, although 15 I will indicate this much, I believe that according 16 to the record, that the committee acted 17 appropriately. In fact, in most instances, the 18 Committee will typically fall short of what 19 Alderman Bauman's recommendation is before the 20 Committee based on the evidence that's presented to 21 us. So this may be one of the rare instances in 22 which, Mr. Gimbel, or any other attorney, in which 23 the council follow Alderman Bauman's 24 recommendation. 25 But what I will say is that the licensee 1 met with myself, and he made an effort to meet with 2 several others, and among other things, has 3 proposed subsequent to the hearing to take an 4 enhanced 30 days on the establishment and use that 5 as an opportunity to entirely remake, with a name 6 change and a modification to the plan of operation, 7 and has, to my understanding, already gone into the 8 License Division and provided an amendment to the 9 Cabaret portion of his application. 10 So with those particular changes and that 11 understanding that there is a realization of those 12 changes that will come forward, I will support the 13 continuance of the Cabaret License with a 90-day 14 suspension. 15 I do want to state this much though. In 16 his own meeting with me, there was a very, very 17 clear statement of these individuals coming from 18 his establishment. So contrary to what his counsel 19 stated here, there was a self-admission that 20 basically there are not other establishments. In 21 fact, his point was he needs to make these changes 22 because he is isolated on Old World Third Street as 23 far as a liquor/alcohol establishment. So 24 anything, any notion that issues are coming from 25 the Hilton, are frankly, absurd on its face. And I 1 think any person who heard that knows and 2 understands that. 3 My hope is that with this 4 self-realization, this particular establishment had 5 a long track record, I believe certainly much more 6 successful at least in terms of not incurring 7 problems as the long operation as the Velvet Room. 8 And given that, I will support the change and the 9 amendment here being offered by Alderman Bauman. 10 PRESIDENT HINES: Thank you, Alderman 11 Bohl. 12 Are there any further discussions 13 relative to Alderman Bauman's motion? If not, are 14 there any objections? I object, and an objection; 15 two objections. Let's take a roll call. Generally 16 take roll call, I'd prefer to do it that way. 17 CITY CLERK: On the amendment, Alderman 18 Hamilton. 19 ALDERMAN HAMILTON: Aye. 20 CITY CLERK: Kovac. 21 ALDERMAN KOVAC: Aye. 22 CITY CLERK: Bauman. 23 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Aye. 24 CITY CLERK: Bohl. 25 ALDERMAN BOHL: Aye. 1 CITY CLERK: Coggs. 2 ALDERWOMAN COGGS: No. 3 CITY CLERK: Wade. 4 ALDERMAN WADE: Aye. 5 CITY CLERK: Donovan. 6 ALDERMAN DONOVAN: Aye. 7 CITY CLERK: Puente. 8 ALDERMAN PUENTE: Aye. 9 CITY CLERK: Murphy. 10 ALDERMAN MURPHY: Aye. 11 CITY CLERK: Dudzik. 12 ALDERMAN DUDZIK: Aye. 13 CITY CLERK: Witkowiak. 14 ALDERMAN WITKOWIAK: Aye. 15 CITY CLERK: Witkowski. 16 ALDERMAN WITKOWSKI: Aye. 17 CITY CLERK: Zielinski. 18 ALDERMAN ZIELINSKI: Aye. 19 CITY CLERK: Mr. President. 20 PRESIDENT HINES: No. 21 CITY CLERK: 12 ayes, 2 nos, 1 excused. 22 PRESIDENT HINES: 12 ayes, 2 nos, 1 23 excused. The motion carries. Any additional 24 motion on the licenses matter or any additional 25 comments? If not, if there is no further 1 discussion on the licenses items, I would request a 2 vote of those council members present to approve 3 the recommendations of the Licenses Committee as 4 contained in File No. 091488. Now, again, these 5 are the Licenses Committee matters. We will then 6 subsequently go back to the items on the Licenses 7 Committee as it pertains to one, two, three, and I 8 think even four. But again, the actions right now 9 will be relative to the recommendations on those 10 licensing matters contained in File No. 091488. 11 Will the city clerk please call roll? 12 CITY CLERK: On approval of the file as 13 amended, Alderman Hamilton. 14 ALDERMAN HAMILTON: Aye. 15 CITY CLERK: Kovac. 16 ALDERMAN KOVAC: Aye. 17 CITY CLERK: Bauman. 18 ALDERMAN BAUMAN: Aye. 19 CITY CLERK: Bohl. 20 ALDERMAN BOHL: Aye. 21 CITY CLERK: Coggs. 22 ALDERWOMAN COGGS: Aye. 23 CITY CLERK: Wade. 24 ALDERMAN WADE: Aye. 25 CITY CLERK: Donovan. 1 ALDERMAN DONOVAN: Aye. 2 CITY CLERK: Puente. 3 ALDERMAN PUENTE: Aye. 4 CITY CLERK: Murphy. 5 ALDERMAN MURPHY: Aye. 6 CITY CLERK: Dudzik. 7 ALDERMAN DUDZIK: Aye. 8 CITY CLERK: Witkowiak. 9 ALDERMAN WITKOWIAK: Aye. 10 CITY CLERK: Witkowski. 11 ALDERMAN WITKOWSKI: Aye. 12 CITY CLERK: Zielinski. 13 ALDERMAN ZIELINSKI: Aye. 14 CITY CLERK: Mr. President. 15 PRESIDENT HINES: Aye. 16 CITY CLERK: 14 ayes, 1 excused. 17 PRESIDENT HINES: 14 ayes, 1 excused, the 18 file is adopted. We will now -- the court reporter 19 is excused. Thank you for your services. 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 STATE OF WISCONSIN ) ) SS: 2 COUNTY OF MILWAUKEE ) 3 4 5 I, KAREN RENEE, Court Reporter and Notary 6 Public in and for the State of Wisconsin, do hereby 7 certify that the above proceedings of the City of 8 Milwaukee Common Council was recorded by me on May 4, 9 2010, and reduced to writing under my personal 10 direction. 11 I further certify that I am not a 12 relative or employee or attorney or counsel of any of 13 the parties, or a relative or employee of such attorney 14 or counsel, or financially interested directly or 15 indirectly in this action. 16 In witness whereof I have hereunder set 17 my hand and affixed my seal of office at Milwaukee, 18 Wisconsin, this 10th day of May, 2010. 19 20 ___________________________ 21 Karen Renee Court Reporter and Notary Public 22 In and for the State of Wisconsin 23 24 My Commission Expires: March 11, 2012. 25