1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,920 Good evening, everyone. I call the public services committee meeting to order. It is June 2, 2025. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:17,380 The time is 6.30 p.m. We have two items on tonight's agenda, and I will begin with order 3 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:25,840 number 25-109-440. Application for renewal of a junk dealer slash secondhand dealer license 4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:33,680 from Roman Kimyagarev, DBA Arthur and Sun Shoe Repair, 107 Main Street. Mr. Kimyagarev, if 5 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:40,400 you want to come in to the well with us, also have an email from Police Chief Georgie, right 6 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:50,120 over here, yeah, yeah, all the way around, or wherever, yeah, wherever you want to sit. 7 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,120 To read the email from Police Chief David Georgie, I received the updated quarry form 8 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:00,200 from both Mr. Dumas of Dumas and Suns and Mr. Kimyagarev of Arthur and Suns, and I have 9 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,960 no issues with the renewal of their respective junk dealer license. Any questions, please do 10 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:10,040 not hesitate to let me know. Thank you, Chief Georgie. That being said, thank you for being 11 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,720 here, and I will open it up to any questions from members of the Public Services Committee. 12 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,320 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening. It's always wonderful to see you. Not really 13 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:25,360 a question, but I thoroughly enjoy getting that positive feedback from all the residents 14 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:32,360 in Marlborough that your customer service is unbelievable. Now I'm getting some feedback 15 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:37,160 repairing certain shoes, and now some women's pocket books with straps, or certain kind 16 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,440 of straps. So, all positive on my end, and I'm glad, I think serving the residents 17 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,400 in the city of Marlborough, especially downtown, is such a plus. So, thank you so much 18 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:50,600 for your services. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. I'll open it up to other members of the 19 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:57,600 City Council. Seeing none, I would entertain a motion. My motion is to approve the order 20 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:05,440 number 25-10944-0. Motion made and seconded to approve order number 25-100944-0. Any 21 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:15,280 discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries two to zero with 22 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:22,320 one absent. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have order number 25-109441 application 23 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,800 for renewal of a junk dealer slash secondhand dealer license from Gerald Dumas, DBA Dumas 24 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,200 and Sun's secondhand store at 65 Mechanic Street. Mr. Dumas, if you want to join us 25 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:45,280 in the well. Nice to see you. Yeah, anywhere is fine. I had read the chief's correspondence, 26 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,640 so I personally have no questions, but I will open it up to members of the committee, or 27 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:59,880 any councilors? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, Mr. Dumas. I do have a couple 28 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:04,480 of questions. I've received numerous feedback from certain residents that their properties 29 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,480 do abut your properties that you own. They do realize that this junk license is for 65 30 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:18,440 Mechanic Street. They do realize that, but they're very concerned that you're storing 31 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:24,200 some of the material in the product on different parts of your properties besides the 65 32 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:31,040 Mechanic Street. So with that, they're leading up to that. They believe in that potentially 33 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,240 down the road, that things are going to pile up, and that could certainly be a violation 34 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:40,240 of the city code. I'm just passing that on along as some of the residents have given 35 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,240 me that feedback. Thank you. I don't know if you want to respond to any of that, but 36 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:52,240 the tenant that lives next door, say I can say it's my niece, okay? She's got all 37 00:03:52,240 --> 00:04:00,240 that stuff in the yard. She's the one crawling in. I've had numerous complaints, I've 38 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:08,240 gulped in. So how do you tell your sister that took her life, that's a child, that they 39 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:15,240 have messed up, clean up your garden, all right? So I give her a break, okay? So I 40 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,240 go easy on her. I send my guys over to clean and mow the lawn. They're supposed to 41 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:27,240 take care of it. Yeah. But me being her uncle, I told her sister that, my sister that 42 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,240 would take care of it. To be honest with you, it's nothing but a problem. I give 43 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:38,240 them to them. So if there's problems there, and I don't have a problem with 44 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:43,240 anybody in this city, all they need to do is call me, all right? They don't need to 45 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,240 call the code enforcement officer, which they have in the past, because the code 46 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,240 enforcement officer is just going to call me to take care of the problem. Just like 47 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:57,240 the last man, and they may be before that, and they may be before that. I've been in 48 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,240 this town a long time, and a lot of stuff that goes on in this town. A lot of 49 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:08,240 people I'm not too happy with, some are mostly without anything. So I'm just 50 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,240 getting my license, and you know. Thank you. Oh, thank you for your 51 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,240 response. No, I just wanted to pass that on because some residents are concerned 52 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:21,240 that this is a junk dealership, secondhand license that comes up once a year. 53 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,240 And it's basically at that time, they want to just make sure it was known. So thank you. 54 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,240 Thank you. Thank you. 55 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,240 How often am I open in that junk dealership? 56 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,240 Excuse me, what's that? How often am I open? 57 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,240 Every time I've driven by, I don't think I've ever seen the 65 58 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,240 mechanic street doors opened. To be honest with you, I know. 59 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,240 At 65 mechanic street doors opened? No, I've never seen them open. 60 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:52,240 Exactly. For over 10 years, since Savers opened up, I haven't been open. 61 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:57,240 I understand. I get a bureau that's worth at least 30 bucks. 62 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,240 I think I can get a firm that doesn't work 130. Savers is even a way for the 63 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,240 tenant. So why would they come to my shop when they go down the end? 64 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,240 I understand. Thank you, councillor. Thank you, Chair. 65 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,240 I'll open up to any other members of the council. 66 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,240 No questions. I personally, you know, I've not 67 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,240 fielded any questions from residents. Obviously, this is not my ward. 68 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,240 I do, you know, if there are concerns, my personal prerogative, I believe 69 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,240 code enforcement should handle that as is. So I wouldn't prevent you from, you know, 70 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:33,240 your renewal of an application. So I would be in favor of approval, but I will entertain a motion. 71 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:38,240 Thank you, Mr. Chair. At this point, I wouldn't be able to approve the 72 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,240 dealership second-hand store license at this time. Sounds good. So just 73 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,240 for the record, that's a motion to deny or have you made a motion, councillor? 74 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,240 No, I'm not making a motion, but I don't want 75 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,240 to, I don't support this. 76 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,240 If we could, I'll ask Mr. President if we can make a motion to 77 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,240 refer it without recommendation of committee. 78 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,240 Yeah, you can report it out with no recommendation of the public service committee and it'll go 79 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,240 before a full vote of the full city council. That would be my motion, Mr. Chair. 80 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,240 Sounds good. Thank you, councillor Irish. Having that, considering there are only two voting members 81 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,240 present tonight, we will report this out at the next city council meeting without a recommendation 82 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,240 and we'll let the rest of the council vote on that. 83 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,240 So at our upcoming meeting next Monday, I'll report it out then 84 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,240 and we'll go from there. So what you're saying is that the guy before me 85 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,240 who voted again, he's got his license. 86 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,240 The gentleman before this, 87 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,240 he got a recommendation 88 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:46,240 to approve from this committee, the two of us, and it will go to the general council 89 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,240 to be voted on by the entire council. So you're going through the same 90 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,240 process. Yes, exact same process. Thank you. 91 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,240 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Alright, seeing no further business, so I'll entertain a motion. 92 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,240 Motion to adjourn. Sounds good. Any further discussion? 93 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,240 Seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor? 94 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,240 Opposed? And we are adjourned at 6.38pm.