Quincy City commissioners approve three licenses, OK one-day liquor permit for children's chorus fundraiser
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The Quincy City Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a one-day liquor permit for the South Shore Children's Chorus fundraiser and granted two business licenses: a common victualler permit for a new cafeteria and a motor vehicle garage license tied to a change of ownership.
The Quincy City Board of Commissioners on Jan. 14 unanimously approved three license requests, including a one-day liquor permit for a South Shore Children's Chorus fundraising event and two business licenses for new or changing local businesses.
The most discussed item was the chorus request. Thomas Kelly, representing the South Shore Children's Chorus, described the group’s mission and growth and said the group planned a fundraising event on Friday, March 14 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Woodward School, 1102 Hancock Street. “No tuition payments if you don’t have the money. If you just wanna sing, you should be allowed to sing,” Kelly said, describing the chorus’s open-enrollment, low-cost approach. The board approved a special-use one-day liquor license for the event after no board members raised objections.
The board also approved a common victualler license for a cafeteria at 1200 Crown Colony Drive. He Tran, the proposed manager and applicant for Hero Hospitality Group, Inc., doing business as Crown Quarry Cafeteria, told commissioners he grew up in Quincy and described the business plan: breakfast service beginning at 7 a.m., a midday break, then lunch service, with weekday hours of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tran said building and fire inspections had been completed and that the operation was awaiting a plumbing inspection.
Separately, the board granted a motor vehicle garage/repair license at 333 Quarry Street to GP Auto LLC, a change of ownership from the previous S & W Automotive. Giovanni Pimenta, identified as the proposed manager, said he leases the Quincy property and will operate an auto repair and detailing facility there with proposed hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The board noted that a police department representative had inspected the site.
All three motions were made, seconded and approved by voice vote. The board also approved the minutes from its Dec. 17 hearing and set the next meeting for Jan. 28.
The meeting opened with a roll call under the state open meetings law and closed after the routine license votes and minutes approval. No dissenting votes or abstentions were recorded during the license actions.