Alcoholic Beverage License Board Meeting
Video Transcript
Duration: 11 minutes
Speakers: 6
Well, good morning, everyone.
And I would like to,
call the meeting,
09/04/2025
of the Alcoholic Beverage License Board public hearing to order.
I am the city administrator, Randy Knighton.
And to my left is the director of community development, miss Michelle Alexander.
To my right from the finance department is miss Lacey Smith Castillo.
And also to my further right from the legal department is miss Melanie Forsberg. And thank
Forsberg.
And thank you for joining us,
today.
The first item on the agenda
is the approval of the minutes for the alcoholic beverage license board public hearing 08/07/2025.
Do I have a
motion? Motion to approve.
I have a motion.
And do we have a second?
Second.
We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor?
Alright. I'll give that passes unanimously.
Alright. We'll move to our public hearing items.
And the first item under,
public hearing public hearing on the agenda
is new licensee
limited pouring beer and wine, Sunday sales, spice of Thai,
Frederick Studwell,
spice of Thai, LLC
580
East Crossville Road,
Unit 42420,
Roswell, Georgia 30075.
Is the applicant present? Yes, sir. If so, would you please come to the podium
and state your name and home address for the record. Before you do so, I want to remind everybody in the audience as you come to the podium
that this is a public hearing and we wanna make sure that all responses
are recorded. So please speak clearly into the microphone,
and, we'll make sure that we have everything,
needed for our minutes. Again I'm sorry, sir. Please go ahead and state your name and home address for the record, please. Yes. Frederick
Studwell.
2100
Kenridge Road, Marietta, Georgia 30062.
Alright. Thank you.
Miss Forsberg, do we have a report from the legal department?
Yes, sir. We do.
The necessary
paperwork has been completed and filed.
The applicant is the owner and will be on the premises approximately
twenty hours per week.
Our background investigation is complete. We recommend moving forward with this public hearing. Alright. Thank you so much.
Miss Alexander, do you have questions of the applicant?
Yes. Good morning. Have you read the City of Roswell Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance?
Yes.
And do you understand its provisions?
Yes. Do you have any questions about it for us? No.
And are you aware that your servers and salespeople will need to obtain servers permits?
Yes. Alright. Thank you.
Thank you, miss Alexander.
Miss Smith Castillo, do you have any questions of the applicant?
Yes. I do.
Are you aware that the city from time to time will do compliance checks on businesses involved with the sale and serving of alcohol beverages?
Yes.
Are you aware of the alcohol
awareness training needed by the licensee
of the business
dealing in the service or sale of alcohol beverages in the city? Yes. Thank you.
Thank you.
One question for you.
What provisions does your business have or will have in place
to avoid the sale or serving of alcohol to the underaged?
Yes. We have signage.
Any one 21
will be ID'd. In addition to that, we will ID
anyone that appears under the age of 50 or all people.
Alright. Thank you.
As the applicant, do you have any questions for this board? No.
Alright. Thank you.
Does anyone in the audience,
have any questions or would like to address the board regarding this matter?
Alright.
Seeing none,
we will entertain a motion.
I make a motion to approve the application
of Frederick Studwell,
Spice of Thai LLC,
doing business as Spice of Thai
for a limited pouring beer and wine Sunday sales
at 580 East Crossville Road, Unit 420,
Roswell, Georgia 30075.
Alright. Thank you. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Alright. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor?
Alright. That passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
Oh, sorry. Can I leave now or do I stay here?
Okay.
Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir.
The next item on the agenda is listed. Item number three,
new licensee package license
Eteca grocery,
Farida Kishwani,
NAS Enterprises
USA Incorporated,
1230
Alpharetta Street, Roswell, Georgia 30075.
Is the applicant present?
Please come forward.
And please state your name and address for the record, please.
My name is Farida Sukhoth Kishwani.
1230
Alpha Eta State, Roseville.
Is that your home address?
If you could state your home address for the record, please. Home address? Your home address. Yes. Is that your home address?
Home address is this.
It's okay. Sorry. If you if you please please come forward. Please and state your name, for the record, please, as well. My name is Sameer Shokataly Keswani. Okay. Sure. Thank you for being here.
We wanna make sure that we have a proper exchange and and we're able to Thank you, sir. Communicate appropriately. So thank you very much. So the,
the the request is for, obviously, her name and then the the home address, her home address for the record, please.
S
S P
Roseville. No. Duluth. Duluth.
Duluth. 3114.
H B Point
HB Point Trail. Well, can you repeat that for me, please, for the record? We wanna make sure we've got that. 714
HB Point Trail, Duluth.
Okay. Alright. Thank you very much.
Alright.
Miss Forsberg, do we have a report from the legal department, please?
Yes, sir. We do. All necessary paperwork has been completed and filed. The applicant is the owner of the business and will be on the premises approximately
forty hours per week.
Our background investigation is complete. We recommend moving forward with this public hearing. Okay. Thank you very much. Alright, Miss Alexander, we have questions of the applicant. Good morning.
Have you read the City Of Roswell Alcohol Beverage
ordinance?
Yes.
Do you understand its provisions?
Yes.
And do you have any questions about it?
Thank
you. And, are you aware that your servers and your sales people will need to obtain
servers permits?
Yes.
Yeah.
Alright. Thank you.
Miss Lacey Smith Castillo. Questions of the applicant? Yes. Are you aware that the city from time to time will do compliance checks on businesses involved with the sale and serving of alcoholic beverages?
Yes.
Are you aware of that alcohol awareness training needed by the licensee
of a business dealing in the service or sale of alcohol beverages in the city?
Yes.
Thank you.
Alright. Thank you. Just one question.
What provisions
or policies or plans do you have
to ensure that there is no sale or serving to alcohol
to those who are underage?
Please, sir.
So, we would have signage at the, business
for the underage serving.
And on top of that, the training for the staff would be provided.
And on top of that, anyone over the 40 will be ID'd, sir. Okay. Thank you. You affiliated with the business? You will be I'm the manager of the business. You'll be the manager. Okay. Thank you, sir, very much for that clarification.
Alright.
As the applicant, do you have any questions for this board?
No questions? Alright. Thank you. And for the record,
is there anyone in the audience that has any questions or
would like to make any comments regarding this application?
Seeing none, we'll bring this back for a motion.
I make a motion to approve
the application of Farida Keswani of Nas Enterprises
for a package license,
beer, and Sunday sales
for the business,
doing business as Attega Grocery
at 1230
Alpharetta Street, Roswell, Georgia 30075.
Alright. We have a motion. Do we have a second? I second the motion. Alright. We have a motion and a second. Do we have any further discussion?
Seeing none, all in favor?
Alright. That passes unanimously as well. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Alright.
Seeing no further business for the 09/04/2025
alcoholic beverage license board meeting,
we will ask for a motion of adjournment.
I make a motion to adjourn.
We have a motion. Second. We have a second. All in favor?
Alright. That passes unanimously as well. Thank you very much.