Mayor Walsh appoints new Licensing Board members

波士頓市長馬丁華殊（Martin J. Walsh）昨（三）日指派三名新人進波市府 牌照局。一任六年，任期從今年十二月一日開始。

這三人分別為 Christine A. Pulgini，Lisa S. Maki，以及Keeana Serene Saxon。

波士頓牌照局規範波士頓市內的烈酒，食物，旅館或客棧，兄弟會或宿舍，檯球/台球桌，保齡球，算命者等經營牌照。

            波士頓市長指派三名牌照局新董事，是精簡，改善牌照申請過程的一系列活動之一。

        波士頓市長近月來採取的一系列措施包括舉辦了波市有史以來第一次的hubhack證照許可挑戰，以重新創造波士頓市的網上申請證照體驗；針對一至二家庭屋或小企業業者設立的區域規劃上訴委員會（ZBA）業主自住住宅申請簡化過程；藉由展延公聽時間，電視轉播ZBA會議等加倍公聽會的容量，在市政府和民眾聯繫，分佈在市府不同單位內的機構，安裝數位亭等。

        波士頓市長馬丁華殊在2014年的麻州議會議期內，成功推動了在麻州各地推管經濟成長法。該法容許波士頓自行指派自己的烈酒牌照局。這是1906年以來的第一次。在那以前，波士頓的牌照局董事指派，由州長監管。此外，波士頓還獲准連續三年，每年額外獲發25張酒牌，總共75張酒牌。一年有15張所有烈酒牌照，總共45張，還有5張麥及酒類牌照，總共15張，只限主街區，以及多徹斯特，東波士頓，海德公園，牙買加平原，麥特潘，任務丘，以及洛士百利等地申請，都不可轉讓。

Mayor Walsh appoints new Licensing Board members

BOSTON -- Today, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the appointments of three new members to the City of Boston’s Licensing Board: Christine A. Pulgini, Lisa S. Maki, and Keeana Serene Saxon. The Licensing Board regulates alcohol, food, hotels/inns, lodging houses, fraternities/dormitories, billiards/pool tables/sippio, bowling alleys, and fortune teller licenses within the City of Boston, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapters 138 and 140, and the Rules of the Board.

This newly-constituted Licensing Board is the most recent in a series of efforts that the Walsh Administration has made to streamline and improve licensing and permitting operations across City government, to ensure that business owners and entrepreneurs are able to successfully start and grow businesses in Boston. In recent months, Mayor Walsh:

• Hosted the City’s first-ever Hubhacks Permitting Challenge, to reinvent the City’s online permitting experience. 
• Announced the creation of a streamlined Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) process for small businesses and 1-2 family owner-occupied residential applications. 
• Doubled the hearing capacity for ZBA applications through extended hearing hours, and increased capacity with televised ZBA meetings.
• Installed digital kiosks at several agencies across the City to connect constituents with Boston’s business development specialists.

“The changes we’ve made to the City’s Licensing Board and our approach to licensing across the City presents a fresh opportunity to support economic development across our neighborhoods,” said Mayor Walsh. “I’m grateful that Christine, Lisa and Keeana have agreed to serve the residents of Boston in this capacity, and I look forward to seeing their work begin.”

Christine A. Pulgini currently serves as a partner with the Law Offices of Joseph J. Pulgini, P.C., a firm specializing in workers compensation, accidental disability retirement, social security disability, and civil litigation. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. She received her J.D. from New England School of Law, and her B.A. in Communications from Curry College. She currently resides in Hyde Park.

Lisa S. Maki has been an attorney with the City of Boston's Law Department since 2010, representing Boston on legal issues related to employment law, public education, civil rights matters, police misconduct, environmental law, open meeting and public records, state ethics, and labor. Maki previously served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Frank J. Williams of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, where she received her law degree. She is resident of South Boston.

Keeana Serene Saxon has served as Deputy General Counsel to the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development since 2012. She previously served as Counsel to the Department of Housing & Community Development, and as the Director of the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. Saxon is a member and previous Chair of the U.S. Advisory Board for the Rwanda Youth Healing Center, and previously as the Chair of Board of Trustees for Boston Renaissance Charter School. She received her J.D. from Western New England School of Law, and has been admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Saxon is a Roxbury resident.

In the 2014 legislative session, Mayor Walsh successfully advocated for the passage of An Act Promoting Economic Growth Across the Commonwealth (Chapter 287 of the Acts of 2014). In part, this bill gave Boston the ability to appoint its own liquor licensing board for the first time since 1906 – a provision already afforded to every other municipality in the Commonwealth. Previously, Boston’s liquor licensing board appointments were overseen by the Governor. In addition, the City of Boston was also granted 25 additional liquor licenses per year for 3 years, for a total of 75 new liquor licenses. These include: 

• Five all-alcohol licenses a year (total of 15) that are not geographically restricted within the City and can be transferred by the owner. 
• Fifteen all-alcohol licenses a year (total of 45) and 5 malt and wine licenses a year (total of 15) that are restricted to Main Street Districts and the neighborhoods of Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mission Hill, and Roxbury. These are non-transferable.

The members of the new board will begin their 6-year terms effective December 1, 2014.