The liquor license holders of Block Island are required to show up in person at the annual meeting of the Town Council when it serves as the Board of License Commissioners. Not all license holders could make it to the meeting on Nov. 4. Some sent a representative. Some license holders sent the same representative. Some sent representatives that may or may not have had anything to do with the business.What mattered was that each license holder had someone to respond as present, when called upon by First Warden André Boudreau.The premise is that if the board so chooses, it can withhold, or put conditions on a liquor license for an establishment. If, for instance, the establishment has been a bad actor the previous summer, the board could withhold the license. In other cases, a mere public chastisement may be all the board has in mind.Police Chief Matt Moynihan spoke to the board at the outset to assure the members that all businesses had behaved well over the summer. He spoke about calls received by the police department, stating that he had experienced “good cooperation” from all the establishments. The chief said the stats may be skewed a
