Council reviews liquor-license applications; staff recommends denials for one Short Stop applicant after background checks

Phenix City staff presented several liquor-license applications and the council reviewed inspection and background-check letters from public-safety and building officials. Letters read into the record reported that some facilities—including Rainbow Food at 418 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Kalani Hawaiian Style Cafe—met building and fire-code inspection requirements and that the police and building offices had no objections to licensing those applicants. Separately, the council considered an off-premise beer license application for a Short Stop location on Summerville Road. Staff read letters from the chief building official and police background checks recommending denial for the Short Stop applicant (Proper Market Inc./applicant names varied in the transcript) based on information obtained during background investigation and past issues at the location earlier in the year. The presenting staff explicitly recommended denial for that application. The council proceeded through the licensure items on first reading and recorded the letters and recommendations into the record; the transcript records that the offices had no objections for several applicants and recommended denial for the Short Stop applicant based on background-check results and prior issues at the premises.