St. Mary's County Alcohol Beverage Board members on Nov. 8, 2012 approved a transfer of a Class A-3 beer-and-wine license for Chaptico Market and Deli and granted a series of conditional and administrative requests, including extensions for premise changes and additional storage areas.

Those actions keep several long-running retail operations in the county operating while licensees complete required inspections or facility modifications, board members said during a meeting at which no formal protests were raised.

The board voted to approve the transfer of the license for Chaptico Market and Deli to Gwendolyn May Tennyson and Ronald Gary Tennyson, the applicants who said they bought the property and will continue operating the longstanding business. The board treated the transfer as a new application and approved it without protest.

The board also granted extensions to allow licensees time to finish inspections or build minor improvements before final license issuance or formal premise changes. San IndiGo's General Store (represented at the meeting by Tim Blasco) received a 60-day extension of conditional approval to finish final health and fire marshal inspections. McKay's Market and Cafe was granted a 30-day extension of conditional approval while it completes outstanding health and fire inspections.

Several requests for additional storage or temporary premise adjustments were approved: Gunther's Fine Wine and Spirits received a conditional 90-day approval to use an approximately 12-by-24-foot area owned by its landlord for alcohol storage, pending installation of an access door; Anchorage 93 (the Fleet Reserve Association) received approval to extend its licensed premise to include a 16-by-24-foot pavilion used as a covered seating/smoking area; and 2000 Liquors (applicants Phoebe Patel, Rodney Thomas and M.B. Patel) received approval to use an existing basement storage area accessed from inside the store.

The board tabled a request from Lundberg Protocol Bar for an extension of premise for alcohol storage until its December meeting. The board also approved an administrative trade-name update for Tequila Grill to include “Cantina.”

Other routine business included approval of the Oct. 11, 2012 minutes and administrative reminders from the board administrator about New Year's permit deadlines and the county budget schedule. The board set its next regular meeting for Dec. 13, 2012.

Votes at a glance: all motions recorded at the Nov. 8 meeting carried or were approved as noted above; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript; outcomes below reflect the official motions and chair announcements recorded in the meeting transcript.