The Depoe Bay City Council at a special session Oct. 30 moved to accept a liquor license application and seconded the motion, then proceeded toward approval. The applicant’s name is not clearly recorded in the meeting transcript.

Council members discussed the license briefly before the motion. An unidentified council member (S3) said the city needs a certain number of alcohol outlets and described the vote as largely procedural, noting the action was “just a matter of reinstating the previous” license. The same speaker added colloquially, “We’re a drinking town with a fishing problem,” during the exchange.

The transcript records the motion being made and seconded and the council moving forward; no formal roll-call vote tally was recorded in the available transcript. The council chair said the motion was moved and seconded and the item proceeded toward approval.

Next steps: the council completed the procedural steps in the session; the record in the transcript does not identify an explicit roll-call tally or the business name tied to the license application.