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Board to consider taking no position on Alex's Lounge liquor-license renewal
Summary
Board members noted an application to renew a liquor license for Alex's Lounge at 86 State Street and staff prepared a resolution recommending the municipality take no position on uncontested renewals unless objections arise; no formal vote was recorded.
The board heard about an application to renew a liquor license for Alex's Lounge at 86 State Street.
S1 announced the application: "We have an application to renew a liquor license at 86 In State Street for Alex's Lounge." Staff (S2) told trustees that, in the staff's experience, "as long as there's no opposition to them getting renewal, in my experience, the municipality has usually said that they're not taking the position either in favor or against," and that staff had prepared a resolution to "take no position" as part of the meeting packet.
The transcript does not record an objection from the public or a formal board vote on the resolution. Staff indicated the standard approach is to remain neutral for uncontested renewals to avoid unnecessarily impeding an applicant, and trustees did not record a decision in the provided segment.
