That that was very abrupt. Okay. Alright. Well, welcome. This is the Northfield City Council, meeting for Tuesday, August 12, and we're going to start this evening with a city council special meeting followed by a city council work session. So I will call this meeting to order and request a roll call, please. Mayor Zweifel? Here. Councilor Peterson White? Here. Councilor Silke? Here. Councilor Beamer? Here. Councilor Dahlin? Here. Councilor Holmes? Here. Councilor Ness? Here. Thank you. First up is approval of agenda.
Would anyone like to Councillor Ness. I will move the agenda for the special meeting. Thank you. Is there a Councillor Beamer? Second. Alright. Any changes to the agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor of the agenda, signify by saying aye. Aye. Roll call, please. Councilor Peterson White? Aye. Councilor Soukup? Aye. Councilor Beamer? Aye. Councilor Dahlen? Aye. Counselor Holmes? Aye. Counselor Ness? Aye. Mayor Zweifel? Aye. Alright. That brings us to our, public hearing for this evening. So the public will have an opportunity to address the city council on this public
hearing. Individuals who are preregistered, do we have any pre registrants? No. You can have up to two minutes to address the council. You don't have to preregister. You can also, fill out a card this evening, if you would like to address the council. So I am going to declare the public hearing open and go we go for, staff report first. Looks like yeah. Staff report for second. Yes. Mayor and members of the council. The city received an application for a new location for an on sale micro distiller cocktail room license, off sale micro distillery license, and Sunday liquor license from Mark Schiller and Simeon Rossi,
Loon Liquors LLC doing business as Loon Liquor Company on Friday, July 18. Since this is a new location for the license, the public hearing is being held as outlined in city code. Loon Liquors LLC doing business as Loon Liquor Company has applied for an on sale micro distiller cocktail room license and off sale micro distillery license. This license would include a Sunday license also. A liquor license background investigation was conducted by the police department with no issues noted. Consideration of approval of the liquor licenses is scheduled following the public hearing. As stated in the report,
public hearing notices were mailed to property owners within 350 feet of 1115 Fifth Street West on July 28. If approved, the lit licensee will begin to sell once approved by the state. The public hearing notice was published in the Northfield new Northfield News on Wednesday, July 30. Owner Mark Schiller is also present to to talk about the license. Thank you. There we go. Good evening. I was asked to be very, very brief because we've had a lot of great discussions over the last many years.
But, yeah, this is part of the process, and we respect that. And, I think just over the last year of seeing all the social media posts on it, all the conversations within the community, there really has been, like, no naysayers on it. We've been just receiving a bountiful amount of support from the community, and we're still and I hope you're excited because everybody we talked to is so far. So thank you. I yeah. If there's any questions, but Thank you. Chief Schreepfer, your name is here also under the staff report.
Do you have something to add? No, mayor. I just noticed that myself. I don't. No issue. Surprise. Or anything, so we're good on the police department end of it. Okay. Thank you. Okay. That, okay. Staff report, comment from the owner, check. Next up is public input. So if anyone would like to, address the council on this public hearing. Alright. I don't see any anyone, coming forward. So next up is, council comments. It just says council comments first. So I'm following the script. I'm following the script, but I'm I maybe the script is we'll we'll check on the script.
Anybody? Part of the hearing. Part of the hearing? Okay. Part of the hearing is council comments. We'll lead it off with council Peterson White. I'll just very briefly comment. I am excited. This is great. It's been really exciting to see, all that you're doing with the building. Y'all got hustle there. It's been impressive, And we're very excited to have this in the downtown. Councilor Holmes. I'll just real briefly say it looks great. And I think that it's gonna add vibrancy to a place that was not that was basically sitting vacant for so long. So, so we're very excited and glad to support this. Councilor Beamer.
Congratulations. Get it done. Counselor Ness. Thank you. I've known Mark quite a while, and I'm so happy for him and his partner to get this completed. And best of luck. I know you'll have one patron for sure. I will just, add that it's not part of, the liquor license, but I'm really excited about the flour milling that you'll be doing. It's been a long time since we've had flour a local boutique flour mill around. So I'm very excited about that, and, I think there are folks who are interested in having a local flour source.
So thank you for providing that as well. Organic certified. Oh, that's great. Okay. Now I can request a motion to close the public hearing. Councilor Holmes. I move to close the public hearing. Is there a second? Councilor, Soka? Second. Okay. Any discussion? No. All those in favor of closing the public hearing, signify by saying aye. Aye. Roll call, please. Counselor Peterson White? Aye. Counselor Soukup? Aye. Counselor Beamer? Aye. Counselor Dahlen? Aye. Counselor Holmes? Aye. Counselor Ness? Aye.
Mayor Zweifel? Yes. Okay. So that was our public hearing. Now we're on to our second agenda item, which is the consideration of a new location for the on sale micro distillery cocktail room license, off sale micro distillery license, and Sunday liquor license for Loom Liquors at 115 Fifth Street West. So I will be requesting a motion for this. Councilor Soka. I'll move the motion as you just stated it. Great. Thank you. Is there a second? Councilor Beamer? I'll second.
Great. Any further discussion? Alright. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Roll call, please. Aye. Aye. Councilor Dahlen? Aye. Counselor Holmes? Aye. Counselor Ness? Aye. Mayor Zweifel? Yes. Alright. Motion carries. Motion to adjourn the special meeting. Yes. Yay. Counselor Holmes. I move to adjourn the special meeting. Counselor Ness. Second. Alright. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Roll call, please. Councilor Peterson White? Aye. Councilor Silke? Aye. Councilor Beamer? Aye. Councilor Dahlen?
Aye. Councilor Holmes? Aye. Councilor Ness? Aye. Mayor Zweifel? Yes. Alright. I don't think we need a five minute break yet, so maybe wait. Maybe I spoke too soon.