Chattanooga Beer Board Meeting - September 18, 2025
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Chattanooga Beer Board Meeting - September 18, 2025
This regular meeting of the Chattanooga Beer Board convened on September 18, 2025, at 3:17 PM. The board approved the previous meeting's minutes, handled a beer festival application that was deferred due to zoning and address issues, and adjourned to begin a regulatory hearing.
Consent Calendar
- The minutes of the September 4, 2025, meeting were approved by unanimous voice vote (motion made, seconded, all in favor, no opposition).
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public spoke or registered comments.
Discussion Items
- Beer Application for Greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation (WTCI PBS) – “Ale Trail Off the Track Beer Festival” – Organizer Linda Rent McReynolds, TE 95. The application had been approved by the regulatory division but was being held up in zoning. A board member noted that the issue appeared to be an incorrect address on the application, not a zoning problem, and requested clarification from the applicant. The board expressed support for the festival, with one member stating, “I encourage everyone to support our public television.” No representative from the applicant was present.
Key Outcomes
- The board voted to move the beer festival application back to the regulatory committee for further review, placing it on hold until the address issue is resolved (motion made, seconded, unanimous voice vote).
- No new beer applications were presented.
- The beer board meeting was adjourned, with the regulatory hearing to follow in approximately five minutes (motion to adjourn, unanimous voice vote).
Meeting Transcript
We do ask uh that all meeting attendees sign in on the uh sign-in sheet over here if you haven't done so for the sunshine law requirements. Uh please silence or turn off your electronic devices so we're not interrupted. And any individuals wishing to address the door board must do so from the podium and please state your name before making your comments and please speak up. First item on our agenda is approval of the minutes for September 4th. Is there a motion to approve those minutes? I make a motion to approve. All right, motion to approve the second. Second. All in favor of approving the minutes of September 4th signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, none notice. Okay, at this time the court reporter will swear in anyone coming before a board today. Well we're only interested in that. All righty, thank you very much. Okay, first item on our agenda is beer applications approved by regulatory, the greatest Chattanooga Public Television Corp, the greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation, WTCI PBS Ale Trail Off the Track Beer Festival. Linda Rent McReynolds organizer, TE 95. That's been approved by regulatory. I encourage everyone to support our public television. It is uh held up in zoning. Is there anyone here for Smart Music Project? She's a beer festival. Okay, no one here. It's held up in zoning. The issue is not necessarily the zoning, but it looks like it might be the incorrect address on the application. So y'all were having to get that square away. I've asked for clarification. I haven't received it yet, so got it. Okay. Okay, thank you. Let's uh is there a motion to move this to the well. There's not much to the end of the agenda. So uh that's a good thing. Can we just give this back to that regulatory? Yeah. Okay. Hopefully you might hear from them today. Okay. I said hopefully they might hear from us today. So we'll just move this back to regulatory and put it on hold till we hear from them. Right. Oh my god. All right. There's a motion made to move it to regulatory. Is there a second? Second. All righty. All right. All in favor of a moving it to regulatory. Say aye. Aye.
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