The City of Golden Local Licensing Authority met at 2:30 p.m. on March 17, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers, 911 10th Street, Golden, Colorado. Hearing Officer Bria May presided over the public hearing; Deputy City Clerk Stacey K. McClure and Senior Assistant City Attorney Lucas Markley were also present. A transcript reference also names Hearing Officer Kendra Carberry as calling the meeting to order, while Hearing Officer Bria May stated she would preside over the public hearing. The authority approved the prior meeting minutes and then conducted a public hearing on an application for a new beer and wine license for Scully's Coffee Camper d/b/a Scully's Cafe, ultimately approving the license and referring it for state approval.
I'd like to call the March 17th, 2026 meeting for the City of Golden Local Licensing Authority. I'd like to call the meeting to order. The first item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of the September 16th, 2025 meeting. Hearing Officer Kendra Carberry called the meeting to order. Deputy City Clerk, Stacey K. McClure, and Senior Assistant City Attorney Lucas Markley were also present. We don't have to some jurisdictions, I think read them in directly. Okay. We don't have to. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, um, I'd like to approve uh the minutes for the September 16th, 2025 um meeting of the local liquor licensing authority. Are there any objections? Um there being no objection, um the authority. Um I would like to approve the meetings. Uh I would like to approve the minutes for the September 16, 2025 meeting. All right, uh the next item on the agenda is the public hearing. Um this public hearing is now in order. Um I'm Bria May, hearing officer for the local liquor licensing authority of the city of Golden. I will be presiding over this hearing. This is a public hearing on an application for a new beer and wine license by Scully's Coffee Camper. Um Scully's Cafe 600 12th Street, suite 160 Golden Colorado, 80401. Is the applicant or a representative of the applicant present? Yes. Okay. Um if you wouldn't mind stepping down to the microphone. Um I make one other question. Sorry, when I printed that the revised one out. That was the address of our last one. So that's my interval. I was like, that does not sound familiar. Um, address will be the umspur road. Okay, so I'll correct that. The address for Scully's Coffee Camper, also known as Scully's Cafe, is 1812 Miners Spur Road, Golden Colorado 80401. Correct. Um, would you please identify yourself for the record? Yes, my name is Sophia Skully Allison. Okay. So the purpose of this hearing is to receive um information, testimony, and evidence so that the local licensing authority may make findings and reach a determination regarding whether the beer and wine license will conflict or not with the desires of the adult inhabitants and reasonable requirements of the neighborhood in the vicinity of the new location. Um, and also whether the reasonable requirements of the neighborhood are currently being met by existing license outlets, and also whether the adult inhabitants of the neighborhood desire that this license be issued. So the hearing will be governed by the Colorado State Statutes, the Golden Municipal Code, and the local licensing authority rules of procedure. Um interested parties such as yourself and also the city uh will be able to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses. Um I won't go through um whether or not uh the um I won't go through the what makes you an interested party, I think. Okay, you probably understand that you're an interested party. Yep. Um so are you going to be the interested party that would wish to uh participate in this hearing? Yes, I am. Okay. So the um applicant has the burden of demonstrating to this authority that the issuance of the requested license is consistent with reasonable requirements of the neighborhood and the desires of the adult inhabitants at this time. I would like to ask whether you are prepared to proceed.