The Kearney City Council met on July 28, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. The meeting covered two public hearings, a consent agenda of six items, one regular agenda item (an open account claim), and reports from city staff and council members. All votes were unanimous except one abstention. Council Member Kurt Schmidt was absent.
And to the Republic, which is one nation under the team justice for all. Okay. In accordance with section 841412 of the Nebraska revised statutes, a current copy of the Open Meetings Act is available for review in the council chambers. Jake, please take roll. Mayor Nicola. Here. Bushcutter? Here. More? Here. Schmidt absent. Cotsiopolis. Here. There are no oral communications and no unfinished business. So we're going to go right to public hearing one, which pertains to the Class C liquor license addition to licensed area application for Kincauter Brewing Company LLC, doing business as Kinca Brewing Company located at 221 11th Avenue, Suite B. Presentation by Jake. And just a couple of things. We received an application from the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission on July 8th for an approximate 3,000 square foot addition for Kincator Brewing. KPD conducted a review and found no concerns with the application. And obviously we have a member from Kinkator here with to answer any questions if you guys have any. Okay. Introduce yourself. My name is Andrew Baxter. I'm actually the area manager at oversee Broken Bow, Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha. So spend four or five days out here right now, just making sure things are going okay. But uh the process of what we're doing is just adding a private event space over there. So if people need presentations or want to do wedding receptions or anything like that, we have an area that people can have a little bit of privacy to do what they need to do, but we're not asking to do anything that's any different than what we're already doing just in a private space right next door. Sure. Glad you feel comfortable to expand. That's good. Good news for you and good news for Carney. So thank you. Good problem. So talk about you guys are all keeping up on all of your training for your staff, all your liquor training. That's uh you know, responsible beverage permits are a big thing for us, so that's typically required within two weeks of starting with us, and we have our logs for food handling, beverage, all of that fun stuff on file for everybody. So you have a similar space in Broken Bow, don't you? Yeah, in that okay, but this will be much bigger than that. Yeah, I'm trying to picture what 3,000 square feet is. It'd be about the same size as the the beer house side, wouldn't it? Uh about the same size as the beer house side. There are that includes the space with the restrooms. There's also going to be a small office area over there, so we can do our meetings over there. But I would say about 80% of it is all uh the red private dine restaurant space. Okay. Any other questions? No. Okay. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address public hearing one? No.