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The Kearney City Council met on October 13, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. at City Council Chambers. The meeting included multiple public hearings, consent agenda items, and regular agenda items. Key actions included approval of a liquor license for UNK, rezoning of a property at 1416 East 30th Drive, development approvals for Spruce Hollow West Fourth, adoption of a redevelopment project for a DMV building with tax increment financing, and approval of open account claims.
We're gonna get our meeting started by uh standing for a moment of silence and then the pledge of allegiance. All right, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag and the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. In accordance with section 841412 of the Nebraska revised statutes, a current copy of the open meetings act is available for for review in the council chambers. Uh Jake, please take roll. Mayor Nicola. Here. Bushcutter. Here. More here. Schmidt here. Cottiopolis. Here. There are no oral communications. There's no unfinished business. So we'll move right into public hearing one, which pertains to the new class one liquor license and manager application submitted by SEDACSO America LLC doing business as UNK, the Grays Regional Engagement Center located at 2204 2204 University Drive. Yep. Go ahead and come up and Jake, you want to start us off. The item before you is a class I liquor license and manager application for Sedexo America. The applicant is compliant with the City of Kearney liquor license training policy. Uh and KPD identified no concerns with the application. As noted on the memo included in the packet, council has the option to approve or deny this request for approval for a class I liquor license. The resolution pertaining to council's recommendation will be submitted to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission for their consideration. And then the manager Kent here is here to answer any questions. All right, Kent, go ahead and introduce yourself, uh provide an address and just talk about what you guys are looking to do. Ken Hergott, operations manager for Sudexo UNK dining, uh address 1702A Avenue. Um and we are looking to get a liquor license for events over at the regional engagement center in the university village. Um mainly focusing around catering events on that with kind of some of the donor and uh uh chancellor events in that building. Because you already have it for the student center building. And so why why does it require to have two different licenses? Two different physical locations. The physical locations, okay. Yep. So they've been pulling special designated licenses for when they are doing a catering event over at regional engagement center, but then they have to do it for every event. So this would remove that requirement. They can just have a liquor license for that location then. That becomes pricey a little bit. And just probably annoying, sorry. Probably annoying too. Time consuming, yeah. Yeah. And all your employees go through the required alcohol server training. Yep, all of them that we have that will be dealing with the alcohol at those events, go through the required trainings. Okay. And most just a curious are most of your employees' students or they