Date: April 13, 2026
Time: 4:45 PM – 4:50 PM
Location: Council Chambers, 1110 18th Avenue, Monroe, WI
The License Committee met to consider a temporary liquor license application for GCDC (Green County Development Corporation) in conjunction with a City of Monroe Pocket Park event. The committee voted 3-1 to recommend approval to the Common Council.
It's 4 45 p.m. and we'll call the license committee to order if the clerk will call the roll, please. Alder Wartenweiler? Here. Alder Tolman? Here. Alder Miller? Here. And Alder Vestine. Here. Um. Any correction of minutes from the March 23rd 2026 meeting. Hearing none, they'll stand as presented. And item C business C1 discussion impossible recommendation to common council. The temporary class B fermented malt beverage and wine license and beer garden application for GCDC in conjunction with City of Monroe's pocket park event. So in front of you is their application that should take place on May 16th. The hour operations would be from 5 to 9. And this is in conjunction with the event that's going to public safety tonight. Um for it's in conjunction with Main Street Monroe and the City of Monroe. They're having their night market with a opening ceremony for the pocket park, along with G C D C would be the one having the temporary class B so they can serve the the beer and wine. And then the I'll the beer garden would be within that area. Kind of like how it was. Any discussion. I I just have a question maybe for the attorney. Uh with the county, I'm on this board. I'm it says Ron Shaff, he's the treasurer next week, but I am. Should I abstain or does it matter? From voting because of the Green County development provision? Yeah, because of GCDC. No, I I think that's way too remote. Okay. Um I don't you have to have a financial interest. You don't have a financial interest in them. They're nonprofits, so no. Um my question is just um it says the licensed area. I lost it now, where where the beer and wine will be sold, served, consumed, and stored is that those two streets that were named, so but not uh one place that's selling them. Each of the vendors will sell I'm a little confused. I'm just pulling up the the actual event permit and see if it's on that. I might have missed it. The location says uh 900 block of 17th Avenue, 1700 block of 10th Street in the downtown pocket park. That's the premises the premise, yep. So they can serve within that premise. Anywhere in that area they can sell the the pocket park itself. Correct, yep. Where they'll have a stand or something the street too as well. Yep. G C D C is gonna be doing the selling. Yep, and it'd be on those two streets on the pocket park. There will not be any open containers going outside of that. Uh look, you can't go to any of the bars or bring stuff into there.