The Naperville Liquor Commission met on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the Council Chambers. Six commissioners were present (Steve Chirico, Kelly Douglas, Ray McGury, Anthony Signorella, Mitch Stauffer, and Mayor Scott Wehrli); two were absent (Jason Dy and John Koranda). The meeting covered approval of prior minutes, consideration of a liquor license cap increase, discussion of Delta-9 THC regulation, and receipt of routine reports.
Here. Chericho. Here. Douglas? Here. Signorella. Here. Stofer. McGurry. Here. Cranda. D. Our first order of business is public form. Is there anyone here to speak on an item that is not on the agenda? Please come forward now. Seeing none, we'll move on to old business. Item D1, meeting minutes. May I have a motion? I actually stopper. I'm sorry, I have a comment on the minutes from last meeting. Um when we ask for a text amendment to adhere or abide by the Illinois Facet requirements as opposed to our own local. We had some discussion around it currently under uh the the Naperville, the historical neighbor bill requirements. You could hire somebody, but they couldn't serve alcohol. So then there was some discussion. We are going to allow them to uh come in with uh Illinois basset training, but they have to get Naperville asset training within 14 days. But during that 14 days, they're allowed to serve alcohol. And I just I thought that might be an important point to make in the text amendment. I'm thinking back to what actually got ratified at City Council. Um we might need to look into that. So I I was not here for that that that last discussion on the um uh the the BASA training question. So your recollection, Commissioner Stafforder, was during the 14-day period where they would have to uh be able between BASA training and the requirement for the neighborhood training, they they would be allowed to serve alcohol or well help me out here. We had that in the discussion, but I don't remember exactly what the my I don't remember exactly what the amendment was, but uh or what the proposal was, but the minutes don't address that point, so we should probably Commissioner Sheriko approved. My recollection is I thought we had discussion where they they were not able to, they were not allowed to serve during the interim period. That I'll go with your memory, especially if that's consistent with everyone else's. The minutes don't address that point. And I just thought we should probably clarify. Correct. Okay. Counselor. You you're on the minutes are just a general summary. We also have the video of the actual discussion. So it is good that that video was maintained and available on the website, so anyone who was really curious could dig in and get the exact specific discussion. But if there wasn't necessarily a consensus or a vote on that issue, it may be best not to add that into the written minutes, but just rely on the video, which is the most accurate representation of everything that was said if the if the board's comfortable with that. Okay, so we'll entertain a motion for the approval of the minutes from April 8th. I would approve. Commissioner Stoffer. Second, Jericho. Motion and a second. All those in favor sign aye. Aye.