Common Council approves three business licenses, then votes to enter closed session

The Common Council approved three licensing items and then voted to go into closed session during its meeting. Council members approved an operator license for Olivia Nicole Fallon, granted a cigarette-and-tobacco retail license to Falcon One’s applicant Yash Patel on a 3–2 vote, and approved multiple retail licenses for Speedway with Brian Peck listed as agent. Later in the agenda the council moved into closed session under Wisconsin statute to discuss employment matters.

The council took the votes on the licensing items after reconvening in open session following a brief technology glitch. On Item 37, an operator license application for Olivia Nicole Fallon, council members voted to approve the license on a roll call that recorded unanimous "aye" responses. The clerk instructed the applicant to meet with staff; the transcript records that "Melissa will reach out to you tomorrow" with information about the license.

On Item 38, the council considered a cigarette- and tobacco-retail license for Falcon One, with Yash Patel identified as the applicant. The transcript records a roll call in which Alderperson Jurkiewicz and Alderperson Acres voted "no," and Alderpersons Bailey and Saroyan voted "aye." The motion passed 3–2; the transcript records the outcome as three in favor and two opposed.

Item 39 covered multiple retail licenses, including a cigarette-and-tobacco license and a malt-beverage (Class A cider-only) retailer license for Speedway, with Brian Peck listed as agent. A motion to approve carried on a roll call reflected in the transcript as "aye" votes, and the council approved the applications. Staff told the applicant they would follow up by email with next steps.

Later the council moved to close part of the meeting. For Item 35 the body voted to enter closed session "pursuant to Wisconsin statutes" to consider employment, promotion, compensation or performance-evaluation data of public employees — language consistent with Wis. Stat. § 19.85(1)(c). The transcript records a roll call that shows five "aye" votes; the record ends as the council proceeded into closed session, and no further action from the closed session appears in this transcript.

Decisions on licensing were recorded at about 8:08 p.m. according to the meeting record. Further administrative steps — including clerk follow-up to successful applicants and any actions taken in closed session — are not included in the transcript.