The Scottsbluff City Council held a public hearing and voted to recommend that the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission grant a Class C liquor license to ATL LLC, doing business as In & Out Liquor, at 615 South Beltline Highway East. The council also named Taylor Gallas as the proposed liquor license manager.

The applicant, Adam Gallus, told the council he and his wife plan to open what he described as “a more modern, take of a liquor store” at the address and said renovation work would begin April 1 with an anticipated summer 2025 opening. “I've currently been part of a class C for about 13 years under my father's liquor license,” Gallus said. He described store hours as Sunday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–10 p.m.; Friday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–1 a.m.

Gallus outlined several loss-prevention and compliance measures. He said staff will be ServeSafe-certified and that the store's point-of-sale system will prompt employees to check and scan IDs: “No purchases can be made without scanning, that ID,” he said. He added the plan calls for visual ID verification, employee training to recognize fake IDs, security cameras and locked inventory, and that he and his partner would be the only staff with keys to storage. He estimated the store would employ roughly four to six people.

A city staff member noted for the record that “Taylor and Adam did appear before the Liquor License Investigatory Board, and they did recommend a positive recommendation to the council to the liquor commission.” The council then moved to make a positive recommendation to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission and to name Taylor Gallas as manager.

Motion and vote: The motion to make a positive recommendation was made by Councilmember Stricker and seconded by Councilmember Solomon. Roll call votes recorded were Solomon—yes; McCarran—yes; Stricker—yes; Phillips—yes. The motion carried unanimously.

The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission retains final authority over licensing; the council’s action was a local recommendation. The application file entered into the record included the license application, council checklist, and written statements from the police chief, city clerk and development services.