BUTLER TWP — Township commissioners on Monday night approved a resolution that is the first step to allowing the GetGo gas station at 1024 N. Main St. to sell beer and wine.

Board members approved the resolution unanimously, in a 4-0 vote, following a public meeting in which lawyers for Giant Eagle spoke briefly about the project. No residents attended the meeting, and commissioner Jim Lokhaiser was absent.

In their testimony before board members on Monday, Mark Kozar of the Pittsburgh-based law firm Flaherty & O’Hara and Danny Kazienko, senior corporate counsel for Giant Eagle, said the company intends to bring the North Main Street GetGo station in line with 14 other stations throughout Pennsylvania that sell beer and wine.

The liquor license enabling the location to sell alcoholic beverages will be transferred from My Buddy’s Inc., also known as the Pullman Park bar, at 210 Pillow St.

That will entail an internal renovation of the GetGo to install a 30-person dining and common area where customers can purchase food and drink up to two beers on-site, Kazienko said. She said it was too early in the process to set a specific date, but the company expects to be selling alcohol out of the North Main Street location by sometime next spring.

Once the license transfer receives approval from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board — a process that can take several months, Kozar said — the store will sell both beer and wine, though Kazienko said there were no plans to allow wine to be imbibed on-site.

The store will not sell liquor or mixed drinks, the company said Monday, and beer and wine sales will be limited to a maximum of two six-packs and several bottles of wine per person.

The store also has no plans to offer on-site entertainment or other enticements that would keep people in its dining area for anything more than brief periods of time.

Kozar said the area, and alcohol sales, would also be monitored by store employees and a manager with training in alcohol sales.

“This will not be a place where people come to hang out and drink,” Kozar said.

Kazienko on Monday, responding to questions from the board, testified that the company doesn’t expect the addition of alcohol sales at the North Main Street store to significantly increase traffic there.

She said the company currently operates a GetGo in Cranberry that sells alcoholic beverages and hasn’t seen an uptick in traffic.

“It’s mostly a convenience for our customers,” she said.