The Butler Township commissioners approved the transfer of a liquor license from Buffalo Township to the Sheetz on Route 8.

Commissioners voted unanimously in favor of the transfer following a hearing on the matter that was held during the commissioners' meeting Monday.

The transfer of the restaurant liquor license from Thompson Scrap Metal to the Sheetz must now be approved by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.

Mark Kozar, an attorney representing Sheetz, said the store has seating for 30 people and an existing soda cave would be converted to a beer cave.

Customers would be allowed to buy up to 192 ounces of beer or up to four bottles of wine in one transaction, Kozar said.

Beer would be sold from 7 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 9 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. Sundays. Wine sales end at 11 p.m.

Customers would be allowed to drink up to two beers inside the store, he said.

“Sheetz prefers not to sell for on-premise consumption,” Kozar said.

However, establishments with restaurant licenses are required to do so, he said.

“They have a 100 percent carding policy,” Kozar said.

Scanners connected to cash registers recognize fake identifications and expired driver's licenses, and employees receive Responsible Alcohol Management Program training to detect fake identifications and intoxicated people, he said.

Employees who sell alcohol to someone underage or visibly intoxicated are terminated through the Sheetz “one strike and you're out policy,” Kozar said.

The store has 30 to 40 security cameras monitored in the store and by staff at a security operations center in Claysburg, he added.

In unrelated business, the commissioners agreed to send a letter to state Sen Scott Hutchinson, R-21st, and Rep. Marci Mustello, R-11th, opposing the transfer of money from the Environmental Stewardship Fund and Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund to cover operating costs of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Department of Environmental Protection.

“These funds were created with broad bipartisan support and must remain protected for their dedicated purposes of supporting local, on-the-ground projects that conserve and restore our waters, set aside natural lands and support state and local parks and recreation. We respect that DCNR and DEP need money to operate; however, the answer to agency needs lies with the general fund — the appropriate source for general government operations — not in special funds dedicated to investing in projects,” an excerpt from the letter says.

In other business, the commissioners sold seven surplus vehicles for a total of $33,922.

Bids from 20 people and businesses for a dump truck, two cars, four tractors and a hot box for heating asphalt were opened and awarded. One bid was disqualified for not using the required bid form and all the bids for the 2013 Falcon hot box were rejected because they didn't meet the reserve price.

The commissioners also appointed Edward Fink to the Butler County-City Connoquenessing Creek Flood Control Authority.