Town Provisions owner Brion McGroarty told the Edgartown selectmen this week that he is making another attempt to build a liquor store near the airport.

The selectmen gave Mr. McGroarty their blessing to proceed with the permitting process to build an addition to the building now owned by Nectar’s and the Vermont pizza company Flatbread. Mr. McGroarty will need approval from the town, airport commission, the state alcoholic beverage control commission and likely the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

“I’m going to begin the bureaucratic process to try and move the license out to airport property,” Mr. McGroarty said at Monday’s meeting. “I’ll go through the lengthy permitting and expense. I want to make sure you know that that’s the direction we’re going to be going in right now and solicit your support for a move out there.”

Last spring Mr. McGroarty won approval from the selectmen and the ABCC to swap his seasonal liquor license with the year-round license held by Great Harbor Gourmet and Provisions on Main street. The swap was aimed at allowing Mr. McGroarty to pursue his plans for a liquor store at the airport.

Mr. McGroarty said he waited until now to go forward with the plans while the owners of Nectar’s completed their own purchase of the former Hot Tin Roof building. “I stepped aside last year for them so they could get licensed and keep going with the sale of that property,” he said.

“Now it’s my turn to do the permitting to build an addition and hopefully move the license out [to the airport].”

In other business, selectmen also granted Mark Venette a seasonal beer and wine license for Black Sheep, a new charcuterie on North Summer street; the license is contingent on approval from the zoning board of appeals at a May 4 hearing.

Selectmen held the annual town taxi owners’ hearing where Jon Klingensmith, the longtime owner of Jon’s Taxi, asked the selectmen to consider raising the gasoline surcharge from $3 to $5.

“Should I get in a situation where gas is $6 a gallon, I have an option of recovering a little something,” Mr. Klingensmith said.

“To be honest gas is nuts and I know it’s going to go higher.”

The surcharge is used at the discretion of the driver on a case-by-case basis. Mr. Klingensmith said he and the other taxi owners had not abused it, but would like it to be applicable to in-town trips.

The selectmen asked police chief Tony Bettencourt to sit down with the taxi owners to map out where the new surcharge would apply.

The board also approved a taxi license for Joe Sutton. Mr. Sutton was denied a license by the police chief due to a prior offense in another state, but the chief said he did not object.