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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 9, 2017 HOGGSBREATH The City Administrator stated that Council Members McGraw and LIQUOR LICENSE Montour recently met with Tom Duray, owner of the Hoggsbreath to CONDITIONS develop operating conditions to help ensure the safety of the public. A number of these conditions are practices already in use by the Hoggsbreath. He explained that he has put together the draft list of conditions based on that our recent meeting with Mr. Duray, but some should be clarified. He stated that the number of security personnel was not defined. He noted that the industry standard is one security person per 50 people. However Hoggsbreath has up to 17 security people. He stated that screening criteria should be clarified to indicate this would only occur on weekends and any other nights with entertainment. He noted that Commander Rich Clark of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department suggested adding "no sports apparel" to the existing dress code, having a minimum of two security personnel aggressively patrolling the parking lot at all times after 10:OOpm, and turning off the music, turning on the lights and announcing at 1:30am that they will be closing soon. Tom Duray and Jocelyn Duray, owners of Hoggsbreath, stated that they have owned this business for 40 years, and their goal now for the business is to move away from the late night activities and focus more on earlier activities and sports team sponsorships and the restaurant. He stated that they need to make sure that the business stays viable while making changes and trying to follow the conditions that are being proposed. Mr. Duray wanted clarification that once these conditions are put in place, do they stay in effect forever. The City Attorney stated that these are conditions on the Hoggsbreath liquor license, but at the license renewal period, Mr. Duray could revisit the conditions with the Council if there have been no problems. Mr. Duray asked for clarification on wanding and bag inspections, since he assumed it would only be done on Friday and Saturday nights, along with the identification screening. He stated that having to do this process every night would be intrusive to the people and families who are coming in for dinner during the week. He also asked if doing pat downs could be removed since that would typically just be done if the metal detector picks up something versus doing that on all of the customers. Fischer stated he has no issue with removing the pat downs on everyone detail. The Council agreed. The City Administrator stated that the conditions were meant to just be on weekends or during entertainment, which is defined in the entertainment license. Mr. Dmay stated that he would like clarification since there is a DJ playing every night for background music until around 10:00 p.m., and then the type of music varies each night, but around 10:00 p.m. the music is played for customers who want to dance. Fischer stated that these extra conditions were intended to be in place for the entertainment nights, but it