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CITY COUN CIL WORK SESSION January 7, 2013 DRAFT the map indicating off -sale locations within Lino Lakes is somewhat misleading since it 46 shows some restaurant bars and 3.2 establishments that are really not the same as a 47 “liquor store”. 48 49 Adam La mere , Lakes Liquor, address ed the council. He explained that there are 50 combination licenses allowed by the state and so the city could deal with them separately. 51 He noted that realistically, a population based licensing system would be difficult. He 52 feels t hat something needs to be done – it doesn’t work out having liquor stores across the 53 street from each other. When the mayor asked if Mr. Lamere has a suggestion that would 54 deal with the situation, he mentioned that radius wouldn’t necessarily work well an d 55 population based wouldn’t be ideal either. The mayor said he recognizes that exclusive 56 liquor stores can’t really expand their business to other sales so some regulation may be 57 necessary. Council Member Roese r noted his struggle to about regulations th at would put 58 government in a role that picks the winners and losers or could possible lead to 59 corruption. 60 61 Community Development Director Grochala noted that a distance requirement would be 62 the most sensible. The Mayor suggested that under that scenario , those in violation of the 63 distance requirement that are originally grandfathered would eventually go away. Th e 64 mayor would like to know about what other cities are d oing and what has worked . A 65 council member noted that a distance regulation could impac t development in the village 66 area or a liquor store wit h a grocery store development. 67 68 The manager of Eagle Liquor addressed the council. He suggested there are other cities 69 that are successfully using off -sale r estrictions. It may be a moving target bu t you have to 70 try and hit it. 71 72 The mayor suggested that the council would like more information and will continue the 73 discussion at the next work session. He urged the liquor store owners to provide 74 information to the council if they have it. 75 76 5. Min nesota Government Data Practices Act – Administrator Karlson explained that 77 due to a data practice request, a city in Minnesota has dealt with the concept of elected 78 official data and decided to identify officials as employees only for the purpose of data 79 practices. Based on council direction, staff spoke with the city attorney and he wrote a 80 resolution that would designate Lino Lakes elected officials as employees but only for the 81 purpose of the Data Practices Act . A council member expressed concern tha t the 82 designation could hold some unexpected consequences down the line. Attorney Langel 83 explained that the designation is narrowly defined and applies only to data practice. He 84 had prepared a memo explaining implications. Council Member O’Donnell said that he 85 wants to understand if a designation could impact other areas such as a private business 86 and personal matters. City Attorney Langel said that he would amend the resolution to 87 make it even clear er that the employee designation is strictly limited. 88 89 2