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29G 7/10/72 They Have had many problems working with the legals, but he felt they would have details complete by the end of the week. Mr. Jaworski said we could move on the work shortly after that. Mr. Marier asked Mr. Locher if we had got certified on the sign ordinance. Mr. Locher said he had a call from Ed Wasik who stated that there are some sections of the Ordinance they want changed, but he gave no details. Mr. Locher had asked Mr. Wasik if he would come out and talk to the Council on this -- he was willing to do so. Mr. Locher had told him we don't want to weaken the ordinance. Mr. Locher will call him tomorrow. Mr. Marier said he had a call this past week on a question of whether a permit should be issued for garage sales. He said a study had been made showing that 100 such sales are held in Lino each year; if we charged $5.00 for a permit this would bring in $500. He noted that antique dealers felt such sales were lucrative, some parties do this every other month or so, that people who pay for business licenses and commercial property feel it is unfair for individuals to be able to conduct these competitive sales without paying a permit fee. Mr. Marier felt the fee should be charged for a particular sale or a certain location even `if'the sale lasted for several days. Mr. Zelinka asked if this was to be for income or a nuisance to individuals? He noted that sometimes people ,leave signs up, and he would agree to this if it would insure that they take the signs down. He commented that we are here not to burden people but to see that people don't burden others. He asked of this concerned foodstands also. He would like to see the fee returned if they cleaned up. He noted that too much govern- ment is not good, but those who use the roadway for signs should be required to clean them up. He stated he had no objections to someone setting up a tomato stand, and suggested that persons might pay a $10 deposit for a sale, this being $5 for the permit and $5 towards cleaning up, which could be refunded. He wondered if this couldn't be put in an ordinance to regulate everybody. Mr. Jaworski wondered if we are trying to cut down on competition. He felt we could charge a fee only on a regulatory basis, not to raise money. Mr. Marier noted that some people think of it as a nuisamce, we ljave a place to keep clean and we have to pay to do that. We require this from any one in business. He noted that he was not talking only about garage sales. There was discussion. Mr. Zelinka asked Mr. anything on this; Mr. Locher was willing to Mrs. Bohjanen commented that the Council had business and had gotten no where yet. If we license garage sales and roadside stands. Locher if any other villages have done check. talked about an ordinance on licensing don't license businesses, we shouldn't Pete Scherer noted that a bill being drawn up for the State to license these sorts of sales is being pushed by antique dealers. Glenn Rehbein noted we would have no end to what we could license, such as selling cars and sod by the road. Mr. Zelinka felt we had a nuisance ordinance which we could use, and that such mew regulations might be equitable if people have a sale for a week with things on a consignment basis for making profit, but not for those who have single sales or small neighborhood sales. He felt we should table this for a couple of meetings and see if we get any response. He asked if we had lid any problems with groups posing as neighborhood sales and was told no.