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Page 7 July 13, 1998 Mounds View City Council MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Gunn to approve the motion to grant licenses for the Holiday Station Store Located at 2732 Highway 10. ROLL CALL VOTE: Quick Aye Stigney Aye Gunn Aye Acting Mayor Koopmeiners Aye The motion carried. C. Public Hearing to Consider Off Sale Intoxicating Liquor License for ABC Liquor, 2840 Highway 10, Approval of Resolution No. 5244. 1. Consider Motion Adopting • Cari Schmidt gave the staff report as follows: The applicants had submitted complete application materials and proof of financial responsibility to the City. A Police Department investigation revealed nothing that would prevent the City Council from approving the application. The applicants had also submitted a complete application for the sale of cigarettes at the liquor store. Staff recommended approving the license for off sale intoxicating liquor and cigarettes for ABC Liquor, 2840 Highway 10. Staff also recommended approving Resolution 5254, A resolution Denying renewal of the Intoxicating Liquor License to Murzyn's's Liquor. Koopmeiners closed the Council Meeting and opened the public hearing. Alan Jontz, attorney for Murzyn's liquor, asked the Council to consider restating the Murzyn Liquor license on the grounds that the store is being sold to ABC Liquor, closing on July 14, 1998. If the closing were not to proceed as scheduled, the Dong family would endure undue hardship. As a provision of continued licensing, Murzyn's's would be willing to hire an employee from outside of the family to help run the liquor store. Long suggested that the best the City could do would be to condition the ABC Liquor license request upon proof of sale, ownership and title of Murzyns to ABC Liquor. • Arthur Jordan, 2085 Oakwood Drive, spoke in favor of extending Murzyn's license to sell