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<br />Item No: 07B <br />Meeting Date: February 27, 2017 <br />Type of Business: CB <br />Administrator Review: ____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator <br /> <br />Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing, Resolution 8722, Approving an Off-Sale <br />Intoxicating License Transfer from Menbe, Inc. (doing business <br />as ABC Liquor) to AB Liquor, LLC., located at 2840 Mounds <br />View Boulevard <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />In accordance with Chapter 502 of the Mounds View City Code, a public hearing is required for all <br />liquor license transfers. Menbe, Inc., is requesting to transfer their Off-Sale Intoxicating Liquor <br />License to AB Liquor, LLC. Representative from AB Liquor, LLC, will be available to answer <br />questions. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br />AB Liquor, LLC., submitted all required city liquor license application materials and fees. The <br />following investigations and inspections have been conducted to determine whether there is cause <br />for the City to deny the application: <br /> <br />Police Inquiry and Investigations (Mounds View Police Department) <br />Staff submitted a background check application to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension <br />(BCA) on the owner of AB Liquor, LLC., Selam Mebratu, and also submitted a background check <br />on AB Liquor, LLC. All reports have come back satisfactory. <br /> <br />City Billing (Mounds View Finance Department) <br />ABC Liquor is up to date on payment of all utility bills. There are no outstanding property taxes. <br /> <br />Fire Inspection (Mounds View Fire Marshal) <br /> <br />Before the transfer occurs, they would be required to have a fire inspection. This license will be <br />contingent on a satisfactory fire inspection from the Fire Marshal. <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br /> <br />Staff recommends approving Resolution 8722, approving an Off-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License <br />transfer from Menbe, Inc., (doing business as ABC Liquor) to AB Liquor. LLC, located at 2840 <br />Mounds View Boulevard, contingent a satisfactory fire inspection. If approved, this license will <br />expire on June 30, 2017. <br /> <br />Respectfully Submitted, <br /> <br /> <br />___________________________ <br />Desaree Crane <br /> <br />