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Item No: 11B <br />Meeting Date: August 13, 2007 <br />Type of Business: Reports <br />Administrator Review: ____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Desaree M. Crane, Assistant to the City Administrator <br /> <br />Item Title/Subject: Potential Liquor License Suspension/Revocations <br /> <br /> <br />The Mermaid <br /> <br />It has come to Staff’s attention that The Mermaid is late on the first half of their property <br />taxes for 2007. In accordance with the liquor license provisions of the City Code, it states: <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Places Ineligible for License: <br /> <br />b. No license shall be granted for operation on any premises on which taxes, <br />assessments, utility bills or other financial claims of the Municipality are delinquent <br />or unpaid. <br /> <br />Each liquor license renewal year, Staff sends a letter to the Minnesota Department of <br />Revenue to request for tax information on all off sale and on sale intoxicating liquor <br />licenses in the City. Staff did not receive any information on delinquency of taxes on this <br />property. Attached is the letter sent by Staff to the Minnesota Department of Revenue <br />dated June 2, 2007. The first half of the property taxes were due on May 15th and the <br />second is due on October 15th of this year. Although the property taxes are not <br />considered delinquent on this property, they are considered unpaid for the first half of <br />2007. <br /> <br />Property tax information is available online on the Ramsey County website. I became <br />aware of this online tax information when Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment closed <br />its doors on July 16, 2007. Staff discussed this information Kennedy & Graven this <br />afternoon. The City could (1) send a letter to The Mermaid stating that if their property <br />taxes are not paid for the first half of 2007 in 30 days, then the City will start <br />suspension/revocation proceedings of their liquor license; or (2) start the <br />suspension/revocation process immediately by sending an eight day notice to the owner in <br />accordance with the City Code; or (3) do nothing and see if they pay their property taxes <br />in full by October 15th. If the City Council wishes to start the suspension/revocation <br />process, then Staff would send a the 8 day suspension/revocation notice to The Mermaid <br />and schedule a Public Hearing for August 27th. <br /> <br />Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment <br /> <br />Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment closed their doors for business on July 26, 2007. <br />It came to the attention to Staff that Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment owes Ramsey