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Item No: 7C Meeting Date: August 27, 2007 Type of Business: PH & CB Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree M. Crane, Assistant to the City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing Resolution 7143 Suspension of an On-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License for Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment located at 2400 County Road H2 in Mounds View. Background On July 16, 2007, Staff was informed that Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment closed their business. It came to the attention of Staff that Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment owes Ramsey County on Property Taxes from 2004 to present. Staff spoke to Ramsey County Property Tax Division and they currently need to pay $148,810.50 by December 31, 2007 or it will go to Sheriff’s Sale. Currently they owe $132,230.50. An additional $16,580 will be due on October 15, 2007. Discussion: In accordance with the liquor license provisions of the City Code, it states: Subd. 2. Places Ineligible for License: b. No license shall be granted for operation on any premises on which taxes, assessments, utility bills or other financial claims of the Municipality are delinquent or unpaid. Each liquor license renewal year, Staff sends a letter to the Minnesota Department of Revenue to request for tax information on all off sale and on sale intoxicating liquor licenses in the City. Staff did not receive any information on delinquency of taxes on this property from the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Property tax information is available online on the Ramsey County website. The Assistant to the City Administrator became aware of this online tax information when Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment closed its doors on July 16, 2007. In addition to delinquent property taxes, Staff was informed by UMPM, Inc., that Robert’s Sports Bar and Entertainment has not paid their liquor liability insurance premium, and will not have liquor liability insurance effective August 27, 2007, (cancellation of insurance attached). In accordance with the liquor license provisions of the City Code (Section 502.07): a. Insurance: A certificate that there is in effect an insurance policy or pool providing coverage of at least: (1) Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for bodily injury to any one (1) person in any one occurrence and subject to the limit of one (1) person, in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for bodily injury to two (2) or more persons in any one (1) occurrence and in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000,00) for injury to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) occurrence.