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The Mounds View Vision A Thriving Desirable Community Item No: 08A Meeting Date: June 9, 2025 Type of Business: Council Business City Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing: Resolution 10103, Approving a Temporary On-Sale Liquor License for the Festival in the Park of Mounds View to Allow Moe’s American Grill to Sell and Serve Liquor at the 2025 Mounds View Festival in the Park Introduction: In accordance with the Mounds View City Code, Temporary On-Sale Intoxicating Liquor Licenses may be issued to a club, charitable, religious or non-profit organization. This license, is valid for up to three consecutive days. The Festival in the Park of Mounds View is a non-profit organization that is requesting that Moe’s American Grill, located in Mounds View, be allowed to sell and serve liquor during the Mounds View Festival in the Park on Saturday, August 16, 2025. A public hearing is required for all liquor licenses, including temporary. Discussion: Festival in the Park of Mounds View and Moe’s American Grill have applied to sell and serve alcoholic beverages at this year’s Festival in the Park. A temporary license is still required even though Moe’s has a current liquor license with the City of Mounds View. That license only applies to sales made on site. Application materials, including insurance and fees, have been submitted. As mentioned, Moe’s has a current On-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License with the City of Mounds View and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (Alcohol and Gambling Division). However, the state of Minnesota requires a temporary liquor license for events such as this. As the owner of Moe’s, Jeff Moritko, had a background check in November of last year, a new background is not required for this application. As in past Mounds View festivals, there will be a fenced-in area designated as the “beer garden”. All alcoholic beverages must remain within the fenced in area. The “beer garden”, as with other festival activities, will be located at Silver View Park. Moe’s will set up tents and tables and will be selling canned beer, seltzers and bottled water. The public hearing notice was published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press May 22, 2025.