HomeMy WebLinkAboutgr00090_000039_pg048PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW
RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA
A regular meeting of the Mounds View City Council was called
to order by Mayor Johnson on February 9, 1976, at 8:04 pm,
at Mounds View City Hall, 2401 Highway 10, Mounds View, MN. 55112.
Present: Mayor Johnson Also present: Clerk - Adm.Achen
Councilman Hodges Attorney Meyers
Councilman Baumgartner Engineer Bearden
Councilman Pickar
Councilman Shelquist
MSP (Baumgartner - Shelquist) to- approve the minutes of January 26,
1976. 5 ayes
MSP (Shelquist - Baumgartner) to approve the minutes of the special
meeting of the Mounds View City Council on February 2, 1976.
Councilman Pickar stated that he abstained from voting as
he was not present at the meeting.
There were no Citizens' Comments.
4 ayes
1 abst.
Regarding the next item on the agenda, proposed ordinances revising
license fees for intoxicating liquor, cabaret and restaurant
establishments, Mayor Johnson stated that he had received a
memorandum prepared by the administrator relating the facts and
figures for the above. He asked for questions of the administrator
on his report.
John G. Bell, Attorney for Anchor Inn, Donatelle's, Launching Pad
and Mermaid Liquor Establishments, stated that if the restaurant
license is to cover the cost of services he felt the liquor license
fee would be quite adequate. Mayor Johnson explained that there
are more costs to the restaurants that are serving liquor as
against serving food only. Mr. Bell replied that he did not think
that one was compounding the cost of the other. Mayor Johnson
asked Mr. Bell if he was suggesting that there is no added cost
to the city in terms of a restaurant that has liquor as well as
food as opposed to an establishment just serving food? Mr. Bell
replied that he had seen no showing that there is any difference.
Administrator Achen stated that the basic complaints in restaurants
only serving food concern storage of meats, sewer backups, etc.
This is defined as a public health license. The liquor licence
deals with law enforcement from a criminal point of view rather
than a public health law.
Councilman Pickar asked Mr. Bell if he had done any further research
on other municipalities and Mr. Bell said that he presumed the
figures were the same.