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67/,� '7/7 a • Before voting on the motion, Councilman Sundland suggested that, though he doubted any change in the outcome would result because the decision to collect the assessments had been made by the full Council during many public deliberations on the matter, he would prefer having the absent Council members hear- the objections raised that evening before a final decision was made. Because the regularly scheduled Council meeting will be one day too late to have the assessments certified for payment in 1978, the following action was taken: Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilman Sundland to adjourn the hearing until 7: 00 p.m. October 4, 1977 . Motion carried unanimously. The meeting was recessed from 9 : 48 p.m. to 10: 00 p.m. when Mr. Vickrey who had been absent for the above hearing, returned to join in the discussion of an application for a club liquor license which had been submitted by the St. Anthony Legion Post #513. He reiterated the points he had made in his memorandum of September 21st regarding the City's authority to issue such a license and said he felt it might be advisable to make the license "nonrenewable" since it cannot be revoked "without cause" if it is made "renewable" . This will allow the City the discre- tion of not issuing a new license if any conditions of the license are not met or the club operation should prove to be the cause of diminished municipal liquor receipts. • Council members indicated the reasons they wanted conditions attached to the license were to "guaranty the Legion will (1) remain a bona fide 'club ' (2) not expand its present operation nor (3) add a public restau- rant to its existing facilities and (4) to assure the City ' s municipal liquor income is not jeopardized by competition from within the City" . Len Bisanti, the Legion's Facility Chairman, assured the Council that the organization "intends to remain a private club and has no intention of going public" :after Councilman Sundland had expressed his concerns that the club might later decide to include a public +restaurant in conjunc- tion with its liquor operation. He told Councilman Sauer who questioned why the club should retain its Set-Up license as well, that the organization felt it needed both licenses so it would encounter no difficulties with State liquor officials re- garding the rental of upper level space for wedding receptions, etc. These affairs are usually catered because of the limited cooking facili- ties in the club building which are normally utilized only for small internal club gatherings and occasionally by the auxiliary members when they entertain the patients from the St. Cloud Veterans Hospital. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Councilman Stauffer to grant an On-Sale Club liquor license to Legion Post #513 on the conditions that (1) the license be restricted to the existing basement area (2) the license is nonrenewable and (3) there shall be no restaurant in conjunc- tion with this liquor operation. (6)