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From: shipping <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:34 AM <br />To: 'Michele Lindau' <br />Subject: FW: LIQUOR LICENSES <br />From: shipping <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:32 AM <br />To: 'Michele Lindau' <br />Cc: HugoCityCouncil; Bryan Bear <br />Subject: RE: LIQUOR LICENSES <br />Michele, thank you for getting back to me. I really hope that the City Council will consider this! It is not saturation if you <br />have 4 or 5 different restaurants promoting different food items and drink specials, but when you have 2 or 3 different <br />liquor stores selling the same thing in a small community and one of them happens to have corporate money to buy <br />bigger and better deals it really becomes an unfair advantage for the small guy. Small business is what makes our City <br />great. I believe that there is not one person sitting on the City Council that would like to go and work for free every day <br />and wonder how you are going to pay your bills. That is what happened to Rick and myself when On The rocks opened <br />and unfortunately Rick is the one that had to close after being opened for all of those years. If someone from the City <br />Council would like to sit and talk in person about this and really understand from an owners perspective how the liquor <br />industry runs and why it is such a tough industry to make a living in, please feel free to give me a call at 651-270-1209. <br />This is something that needs to be done whether I am an owner or someone else is the owner of a local liquor store in <br />our great City of Hugo. lust a note, I go work a regular job at 5:30am Monday— Friday and go work the store most nights <br />and weekends. I do this because it is such a cut throat industry and we only have 2 liquor stores in town. It was really <br />tough when there were 3 liquor stores within a mile of each other. Hope to hear from someone and have yourself a <br />great day!!! <br />Thank You, <br />Terry Sager — Sagers Liquor <br />651-270-1209 <br />From: Michele Lindau fmailto:MLindautatici.hugo.mn.us] <br />Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:32 PM <br />To: shipping <br />Cc: HugoCityCouncil; Bryan Bear <br />Subject: FW: LIQUOR LICENSES <br />Hello Terry, <br />Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I totally understand your concerns. To restrict the number of licenses would <br />require an ordinance amendment approved by the City Council. I am forwarding this to the them, but I can tell you that <br />the Council has never been in favor of regulating competition among businesses in the past, and I do see saturation of <br />business all over in other communities too. No liquor license has been applied for at the old Rick's Liquor location. I will <br />let you know if one comes in. <br />Michele Lindau <br />Hugo City Clerk <br />651-762-6315 <br />