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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-252 CCR Member Howard Heck introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption; RESOLUTION NO. 69 -252 RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING SPECIAL ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF "ON- SALE" LIQUOR LICENSES TO PRIVATE PERSONS FOR HOTEL OR RESTAURANT ESTABLISHMENTS WHEREAS, on December 2, 1947, the electorate of Brooklyn Center established a municipal liquor store operation pursuant to state law; and WHEREAS, the state laws provide that within one year after the effective date of a census by which a municipal liquor community exceeds 10, 000 population, such community must conduct an election to ratify the continuance of its municipal liquor operation; and WHEREAS, on November 7, 1961, the voters of the (then) Village of Brooklyn Center voted 3,987 to 705 to continue the municipal liquor operation; and WHEREAS, in subsequent years, citizens and elected officials have recognized the desirability to attract quality dining and lodging facilities into Brooklyn Center for the purpose, among others, of generating and encouraging peripheral industrial and commercial development and to thereby promote a balanced tax base for the community; and WHEREAS, it has been the experience of the City Council that elements of the Brooklyn Center Jaycees' Community Attitude Surveys have proved to be reliable barometers of public opinion in Brooklyn Center; and WHEREAS, Brooklyn Center Jaycee Community Attitude Surveys have reflected a community attitude favoring issuance of private liquor licenses while retaining the advantages of the municipal "off- sale" operation; and WHEREAS, during the recent past it has been the official policy of Brooklyn Center to pursue state enabling legislation which would permit Brooklyn Center to issue private liquor licenses while retaining the advantages of the municipal "off sale" liquor operation; and WHEREAS, the Brooklyn Center City Council, Brooklyn Center's elected representatives to the state legislature, the Brooklyn Center Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Center Jaycees, and other local civic organizations have combined with other municipal liquor communities throughout the State of Minnesota to vigorously and successfully advocate the "split- liquor" concept before the 1969 legislature; and WHEREAS, "split- liquor" legislation was enacted by the 1969 legislature which would enable Brooklyn Center to issue not more than six private liquor licenses to hotels and /or restaurants, providing that the people of Brooklyn Center shall first so authorize at a special election called therefor; and Resolution No. 69 -252 Page 2. WHEREAS, said enabling legislation further provides that, upon issuing the last private liquor license authorized by state law, the municipality shall have three years to terminate its municipal "off -sale" liquor operation; and WHEREAS, it is the present judgement of the Brooklyn Center City Council that it would be to the economic disadvantage of the taxpayers of Brooklyn Center to terminate the municipal "off- sale" liquor operation; and WHEREAS, it is therefore the determination of the present City Council to refrain from issuing the last private liquor license as authorized by state law and thereby to retain the economic advantages of the municipal "off- sale" liquor operation: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to hereby establish a special election to be con ducted on July 15, 19 69 for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the City the following question: "SHALL THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER ISSUE "ON- SALE" LIQUOR LICENSES TO PRIVATE PERSONS AS PROVIDED BY MINNESOTA STATUTES Jg 340 :353 AS AMENDED BY SENATE FILE 271, 1969 MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said special election shall be subject to the same general procedures and regulations prescribed by Chapter 29 of the City Ordinances, by the City Charter, and by appropriate state laws. J une 9 1969 J VA4 Date Mayor ATTEST: Clerk The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member John Leary and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Philip Cohen, John Leary, Earl Rydberg, Howard Heck and Theodore Willard; and the following voted against the same: none, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.