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Regular Council Minutes 6-16-03 Page 4 SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS: S.O.M. Center Road Widening Working Committee -Mrs. Mills said she went to the pre- construction meeting. Many people were there from the utility companies and businesses. On July 7th, S.O.M. will be closed between Beta and Thornapple. They will also start construction on the north end--starting at White Road. In the interim, they are working on the electrical lines from Beta to Wilson Mills Road. Wage Negotiations Committee - Dr. Parker said works continues but at this time there is nothing new to report. 2020 Vision Committee -Mrs. Mills said the next meeting is June 25 here in the Community Room. QLD BUSINESS OPEN PORTION -Regarding items under Old Business There were no items under Old Business and no comments. NEW BUSINESS ^ Yours Truly Liquor Permit Council President Buckholtz said he would like to defer to the Law Director on this. Mr. Diemert said as you may recall back in April when this first came up, we routinely get a notification from the Department of Liquor Control whenever anyone applies for a permit or a change in permit. I brought it to your attention, or your Clerk did, and because we didn't have enough information, I just went ahead and asked for a hearing. Council didn't really vote on it, we just said let's find out more information. The only way to do that was to request a hearing which stalls the process. The process is now stalled but we have learned everything we need to know and after investigating I have given you letters explaining that they already have a permit but they don't use it for carry out. They don't plan on using it. They will never do carry out. However, they do want to serve wine and beer at their tablesides as they do in most of their other stores without incident. As a result, I explained all of this to Council that we really don't have a basis for objecting. The hearing could still go forward. It would stall their process another 6 months or so but at the hearing we need evidence. We have no evidence that this would not be a proper location. Checking with the Police Department and Building Department in all the other locations where they are, there just is not a misuse of this permit and there could not be an abuse of it at this location, so unless Council feels otherwise, I will go ahead and withdraw our objection so the process can go forward. They are not going to change the restaurant. There will not be a bar, there will not be service from a bar, it will just be tableside. I don't know that