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St. Albans council debates POTA vs. multi-vendor alcohol licenses ahead of Oct. 25 pub crawl
Summary
A lengthy council debate on Oct. 6 centered on whether to allow public-on-trade-alcohol (POTA) only events or multi-vendor beer licenses for fairs and festivals, and whether the city council or the mayor should decide activation of POTA. Council voted to send draft ordinance language back to counsel for a potential amendment.
St. Albans City Council members spent much of their Oct. 6 meeting debating whether fairs and festivals should use a POTA (public on-trade alcohol) model, allow multi-vendor beer trucks, or require council approval for activation of POTA.
Council McClusman (council member) opened the discussion, saying he had previously given the pub-crawl committee permission to pursue a multi-vendor license but that he wanted the council to consider trying a POTA-only approach at one non–Mountaineer Main Street festival. "All I want to do is try 1," McClusman said, arguing the city should test whether POTA outside Mountaineer Main Street would work.
Vice Mayor Jared Page (council member) told the council he supports POTA and said he had researched the ordinance and city charter. "Who was the one that got up here and explained POTA has been POTA day 1? Me. That I support POTA. I've worked on it for many years in the…
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