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Metro Drug Coalition asks Knoxville Beer Board to reinvest fines in youth prevention
Summary
Metro Drug Coalition asked the board Oct. 28 to direct accumulated beer‑board funds toward hiring a youth prevention coordinator and school‑based programming as a pilot; the proposal will appear as an expenditure for the Nov. 11 city council meeting and no final board vote was taken at this session.
Webster Bailey, executive director of Metro Drug Coalition, urged the Knoxville Beer Board on Oct. 28 to use beer‑board fines and application revenues to fund youth alcohol‑prevention programming and to hire an additional full‑time youth prevention coordinator.
Bailey said the proposal—provided in the board’s meeting packet—would reinvest enforcement revenue into prevention work that can be measured by reductions in underage drinking incidents and other data. “Turning enforcement revenue into prevention action is [a]…
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