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Essex County approves concessions sales at golf courses, corrects park fee and awards summer-events and zoo contracts
Summary
The Essex County Board approved an ordinance to allow sale of beer and wine at three county golf-course concessions, corrected a 2024 community-center rental fee, and awarded multiple parks contracts — including entertainment, fireworks and janitorial services for the Turtle Back Zoo.
Essex County commissioners on the evening meeting approved a change that would allow the sale (rather than only permit-based service) of beer and wine at concessions at three county golf courses and moved forward a set of parks contracts for summer events and zoo services.
Joshua Zates, who identified himself as with County Parks, told commissioners the ordinance would amend county rules to permit beer and wine sales at Hendrix, Sweet Quake and Frances Burn golf courses to make concession leases more attractive to vendors and support outsourcing of concession operations. "This would actually allow for the sale of those items," Zates said when introducing the item.…
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