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Fort Lauderdale budget board backs beach food-and-beverage ordinance changes, urges administrative renewal process
Summary
The Budget Advisory Board voted Dec. 10 to recommend that the City Commission adopt updates to the Fort Lauderdale Beach food-and-beverage ordinance that raise per-room fees and allow staff to handle routine renewals, while first-time permits would still come to the commission.
The Fort Lauderdale Budget Advisory Board voted Dec. 10 to recommend that the City Commission adopt proposed updates to the Fort Lauderdale Beach food-and-beverage ordinance, including an increase in the per-room fee and a new annual flat fee intended to raise revenue for the general fund.
Jenny, the Beach Improvement District program manager, told the board the program began as a 2022 pilot and became permanent in 2023. She said nine hotels currently participate and that the ordinance allows hotels within a designated area of Fort Lauderdale Beach to apply for a license to sell, serve and deliver food and alcoholic beverages to hotel guests and people renting chairs from the city concessionaire. “The ordinance allows hotels, on Fort Lauderdale Beach within the designated area to apply for a license to sell, serve, and deliver food and…
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