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Council to review retail liquor-license renewals after police-records check; allegation of retaliation raised
Summary
Council discussed annual retail liquor-license renewals and asked staff to compile police-call records before deciding whether to request hearings; during the discussion a council member alleged a licensee encouraged clientele to retaliate against complainants, a claim others asked to have substantiated with evidence.
Commercial Point Village council reviewed routine retail liquor-license renewals and debated whether to request hearings on particular licenses.
The clerk noted that license renewals come before the council annually and that transfers or sales would be treated separately. A councilmember asked staff and police to pull incident-call histories and any relevant records to inform a decision about requesting a hearing for a specific license; the clerk agreed to provide the records within about a week.
During the conversation an allegation surfaced that individuals associated with a licensee had been instructed to "retaliate" against neighbors who complained. One speaker said evidence exists and asserted, "We can prove that they told them to retaliate." Other council members requested that any such allegations be supported with records before the council pursues a formal hearing.
A hearing date cited on the record was Feb. 1; council directed staff to prepare public records and, if warranted, schedule a special meeting to consider a hearing before that date.
