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Residents and restaurant owners urge Texarkana board to preserve private-club alcohol permits
Summary
Several speakers, including Meredith Mills, told the board that removing private-club permits would force restaurants to buy only from wholesalers, harm local liquor stores, and shift tax revenue away from Texarkana. Mills cited Arkansas Code provisions allowing local private-club systems.
Meredith Mills, a local restaurant owner, told the Texarkana Board of Directors she opposes any change that would eliminate the city's private-club permit system and said it would "cause serious harm to our local liquor stores." Mills told the board she drew on her experience running a restaurant under a wholesale-only model and on state law she had reviewed.
Mills cited Arkansas statutory provisions and explained that the state's three-tier alcohol system permits cities to adopt private-club permits that let private clubs and…
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