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After closed session, council suspends Al Patio liquor license for 30 days and assigns demerit points
Summary
Following a closed-session review under Wisconsin open-meeting provisions, the council concurred with committee findings to suspend the Class B liquor license for Al Patio Restaurant Inc. for 30 consecutive days and assess 85 demerit points, and the motion carried in open session.
The Common Council moved into closed session on Feb. 18 to consider findings of fact and conclusions of law relating to the Class B license for Al Patio Restaurant Inc., located at the address read into the record. The clerk cited the statutory authority for the closed session as Wisconsin Statute 19.85 (read in the transcript as 19.851 A and B).
The council reconvened in open session and, per committee recommendation, voted to concur with the findings and to suspend the license for 30 consecutive days and assess 85 demerit points against the license. A motion to concur with the license-permit committee’s findings carried in open session (vote recorded as carried). The transcript records the procedural motion, entry to closed session, and the subsequent concurrence with the committee recommendation; the specific factual findings discussed in closed session were not read into the public record in the transcript excerpt.
Because the matter was discussed in closed session under the cited statute, detailed deliberations were not transcribed in open session. The council’s public action was the concurrence with the recommendation to suspend the license and assess demerits; the suspension took effect per council action on Feb. 18.
