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" " > TO: Honorable Mayor and Council Members Kim Moore-Sykes, City Administrator & Teresa Bender, City Clerk\CVp. . FROM: SUBJECT: Requests for 2:00 am Bar Closing DATE: July 3, 2003 As the result of recent legislative action, the State is now allowing those establishments that have on-sale licenses to continue serving alcoholic beverages until 2:00 am, provided applicants have received formal approval from the local municipality. Also, as I have reported in recent Week in Reviews, the City Attorney has determined that the City's ordinance allows on-sale establishments to remain open once approval has been received from the City. Attached are copies of the applications for Trio Inn, Kelly's Komer and Waterworks Beach Club. Please note that Mr. Bisek has an outstanding fine for a recent compliance check failure. Council may also consider placing a fee for allowing such a request in the City's fee schedule to recoup associated costs. Teresa has spoken with Chief Heclcman regarding the 2:00 am closing and how it would affect the Police Department and possible additional expenditures. Chief Heckman stated that a standard Dill takes an officer approximately two (2) to three (3) hours to process from beainning to end. Chief Heckman was reluctant to predict how the 2:00 a.m. cloc!ling would effect such things as additional staff: etc. without clear and precise experience in liquor establishments remaining open until 2:00 am Chief Heckman stated that the Police Department is willing to provide services as requested by Council. Chief Heckman also stated that he felt that primarily this legislation was enacted for more metropolitan communities such as St. Paul or Minneapolis. As a side note: Teresa spoke with Mr. Vanderbeek, Wise Guys Pizza today. Mr. Vanderbeek reported that he did not desire to submit the 2:00 a.m closing application.