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Maric,h 16,, 1,918,111 <br />TO: CiLty Managier <br />FROM: Nick Ensruide <br />Steve North <br />11 11 11 <br />In the, five-year, peri'od, from 1978 to, 19812., 39 Minnesota communit ies <br />Ai <br />c,losed their municipal lilquor operations. Two of those communities; <br />.9 <br />New Hope and Excielsior, are lolic,ateld in, the metTOP01 itan area, <br />New Hope closed in 19781., According to the City Clerk, it was the <br />Counicills position that government should not be 'Involved in the <br />liquor operatiLon., plus the operation was not making much money, <br />New Holple, at the time of' the closiAL'ing, had three off-sale stores <br />and one on-sale bar., The Council, adopted the following policy <br />statement at the time they, decilded to, close the liquor operatione <br />