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EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota was duly held on the 12a' day of February 2018, at 6:00 p.m. The following members were present: Willmus, Etten, McGehee and Mayor Roe. and the following were absent: Laliberte. Member Willmus introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION No. 11496 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION THAT REMOVES THE RESTRICTION ON CO-LOCATION OF BOTH A COCKTAIL ROOM AND TAPROOM ON THE SAME PREMISE WHEREAS,the State of Minnesota licenses microdistilleries to provide samples of distilled spirits manufactured on-site. Cities may in addition license a state-licensed distillery to operate a"cocktail room,"; and WHEREAS,the microdistillery cocktail room license authorizes the on-sale of distilled liquor produced by the distiller for consumption on the premises of or adjacent to one distillery location owned by the distiller; and WHEREAS,this license is only available to those distilleries licensed as microdistilleries and a microdistillery may not operate a cocktail room if less than 50 percent of the annual production of the licensee is processed and distilled on the premises of the microdistillery; and WHEREAS,no single business is allowed to hold both a cocktail room license and a taproom license, nor can a single location hold both; and WHEREAS, Bent Brewstillery is a microdistillery located in the City of Roseville and currently holds a taproom license and has indicated their desire to have a cocktail room license to allow for spirits that are distilled on-site to be sold at their current tap room; and WHEREAS, legislation was introduced as HF 2128 and SF 1752 that removes the restriction contained in Minnesota Statutes 2016, Section 340A.22(2)prohibiting colocation of a taproom and cocktail room. Page 1 of 3