City Council Agenda and Packet 1984 01 03

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12/20/83 Page -2- Attorney Rautenstraus Advised that council has the right to approve the renewal; if council were going to con- sider not renewing the license he would ad- vise that a public hearing be held to make a determination. The renewal could be ap- proved by other action such as contacting the establishment and putting them on notice that any future violations of these problems would be cause for future suspension of their license. Another option would be that council renew the license and request the owner to be at the next council meeting to discuss this with him and advising him that continued violations would lead to suspension or non-renewal next year. Councilman Cussen requested that a letter be sent to the owners of council's concerns. He felt that there were a number of fights that had occured at the establishment and saw this as a concern located near the down- town area. The attitude of the owners seems to be noncaring or they would notify the Police Dept. of these incidents. Cussen then inquired if the license could be approved Public Hearing for a specific time contigent upon a public hearing. Rautenstraus advised that the license could be renewed for a shorter period of time based upon a public hearing. He would review the specific time the notice should be given be- fore a public hearing could be held; felt that 2 weeks would be sufficient. Director Leesman Advised that the viol.:tion■ were on ordinance for failure to notify them. They had had numerous calls on disturbances, fights, few thefts. Some of them it was difficult to determine what the nature of the disturbance was because of the inability of officers to see what had cccured by the time the officers get there. Had reported incidents where they wiahcd parties ejected because of intoxi- cation. Leesman felt there were some cir- cumstances where the establishment was not . at fault - two people happened to meet there who had a disagreement and the establishment was not at fault. Sometimes when the officers arrive the parties had left and they don't wish to offer any information as to why the police were called or what had happened.