University Daily Kansan, August 23, 1982
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Commission to look at beer law Clubs could extend sale hours
By/STEVE CUSICK and BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporters
The Lawrence City Commission is considering a proposal that would allow private clubs in Lawrence to sell 3.2 percent beer after midnight.
City law now prohibits the selling of 3.2 beer after midnight and Sundays. The proposed ordinance would allow private clubs, many of which stay open until 3 a.m. to sell beer anytime during their operating hours.
At the city commission meeting Tuesday, the commissioners instructed the city staff to draft a resolution permit that would expand the hours they can sell 3 beer.
THE COMMISSIONERS are considering the ordinance so city law would conform to new state statutes passed by the Commissioners and being commissioner Nancy Shontz said.
Shortz and Commissioner Trom Gleason said the ordinance would affect only private clubs. Convenience stores and restaurants would not sell the beverage after midnight.
The city has the option of keeping the stricter law, but adopted the new ordinance to meet state standards would give it more confusion in the future. Shorts said.
Shontz said she expected opposition to the ordinance.
*i imagines there will be some groups in town that are opposed to it," she said, laughing.
PRIVATE CLUBS now can sell hard liquor and beer with higher alcohol content after midnight. Both commissioners agreed the switch to 3.2 beer
may mean some people will be less intoxicated when leaving clubs.
"If you're consuming 3.2 beer," Gleason said, "you're consuming marginally less alcohol."
Richard Stanix, Lawrence police chief, said that, although he had not yet reviewed the proposal, he did not see any potential difficulties.
"The clubs are open anyhow," regardless of the 3.2 beer sales he said.
Kermit Beal, an attorney representing several area clubs, submitted a letter calling for the new law to the city commission Tuesday.
commission Tuesday.
Beal told the commissioners it was common sense to allow the clubs to dishese the less potent beer.
He said the old ordinance was an inconvenience to club owners now selling 3.2 beer until midnight. He added that clubs were missing out on beer.
sales because of the law.
Gleason said the commission would reconsider the proposal at the Sept. 7 city commission meeting.
THE LAWRENCE City Commission is expected to pass a resolution tomorrow night sponsoring a city wide mini-sessions freeze referendum in November.
The proposed poll would measure public sentiment for or against a hall in the district.
Many communities throughout the country have had such referenda in recent months. The Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice presented the idea for an opinion poll to the city commission in May.
Several commissioners said they expected the resolution to pass, but had different opinions of the effectiveness of such a poll.
"I don't see what good it's going to
Blins said that, although he would vote for the resolution, he was concerned it would not be a valid sample of public opinion.
do," Commissioner Don Binn, said,
"It's an exercise in futility."
people.
"Those people who feel strongly about it will vote for it." Binns said, "and those who are not concerned with these possibilities won't even bother to go."
HBNS SAID he favored a nuclear freeze, but he was concerned that placing the freeze issue on the ballot would open a "Pandora's box" of other issues that could conceivably demand a referendum vote on the anti-abortive act as an example.
"We could run into a real quagmire," he said.
BEN BIGLER/Kanson Staff
Shontz agreed with Binns about the possibility of other community questions being put to a referendum. She said the commission should develop a plan for ensuring unanimous vote should be required by the commission to approve such a poll,
Shontz did not agree that the referendum would be an inaccurate sample of public opinion.
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