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Work to Reduce City Liquor Licenses
The new City of Galesburg Liquor Advisory Commission says it still has one thing in mind to do before anything else: reduce the number of types of liquor licenses the city has.

The Commission met for the second time yesterday, and members agreed that working to reduce the types of licenses is job one, in part, because there are still a number of classes that just aren't used.

Committee member Adam Vitale says right now, while it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, it's just more expensive to open up a bar or restaurant here because of the liquor license structure.

"We're so much more expensive than our neighboring communities and that's going to be our challenge I think because, you know, it'd be greate to just say we're going to reduce all these fees but then where do we make up that revenue gap. That's the number on concern is, 'hey, I could open a bar in Peoria and I could pay $1,500 where if I do this in Galesburg it's $2,700.'"

The committee is looking at possibly adding sub-classifications to the liquor license structure, in hopes that might be a less costly type of liquor license in certain situations.

Members also learned from Galesburg Police Captain Rod Riggs that he sees smoking returning to bars as a good possibility, which made commission members wonder if such bars should have their own classification of liquor license.
04 12 11 by Newsroom
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