{"id":3923,"date":"2011-03-01T04:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T09:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2011-03-02T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:18:14","slug":"council-continues-with-irrelevant-beer-sales-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/03\/01\/council-continues-with-irrelevant-beer-sales-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Council keeps beer sales measure alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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The beer sales issue still drew a crowd of interested onlookers even though the issue was pretty much decided by the Van Wert County Regional Airport Authority board's rejection of beer sales at the airport. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Van Wert City Council members aren\u2019t just beating a dead horse when it comes to the request to sell beer at the Van Wert County Regional Airport, they\u2019ve entered it in the Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n

After the Airport Authority board voted 4-2 against allowing the sale of beer on the airport grounds, a reasonable person might have assumed the issue was dead. A couple of Council members, including Judiciary & Annexation Committee Chair Don Farmer, even suggested ways to put the issue to rest, as in rest in peace. Council, though, didn\u2019t pick up on a suggestion to rescind the proposed ordinance while Farmer\u2019s proposed amendment to the legislation to bring it up for a second and final vote Monday \u2013 so it could be voted down \u2013 drew only anger from Fourth Ward Councilman Stan Agler.<\/p>\n

Agler said he felt Farmer was shortcutting proper procedure in the offering of amendments, even though Council President Gary Corcoran confirmed that Farmer was within his rights to offer an amendment to the measure, to which Agler answered: \u201cThat\u2019s your opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

That statement came back to haunt Agler, though, when Corcoran, after a long dissertation by Agler on what he felt City Council should be doing, replied with \u201cthat\u2019s your opinion\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the end, Agler got his wish for a committee-of-the-whole meeting on the now irrelevant legislation, set for 6 p.m. Monday, March 14, when Council will discuss Farmer\u2019s proposed amendment.<\/p>\n

As part of action on the legislation, Council members took a non-binding advisory vote on the measure\u2019s second reading Monday, which came out 4-3 in favor of measure. That\u2019s down from the advisory vote on first reading during the previous meeting, which was 6-1 in favor. The difference was the measure then had a purpose, which is not the case, at this point, unless the Airport Authority has a change of heart regarding the beer sales issue.<\/p>\n

As of now, the Airport Authority decision means that this year\u2019s Wheels-N-Wings festival will be \u201cdry\u201d, although organizers of the event haven\u2019t yet decided what to do about whether to continue with plans to have a band perform, since a band was supposed to play in conjunction with a beer concession that is now apparently not possible.<\/p>\n

The Airport board\u2019s decision defeating the beer sales request came as a surprise to the board\u2019s chair, County Commissioner Clair Dudgeon, who said he thought action by city officials taken after the airport board\u2019s first, inconclusive, vote on the beer concession answered other board members\u2019 stated concerns about liability insurance coverage for the alcohol sales and the fact that the Airport Authority was being asked to obtain a temporary liquor license for the event (see an editorial on this issue on the Opinion Page)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In other action, City Council moved forward on the 2011 permanent appropriations measure, while also taking steps to allow city participation in the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) grant for 2011.<\/p>\n

The CHIP grant action followed a meeting prior to the regular Council meeting on that issue with program administrator Phil Snyder.<\/p>\n

During Monday\u2019s regular Council meeting, City Auditor Martha Balyeat talked about possible decreases in revenues \u2013 mostly from funding that comes from the state, such as Local Government Funds and from money paid out as part of the phasing out of personal property taxes in Ohio.<\/p>\n

City Law Director Greg Unterbrink also gave his legal opinion on a local Internet caf\u00e9 business, stating courts have decided at this point that such businesses are legal, since a product is sold and those who patronize the caf\u00e9 do not have to play the games offered that some have felt constitute gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Van Wert City Council members aren\u2019t just beating a dead horse when it comes to the request to sell beer at the Van Wert County Regional Airport, they\u2019ve entered it in the Kentucky Derby. After the Airport Authority board voted 4-2 against allowing the sale of beer on the airport grounds, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:34:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}