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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I CASE # APPDICATION FOR ON-SALE/SUNDAY LIQUOR LICENSE BARNYARD ENTERTAINMENT INC. DBA LIGHTHOUSE GRILL AND BAR By: Police Chief Mike Auspos Background: Barnyard Entartainment Inc. has applied for an on-sale/Sunday liquor license for the premises locat~ at 6937 Highway #10 N.W. The trade name will be The Lighthouse Grill and Bar. At ithe time of application, the license holder is still Successful Concept Development Inc.; however, the posted trade name has been changed from Big Shots to Lighthouse G/~ill and Bar. Barnyard Entertainment President, David W. Curtis, has a management agreement with SCD Inc. to manage at this time. Secretary Colleen Rybak has forwarded to me the application for investigation. The application appears to be in order with one exception (at the time this is written). Mr. Curtis has indi~:ated in the application that he is the sole officer of Barnyard Entertainment Inc. and has stated he will be the manager of the business. In my investigation, I learned, however, that I~e has a panner and when I asked him directly about this, he acknowledged that he does. [ told him that he would need to produce information concerning the role of this partner in ~e business, especially in the financial disclosure area, and would also have to advise us 6f the partner's full name and date of birth. I have not yet received this information. All other requirements have been satisfied, the fees are paid, and there is an insurance binder form tO show intent to provide liquor liability insurance upon the granting of the license. If this license i';s approved, the Finance Department will calculate the pro-rata fee from date of approval to,expiration date of June 30, 1996. Then SCD will be eligible for a pro-rata refund on thei~ license fee paid for this license year. I feel it is necessary that another matter be considered during this license discussion. On the night of O~tober 6, 1995, an accident occurred at Ramsey Boulevard and the railroad tracks in whic§ a vehicle operated by a drunk driver catapulted the railroad tracks and hit a parked tractor; There were no injuries to the two occupants of the vehicle (both drunk) however, durir~g the investigation of the incident, both claimed to have been drinking at the Lighthouse. Both parties were twenty years old and both were very drunk. I have subsequently learned from the mother of one of the two that her son told her that he purchased the ialcohol himself at the bar and was not carded. She also stated to me, when she came in tO the Police Department of her own accord to seek information, that her son told her there Was a total of four or more underage persons present with him in the bar and all were drinkigg. I examined the drivers license of the driver of the vehicle and his picture certainly is bc~rderline as to age. His mother said that he looks, in fact, as young as his drivers license' picture portrays him. Further, "street talk" has it that the client target of the new operation: is a younger crowd. If this is so, in particular, and in any event otherwise, it is extremely ~mportant that any on-sale liquor establishment have a strict policy of identifying patrons before serving them alcohol. Further, they must also have a staff trained in and~concerned with "cutting off" patrons who appear under the influence. The officers' ret~orts indicate that both persons in the accident were extremely intoxicated and the breath test ~f the driver was .20, twice the legal limit.