Beer sales ordinance back before Ila council

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Beer sales ordinance back before Ila council

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Justin Poole

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Thursday, October 21. 2010

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Ila leaders will spend a little more time deciding if the town will have an ordinance to allow the sale of packaged beer and wine.

The city council previously discussed the possibility of an ordinance for the city during June when a motion to allow the sale of beer inside the city limits died without a second.

During the Oct. 4 monthly meeting, John Davis approached the council to revisit the issue. Davis requested that the council reconsider the ordinance based primarily on the economic benefits it would bring to the city as well as providing him with a way to compete with other stores close to the city limits.

Council member Peggy Freeman asked if Davis had considered adding fountain drinks instead, based on a conversation Freeman had with a store operator from Monroe who said that the fountain drinks provided more profit than package sales. Davis said he was looking into adding fountain drinks as well.

Davis also presented the council with a petition of people who are in favor of the ordinance. The mayor and council decided to table discussion until the next work session to allow time to see how many Ila residents are on the petition and to consider the economic impact.

Council member Troy Butler said he favored the ordinance because it provides the best chance for business growth in Ila, which could increase revenue for the city. Butler made the motion to approve the ordinance during the June meeting.

The next work session for the council is Nov. 1 at 6 p.m.

Also being looked at in work session is HB 277 and how the state bill would affect the city and to what extent the city would be held responsible to cover costs of road work.

HB 277 opened the door for a potential one-cent special transportation sales and use tax to provide for the repair and construction of roads and related transportation needs. HB 277 would change how counties and cities, such as Ila, receive monies for road repairs and repaving.

OTHER BUSINESS

Also during the Oct. 4 meeting the council took the following actions:

•heard an update on the ongoing flush valve problem at Crawford Street. The water system is now flushing every day for one and half minutes and the problem seems to be a mechanical failure in the switch. The city is working on getting it fixed.

•agreed to order no trespassing signs and a lock for the new well facility. The well is ready and just needs final EPD inspection before the city can bring it online.

•approved using the certificate of deposit with Athens First to pay off FSA loan. The loan must be paid off by December.

•approved paying off the loan at First Citizen’s Bank taken out against SPLOST funds for King Street work. The city will use the SPLOST funds accumulated to pay off the loan.

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#1 karin on 10/21/10 at 03:06 PM [Reply]

Please vote no on this!!!

#2 E.J. on 10/21/10 at 05:40 PM [Reply]

Now that times are tough, dollars become more important than morals. Denying a beer & wine license in Ila will stop no one from consuming it if they want it. They will simply get it elsewhere and enrich that elsewhere. I don't drink and I wish there were no such thing as booze of any kind; it does so much damage in so many ways (just read the police blotters). However, it exists and will never be gone so those of us who have no need for it can at least lower our taxes a bit or benefit otherwise by letting drunks pay more than their fair share for us. I just wish Market on Main was a real grocery store, not another convenience store which we already have across the street.

#3 tl on 10/21/10 at 06:17 PM [Reply]

I would love to have a place that sells fountain drinks! Cherry cokes, vanilla cokes, root beer floats, etc! Where else can you get that?

#3.1 E.J. on 11/01/10 at 08:48 PM [Reply]

Me too! Especially high-quality root beer.

#4 tl on 10/21/10 at 06:18 PM [Reply]

I would love to have a place that sells fountain drinks! Cherry cokes, vanilla cokes, root beer floats, etc! Where else can you get that?

#5 Resident Redneck on 10/21/10 at 08:59 PM [Reply]

John Davis is going to keep bringing this up until they get tired of him bringing it up and they pass it. If they vote NO this time He will bring it up again in a couple of months? Yes IT will give the city of Ila some tax money BUT AT WHAT COST? How many people are going to have to die before they see this isn't a good ideal?
Ila is a small town and it needs to stay that way.

#5.1 Anonymous on 10/22/10 at 08:29 AM [Reply]

These people aren't going to stop drinking because they can't get it in Ila. They are going to drive elsewhere to get it, and then drive back (possibly under the influence) to Ila. Seems safer to just let them get it locally.

#5.1.1 Resident Redneck on 10/22/10 at 10:49 AM [Reply]

Yes Anonymous you are right BUT Ila has always been a nice little innocent town AND if they allow the beer sales it will NO longer be innocent? If they allow one store to sell beer they will have to allow the next store that ask then the next and the next then pretty soon that's all Ila will be is a beer store.

#5.1.1.1 E.J. on 10/22/10 at 05:14 PM [Reply]

Good point.

#6 Resident Redneck on 10/22/10 at 08:56 PM [Reply]

If they allow this what's to stop someone from opening a bar in the city limits then a Brothel? Every town has their own ghetto does Ila want one too? Comer has Farm Road, Danielsville has Sherwood Circle, Commerece has Jon town. Ila could make Pine Street their ghetto.

#7 Anonymous on 10/23/10 at 08:28 AM [Reply]

Since there is a opposite of 'innocent' and if Ila allows alcohol sales, then what will Ila be guilty of if beer is sold there?

Allow the sales with an alcohol with a license cost of five thousand dollars per year and then move on. EJ is right, those wanting alcohol will simply buy it elsewhere with any tax and profit going to some other jurisdiction.
Thank goodness for John Davis. He is offering an alternative to that bunch across the street that are rude, and "we have nothing to do with the price of gasoline - the company sets that". Strange how they dropped the price several cents per gallon the day Davis opened his store. Ila is no longer held hostage by foreigners.

#8 AnonyMouse on 11/02/10 at 12:18 PM [Reply]

I have to agree that drinkers will just get their beer from Danielsville, Commerce, Shiloh, or Hull and Ila will miss out on the tax profit.

If Ila is "innocent" then it is also apparently ignorant. Not all people who buy beer and wine are drunks, and not all people who buy beer and wine live in slums...in fact, I would say that very little of the population purchasing beer and wine in this county live in the above-mentioned neighborhoods, considering they are such a small portion of the population in general. It takes me a couple of months to get through a six-pack of Smirnoff Blueberry Lemonade, but I would much prefer that the few cents cities make from that go to my own fair city of Ila instead of Ingles.

I have to agree with whoever was disappointed by our new "market"...I thought it was going to be a real grocery store too. We really could use another one of those in this county!

And it's my understanding that Pine Street is already Ila's "ghetto"...probably why you picked it.

#8.1 Resident Redneck on 11/02/10 at 12:37 PM [Reply]

AnonyMouse- Here is a little insight All John Davis cares about is the almighty Dollar. It's all about money with him and how much HE can make he don't care if it hurts someone else as long as he makes a buck. If he really wants to help Ila and Madison County why don't he build a Dairy Queen? That's what Madison Co.needs the closest ones to here is Commerce or Athens?

#9 Ila Christians on 11/02/10 at 12:58 PM [Reply]

First he said it was going to be a grocery market.

Whoa..barely open and now it's to be the beer and wine hizzy. Hate to say it, but we told ya so.

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