Danielsville Mexcian restaurant Los Fogatas can serve those margaritas and other alcoholic beverages once again.
The restaurant allowed its city business beer and wine and spirits licenses lapse at the end of 2015, so the business had to go through the complete application process again last month.
The Danielsville city council voted Monday night following a public hearing on the matter to reinstate the licenses, effective immediately. The restaurant can now serve beer and wine, as well as spirits, to customers by the drink.
The combined fees, including the application fee, totaled $2,300.
Danielsville police chief Brenan Baird reported that his department responded to 110 calls for service in January and had 236 citizen counters during the month (self-initiated traffic stops, etc. and calls for service) with 76 municipal court cases made. Baird noted that of those, 146 were traffic stops and 11 were ordinance or potential offense violations. He said 89 of those contacts ended up being warnings only (57 percent).
He also completed the department’s stats for 2015. He said there were 185 cases for the year (123 in 2014) and the cases were cleared either by arrests (89), deemed unfounded (20) or by exceptional means (52), which he explained means offender(s) were identified but no charges were made or that reports were cleared by simply reporting the incident as required by law.
Twenty-four were deemed inactive (no information exists to investigate further) and no cases from 2015 are still active.
“That overall gives us an 89.2 percent clearance rate for all reported incidents,” Baird said and noted that this is well above the state average of 43 percent.
There were 68 collisions in the city in 2015 that DPD responded to and of those, Baird noted there is only one wreck case unsolved.
Baird said there were 922 municipal court cases for the year, up from 558 in 2014. He said 25 of those 922 cases were DUI arrests in the city.
He also noted that the sheriff’s office had to respond to only nine calls in the city in 2015, due to increased city police coverage (that was down from 29 calls in 2014).
“It makes me feel good as mayor and a citizen that we and the Comer Police Department are taking some of the load off the tremendous workload of the sheriff’s department,” Mayor Todd Higdon said.
Higdon also noted the call volume has dropped significantly in the Sherwood community over the past year, saying it was daily city police presence coupled with the assistance of Sherwood residents.
“It’s a partnership that’s working that’s for sure,” Higdon said. “It’s making it better not only for Sherwood but the community as a whole.”
In other business, Higdon told the council that the maintenance department had 45 work orders during January and have also been dealing with other issues, such as water meters that have been tampered with.
Water leaks are also ongoing, he noted.
He said the department is developing a work list for projects they hope to accomplish during the year.
The council approved an updated cemetery ordinance and a code of ethics ordinance.
