Fiscal Note
The City Clerk estimates that costs related to printing, labeling and postage for the notices would exceed $40,000 per year. Neither the 2009 Adopted Budget nor the 2010 Requested Clerk's Office Operating Budget provides funding for these expenses. If this ordinance is adopted, a resolution amending the 2009 Operating Budget will be required. Additional funding for the 2010 Clerk's Office Operating Budget will also be required.
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SUBSTITUTE - Amending Section 38.05(3)(f), creating new Sections 38.05(3)(g) and renumbering current Sections 38.05(3)(g) through (n) to Sections 38.05(3)(h) through (o), respectively, of the Madison General Ordinances to make mail notification mandatory for new or transferred retail alcohol beverage licenses and sidewalk cafes and providing that all Common Council members and neighborhood associations receive notice of ALRC meetings.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance makes mail notification mandatory for new or transferred retail alcohol beverage licenses and sidewalk cafes and will provide that the City Clerk will notify members of the Common Council when applicants or transfers of Class A or B license or sidewalk cafes will be before the ALRC. Neighborhood and business associations, if any, will also be provided such notice.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison does hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (f) entitled "Public Hearings Required" of Subsection (3) entitled "Application for Licenses" of Section 38.05 entitled "General Licensing Requirements" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"(f) Public Hearings Required. The City Clerk shall schedule public hearings before the Alcohol License Review Committee and the Common Council on:
1. the granting or transfer of Class A or Class B licenses and shall notify all property owners and residents situated in the block of the site for which the license is sought and all property owners and residents within a radius of three hundred (300) feet of the proposed site of the dates of the hearings. The notice shall be given at least ten (10) days before the hearing and mayshall be given by mail.
2. the application for a Sidewalk Café with a Class B liquor license and shall notify all property owners and residents within a radius of three hundred (300) feet of the proposed site of the dates of the hearings. The notice shall be given at least ten (10) days before the hearing and mayshall be given by mail."
2. New Subdivision (g) entitled "Notice of Meeting" of Subsection (3) entitled "Application for Licenses" of Section 38.05 entitled "General Licensing Requirements" of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
"(g) Notice of Meeting. In the case of the granting or license or transfer of a Class A or B license or the granting of the modification of a sidewalk café with a Class B license, notice of the time and a date of the meeting of the Alcohol License Review Committee shall be sent by the Clerk to the alderperson of the district in which the licensed premises will be located and to the recognized neighborhood association or business association representing the area in which the licensed premises will be located, if any."
3. Subdivisions (g) through (n) of Subsection (3) entitled "Application for Licenses" of Section 38.05 entitled "General Licensing Requirements" of the Madison General Ordinances are hereby renumbered to Subdivisions (h) through (o), respectively.