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WNNEW the City that works for you I * Of Report Number Agenda Section Council Meeting Date • REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION 08-245 VI -3 September 8, 2008 ITEM DESCRIPTION: Approval of Resolution and Consent Order Imposing Civil Penalty for Adagio's for sale of alcohol to a person under the age of 21. A DEPARTMENT HEAD'S APPROVAL: CITY MANAGER'S APPROVAL: No comments to supplement this Recommendation: Robert J. Jacobson, Director of Public is attached Approval of Resolution and Consent Order Imposing a Civil Penalty of $1,000 for Adagio's. Legislative History: N/A Financial Impact: Civil penalty of $1,000 will be received within 10 days. Explanation: The City of New Brighton conducts alcohol compliance checks twice per year. The goal of conducting compliance checks is to reduce the availability of alcoholic beverages to those who are under the age of 21. Adagio's sold alcoholic beverages to a buyer under the age of 21 during police supervised compliance checks on December 26, 2007. The employee who sold during those compliance checks has been convicted of criminal charges for those violations. I have met with Mr. Dale Ekegren, owner of Adagio's, and, his bar manager. Mr. Ekegren has demonstrated remorse for the sale of alcoholic beverages by his staff. Mr. Ekegren,indicated hat the bartender was inexperienced and asked for identification after the sale. Mr. Ekegren has a long standing policy for reducing the likelihood of a further violation, uses a incident log to document incidents at the bar, and, shares and uses driver's license training guides to identify legitimate and fraudulent ID's. Mr. Ekegren has signed a Consent Order in which he agrees to pay a civil penalty of $1,000 as required by City Code and agrees to follow through with p `a is t elim' ate sale of alcoholic beverages to those under the age of 21 in his business. Robert J co on Directo f Public Safety I:\COUNCIL\REPORTS\2008\Public Safety\Adagio's consent order.doc