A few UHA board members met with the DABC staff on 7/14 and it was quite productive. We will definately be discussing these things at our UHA meeting on Tuesday 7/28 at 5 PM located at Citadel Broadcasting 434 Bearcat Drive Salt Lake City UT 84115. Items for discussion so far; SBI ID verification forms, lack of SBI training as per new law, scanning ID’s of regulars, US Senate Bill 1261 outlawing the use of ID scanners (hee hee), Dramshop report due in september and, most importantly, submitting names for possible DABC board appointments.
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Onto a much newer topic:
Recently, Senator Valentine tried to link the dearth of liquor licenses to last year’s elimination of private club requirements, suggesting that he “and his colleagues may have gone too far” (going to try to repeal or alter that law this year, Senator, despite the fact that consumption of alcohol in social clubs has definitively DECREASED since July 1, 2009?) The governor does not want to make any changes to the liquor laws, because he is up for re-election, according to the Tribune. Yet determined people put their life savings into creating businesses, after being assured future success by the DABC, only to lose everything as a result of an arbitrary mathematical formula that no one can explain coherently. I am not a club owner. I have no investment in clubs or restaurants. I am not a distributor or in the tourism industry. What I am is a Utahn who frequently travels and should be paid as an ambassador, after trying to rehabilitate the state’s image as many times as I have. Help me out.