Arcadia to offer liquor licenses

Arcadia has two and potentially three liquor licenses that the city council will decide how to award.

The Class B licenses include one once held by the Arcadia Country Club and the second from Detox Bar and Grill. The third license may be available because of an increase in the city’s population, said city treasurer and clerk Angela Berg.

If granted the third license would be the 12th the city is allowed.

The city may take applications for the available licenses, council members suggested last Wednesday.

The city revoked the Detox license in July because of problems at the bar, and no one has opted to use it following the six months it was suspended, according to Berg.

The city may seek bids from professional cleaners as it tries to determine whether it should rent city park facilities on Sunday. Council member Jason Lockington said he was bothered by the fact that it’s not possible to reserve a city park facility on Sunday as he wished to do for a family event.

The city has limited park reservations because of difficulties assuring facilities will be clean. 

“Our parks are getting treated so poorly,” said council member Kyle Myhre. He said parks are sometimes trashed between when a user cleans them and the next users arrive.  The city does not have sufficient staff, city officials have said, to keep tabs on the park conditions over the weekend.

Lockington suggested agreements reflect the uncertainty of the condition of the parks. City operations director Rollie Conrad said the only solution might be a professional cleaner.

“You wouldn’t believe the stuff that we see in the parks,” Conrad said.

Lockington said he would take on the clean-up. Council member Paul Anderson retorted, however, that Lockington had “only gotten to this position because (the policy) doesn’t work for you and we wouldn’t be discussing this for 35 minutes.”

Mayor Kevin Mayzek said the state has approved Arcadia’s application to be a Tree City and the honor now just needs the approval of the Arbor Day Foundation.

Following a closed session, the council named Mark Baker assistant operations superintendent.