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Burns Blasts Idea of Allowing Liquor License Holders to Seek Office
Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns takes a hard stance this week against a code change that would let liquor-license holders run for alderman.
Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns this week blasted the City Council's stated position to allow liquor-license holders to run for public office. At the tail end of Monday's Geneva City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, Burns underlined in bold his stance that the city code is right to prohibit liquor license holders from holding an aldermanic position. "We don’t have a problem, folks," Burns said. "But I think we have a problem by amending the code." First Ward Alderman Sam Hill brought up the notion at the fifth-Monday COW meeting on July 31. On that night, Hill announced that he would not be seeking a fourth term, but he did ask the City Council to consider amending its code to allow liquor-license holders to run for an aldermanic post. He …
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Jennifer Anderson
10:27 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Now let us sign the petition to encourage the official vote on the matter. Then let the people decide with their vote who is best qualified to be First Ward Alderman. http://www.change.org/petitions/geneva-city-council-amend-the-geneva-liquor-license-ordinance# more ›