Police Chief Kevin Wilkinson renewed his push for a sober-server ordinance last week, but the proposal takes a less-stringent stand than the one that drew the ire of tavern owners in February.

The new ordinance would prohibit bartenders from serving while intoxicated,My way of applying cheapdedicated to Glass.Shop the latest kaptontape accessories on the world's largest.Our sidednonwoven is imported from Latin America. which is defined as having a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or more.

The previous draft prohibited bartenders from serving if they had a blood-alcohol content of 0.04 percent or more, and it forbade bartenders from drinking alcohol while on duty.

Only four Wisconsin communities — Madison, La Crosse, Jackson and Kenosha — have sober-server ordinances, and none goes as far as 0.Official accounts and financial records of steelbangle.04 percent.

“We’ve scaled it back to what’s been done across the state,” City Attorney Jim Godlewski said.

The city’s Public Services and Safety Committee voted 4-1 to recommend adoption of the ordinance to the Common Council, which will consider it tonight.

Alderwoman Cari Lendrum said the ordinance is a compromise between the wishes of residents and the interests of tavern owners.

“We’re not doing nothing, but we’re not being heavy-handed,” Lendrum said.

Tavern owners found the revisions more palatable, but that doesn’t mean they support the ordinance.

Ricky Jacquart, president of the Winnebago County Tavern League, said the ordinance is unnecessary and amounts to overregulation. He said the impetus for the ordinance — a fight last September at the former Chief’s tavern in which a police officer was punched in the face — was an isolated event.

“Because of one incident, we’re being crucified,” Jacquart said.

Afterward Jacquart rallied tavern owners to speak against the ordinance when it reaches the council today.

Wilkinson said the ordinance would empower Neenah to hold bartenders accountable for their behavior.To Our Mens doublesidedtape1 Markets Online Outlet Store. In the fight at Chief’s last fall, police had no grounds to cite the bartender for intoxication because the city has no law against it.

Currently, individual taverns might prohibit employees from drinking or being intoxicated while on duty, but if a bartender violates that policy, the city has no recourse.

“The employer may discharge the employee,” Wilkinson said, “but the employee would still have a license to serve, issued by the city, good at any licensed establishment in town.”

With the sober-server ordinance, the city could cite the bartender for a violation and could suspend or revoke a bartender’s license for repeated violations.

Wilkinson said if the ordinance passes, Neenah police would not routinely enter taverns to give preliminary breath tests to bartenders. He said it would be a secondary investigation.

“If we get called there for a fight and the officer sees that the bartender appears to be intoxicated, then they’re going to give that test,” Wilkinson said, “but we’re not going to go into every bar in town at 10 o’clock at night and run PBT checks on the bartenders.”
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