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Alcohol, Taxes, and Marijuana Top Bethel City Council Agenda

City of Bethel

Tonight’s Bethel City Council meeting may be short, but it could also be entertaining. Alcohol, taxes, and marijuana top the list of agenda items.

First up, Dimitri’s Restaurant will get a chance to defend its liquor license application. The Council is voting on a resolution protesting the application. The restaurant has not yet obtained a conditional use permit from the city for an alcohol establishment. It’s received 13 fire and safety code violations. And it sits across the street from the Kilbuck campus, where the school district plans to rebuild two schools lost in a fire.

The council protested a previous liquor application from Dimitri’s because of its proximity to the schools.

Also at the meeting, the council is introducing an ordinance that could change the requirements for nonprofits having to pay city sales tax. The city recently announced it’s going to start enforcing sales tax on nonprofits starting in August. Something, by law, nonprofits were supposed to be doing since 2001 but traditionally have been exempt from. Nonprofit leaders appealed to City Council to change the law rather than enforce it. Nonprofits say the taxes would cut essential services for the Delta public.

And he council is introducing an ordinance to allow Bethel voters to prohibit the sale of marijuana within city limits. The proposition would appear on the City of Bethel regular election ballot in October.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. live on KYUK. 

Anna Rose MacArthur served as KYUK's News Director from 2015-2022.
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