SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Shreveport City Council addressed several issues on Tuesday, including local liquor sales, retiree health insurance, and other healthcare concerns.
Liquor sales were back on the agenda and up for a vote at Tuesday’s council meeting. The council went back and forth for the past few months over the rules on how businesses can sell liquor. The ordinances were postponed or failed to pass in July. After the council added amendments, five ordinances relating to the Chapter 10 code passed.
The ordinances aim to clean up the Chapter 10 language about the kinds of permits a liquor store can apply for and ABO cards. They also address the Shreveport police department’s authority to shut down a liquor store if it “poses an imminent danger to the community.” These ordinances passed without much discussion or debate with support from the police department.
However, the ordinance that has been an ongoing issue relates to repealing the physical separation of hard liquor sales. Several local liquor store owners said that removing it would hurt their business by favoring big box stores and exposing children to hard alcohol. One owner brought products as an example.
“It’s called Snowball. Pink gum flavored vodka. It even has a baby in a diaper on it. The alcohol industry has changed a lot since we were young. It’s now geared towards the younger generation; peanut butter whiskey. Do we want 8, 9, 10-year-old kids going up and down the grocery store looking at...
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