Item 9AAGENDA ITEM # 9A
APRIL 12, 2010
Apri15, 2010
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor
and Members of the Commission
FROM: Jim Hanso
CIty1Gi~rr~er-
SUBJECT: City Manag 's Report
Sale of Alcohol to Minors; the Atlantic Beach Police Department conducted another alcohol. deployment
on March 19 checking 13 stores and restaurants to see if they would sell alcohol to minors. Of the 13
businesses checked, sales were made to minors at three including the King Food Store at 31 Seminole
Road, the Chevron Gas Station at 1480 Mayport Road and Sticky Fingers Restaurant in Town Center.
This is the first time the employees at either the King Food Store or Sticky Fingers have sold alcohol to
minors in recent checks although this is the third time since the beginning of 2009 that employees at the
Chevron Gas Station have sold alcohol to minors. Most of the restaurants and businesses in Atlantic
Beach have taken strong actions to better educate their employees after they have been notified by the
Atlantic Beach Police Department of violations. In only a couple of occasions over the years that these
checks have been done have employees at businesses been found to have a third sale in a relatively short
period of time. In those incidences, the Mayor has sent a personal letter to the business owner advising
them of the seriousness of the offense and urging them in very strong terms to take steps to see that it
does not happen again. Such a letter has been sent to the owners of the Chevron Gas Station in response
to this third incident.