Normal procedures send an item that failed on emergency passage through the regular approval process. But that would take too much time, said Dennis Polk, one of the managers listed in state records for New Beginning 217.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur intention is to be open the biggest day of the year,\u201d he said, referring to the St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade scheduled for March 13.<\/p>\n
Even a special meeting next week would allow only four days to open the bar, Polk said.<\/p>\n
Theilen said he received e-mails alleging the owners owed money to the city. He said he was told by Mayor Tim Davlin\u2019s administration late Tuesday that Polk has a delinquent tax increment finance loan. It was unclear Tueday how much Polk owes.<\/p>\n
Theilen said he wasn\u2019t comfortable approving the license as an emergency.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not questioning Mr. Polk\u2019s character, I\u2019m just questioning numbers,\u201d Theilen said. \u201cUnder other circumstances, we would not issue licenses if money was owed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Deana Poole can be reached at 788-1533.<\/p>\n
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Read the original article from The State Journal-Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n A special Springfield City Council meeting has been called for noon Friday to consider a liquor license for a new downtown bar planned to replace Sammy\u2019s Sports Bar & Grill in time for the St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade. The special meeting comes after aldermen Tuesday rejected a request for a liquor license for New Beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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