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Page 2 <br />Alcohol on Public Property <br />Committee 5/18/92 <br />public hearings are to address that option. Should the City of Paris <br />call a general election, spending approximately $3,000.00, or allow the <br />ordinance to stay as it is. <br />At this time Chairman Bell declared <br />for anyone speaking for calling a <br />alcohol on public property to come <br />speak for the issue. <br />the public hearing open, and called <br />general election for consumption of <br />forward, there was no one present to <br />Chairman Bell called for those to speak against the issue to come <br />forward, and David Scherler representing himself appeared before the <br />Committee. Mr. Scherler told the Committee that he has two boys, and <br />one is nine year old and plays in the Boy's Club Baseball League. The <br />games are scheduled throughout the evenings during this time of year, <br />the baseball fields they play at are all around the Fairgrounds. If <br />alcohol were to be served on the Fairgrounds, those who consume the <br />beverages must drive home by the place that his son is playing <br />baseball. Mr. Scherler said he did not believe that you can guarantee <br />that no one will be over the legal blood alcohol limit when they leave <br />an event where alcohol is being served here on the Fairgrounds. That <br />jeopardizes the safety of his child. If someone were to hit a child <br />and kill them after consuming alcohol on City property in a county that <br />is legally voted dry the resulting law suite would financially bankrupt <br />our City. Mr. Scherler said it is your job as our City Councilmen to <br />uphold the law that has been voted on by citizens of this county. We <br />are creating a double standard when we tell out children to stay away <br />from drugs and alcohol, and this as a community allow it to be consumed <br />on City property. Mr. Scherler urged the Committee to vote against any <br />change in the ordinance, and not to allow the consumption of alcohol <br />beverages on City property, and further stated that there should not be <br />an election held as a result of the showing of people that have <br />appeared against the issue. <br />Lorene Thrasher, 1343 Pine Bluff, appeared before the Committee stating <br />that she was always taught that when she saw a warning sign that there <br />was a danger in front of her, and tonight, as she sees it, there is a <br />danger in front of us in our City which she thinks is such a precious <br />place to live. Mrs. Thrasher told of her daughter -in -law who left work <br />one night who was hit by a car driven by two boys who had been <br />drinking. Mrs. Thrasher said it broke her neck, and they said they <br />were going one hundred miles an hour, she did not have a chance, she <br />survived this wreck, but she had to sell her business, they did not <br />have any insurance, if she had not paid for it herself. Mrs. Thrasher <br />urged the Committee to keep our City clean by not allowing alcohol <br />consumption on public property. <br />Joe McDowell, 3021 E. Houston, pointed out the fact that one of the <br />greatest problems we face today is the breakdown of the family, and it <br />is caused by a lot of reasons, alcohol being one of them. Mr. McDowell <br />said that children follow the example of adults, if they see their <br />parents drinking chances are they are going to drink. Mr. McDowell <br />said we all need to be examples, whether we are in government or in <br />private business. This was one of his concern, and he sees no reason <br />for government to sponsor alcoholic beverages. <br />