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Butch Otter Holds Top Secret Meetings - No Story Here

Nov 19, 2007 - 0:00

Wearing a suit drankin some beers from a keg

Just kidding, it's about liquor licenses, though no one has told us how they found that out...

The meetings are to consider making drastic changes in the Alcohol Beverage Control, run by the Idaho State Police.

Currently, there are about 800 licenses in the state. Unless you want to wait the 20 years, you have to pay an unrealistically high price to get one from a license owner, not the state. Kevin Settles, owner of Bardenay, said he paid more than $300,000 for three licenses. And if you want one in Ketchum, you can pay more than $400,000 for one license.

Governor Otter wants to put some common sense into the process and make more licenses available. The problem is, many of the license owners are treating the licenses as assets. And there are stories floating around of people getting loans based on those assets, something Brian Ballard, of Hawley Troxell Ennis and Hawley, told the Chamber committee is illegal.

http://www.idahobusiness.net/


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