{"id":12425,"date":"2020-03-27T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:43:21","slug":"riemer-proposes-liquor-monopoly-payment-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12425","title":{"rendered":"Riemer Proposes Liquor Monopoly Payment Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to County Executive Marc Elrich, Council Member Hans Riemer has proposed that liquor licensees be allowed to defer payments owed to the county&#8217;s Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS).  Specifically, Riemer wrote, &#8220;I am writing to request that ABS allow restaurant licensees to defer payments or make partial payments on all products purchased from ABS for the next 12 months.&#8221;  Riemer notes the extreme financial losses being experienced by licensees and suggests that the county &#8220;explore options that could allow the County to smooth the revenue impact of this proposal over a longer period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We reprint Riemer&#8217;s letter below.  We intend to print the executive&#8217;s response when we receive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-1-789x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-1-789x1024.png 789w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-1-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-1-768x996.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-1.png 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-2-789x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-2-789x1024.png 789w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-2-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-2-768x996.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Riemer-Liquor-Monopoly-Holiday-Letter-2.png 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. In a letter to County Executive Marc Elrich, Council Member Hans Riemer has proposed that liquor licensees be allowed to defer payments owed to the county&#8217;s Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS). Specifically, Riemer wrote, &#8220;I am writing to request that ABS allow restaurant licensees to defer payments or make partial payments on all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riemer Proposes Liquor Monopoly Payment Holiday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449,90],"tags":[1439,1513,1724],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-of-liquor-control","category-hans-riemer","tag-department-of-liquor-control","tag-hans-riemer","tag-liquor-monopoly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12428,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}