There's an Urbana City Council meeting tonight in two parts (general Urbana meeting information and brochure). A special meeting of the City Council (agenda here) and the Committee of the Whole meeting (agenda here) that includes this item. The News-Gazette highlighted a local brewery tax issue they plan to resolve. Excerpt:
Tax on local brew sold from tap up for repealFull article here. (link will be updated)
The city council will vote tonight on whether to eliminate a tax affecting distributors who buy kegs from Urbana breweries...
Darin Riggs, co-owner of Urbana’s Riggs Beer Company, said the tax was brought to his attention before discovering that nearby cities don’t have it. So he went to city staff and asked about it.
“Before we opened, there were no other (beer) breweries in town,” Riggs said. “This (tax ordinance) was written just for retail stores.”
City staff then drafted the vote proposal that Riggs said will put Urbana in the same lane as other local breweries.
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