The Whitewater City Council on Tuesday approved the settlement agreement the city’s police department reached with Pumpers & Mitchell’s bar to renew its liquor license and serve a two-month suspension.
WHITEWATER
Four days before it was scheduled to go to trial with Whitewater s Alcohol Licensing Review Committee, Pumpers & Mitchellâs has a potential deal in place with the city to have its liquor license renewed for the next year but serve a two-month suspension in the fall.
The Whitewater Police Department asked the city to deny the barâs request for a license renewal, but attorneys for all sides reached a settlement that includes a license suspension from Sept. 1 through and including Nov. 2âthe start and middle of UW-Whitewaterâs fall semester.
âI think I feel it is certainly warranted,â said James Allen, one of the committeeâs three members. âI think a two-month suspension is probably light. But itâs going to take two months of business during the school year in hopes that it will get the ownerâs attention.
WHITEWATER
Pumpers & Mitchellâs faces an uncertain future after the Whitewater Police Department asked city elected officials to reject the barâs request for a renewed liquor license, citing repeated trouble.
Bar officials strongly denied the level of wrongdoing they are accused of and will get their chance to more formally make their case at a city trial scheduled for Monday, May 24.
Members of Whitewaterâs Alcohol Licensing Review Committee on Wednesday made a preliminary finding that they would recommend against renewing the barâs license, but they said it was so they could hear more arguments and see more evidence at a trial.