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Women may soon be the majority on the Utah alcohol commission
Gov. Cox appoints Jennifer Tarazon, a communication director for AARP Utah, and Natalie Randall, a state tourism director, to the DABC board.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Customers line up for the opening of the new state liquor and wine store in Saratoga Springs, on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.
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On Friday, Gov. Spencer Cox named two women to the sometimes controversial board that oversees liquor sales and licensing in Utah.
That is likely a first for the high-profile board.
Increasing diversity on Utah’s boards and commission is a key part of the 500-day plan of the Cox-Henderson administration, according to a news release announcing appointments for more than four dozen state boards and commissions, including the DABC.
DABC will be majority women after Utah s governor shakes up boards and commissions
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Governor Spencer Cox visits the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control s massive warehouse as a part of a review of the state s liquor control agency.
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SALT LAKE CITY â Utah s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission will be led by a majority of women under a shakeup proposed by Governor Spencer Cox.
It s part of a push to increase diversity and inclusion in all of Utah s boards and commissions, the governor s office said. On Friday, his office released a list of dozens of names for boards and commissions which help decide policy for the state.
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In the early days of the pandemic, Mark Alston, the owner of The Bayou, purchased $3,000 worth of equipment that would allow his Salt Lake City bar to bottle and sell draft beer to go.
Sales of the sealed containers were brisk, he said, until last week when bars and restaurants across the state received a letter from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control saying sales of “beer to go” would no longer be allowed except in a few instances.
The DABC is taking away “an important lifeline” for bars and restaurants, Alston told The Tribune. “At a time when to-go sales are mission-critical, it’s like cutting off one leg of a three-legged stool.”
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