POA fined for alcohol violations

n The three violations cost a total of $600.

An offer of settlement from the Alcohol Beverage Control Board to the Property Owners Association has been received and accepted, General Manager Tom Judson said on Monday.

The settlement included three fines for three Class C violations, according to ABC Director Mary Robin Casteel.

In a complaint dated June 14, three violations were described. Alcohol had been moved from Lakepoint Event Center to the Highlands Clubhouse. Both locations have permits under the name of POA Business Director Tommy Lee, but the permits do not allow alcohol to be moved between locations. Lakepoint was in violation for allowing the alcohol to be moved and Highlands was in violation for accepting it from someone other than a permitted distributor.

Also, the permit for alcohol sales at Highlands Clubhouse was not posted, although it had been issued. The Highlands Clubhouse was not yet selling alcohol, but because they had it on the premises a posted permit was required.

The fine for each Class C violation is $200.

"We accepted the offer," Judson said. "We hope that we are putting this unfortunate incident behind us and have learned some valuable lessons because of it."

Judson said the staff involved in the incident volunteered to pay the fine themselves.

Staff at each location has received more training on the ABC regulations.

"The regulations can be confusing," Judson said. "It can be different depending on the license, so we had to customize our training based on those differences."

He had both POA attorney Doug McCash and a local ABC enforcement agent review the training material before it was presented to employees.

Lee ran the training, Judson said.

General News on 08/09/2017