Sunday, February 10, 2025–5:05 p.m.
-Davis Crowder, WRGA News-
Rome City Commissioners are set to vote on two alcohol ordinance amendments when they meet Monday.
The first deals with variances for Rome’s 50-50 food-to-drink ratio, according to Rome City Clerk Joe Smith.
“Basically this ordinance, if adopted, would prohibit the option for any future food-to-drrink ratio variances,” he said. “It would also address the existing food-to-drink ratio variances and allow those to continue as they are with their current variance. It would allow those businesses to be transferred to a new licensee, sold, or moved to a new location. So basically, they could carry on as they are, but no future variances.”
The second ordinance amendment deals with food trucks.
“This ordinance, as proposed, would allow establishments to continue to have on-site food trucks, and those sales could continue to count towards the food/drink ratio with two qualifications,” Smith said. “The first being that those food truck sales would need to flow through the establishment’s cash register/point of sales system and secondly, that the food trucks would be supplemental to an existing brick and motor kitchen that is operational.”
Also Monday, the commission will present a proclamation recognizing Rome’s Officer of the Year and will consider a resolution to correct a clerical error for Tax Allocation District 5, which is the North Rome Redevelopment area.
The commission meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at Rome City Hall.
The caucus starts at 5 p.m.
