Community Corner
Watkinsville's Approach To Beer And Wine Ordinance Enforcement Matches That Of Oconee County
Watkinsville loosely enforces requirement that only 25 percent of revenue comes from beer and wine.
The city of Watkinsville joins Oconee County in taking a lenient approach to enforcement of a key provision of its beer and wine ordinance.
License holders are required to document that they earn no more than 25 percent of their revenue from beer and wine, but, in the renewal applications for this year, only three of the four license holders provided information on food and beer and wine sales.
In 2012 and 2011, only one of the four restaurants provided that information. In 2010, the city had only three license holds, and only one provided the information on revenue from food sales and from beer and wine sales.
Oconee County has an identical requirement in its ordinance and only began asking license holds to provide evidence of compliance starting this year.
Neither Watkinsville nor Oconee County does any independent audits of compliance with the provision.
For details of the reports and information on early voting on the liquor-by-the-drink referendum, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: One of the city’s restaurants.