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We maybe as soon as january 2014 have that task within our mission as a Regulatory Agency thats been doing something somewhat similar for over 60 years. We do feel confident that we will be able to get the job done as its given to us, but it in a very early state of that and we are still working through to be prepared. One thing we will for sure and definitely want to make sure we get communicated to you folks today is that it will not impact our ability to serve you in the abc licensing or oversight role that we have. We are the alcohol and Beverage Control and we are funding through the abc ...

Should reduce the demand in the overall retail cost of those licenses as they are traded on the open market. The abc act does allow those licenses to be traded on the open market without any price controls on our part. But, what is the future hold there . Its hard to say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the entire formulas throughout the state so th...

A 300500 course to use colored liquid. If we are expected to do this for educational purposes, i imagine that we have to do the same thing, to go through the legislators to propose that to the public and propose it to the abc. I believe this nightlife summit was create because of problems in the public, there was problems with noise, problems with over drinking, a lot of our laws are based on that. Im here to propose that we have more responsible training for our bar tenders and servers. The cocktail boom around the country has turned bartenders into a true professional. Now that professional ...

Thats about all i had today in terms of abcs spot in this thing. Again, we want to thank you for having us part of the summit. Its a great honor to be here. This is a really unique thing for us and that we find ourselves more commonly at odds in having to react to specific issues. We love to be here on the front end of them and be involved with issues as they are in front of us and we hope to be part of solution for everything that concerns you folks. Thank you very much. [ applause ] okay. We are doing a little q and a. Go ahead. [inaudible] i have two different questions, as an entrepreneur,...

That professional bartenders job is in question. Im sure its around the whole notion of where you can drink alcohol and the idea of one of those courses or presentations or event would whether or not it would constitute a public, somebody opened to the public or whether it was essentially amounting to commercial use of alcohol. And, you know, frankly the law is pretty clear on it and we have not or give a quota to a situation where there is any kind of commercial use of alcohol without the benefit of abc license. There are innovative ways to get ourselves into a scenario, a licensed scenario t...