What: Regular meeting of the Delavan City Council
When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Delavan Municipal Building, 123 S. Second St., Delavan.
Details: The city council will discuss renewing liquor licenses, including the license for Lake Lawn Resort, 2400 E. Geneva St., Delavan. Among other things, the council could adopt a sidewalk installation policy and host a public hearing on an application to expand Stinebrink's Piggly Wiggly, 1414 E. Geneva St.
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DELAVAN — 'Tis the season for liquor license renewals.
In the city of Delavan, all eyes are on Lake Lawn Resort, 2400 E. Geneva St., Delavan.
Delavan Resort Holdings, the owner of the resort, owes more than $600,000 to Walworth County and to the city. That means the liquor license cannot be renewed, one council member said.
The council will take the matter up, along with a list of other licenses, at its regular June meeting next week.
City ordinances prohibit granting or renewing the license for premises that owe "city taxes, assessments, utility bills, sewer and water bills or other assessments or other claims to the city."
The unpaid bills include:
-- Delavan Resort Holdings owes 2008 property taxes on four parcels in the city and in Delavan Township, Treasurer Kathy Du Bois said.
Outstanding bills on the four add up to $585,000, Du Bois said.
The money, or a portion of it, was due to the county January 31, she said.
-- Delavan Resort Holdings is current on its room tax bill, but the group owes a penalty in excess of $15,000 for a late room tax payment for the fourth quarter of 2008, city of Delavan Treasurer Jennifer Weise said.
Weise said she could not share how much the resort paid in room tax because city ordinances protect that information.
-- The resort owes a penalty in excess of $1,500 on personal property taxes from 2008, Weise said.
Personal property tax is paid on furniture and equipment, Weise said.
She Lake Lawn Resort isn't the only business with outstanding personal property tax bills, she said.
"They're hardly the only ones, but they are our biggest one," Weise said.
-- The resort owes the city $70,000 in overdue cost-recovery invoices, Weise said.
Those invoices bill back Lake Lawn Resort for money the city paid in attorney or engineering fees related to negotiations with the resort.
Delavan Resort holdings have contested a few of the accrued invoices, Weise said.
The $70,000 does not include current invoices, she said.
Delavan Resort Development President Pat Nelson declined to comment to The Janesville Gazette about the unpaid bills or taxes. He is not involved in the day-to-day management of the property, Nelson said.
The Gazette could not reach Pete Zellmer, Lake Lawn's director of sales and marketing by the deadline for this edition.