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Cobb Sunday Alcohol Sales Vote Expected
Commissioners could send a referendum to voters in unincorporated Cobb on the March 6, 2012 primary date.
Voters in , Kennesaw and Smyrna are deciding today whether Sunday retail alcohol sales will be allowed in their cities. ()
Voters in unincorporated Cobb may get to make the same decision in March.
On the agenda of the Cobb Board of Commissioners today is a proposal to schedule a Sunday sales referendum on the same day as the March 6 primary elections.
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Cobb voters will go to the polls that day to elect party nominees for national, state and local offices, including president, the Georgia legislature, Cobb commission and Cobb school board.
If the commission schedules a referendum today, and if it is approved by voters in March, Sunday sales would go into effect on June 1. Citizens could purchase alcohol at retail stores from 12:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Sundays.
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The commission meets at 9 a.m. today in the second-floor board meeting room at 100 Cherokee Street, Marietta.
Commission chairman Tim Lee told The Marietta Daily Journal that he didn't need to wait for today's Cobb municipal results to place the Sunday sales measure on the agenda (attached PDF).
He said placing the Sunday sales referendum on the ballot with primary races would save the county $400,000.
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