Gookin Defends Brick & Mortar Guys

(KHQ video)

“If a guy comes and wants to sell hot dogs and asks us what the rules and regulations are, there aren’t any,” says Coeur d’Alene city council member Dan Gookin. Gookin says it was only after seeing someone selling knives next to a school that he realized the city can do nothing about mobile vendors. There is no ordinance governing them and that is something he’s hoping to change. “There’s a price of doing business in the city, unless you’re a mobile merchant,” says Gookin. The city is hosting a public workshop on October 1st to discuss the possibility of an ordinance that would regulate mobile vendors, for reasons Gookin says is simple public safety but also fairness. “At the end of the season these guys just pull up their stakes and then they’re gone, but the brick and mortar guys are still here, they’re fighting for that business,” says Gookin/ Victor Correa , KHQ. More here.

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