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Kemah may enact ‘midnight curfew’ to combat violence; bar owners unhappy
Read full article: Kemah may enact ‘midnight curfew’ to combat violence; bar owners unhappyKEMAH, Texas – Kemah, which has cut its city staff nearly in half during the pandemic, will discuss options to combat violence in a special city council meeting this week, including, among other things, a midnight curfew. “Curfew is a suggestion that council wants to entertain and curfew has come up more than once,” Kemah Mayor Terri Gale said. White proposed that bar owners in Kemah like him raise their sales tax to 1 percent to fund more security for the area. He also proposed parking a “ghost car” in the area or building a substation on 6th street, among other things. Some 80% of the city’s revenue comes from sales tax, which has dropped about 20% during the pandemic, forcing the drastic cuts.