Longview City Attorney Decides that Market Vendors Must Get Individual Business Licenses

The opening of a summer market in downtown Longview has been postponed from today to June 4 because of the city’s requirements in obtaining individual business licenses for booth vendors.

Since The Cowlitz Community Farmer's Market on the city fairgrounds has only one master business license, Organizer Bob Turner had assumed that a master business license would suffice for the summer market as well.

According to The Daily News, “Assistant City Manager David Campbell said the city attorney reviewed the discrepancy between the rules for both markets this week and concluded that it's only fair and appropriate that the farmer's market non-produce vendors at the fairground buy business licenses, too.”

Campbell claims that a city attorney erred years ago when he determined that a master business license for the organizer of the farmer’s market would be sufficient.

With these difficulties cropping up, Bob Turner elected to drop his post as organizer of the summer market. He was taken over by Mic McCoy.

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