Hey I wanted to know if you guys could check out and see why
Foothills Four-Square Church is renting out to Krazy Koyote. It
just seems weird to me that a church wouldn’t be renting out to a
bar, especially a bar that has had so many problems.
Church renting to a bar?
“Hey I wanted to know if you guys could check out and see why Foothills Four-Square Church is renting out to Krazy Koyote. It just seems weird to me that a church wouldn’t be renting out to a bar, especially a bar that has had so many problems.
I have a police officer friend who just told me two people were stabbed there recently. When is the city or the police department going to shut that place down? It’s going to take someone getting really hurt or murdered for them to take their license away.”
Red Phone:
Mark Wilson, Senior Pastor at Foothills Four-Square Church said the reason they are renting out to Krazy Koyote is because of an agreement within the existing lease from the prior owners.
“We are not happy about what is going on ourselves, but there is nothing we can do about it legally. You have to work within the laws of the pre-existing lease,” Wilson explained.
Wilson pointed a finger at KDON radio station out of Salinas. According to Wilson, Krazy Koyote hires DJs from the station for weekend entertainment and people from other areas like East Palo Alto, Richmond and Oakland come in and start problems.
“It’s KDON, who is coming down and throwing these ‘gang banger’ parties and they are people who are kicked out of bars in other places and they bring in their DJs and they throw these big parties; they are just a bunch of gang bangers who do this,” Wilson said.
All the city has to do is not allow KDON or the bar to do this, Wilson said.
“I’ve complained, but they don’t want to hear about it, because it’s a revenue thing. We’ve contacted a lawyer, and we’re trying to see what we can do.”
Four-Square’s lease is up Oct. 31 of next year.
Sgt. Kurt Svardal said that when it comes to business owners and how they operate, Gilroy police do their best to work with them.
“We try to act and work with them to mitigate some of the problems that the bar crowd can bring. We have active contact with all bar owners, not just Krazy Koyote. We want them all to be responsible and cooperative and run a successful business, but when problems become consistent, we have warned them that they will not be tolerated,” Svardal said. “When we have non-cooperation, that is when we take action.”
For more information, see the story in Friday’s Dispatch titled “Bars Try to Quash Violence.”
Cheers for coverage
“Hi I just wanted to say thank you to the Dispatch for not dropping this whole thing with city hall hiding things from the council members. Way to go, good job Dispatch and hopefully you guys will get to the bottom of this and any other things that are going on.
You go to a council meeting and it seems like everything is like the council members are not really thinking for themselves, so it’s good to see that the Dispatch can bring things to light and maybe get some balance in our government.”
Red Phone:
Thank you for your support good caller. The Dispatch agrees that correct conduct of our elected officials is key and we will continue to provide unbiased and complete coverage of the inner workings of our good city.
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