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police response calls related to the following incidents: grand theft auto, narcotics and DUI violations, assault and battery, disturbances (fighting), vehicle burglaries, public drunkenness, attempted rape and shots fired. Moreover, the Riverside Police Department recalled one incident at the Rocks Club in Riverside where one of the owners was shot at while in the parking lot of the business. (See attached Exhibit B.) This hearing has been scheduled to review compliance with the conditions of approval of the dance permit. Specifically, the City Council should determine whether recent police incidents at the Club and other possible violations of the dance permit conditions of approval warrant revocation of the dance permit. Colton Municipal Code Section 5.32.050 establishes the standards for revocation of a dance permit. Section 5.32.050 provides: "Whenever the presiding officer and members of the city council shall issue ... any permit under the terms of this section ... the same may be revoked at anytime thereafter, by the city council, if they become satisfied that the conduct of such public dance hall ... does not, or will not, comport with public welfare for any reason, or in the case of a public dance hall that the same has been conducted in an illegal. improper or disorder] manner... The city council may make rules governing public dance halls..., and may revoke or suspend permits issued ... where the proprietor or person in charge thereof violates or permits any infraction of any such rules or any law of the state or any ordinance of the city." (Emphasis added.) (See Exhibit C.) Further, the City Council must determine, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the conduct of the Club does not, or will not comport with the public welfare, or the Club has been conducted in an illegal, improper or disorderly manner. The Police Department and City staff have documented the following instances where the Club's operations have failed to comport with the public welfare or have been conducted in an illegal, improper or disorderly manner: Colton Police Officers have responded to at least three significant incidents since the dance permit was issued on April 6, 1999 (See Exhibit D.). These include the following: a. April 25, 1999. The manager of the Club reported approximately 30 people fighting in the parking lot. b. May 11, 1999. A customer reported his vehicle had been vandalized. C. May 13, 1999. After an altercation inside the Club, a customer shot the manager of the Club while leaving the premises in his vehicle. The customer was apprehended shortly thereafter by the Colton Police Department. Attempted murder charges are pending. RVPMNMXr&512779