Dick Lyshek, owner of Bull Feathers, 303 N. Henry St., will receive a formal expression of concern tonight from the city's Alcohol License Review Committee.
The action results from six underage drinking violations that occurred last summer, according to Lyshek. He said the bar received a substantial fine and used up all its points.
Under the city's point system, various violations carry point values, according Sgt. Emil Quast, the Madison Police Department's ALRC representative. When the city attorney prosecutes such violations, they subtract from the establishment's 100 point total.
\We have sent a whole bunch of reports up there [about Bull Feathers] and obviously the city attorney's office has decided to prosecute them,"" Quast said.
The city attorney's designee to the ALRC, Jennifer Zilavy, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
After a bar uses up its points, Lyshek said, it may face serious consequences such as having its license revoked if it then incurs further violations. This happened most recently in the downtown area to the Kollege Klub, 529 N. Lake St., which had to shut down for 20 days in January after it incurred 17 underage drinking violations in a single night.
Although Lyshek will receive no more than a warning at today's meeting, he said he did not consider the action a mere slap on the wrist because it puts him in a precarious position in the future.
However, he said the city should concentrate its resources on especially problematic ones.
""It really goes to the heart of where police want to allocate resources,"" he said, ""whether they want to run around trying to find underage kids--underage adults, let's put it that way ... or spend time looking to more serious things.""
Lyshek is president of the Tavern League and an ALRC member.
