The Story County Board of Supervisors will decide to either permanently table the proposed keg ordinance or discuss new possible options at its Tuesday meeting.

Story County Attorney Stephen Holmes is expected to present a new draft after he updates the board on research he completed over the summer on the keg ordinance.

The new draft includes provisions requiring businesses to register keg purchasers and keep names and addresses on record for six months. Identification stickers from the Story County Auditor’s Office will also be attached to the kegs to identify the person and location for which the keg was purchased. Record of sticker distribution will be kept by the Auditor for one year.

Holmes said he has been listening to students’ concerns that the ordinance will breach their privacy rights, but said he doesn’t see law enforcement using the ordinance to “spy” on students. Still, he said he is considering amending the draft to include a section where police officers have to wait for a certain amount of time before they are able to look at the records, but allows an exception if a crime occurs.

“A lot of the perception going on is that it’s directed at [ISU] students, and it’s not,” Holmes said.

He said the reason for the ordinance is to target underage drinking among high school students, and make adults think twice before they purchase alcohol for a minor.

“Our concern is with minors, with kids, getting access,” said George Belitsos, director for Youth and Shelter Services.

He said YSS is an advocate for a new keg ordinance because it wants adults to be held more responsible when they support underage alcohol consumption. Belitsos said the keg ordinance will not be changing the law, but will allow law enforcement to have better access to records of the adult who supplied the alcohol in the event a tragedy occurs.

Travis Mahler, senior in health and human performance and an employee at The Keg Shop, said some stores that sell alcohol, including The Keg Shop, already register people who come in to buy kegs in order to return deposits to the right people. He said the information is available for law enforcement to ask for, but, in his four years working there, it has never happened.

More than anything, he thinks the added paperwork will be the biggest hassle.

Mahler described the ordinance as “one more process, which I feel is unneeded.”

Jane Halliburton, chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors, said the issue has come back up for discussion now, so Holmes had time to do more research, particularly on the process of labeling. She added the board chose not to make any decisions over the summer, but to wait for the fall so students could have more say.

Halliburton said the board has scheduled an open forum for 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 in the Gallery of the Memorial Union to encourage student feedback.

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