LINCOLN — The president of the Town Council said yesterday that he will ask his fellow councilmen to hold another hearing on whether the La Cabana nightclub should face some kind of liquor-license sanctions.

Council President Jeremiah T. O’Grady said he was upset that the Reservoir Avenue nightclub had been cited the night of July 26 for exceeding the 100-person limit the council set for its upstairs area. That limit was set in May after the council’s most recent show-cause hearing on La Cabana’s operations. That one was prompted by the building inspector’s finding that the club’s sprinkler system did not meet building and fire codes.

O’Grady said he didn’t want to speculate on the magnitude of any potential sanctions before the full council has a chance to decide if a hearing is warranted.

But O’Grady said in his mind, the council should act.

“I am going to ask the council to hold a show-cause hearing on this item,” he said. “We have, in my opinion, gone way out of the way to show leniency to these owners. They, on the other hand, have shown little interest in living up to the terms of their license.”

“If my request receives a majority vote, we will have a show-cause hearing no later than the September meeting and will consider sanctions at that time,” he said.

Pawtucket lawyer Frank Milos, who has represented JJAM Sport Inc., La Cabana’s owners, in matters before the Town Council in the past, said yesterday that he had not, as of that time, been hired to speak on the company’s behalf and declined comment.

In Lincoln, the Town Council also sits as the town’s Board of License Commissioners, which gives it the power to grant or suspend liquor licenses. Over the past several years, it has suspended La Cabana’s license for varying periods, sometimes days, sometimes a month. In some cases, the suspensions have been for such things as rowdiness by patrons of the club. The May 2007 suspension, for 30 days, was for the fire-code deficiencies and the club’s failure to pay $17,400 it owed the Saylesville Fire Department for the firefighters who were required to be at the club while it was open.

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