VIDALIA — The full Vidalia Board of Aldermen will meet with the owners of Danny’s Lounge to discuss the bar’s future next Thursday.

“We have a meeting scheduled with them to discuss the issue, and I really don’t know exactly where it is going to go from there,” Mayor Hyram Copeland said.

One of the co-owners of the nightclub — Sandra White — met with Copeland, City Attorney Jack McLemore, Police Chief Ronnie G. “Tapper” Hendricks and aldermen Triand “Tron” McCoy and Vernon Stevens in a closed meeting in early February.

That meeting was to discuss changes at the bar in hopes that the city would reinstate the bar’s liquor license.

The meeting with the full board will be open to the public because of open meeting laws.

The license renewal was denied in December on the mayor’s recommendation, and it would require a vote of a quorum of the board of aldermen to reinstate it.

Copeland said he did not know if the Danny’s owners would present the same plan to the full board that they did to the closed session.

“They will present their case and we will present our case, and (the aldermen) will decide from that point on,” Copeland said.

The disagreement between the city and the bar started in June 2008, and a meeting to discuss the problems was planned but never happened before the liquor license revocation in December.

Both the city and the owners have stated that it was a failure to work with the other parties involved that stopped the meeting from coming to fruition.

City officials have maintained that the bar served as a magnet for violent crime, drug and noise violations.

The owners have countered that their establishment has been misrepresented and blamed for incidents that did not happen on their property.

Plans that White outlined at the closed meeting included bringing in certified security guards, installing a metal detector at the entrance, not allowing women to carry purses into the bar, closing at 2 a.m. and ensuring everyone is out of the parking lot by 2:30 a.m., officials said at the time.