EDIE ZUVANICH Special to the Press
HUTTO – A Hutto City Council workshop intended for discussing food truck ordinances became a screed against downtown farmers’ markets. Insinuations ran wild at the Dec. 14 meeting, sometimes painting vendors as fly-by-night operators, questioning whether they keep accurate tax records and even the legitimacy of their products.
“There’s a guy claiming he drives down from Alaska with fresh salmon. He’s got Alaska plates on his car. I find it hard to believe that someone loaded up a car with salmon, skipped all the metropolitan areas and ended up in Hutto and he’s doing us a favor,” said Mayor Mike Snyder during the workshop. He went on to question whether proper taxes were being paid and health standards being met by the vendor.
