They want to start charging pawn shops $1.00 per transaction fee to cover a database. If this is needed to fight crime then we feel it should be at the expense of the city. We are business owners We work closely with law enforcement to recover stolen property we don't even asked to be paid back when it is taken out of our store! On top of the licence you have to pay for to become a pawn shop and the fee we would have to trickle it down to the customer. If you do 25 pawns a day its $9125 a year we would have to let go of our employee.