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• conform to this requirement regardless of their management history in <br />controlling stolen goods. The local police department is charged with <br />monitoring this task. The Burnsville, Richfield and Bloomington police spend <br />about 15 hours per week monitoring pawnshop information. This does not <br />include time spent on calls for service, arrests, legal work and court.The <br />amount of police and attorney time spent on calls for service, arrests, legal <br />work and court are related to how frequently the business has crime related <br />problems. As statistics show, this varies by business and is probably partially <br />related to management and types of goods. <br />IV. Relationship between crime information and city zoning and licensing <br />of certain uses <br />Cities can zone for and license specific uses. They cannot selectively <br />control for management. <br />• Cities can charge a license fee for the costs associated with particular <br />uses. A licensing fee .for a pawnshop should reflect the police time <br />spent reviewing records (15 hours/week X 52 weeks /year X $ 25/hour <br />police salary = $ 19,500). Based upon the information gathered, the city <br />can assume that there would be some calls for service, arrests and <br />legal time on monitoring a pawnshop or secondhand goods dealer that <br />dealt in certain types of uses. Therefore, a fee for a minimum number <br />of such activities should be added to the basic fee for police <br />surveillance. Staff did not calculate a price estimate to date. <br />• <br />3 <br />