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MAYOR Michael 1. Fahey COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Jim LaValle Matt Anderson Rick Montour 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 ADMINISTRATOR (651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 Joel R. Hanson Email: cityhall @ ci.little - canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: February 7, 2001 RE: Workshop with Ramsey County Sheriff's Department Here is the listing of topics I provided to Undersheriff George Altendorfer for our workshop of February 14, 2001: • The vision and goals for police services given the change in leadership at the patrol station. • Planned funding /budget implications due to these changes or other initiatives. (Issues such as investigations should obviously be discussed as well as any others you feel are warranted.) • The need for the Automated Pawn System recommended for Lincoln Pawn and Jewelry. They have informed us it will cost them $5,000 annually to operate this program. (They are also looking for an offset to their license fee to defray this cost.) They have indicated they keep excellent records so the question becomes do we gain $5,000 of benefit? Lt. Moore informed me that other pawnshops that have implemented this system pass the cost on to their customers. Apparently, it amounts to about a $1.50 per transaction. I have called Mr. Smothers for his opinion on this, but we haven't connected as of yet. • Effectiveness of the DARE program. (1 have raised this issue with the group that 5th grade DARE by itself doesn't seem to be a prudent expenditure given documentation that it effectiveness is minimal without more follow -up in later grades. We have discussed the possibility of expanding DARE into a middle school curriculum but are met with resistance on the part of school districts due to other demands placed on valuable curriculum time. You may want to discuss this with John Luey to get his perspective. I could see our council favoring an expansion of the program to increase effectiveness of the expenditure or eliminating it all together to put those resources to "better" use. Keep in mind they have not discussed either to any great degree but would like more information on the Sheriff Department's position.) • Assistance by Deputies in certain code enforcement areas such as junk vehicles noticed on patrol, enforcement of "no- parking" zones, removal /citations for unlicensed vendors who set up shop along Rice Street at various locations, (They sell rugs, flowers, Vikings paraphernalia when they win, etc.), cars for sale along Rice Street on various commercial sites, or other obvious problems that are developing that the Deputies could make us aware of. Page 1