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North Suburban Tobacco Compliance Project Falcon Heights • Maplewood • New Brighton • North St. Paul • Roseville • Shoreview • White Bear Lake 16 March 1998 City of Little Canada Kathy Glanzer, Deputy Clerk 515 E. Little Canada Road Little Canada, ivN 55117 Dear Kathy: Little Canada has the opportunity to join other members of the North Suburban Tobacco Compliance Project (NSTCP) to test the effectiveness of alcohol age-of -sale law compliance checks. As project coordinator for NSTCP I believe we should be proud that in 1997, our fifth year, we achieved 87% and 39% compliance rates with tobacco age -of -sale laws. In the past, members of NSTCP expressed interest in creating an alcohol compliance program modeled after the tobacco program. The University of Minnesota Alcohol Epidemiology Program,. as part of a research project, is willing to help us with staff and funding for license education and law enforcement compliance checks for alcohol outlets_ I believe that we are ready to start alcohol sales compliance checks. I have worked with the University of Minnesota staff to develop the following plan for your consideration: To complete age -of -sale law compliance checks in your city: NSTCP and U of MN would: - Recruit and train youths to serve as underage buyers. - Schedule the buyers and coordinate the compliance checks with your officers following the same processes used now for tobacco checks. - Collect, analyze and report data on the purchase attempts. - Provide your city with partial subsidization of city personnel costs. Your responsibilities would be similar to those for the tobacco checks: Coordinate the dates and times of the compliance check operations with NSTCP. - Provide law enforcement staff for the compliance checks. - Provide the U of MN access to compliance check outcome data. U of MIN will pay for. - My time as coordinator and support to U of MN staff. - Data collection and analyses, as well as periodic and final reports. - Portions of the costs of each compliance check. The exact amount and manner of subsidization is open to discussion. - Training materials and free workshops for all alcohol vendors. Funded by: �Minnesota SJST Minnesota ASSIST is a shared project between the Minnesota Department of Health. the American Cancer Society, Minnesota Division. and the communities of Minnesota and is funded by the National Cancer Institute City oiRoscille Police Depart -' -hive • Roseville. 11LY 55113 Fa_ : L Page 11