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c+ - c?'emeeek 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 (612) 484-2177 / FAX: (612) 484 -4538 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Hanson & Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: November 11, 1992 RE: Policy on Tobacco -Free City Hall MAYOR Raymond G. Hanson COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Bill Blesener Rick Collova Jim LaValle ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson At the January 8, 1992 Council meeting, staff was directed to evaluate the possibility of making the City Hall a smoke -free environment. This request came in response to the announcement that Public Works had made their building a tobacco -free environment. The Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act as spelled out in Minnesota Statutes Sections 144.411 through 144.417, prohibits smoking in public places or at public meetings except in designated smoking areas. A "public place" means any enclosed, indoor area used by the general public or serving as a place of work, including, but not limited to, restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments, public conveyances, educational facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, auditoriums, arenas and meeting rooms, but excluding private, enclosed offices occupied exclusively by smokers even though such offices may be visited by non - smokers. In reviewing this matter with the City staff at our meeting of November 5, 1992, the consensus was that City Hall should be a tobacco -free environment. Based on a show of hands of the fourteen people present, thirteen were in favor of a smoke and tobacco -free City Hall, one person was neutral, and no one was opposed. Therefore, with this information in mind, it would be my recommendation that we adopt a policy designating the City Hall as a smoke and tobacco -free facility and that smoking would only be allowed outside of the building. In order to prevent the unsightly accumulation of cigarette butts and other debris at the entrance to City Hall, I would also recommend that we obtain an appropriate container where people could deposit these items before entering the building. JRH:kpv Page 17 ,4;, to