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January 12, 1976 III Mayor Bohjanen said the Union Representatives wanted to talk to the Police Department and then come back into another meeting. All this Council can do is wait until the Union is heard from. 1 1 Mr. Locher said the City of Ramsey had applied for funds for a new patrol car and had been told that no funds are avilable. The car had been ordered and one of the men on the Council had signed for it. A fund raiser had been held in order to pay for the patrol car. Mr. Locher had checked the application for the transfer of the liquor license from the Oasis site to the Aragon Ballroom site by Mr. Charles Fynboh and Mr. Jeffery Winicki. The letter of transfer of the insurance and bonds are not in the file and the application needs the signature of the Police Chief. Otherwise, the applications are in order. This transfer is subject to the Anoka County Comprehensive Health Department's approval. Subject to compliance to the requirements, Mr. Zelinka moved to approve the transfer of the location of this liquor license. Sec(_nded by Mr. Karth. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Jaworski, from the audience, said on page 6 of the December 22, 1975 minutes it was noted that he would check back minutes for the authorization to the Attorney to research the Open Meeting Law that had cost the City $25.00. He said he could not find where this expenditure had been authorized by the Council. He asked Mayor Bohjanen who had authorized this expenditure. Mr. Locher offered to answer but Mr. Jaworski insisted that Mayor Bohjanen answer. Mayor Bohjanen said that he had asked for the research since the Council had been accused of violating the Open Meeting Law. Mr. Jaworski asked Mr. Locher what recourse does a citizen have in a case such as this and Mr. Locher answered by saying that he receives many calls and he must make a judgement which calls are to be charged to the City and which ones are not. Mr. Jaworski said that if the Mayor had not agreed to pay the charges, what is the recourse of the citizen? Mr. Locher said it would be necessary to take court action to enjoin the Council from paying the charges. Mr. Schneider asked what the Council position on legal question was - could he have called Mr. Locher for information on this law? Mayor Bohjanen said he would have to get Council approval. The Clerk was asked why the $191.20 received from the Metropolitan Council had not been spread against all funds but had just been credited to the General Fund? She said it was such a small amount, it seemed the proper thing to do. She was instructed to compute the percentage and credit to all funds. Mrs. Oman presented the Council members with a letter and asked Mr. McLean to read the letter. She also asked that this letter be read into the records. The letter accused the Clerk of being dishonest, inefficient, having confusing bookkeeping procedures, deliberately instuting a work slow down for the Deputy Clerk's position, mishandling the issuance of building permits, and having an inadequate billing method for the utility system. A complete copy of the letter is attached to these minutes. Mr. McLean felt there was such a volume of accusations in this 1rtter that it could not be handled at this meeting. He suggested that the Council take time to study 97