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CITY COUNCIJp MEETING, DECEMBER 1, 1981 -10- --Eder - sat in on the original rules. Have a great deal of appreciation for those who worked to develop the range initially and their concerns over Mr, Warner's operation and the operation to date. Hope that=in anything that is done here that we"re nbt saying the Club has..Anot done a good job. Need to bring the information base up-to-date for the mutual benefit of all, --Reece -- commented that viewing the Club this time of year is not advantageous because of the snow cover and bare trees --Michael Bear - not a member of the Club, lives in the area. has visited the Club and wants to give the Club a positive vote r was impressed how professional and well operated and cared for it was managed. Has not found the noise objectionable. -Allen Borsheim thin4s have done the Club an injustice with the three month extension. There is no cause, no defensible cause. Do not have a list of complaints or registered complaints over a period of time - there were objections to the improvements and rearrangement of the range, but there were no objections to the renewal or the continued operation. Thinks 110% of the information requested has been provided, and that information is either not used or not read, Have provided a sound report, at a cost of $3,000 . to the people on the Council Planning Commission and Mr. Whittaker -they never bothered reading it. ---Mark Amland - member of the Club - good place to go with my father when he comes to visit. Goes to shoot at his leisure no place else around to do this. Hopes the City does not plan to do away with it. Would be very unfair. --Richard Rudman , Director of the Club serves as legislative r liason for the Club. Pointsof fact to the Council - 1 Bill passed in the 1979 legislative session, Senate File 188, that specifically exempted the PCA from regulating shooting ranges. The bill had a very complex origin and a great deal of testimony was given on the bill that would be of value to the City Council, There was an implied statement that because the NRA comes out and endorses us doesn't necessarily satisif_y all the requirements of the City Council, Wants the Council to consider that the NRA is involved with preventative maintenance. They do not want shooting ranges ending up in court, they do not want controversies, they try to suggest standards that far exceed anything that could create any problems. The fact you will run into is that there are very few people outside of the NRA that are experts on this simply because it is an area of concern among shooters or to those with terrific technical interests or engineering interests - it is a sophicated problem to analyze and it requires talents that only a very few people have. Is a very serious shooter, has a good technical background andfinds it difficult to understand the most rudimentary judgements made by sound experts. It is a controversey not only surrounding shooting ranges but in the work place and in the home. Think will find that three months of full-time work wouldn!'t create a very good analysis, A comment .on the three month extension - Will find you are in a period of the year under which you will make the least relevant analysis of the range. The noise conditions eminenting from the range are highly seasonal and within seasons are very dependent upon specific weather conditions even down to the time of day. If attempt to make a not Ebanalysis now will have a period of the year when noise travels very well when most people keep their windows closed, when the range is not in the type of use typical of it. Would hope the Council would study the operation throughout an entire year.