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and will be delivered by a student group the first weekend in August. IMPLEMENTATION OF PROACTIVE STREETLIGHT PLAN The first year of installing streetlights according to the proactive streetlight plan adopted by the Council in 1993 has been initiated with NSP. By the end of the year, 10 new streetlights will be added throughout the City based on the Police Department's needs assessment. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY Work has been done in striving for the goals of having a system wide tape backup for all network connected computers and accessing information from the file server via modem. It is the goal to have these two projects operable by the end of the year. PROGRAM BUDGET Drafts of the new program style budgets and Long Term Financial Plan were prepared for Council consideration. The budgets I was responsible for included Central Services, MIS, Human Resources and Public Information. PART-TIME FIRE FIGHTERS At the urging of the Mounds View, Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Fire Chief, the City of Mounds View considered allowing City Staff to serve as fire fighters due to a shortage of daytime help. It was determined the time commitment was too great and would be too disruptive to conducting City business. LIQUOR LICENSE FEE RESTRUCTURING At the request of a proprietor in the City, Council has been reviewing the liquor license fee structure to determine if it could be made more fair and equitable. OTHER LMC ANNUAL CONFERENCE In June, the League hosted its annual conference, this year in St. Paul. I had the honor of presenting an innovative service delivery idea to the audience and elected to share Mounds View's Focus 2000 project. LMC IMPROVING SERVICE DELIVERY COMMITTEE In July I was appointed to the League of Minnesota Cities policy committee entitled Improving City Service Delivery. I was also appointed to the Government Innovation and Cooperation task force.