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Item No. 7L <br />Type of Business: CB <br />Date: June 9, 2008 <br />City Administrator Review _______ City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Clerk-Administrator <br /> James Ericson, Clerk-Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: First Reading and Introduction of Ordinance 807, an <br />Ordinance Amending Title 600 of the Mounds View City <br />Code by Adding a New Chapter 610 Relating to Ultimate <br />Fighting <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />On August 27, 2007, the City Council approved Resolution 7145 establishing a one- <br />year moratorium on Boxing and Mix Martial Arts/Ultimate Fighting Events due to the <br />safety concerns of participants and spectators. <br /> <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Before the moratorium was set to expire, staff brought the issue back to the City Council <br />for consideration at the May 5th worksession. <br /> <br />The Council members in attendance expressed a desire to make permanent the ban on <br />ultimate fighting and other martial arts fighting events and directed staff to prepare the <br />necessary documentation. <br /> <br />Ordinance 807 has been prepared which amends the City Code to include the ban on <br />such ultimate and martial arts fighting. Exempted from this prohibition are officially <br />sanctioned boxing and wrestling meets or other team sports in which physical contact is <br />incidental to the primary purpose of the game. <br /> <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br /> <br />Staff recommends approving the introduction and first reading of Ordinance 807, an <br />ordinance adding a new chapter to Title 600 entitled “Ultimate Fighting”. The second <br />reading and adoption of the ordinance is currently scheduled for June 23, 2008. <br /> <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Desaree Crane