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i MEMO TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Clerk-Admini::trato� DATE: January 18, 1983 SUBJECT: GOLDEN GLOVES EXHIBITION BOXING MATCH LICENSE FEE Attached please find a copy of a letter to Mayor McCarty from Mr. Roger Young,of Golden Gloves Minnesota,requesting that he be placed on the Agenda of the Mounds View City Council Meeting on January 24, 1983 to discuss the $100.00 license fee charged by the City for the Golden Gloves Exhibition Boxing Matches held on January 10, 1983 at the Bel -Rae ;allroom. As you may recall, the Council initially addressed the issue of a permit for a Golden Gloves Boxing Natch Exhibition at your meeting on December 27,1983. Your packet for that meeting included an application for the boxing match, a letter from Golden Gloves requesting a waiver of the fee, and a moninrandum from this office indicating that• the fee for a boxing event is $100.00. At the December27th meeting actiun on these license applications was tabled due to some concerns regarding the application for a gamling device license which would have permitted the conduct of a Las Vegas Night event on the same evening as the boxing matches were held. \ At a Special Council Meeting on January 3, 1983, the issue of the gambling device permit for Golden Gloves was again discussed by the Council and a moratorium was placed on the issuance of all future gambling device permits until a report was received from the City Attorney on the issue of licensing of gambling devices. The Council also took action to issue the boxing match permit for the January loth event but did not address the issue of the $100.00 license fee. Therefore, when staff issued the license on January 7th, the $100.00 fee was required as staff did not feel they had any authority to waive the fee at that time. In telephone conversations with Mr. Young, after the license was issued, he was advised that staff did not have the authority to waive the license fee, however, he had every right to present his case to the City Council and request that the license fee be refunded on the basis that the boxing matches were held by a non-prof.i.t corporation. A review of City records does not reveal that a non-profit corporation has held boxing matches in the City of Mounds View at any time in the past and, therefore, no precedent has been set with respect to the refunding of boxing match license fees. Your direction in this matter will be appreciated. DFP/pf Attachment