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MEMO TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL <br />FRCM: MARV JOHNSON, STUDENT INTERN. <br />PARKS, RECREATION AND FORESTRY DEPT. ! <br />DATE: JUNE 28, 1989 <br />SUBJECT: RESIDENTS CONCERN FOR NIGHT PARK SECURITY <br />I am a fourth year senior from St. Cloud State. I am performing my Parks and <br />Recreation Internship here in the City of Mounds View. Part of my internship is to <br />attend City Council and Commission meetings. <br />On Thursday, June 22, I attended the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. One <br />of the biggest concerns I heard, especially from a small group of residents, is the fear <br />that wrongdoings will happen in the park after a new picnic shelter is built. Such <br />things such as alcohol consumption, loud music, and vandalism are the r_sidents main <br />concerns. <br />In Anoka, where I was employed, we helped to controi some of these problems by <br />employing a night person. This person would work from 5:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.ln. <br />Their duties included security and maintenance. The maintenance duties were mainly <br />to clean all the City owned bathrooms each night and for a couple of hours on the <br />weekend. The security duties are mainly ones of visability. By this, I mean that the <br />night person would drive around to each park, in a City vehicle, and become highly <br />visable. Also, the night person would be in contact with the police when he is in a <br />City vehicle. According to Mr. Butch Brandenberg, Park Director in Anoka, the right <br />person is mainly for visability; to make people think about doing any wrongdoings. <br />The night person can also contact the police quickly if he notices any suspicious acts. <br />Mr. Brandenberg said that the ideal situation would be to have Park Police, because <br />they would have the authority to make arrests. But a night person. A.ould be highly <br />visable to deter some of the wrongdoings that could take place. <br />I believe that this is one option that the City of Mounds View could use to help <br />control security at the parks. By employing a night person, this helps everyone <br />because this shows the residents that someone is looking over the parks and it helps <br />the police because they will be in contact if something is occurring within the parks. <br />Also, the night person can clean all park shelters every night, thus eliminating the <br />residents concern about upkeep of the new shelter. <br />If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at the Parks and Recreation office. <br />Thank you for your time. <br />MJ/SL <br />