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1 Council Action 2 Motion. by: Ranallo, seconded , Marks to table action on the 3 Conditional Use Permit requested - by American Amusement•'Arcades dba 4' Picadilly Circus for an arcade next to the Apache Wells liquor 5 lounge until the Council ' s next- meeting to give the Councilmembers -an 6 opportunity to do -their -own on site investigation of arcades and to 7 direct the City Manager and Attorney to further research .the 8 ' -security issues which are involved'. 9 Motion carried unanimously. 10 Before the' applicants left, Councilmember Ranallo told Mr. Heilicher , 11 he, for one, would be visiting mostly his establishments. The arcade 12 representative reiterated those locations and then pointed out that 13 the Has Mar -arcade , which has '4 , 000 square feet of space, ' sells food 14 and drinks in one area but doesn' t allow smoking, eating or 15 drinking in the -game areas. He also said any police calls the 16 arcade managers had to make, had resulted from the need to rid the 17 establishments of unwelcome patrons. 18 -- Mr: Childs reported Commissioner Werenicz ' s. comments had indicated 19 that when the he had called the other police departments about these 20 arcades , they had all agreed that there were always problems with 21 kids congregating around arcades, but these problems weren' t much ,022 different than for any other mall locations where young people 23 gather . The Manager pointed out that Commissioner Werenicz had 24 reported that all the police departments he had contacted had agreed 25 that American Amusement were good operators.. .26 COUNCIL REPORTS 27 Ranal-lo Requests City Observe, Le'ague of Minnesota Cities 75th 28 Anniversary 29 The -Councilmember said he had been attending the regional League 30 meetings throughout the, state on behalf of the LMC, primarily to make 31 preparations for the above events in May. He said he would like to 32 see the first week in May declared "Cities Week" , the City to 33 purchase .balloons to release at 1 : 00 P.M. that Wednesday in unison 34 with: all the other cities in the -state, and generally, join in the 35 other festivities planned for that week. 36 Gopher One Call System _Explained Further by Councilmember 37 Councilmember Ranallo indicated . he had. further "informa.tion related . to 38 the Minnesota -Notification . Corporation.:to .which. he had.'reported being 39 elected a Board member at the last meeting. He. indicated the above 40 system had been-- set up by the Corporation . in response to the pipeline 41 safety: legislation passed in 19.86 to- es.tablish: a central point to be 42 . - contacted before digging 'to assure the pipelines won' t be punctured. •43' The, Mayor said he perceived the .same principle would be. followed as. 15