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1 that one of the most important services the City provides is emergency • 2 service which is provided by both the Police and Fire Departments who 3 are now housed in different locations. He said emergency vehicle 4 runs up Silver Lake Road are now 2 to 3 times more apt to be medical 5 calls than response to fires and it seemed to him that more uniform 6 service could be provided if all emergency services were brought 7 together in one location. Councilmember Marks indicated he would also 8 suspect the City would operate more efficiently if all services 9 were consolidated, which in view of the loss of federal and state help 10 might in the long run lessen the City' s- need to raise taxes. 11 Ranallo reiterated that it had been at a time when the school had been 12 renegotiating a new lease with the City that the School Board had 13 indicated to the City negotiators that they needed no part of 14 Parkview. Then, after the City had indicated an interest, the school 15 amended that to say they needed the gym, and later, the day care 16 center. He said at first the school perceived all the services they 17 had in Parkview could be moved to the High School , but now that had 18 also changed. 19 The Councilmember pointed out that the City had already gone to the 20 expense of remodeling its administration and police space, which 21 continued to be separated from each other. 22 Enrooth indicated there were still almost $80 , 000 major repairs which 23 had to be made to the building, and the heating system, which have 24 caused problems for the City as tenants but which the school continues 2.5 not to deal with at all . 26 David M. Prickett, 3424 Croft Drive 27 *said it didn' t matter who paid for the repairs since it was the 28 taxpayers who had to pay the bill in the end, anyway; 29 *disputed the lack of City exposure because "you have to go to 30 Fargo to hear the school band" and the City has no float by 31 telling the Councilmembers he had been amazed to see the young 32 people who came to the school hearing because they were thankful 33 the City had provided them with a community center which 34 "offered .a day care center without fire station in it. " 35 Mayor Sundland reiterated that he perceived it was now up to the 36 School Board to justify transferring Parkview to the City of St. 37 Anthony. He cautioned, however, that, if the school district retained 38 the building and then merged with another school district, the 39 expanded organization would then own all the Parkview property and 40 not just the St. Anthony taxpayers. He added that what he perceived 41 few residents realized was that the City' s Comprehensive Plan dictates 42 that this property can be used for "public use only" , which, in. this 43 case, means either the school or the City, and not for homes or 44 offices as some have suggested. • 14