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8 <br /> 1 technical adviser. He also pointed out that with the City being in two <br /> 2 counties, it might be quite difficult for staff to actively attend all <br /> 3 of the meetings of both Ramsey and Hennepin County railroad authorities. <br /> 4 Mayor Sundland suggested Councilmember Makowske bring up the issue of <br /> 5 daytime meetings at a future meeting of the Ramsey County League of <br /> 6 Local Governments. Her response was that she would be glad to do so. <br /> 7 DEPARTMENT AND COMMITTEE REPORTS <br /> 8 Before the Hance & LeVahn Report on cases the law firm had prosecuted <br /> 9 in the Hennepin County District Court up to December 7th was filed, <br /> 10 Councilmember Makowske requested clarification of the comments in the <br /> 11 report which stated the Judge in several cases had "continued charges <br /> 12 for dismissal without 'City Prosecutor's approval. " Mr. Childs told her <br /> 13 he suspected this was a disagreement the Prosecutor had with this <br /> 14 particular judge's decisions because it is supposed to be up to the <br /> 15 Prosecutor and not the judge, to decide or make recommendations of <br /> 16 whether or not charges are to be reduced or plea bargained and it would <br /> 17 then be up to the judge to affirm or not to affirm that position. The <br /> 18 City Manager said he anticipated the City Prosecutor would be submitting <br /> 19 a memo to the Council explaining his position and laying out the options <br /> 20 for appeal which he may want to pursue. <br /> 21 Councilmember Marks reported the perspectives he had recently received <br /> 22 on the inequities in sentencing whites and blacks from a person doing • <br /> 23 research for a State Senator on the sentencing guidelines which seemed <br /> 24 to indicate the widening gap was a result of too much discretion on the <br /> 25 part of prosecutors and judges permitted under the current guidelines. <br /> 26 The Councilmember indicated the legislator in question was working on <br /> 27 rewriting legislation on the sentencing guidelines during the next <br /> 28 session. <br /> 29 CITY MANAGER REPORTS <br /> 30 Mr. Childs returned the holiday best wishes to the Mayor and <br /> 31 Councilmembers before proceeding with his own report. <br /> 32 Social Gathering of Councilmembers and District #282 School Board <br /> 33 Members Scheduled January 30th <br /> 34 Mr. Childs reported that he had discussed the above informal joint <br /> 35 meeting with the Superintendent of Schools, who had suggested the event <br /> 36 be held the last Monday evening in January. He said that although the <br /> 37 intent had been 'to have a "non-meeting" , which would be purely social <br /> 38 in nature, the Open Meeting Law probably required publishing the get <br /> 39 together. <br /> 40 Army Inconsistent in Its Last "Sticking Point" for Settling Water <br /> 41 Contamination Litigation with St. Anthony <br /> 42 Copies of a letter proposed to be sent on the above had been distributed • <br /> 43 to the Councilmembers prior to the meeting. Mr. Childs explained that <br />