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2 <br /> City Council Regular Meeting Minutes <br /> December 11, 2001 <br /> Page 2 <br /> 1. Council Regular Meeting Minutes B November 27, 2001: and <br /> 2. Licenses/Permits, and <br /> 3. Claims, and <br /> 4. Resolution 01-092, re: Approve Ramsey County Grant application and Program: and <br /> 5. Resolution 01-093, re: Approve Cleaning Service Contract for City Hall/Community <br /> Center Building and <br /> 6. Ordinance 2001-004, re: Wireless Telecommunication Towers and Facilities(2"d <br /> reading), and <br /> 7. Appoint Parks and Planning Commissioners from those persons interviewed earlier this <br /> evenin . <br /> Motion carried unanimously. <br /> VIII. Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar will attend the meeting to give a <br /> presentation and answer questions. <br /> Mayor Hodson introduced Amy Klobuchar. She indicated that the City of St. Anthony was the last of <br /> the City Council' s that she was scheduled to address. <br /> Klobuchar stated that she was there to inform the Council of how their office handles cases, and to <br /> inform them that they have assigned a Police Liaison to each Police Department in Hennepin County. <br /> The Police Liaison to St. Anthony is Therese Galatowitz. <br /> Klobuchar indicated that Galatowitz was a very seasoned prosecutor who has handled a number of <br /> major murder cases, and someone who works very well with the community. She added that Galatowitz <br /> could not be present this evening, but she invited anyone to call her at her office at anytime regarding <br /> any questions about any on-going cases in St. Anthony. <br /> Klobuchar indicated that one thing that she did when she came into office was compile a one hundred- <br /> day goal and a year-end goal. She added that they have continued to compile those goals every year. <br /> Klobuchar indicated that their main focus was on gun prosecution. She added that their goal was to <br /> increase the percentage of the cases that they charged that the police bring to them by twenty-five <br /> percent. She indicated that they met that goal, and over three years, they have increased that percentage <br /> by fifty percent, to a five-year mandatory minimum. <br /> Klobuchar indicated that another area that they worked hard in was the area of property crimes. She <br /> indicated that the community brought this area to her attention. She stated that they have two thousand <br /> felony property crimes that come into Hennepin County a year. Klobuchar added that they now have a <br /> special team of seven lawyers for felony property crimes, two of which focus solely on repeat offenders. <br /> Klobuchar reviewed the process with the Council, stating that they are trying to get longer sentences for <br /> the career offenders. <br /> Klobuchar indicated that in the juvenile area, the spectrum is long and wide, from stealing candy bars to <br /> murder. She indicated that, upon reviewing past records of serious offenders, juveniles really started <br /> getting into trouble when they started missing school. She added that fifty-three percent of students in <br />