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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MINUTES May 4 , 1982 The work session was called to order at 7 :10 P.M. , Tuesday , May 4 , 1982 in the City Administrative offices . Present: Mayor Sundland and Councilmen Enrooth, Letourneau , Marks and Ranallo. Absent: None. Also present: City Manager Childs and Police Chief Hickerson. 1. The first item of business was an informal discussion with the Chief of Police , Don Hickerson, about questions and concerns of the Council. a. The St. Anthony Fun Center was discussed. Some Councilmen related the substance of calls and complaints they have received over the years . . Many times substance may be lacking in the complaints and they may only be parents who are unable to keep their children out of the Center and away from the games . It was generally agreed that the Manager runs a clean operation and .he himself calls the police frequently to handle • problems and attempts to work closely with them. As a side discussion , the use of complaint forms was discussed as a means- of recording and classifying calls. This is a good recordkeeping function as well as a method to determine if a particular problem really has had "lots" of complaints . b. Chief Hickerson reported that there are two Police Reserves , that they will be receiving their final four-hour training session on Saturday, May 8th and will try to be scheduled for introduction to the Council at their May 11th meeting. He also stated that a possible additional Reserve Officer has expressed interest, but lives in N.E. Minneapolis . The Council generally agreed that such applications should be brought on a case-by-case -basis but that this particular one would -probably be favorably considered. Mayor Sundland also felt that Jim Schwartz (St. Anthony Bulletin) should be contacted for pub- licity on the new Reserves completing training. C. The use of MAPSI (animal patrol) services was discussed. Councilman Ranallo had a discussion with one of the MAPSI officers and. found that they pick up virtually no animals when on patrol. More often, they will pick up injured animals or those which have already been captured. It was felt that perhaps the Police could watch at-large animals more closely and issue tags when ownership can be proven.