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1 When she commented that both she and Councilmember Ranallo had concluded 41 from this convention that the League was rapidly becoming an organization primarily was concerned with big city issues with only a 4 few seminars offered which addressed small city concerns, Mayor Sundland 5 said it was because he also perceived that happening that he feels it 6 is so important for smaller community officials to keep involved and not 7 just pay their dues. In contrast to the rest of the convention, 8 Councilmember Makowske reported the Minnesota League had arranged a very 9 interesting tour of the JFK Library for the Minnesota conventioners as 10 well as what she perceived to be a very good learning experience, the 11 presentation of a case study by a Harvard professor for which each 12 attendee had to do a lot of background study in advance of his presen- 13 tation. 14 Councilmember Ranallo agreed that many of the resolutions passed to 15 effect national issues could also have local ramifications. One such 16 resolution, passed by the Human Development Committee, called for 17 mandatory health benefits for all employees without specifying how they 18 would be paid for. He said he perceived those who supported that 19 resolution had failed to realize that the biggest employers would no 20 doubt be governmental entities, including the cities. He also reported 21 going to a workshop on "Child Care" where the responsibility for 22 providing those services seemed to be pushed on the states, counties, 23 and cities. 24 The Councilmember indicated he had noticed that among the items 25 demonstrated at the "Waste Management" workshop had been small 30-35 gallon containers on wheels which he contrasted to the 90 gallon containers Waste Management was proposing for St. Anthony. Councilmem- 28 ber Ranallo reported he had learned that almost all cities are confront- 29 ing or are going to confront the problem of recycling with a lot of them 30 just passing ordinances which support recycling. Others are getting 31 into the recycling business themselves, he said, but in contract, 32 Minneapolis gave a workshop in which they reported they were getting 33 ' out of the rubbish hauling business. 34 Councilmember Ranallo reported he had ordered a copy of the tape in 35 which one of the McNeil Lerner Report reporters had given commentary on 36 the last eight presidential years and what he perceived might be 37 happening in the next four. He also reported every Minnesota delegate 38 who had attended the same Human Development workshop he and 39 Councilmember had, from Carol Johnson, Minneapolis Alderwoman, Jim 40 Scheibel of St. Paul, Stan Quam of Richfield, and Councilmember 41 Makowske had all gotten up to speak on the issues. He agreed with Mayor 42 Sundland that if the smaller cities didn't continue to participate in 43 these conventions where would be no one to speak up for their rights at 44 all. Councilmember Marks commented that he perceived the smaller cities 45 had no protection from being affected by what he bigger cities do and 46 he perceived their issues to a very substantial degree become the 47 smaller cities issues as well. He pointed to the golf course assessment 48 as an example where forcing the Park Board to pay assessments to St. 49 Anthony may open the door to "their having to pay their own way for the • 13