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-3- peophe�-into the new liquor warehouse:y..the Councilman" nd ca.ted he The visual impact ,of- the-... wouldn' t care to have that- ad repeated. p • commercial had been. much dif.ferentL than-•the printed script he had.:read in .advance of its showing, -Councilman-Enrooth said. Councilman Makowske recommended the City send a letter to the St. Anthony High School marching band who had taken first place among high school bands in the National Independence Day parade competition in San Francisco. The Mayor told her he had personally met the band when they arrived back in town and had presented a proclamation of congratulations from the City to each youngster as. he or. she .got off ., the bus : He agreed further that the proclamation could be retyped to. be presented to the band leader, Roger Bjorklund. Councilman Marks indicated he was disappointed to see the lack of media attention given to the band' s accomplishments over the years . Mayor Sundland read the letter from the American Red Cross which accompanied a plaque of appreciation from .that .organization for the cooperation and help given them by the City staff when they had been in the City aiding the tornado victims . Mayor Sundland indicated he and the Council had experienced the same degree of cooperation as reflected in the following: Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to express the Mayor and City Council ' s gratitude to the City staff for their outstanding efforts and aid rendered during the tornado crisis . Motion. carried unanimously . The June liquor sales summary indicated a 46% raise in sales for the first six months of 1984 , as compared to the same period last year and the Manager said the third quarter report would reflect the insurance returns for the Apache operation which should improve the profit picture , but not necessarily to the extent that had been optimistically budgeted for 1984 . Councilman Makowske reported observing that the crews were working on the water connection lines with Roseville on the Fourth of July . Councilman Enrooth speculated that might be because the union celebrated, the holiday on the weekend instead . Included in the agenda packet had been a copy of the July 13th response from the Hennepin County Traffic Signal Engineer to Mr. Hamer's concerns about motorists using Silver Lake Road through the City. as a 4-lane street. The County engineer had promised to study the problem further and suggested any changes in striping of that roadway could be planned to coincide with the reconstruction of County Road D. The 1983 City audit by -Adrian Helgeson Company had been distributed to- Council members and Mr. Childs told them that actions to remove - the only audit exception specified by the auditors., had already been initiated by Carol Johnson. the -Mariager' s memorandum:.on his wage. negotiations with .the non-union personnel were-'accepte'd as ',informat.ional : because the Mayor commented . that he would not care to- become involved in the nitty ,gritty details . of those negotiations which were the sole responsibility of the Manager.