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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes December 4, 1996 Page 3 1 disputed where this information had been obtained. He stated he had spent some time 2 since the-last City Council Meeting and contacted a number of the persons whom he had 3 given the City of St. Anthony as references. Not one of the persons had received a call 4 from Liquor Operations Manager Larson.- He stated he wanted to bring this to the 5 attention of the City Council and asked that he be provided with a list of the customer 6 who had made these claims. 7 Liqu or Operations Manager Mike Larson, stated he would recommend this item be tabled 8 until he finalized all his research. Mr. Larson stated he had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Anderson this past week and wanted to state publicly that in no way was he 10 attempting to discredit Mr. Anderson or his company. Mr. Larson stated he hoped he did I I not present the information in that fashion,that was not his intent and if it was perceived 12 in that manner,he apologizes. 13 Councilmember Marks asked Mr. Allen if he had determined if the underlying 14 architecture of his company's system was object oriented. 15 Michael Allen, Retail Data Systems, reported he had the opportunity to speak with the 16 President of Synchronics Software, Jeff Goldstein. Mr. Goldstein had explained that the 17 software is reusable. The software is designed so it can be consistently reused as 18 appropriate to perform functions. The reusable element of the software design allows that 19 when changes are made,there are fewer areas that have to be changed and this reduces 20 the number of problems. Mr. Goldstein also had explained another feature is that the 21 structure is expandable. The necessary hooks and switches are built into the base 22 . platform to allow for additional features in the future. This allows for easier growth. Mr. 23 Goldstein had also explained there are 1.3 million lines of code in the software. 24 Motion by Enrooth, second by Wagner to table consideration of Resolution 96-064 to the 25 December 18, 1996 City Council meeting for fin-ther evaluation and consultation with 26 City Attorney based on the current conversation and recommendation of Staff. 27 Motion carried unanimously_- 28 X. UNFINISHED BUSINESS -None. 29 30 XI. ADJOURNMIEN T. 31 Motion by Marks, second by Enrooth to adj ourn the meeting at 7:3 5 P.M. 32 Motion carried unanimously. 33 Respectfully submitted, 34 Lorri Kopischke 35 TimeSaver Off Site Secretarial 36 37 Mayor 38 ATTEST: 39 City Clerk