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-5- On December 17th, the Manager.; had sent Mr. Craig copies of the police logs which indicated theactual fight. had never. materialized because • the youths involved had been dispersed by the police before the altercation became physical.. Mr. Fornell urged...Mr. Craig to work with the police investigator and employees of -the Fun Center to develop some leads towards apprehending the bicycle theives. Harley Turner, Jr. , 3500 36th Avenue N.E. , identified himself as 28 years old and a Young Life. counselor who has worked in the City for five years . He "spends. a lot of time day andnight in the Fun Center and sees the center as playing a valuable role- by providing a wholesome atmosphere for recreation .for the youth .of the community" . Mr. Turner said Mr. Fey, the proprietor, had often cooperated in his counseling of young drug and alcohol abusers and doesn't allow the use of either chemical in his establishment. . He said Mr. Fey is a good manager who handles his teenage clinetele well, demanding his rules and regulations _be followed. by all who frequent the center. The Young Life counselor says he and other young adults are more comfortable playing pool, fooz ball , etc. at the Fun Center than they are in bars and pool halls. Chief Hickerson told the Council the Fun Center had been most co- operative with the police, often alerting them before the problems get out of hand. He said Mr. Fey had apprehended a person with a controlled substance in his establishment and signed the complaint for his arrest. • Mr. Soth. specified the legal requirements for terminating a City license and told the Council it is incumbent upon them. to set forth the reasons for not renewing the. existing license for the Fun Center. He confirmed this is strictly an. issue of licensing and not of land use and if the Zoning Ordinance should be modified to include this particular use under a conditional .permit, the Fun Center ' s license would have been grandfathered in prior to the ordinance change,:._ However, he said it is the Council ' s prerogative to set new conditions for the license renewal in March. The Attorney. told Mayor Haik even if a security person is required for the Fun Center, he will not be authorized to handle problems which arise outside the center. Al Plaistad, President of the St. Anthony Shopping Center Merchants Association, reacted to comments about the businessmen' s concerns about the center by telling those present that, though at first the merchants had been skeptical about the Fun Center, he "can honestly say he hasn't had a more serious com- plaint about the operation than from the film shop next door re- garding the noise which was remedied by Mr. Fey" . He said his own children are among the 13 or 14 workers at his Dairy Queen who frequent the Fun Center and. they haven 't reported any problems they have witnessed at the center. Gary Fey introduced his wife, Sandra Fey, and his mother, Marian Nagel, who he insisted provide constant supervision of the center whenever it is open. He said when an adult gores for a short lunch break, usually when the center is almost empty, he has two • "responsible 15 year olds left in charge who are quick to alert him if trouble is brewing" . He pointed out the boys sitting in the back