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-5- The Manager said that was his understanding and then reported Max • Saliterman was asking for $25 ,000 in interest to cover the interim between November, when his. purchase agreement for the 202- project land expires, and the date on which the sponsors are able to acquire the property. Since an environmental impact assessment would be necessary before the only option could be purchased with CDBG funds , Mr. Childs suggested the Year VII CDBG funds set aside for that pur- pose be used to purchase the option and pay interest, if required: The Council consensus was that this. .proposal would be acceptable to them and that their March 27th motion should be modified to allocate the Year X funds as recommended by the Commission April 3rd. Chris Clauson, Director of the Northwest Suburban .Youth Service Bureau, was present to request the Bureau's services be extended by a joint powers agreement to the St. Anthony/New Brighton School Dis- trict and to seek the City 's support for the Bureau's application for $7, 814 in grants under the State of Minnesota Energy and Economic Development Justice Grant Program, which would continue the program from October 1st to December 31, 1984 . He explained that the grant year expires in September and the extension is needed to provide funds until the Bureau' s fiscal year-end. Attached to the application was the Problem Statement from the Bureau which addressed the problems . existing in the community which support the need for the St. Anthony Youth Intervention Project which would serve approximately 2 , 769 school age young people , including those • in parochial - schbols, who reside in the school district, for whom, "the statistical data easily indicates a caseload of 100-150 young people , which is sufficient to justify one full time counselor (Ron Taylor) " . Present to support the youth intervention program in the City were Police Chief Hickerson and Captain Thoemke. The former indicated he anticipates the City' s caseload would be increased with the push to encourage children to report incidents of physical and sexual abuse when the school district joins forces with WCCO-TV in PROJECT ABUSE from April 23rd to May 11th, as per the letter sent April 3rd to all parents and guardians of students in the St. Anthony Middleschool, which had been distributed to the Council members. Chief Hickerson told the Council the community already uses the Bureau services and Mr. Childs indicated City . staff perceives the program had offered troubled families an option for handling problems which otherwise would probably have ended up in court. Captain Thoemke told the Council that he perceives it was just for this type of service the City had sent him to the University to get expertise in handling ,juvenile problems . He gave some general statistics of . the number of youths he had directed to the program and told the Mayor the reason the report had not listed referrals from the City Police Department had been because he always encourages the juvenile he is working with to take the initiative of -going to the counselor. • The necessity for confidentiality prevented the police official from specifically identifying the cases which prompt him to see the need for the program in St. Anthony. . Captain Thoemke told Councilman Ranallo no student from a parochial school is ever denied this service. The