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'i -4- of the Commission and gave the comparisons which had been drawn to Minnesota's taxes and those for the nation as a whole. The Councilmember said the Commis- sion's initial report would be publicized that week. Councilman Marks gave a brief report. on the September 20th meeting of the Youth Service Board of Directors at which one of the Board members had resigned. For the Council 's information, Mr. Childs had reproduced in the agenda packet the news article which reported the Public Employees Retirement Association had voted to use state money to defend themselves against the charges of violating the Open Meeting Law in spite of the Attorney General 's advice that public monies should not be used for that purpose. Mike Dembs, 3531 Owasso Street, Shoreview, gave an update on Group W's marketing efforts in the ten communities the firm will provice cable service specifically, the City of St. Anthony. City marketing was delayed by the tornado, the Westing- house representative said, but started in -August and there would be five -sales- persons working in the City from now on, Mr. Dembs promised. Ninety-five percent, or 2,775 of the City residents, are available for cable- service, with 259 apartments not available because the apartment owners had refused to have their buildings wired. As of September 24th, Mr. Dembs said, 125 sales had been made in the City and he .indicated the cable firm would be placing a large ad in next week's Bulletin which would let City residents know cable is available to them and giving a number they could call to have service installed. There was a brief discussion of the various service packages available to the residents and the Group W representative confirmed that with cable, atennas could no longer be necessary. Mayor Sundland thanked Mr. Dembs for coming and indicated the City • would appreciate periodic reports on Group W's marketing progress. With his September 21st memorandum recommending a' date be set for the final hear- ing on the 1985' Revenue Sharing and City Budget, Mr. Childs had included in the agenda packet a draft of the proposed Mayor's Memos to the community reporting the summer's activities and informing the residents that property taxes would have to be raised, as would be reported in the media shortly. Motion by Councilman Makowske and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to schedule the final hearing on the 1985 Revenue Sharing and City budgets for 8:00 P.M. , October 9th, with. each budget to be given separate consideration at that time. Motion carried unanimously. Councilman Marks .expressed his concern that the funding of the Chemical Abuse Information Committee and Youth Service Bureau which had been discussed with both organizations earlier in the year, had somehow been overlooked in the budget and he asked whether the City Attorney had reviewed the proposed joint powers agreement with other suburbs which woul.d authorize the City's participation in financing the Bureau on a per capita assessment basis. The general consensus of the Council was that the funding 'should cert-ai_nly be made-for -.th.i's year but the decision to continue that funding should be made on a year-by-year basis after each organization had justified continuance of the City's support to the Council 's satisfaction. The Mayor suggested the .funding continue to be handled as a line item to be taken from the Council 's Contingency Fund rather than to change the • final budget figures which had already been set and on which his memo to the residents had been based. Mr. Childs estimated that funding for the Chemical Abuse Committee would be $1 ,200 and that the Youth Service Bureau would be about $7;400.