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-3- believed the freeze would be the most likely response from Congress to the efforts to curtail the deficit and he said he continued to believe, as stated in the • Council resolution, that aid to the cities would have to be phased out to avoid disaster for the cities who had relied so heavily on them in the past. ' Councilman Enrooth reported that :on a recent trip to Tucson, he had noticed- some very attention-getting signs identifying certain areas as Crime Watch neighborhoods. Mr. Childs asked him to take pictures on his next trip since the Manager perceived some of the proposed signage for City designation might not be quite as effective. Seventeen members of the City Kiwanis Club had told the Manager they would be will- ing to serve as block captains in their own areas and Mayor Sundland reiterated that the St. Anthony National Bank was actively promoting the program and had indicated some interest in helping to defray the costs for the signs. Councilman Ranallo said he would anticipate it would not be long before an area in the southern quadrant could be so designated since there were twenty couples who came out on a Sunday to demonstrate interest in setting up a Crime Watch program for their neighborhood and one couple is working very hard with Chief Hickerson to get that done. Councilman Makowske reported she had attended the March lst meeting of the Ramsey County League of Local Governments Board and she reminded the other Council members of the League's legislative banquet March 20th. The Councilman asked whether she should request the RCLLG to track the wine in grocery stores legislation as a Ramsey County issue, which she was instructed to do. The Councilman distributed advance copies of the League newsletter which she said she had put out for them this time. The Mayor indicated he was glad the City had joined the RCLLG because they seemed to be quite active. Councilman Enrooth noted the reference in the February Fire Department Report to the department 's continued testing of gasoline vapors around the home at 3645 Roosevelt Street N.E. , which are suspected to have originated from the Mico gas station. Mr. Childs reiterated, as reported in the March 6th staff notes, that the environmental exploration company, Bay West, was performing soil 'borings in th-e_ ;, area and would be setting up a meeting with the homeowner, station owner, the MPCA, and the Fire Chief to discuss the exploration company's proposals to xectify the situation. The Manager noted that most of the borings had produced unleaded gas and told Councilman MakoWske the City would not be involved in the boring costs but would be responsible for assuring that City regulations are followed. The Fire Department and January Financial reports were ordered filed as was the Liquor Sales Summary for February, after a short discussion of the January and February sales figures which Councilman Makowske indicated were of some concern to her. She was told those figures were typical for the two "deadest" sales months of the year and the Manager indicated he saw no need for alarm since the 1985 liquor sales are very close to those for 1984, in spite of the tornado and its effect on the Apache operation. He said he would be happy if the 1985 figures for the entire year matched 1984 and Mr. Childs reiterated, as he had in the past, that he perceived the liquor industry would no longer be a big money maker in the future and would probably be a less reliable source of revenue for the' City from now on. Mr. Childs said the only action the City can take in response to normally low sales months is to keep labor costs at a minimum, as the Liquor Manager has tried to do. • The March 26th meeting was cancelled, as recommended by the Manager in his March 8th memorandum, because he and some of the Council members would be in Washington, D.C. or just returning from the National Conference of Cities that date. Mr. Childs had