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• -8- Council to reiterate for the Council 's benefit the training liquor store employees are given to prevent the sale of liquor to minors, a goal Mr. Childs acknowledged • could never be foolproof to the extent some enterprising -youth could not beat the system. Councilman Enrooth supported this suggestion, saying it could be helpful to have those procedures in written form so the Council could. refer to them when discussions arose with residents about this problem. Mayor Sundland agreed it would be helpful to have the-Liquor Manager reinforce the identification procedures and he indicated he appreciated the fact that the Police Chief had gotten involved in the incident as soon as he learned about it. Councilman Marks and Ranallo gave short reports on the Chemical Abuse Information Committee they had attended at 7:00 P.M. that evening. Councilman Ranallo said from the number of persons in attendance he had gotten the impression this was a very active group. Councilman Marks reported the major concern of the group that evening had been that they perceived there was a lack of nonalcoholic places available for the City youth to hang out in over the weekends. The Councilman then presented the brochure for the Government Training Service seminar on "Entrepreneurship in the Private Sector" which would be held at Macalaster College, April 11th. The speaker, who was familiar to City officials, would be Ronnie Brooks of Dayton-Hudson Company and, Councilman Marks said, the attendance fee would be $80. Chief Hickerson explained that the Council had just now been provided with the police reports for November, December, January, and February because the department had been so long without a secretary and higher priority duties had kept her busy once she had started work. The Council noted several instances of excellent police work during that period and asked the Chief to relay their congratulations to the officers involved. When Councilman Makowske asked the Chief if he knew why there was a rise in crime between 1983 and 1984, he told her he didn't have a good explanation for the increase except his own observation that incidents of burglary seemed to rise and fall according to which criminals are out of prison at any time. Mayor Sundland reported hearing a conversation between youths on the same bus which he was riding which indicated they believed St. Anthony was the last place they should try anything because the City police were "really tough" and "wouldn't let you get away with anything". Councilman Ranallo commented that he perceived articles on crime like the one in a recent issue of the Bulletin were very helpful . The Chief was tolds_his presence that evening had given the Councilmembers a much better insight into several agenda items. The 1984 annual report from the Northwest Suburban Youth Services had been submitted by Chris Clauson, past Executive Director of the Bureau had since taken another position in Rock Island, according to Councilman Marks, who serves as the Council 's representative on the Youth Service Board of Directors. Several items in the March Fire Department report were discussed briefly, including the continued monitoring by the state of the gas leak which originated with the Mico station. There were several conjectures as to what had actually caused the leak. Councilman Ranallo thought it would be great to .show off the new fire truck at the Biennial Ball that Saturday. He also indicated he supported the efforts being made to increase sales for the Apache off-sale operation, after seeing the • March liquor sales summary. Referring to the comments in the April 3rd staff notes related.to the probability that the wine..in. grocery stores legislation would pass, Councilman Ranallo indicated that, although he recognized the Mayor's statement that it would be very difficult