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-9- The May Fire Department report and the report from Edward J. Hance related to City • matters conducted at Hennepin County Municipal Court on June 5 and 6 .were ordered filed as informational , as were the Chemical Awareness May 7th Committee meeting and May 14th Alternative Teen Center subcommittee meeting minutes, after brief discussions of each. Councilman Makowske expressed some of her concerns about lower figures in the.:May liquor operation sales summary. Councilman Ranallo told her- the liquor warehouse operation was performing remarkably considering its stiff competition from the new Columbia Heights warehouse operation and the improvement in the New Brighton liquor sales. However, Councilman Ranallo. agreed that some sharp merchandising would be needed and he reiterated that new sources of revenue would have to be sought if "we're going to keep the City going". The June 17th letter from the Executive Director of Ramsey County invited the City to apply for CDBG funds through the County rather than the state.. The Council members concurred with Mr. Childs. that St. Anthony would have nothing to lose by signing the agreement with Ramsey County since the City could still apply through Hennepin County as well or could go completely with the Ramsey County program. Steve Carlson, the Mankato State intern working in the City this summer, was in attendance for the entire meeting and the Manager indicated Steve would be helping with the initial research which would be necessary for the development of a Capital Improvement Program; a report on the utilization of MSA funds; and a history of past City assessment policies as well as policies of other communities in this regard so an assessment policy could be recommended to the Council sometime in July. • Other projects Steve would be involved in would be the capital equipment replace- ment schedule and a study of the City buildings. The latter, Mr. Childs said, would be needed soon, since the City has to let the School District know this August whether the administrative offices would remain in Parkview past August, 1986, the date their lease runs out. The City is also studying the computerization of all its records and Mr. Childs told Councilman Ranallo the plan would be to put the liquor inventories on computer as well as data for all the other departments, like the Public Works. As he had informed the Council at the June 3rd work session, the Manager reiterated that the City has saved $40,000 by going with the League of Cities Insurance Trust and that the risk manager had done a good job coordinating the package. North Star Agency had been picked from three insurance vendors 'to serve as the. City's agent since the current. agent had been unwilling to provide a fixed fee rather than the current commission basis. Councilman Enrooth indicated he perceived this to be very fair since the risk manager would be doing most of the work. The Manager indicated he would be returning to the Council soon for direction on whether, the City should continue to carry an umbrella package, based on dramatically higher costs of umbrella coverage. Mr. Childs indicated he had attended a meeting that day where the Housing Alliance had presented a new concept in housing termed "frail elderly care" in a 28 unit dwelling which would be somewhere between a nursing home and an elderly residence. • He promised to keep the Council informed about the feasibility of introducing that concept to the City. The program, sponsored partially by General Mills and the Wilder Foundation, is the same as a project presently under construction in Minnetonka.