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-8- realized there was. so much difference in the types of entertainment preferred by • 8, 9, and 10th graders and that which was the choice of older young people. If the attendance stays up for these dances, the. Councilman said it might be possible to hold dances Friday and Saturday nights with a different age group attending each night. Councilman Ranallo was congratulated on the excellent League of Minnesota Cities conference for which he had chaired the Planning Committee, June 12-14. The Councilman said. all the evaluations received after the conference had been very positive and one of the most -popular had been the St. Anthony presentation which Dave Childs had been involved in. Councilman Ranallo said he understood there had been a great demand for the tornado film to be shown in other communities after the conference. The Mayor .of Rochester had drafted Councilman Ranallo to aid him in preparing for ".a better than ever conference" in his city next year and the City official said that he perceived. it might be very difficult to surpass the Night at the Ordway with the Minnesota Brass which had been the high-light of the con- ference this year. However, he anticipates the conference site, the new civic center in Rochester, might be a superior meeting place. Councilman Marks agreed it would be very hard to match the Ordway presentation which he considered to have given him one of the finest evenings of music he had ever,:, experienced. Mayor Sundland said he had missed the conference because of his involvement in the Special Olympics held at the same time in Macalaster College. He reported the St. Anthony contingent had all won medals. Councilman Marks reported he had attended a meeting of local officials with Sandra Gardebri'ng•, Metropolitan Council Chair, that morning, where the recently passed • Legislation was evaluated as to its perceived effect- on municipal governments. The bill he was the most concerned with, Councilman Marks said, was the:`one which he perceived tended to downgrade the importance 'of long range planning by munici- palities because it effectively gave local zoning ordinances precedence over comprehensive plans. However, '.the. Metropolitan Council had evaluated the legisla- tion in a different light and the Councilman had concluded that as long as the City keeps its ordinances in conformance with its Comprehensive Plan, the bill would have little effect on St. Anthony. The Councilman also reported a discussion with Chuck Wiger, St. Anthony representa- tive on the Metropolitan Council , who had underscored the importance for communities not waiting to organize their local program for separating waste materials until the year before the law goes into effect in 1987. Another meeting Councilman Marks said he had attended at its usual time, 7 o'clock in the morning, had been the June 20th meeting of the Executive Board of the Youth Service Board, where he had also learned of the new system of reporting cases which, he concurred with Councilman Makowske, should give the City a more accurate picture of the service they are receiving. The Councilman then distributed the brochure listing future Government Service Training sessions which would be held evenings in White Bear Lake. Councilman Ranallo reported the conference .talk by a National League representative who had advised municipalities to forget about getting any further federal local aids and to start gearing up to get along without them. The Councilman said the meeting • with the municipal liquor group had also been less than encouraging, convincing him that it would no longer be prudent for the City to place so much reliance on the liquor operation for a revenue source.