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w -2- Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Makowske to approve payments of the following as listed in the October 8, 1985 Council agenda packet: • All verified claims for October 8, 1985; $26,813.15 for the July billing from the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission; and $886.05 to Dorsey & Whitney for legal services during August, 1985. Motion carried unanimously. Councilmember Makowske indicated she had learned at the last meeting of the Ramsey County League of Local Governments that there would be a delay on the appointments to the Ramsey County Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board for which the Council had nominated David Childs last month. She reported the RCLLG newsletter had just gone out and would include information on the meeting scheduled in November to which a County judge and prosecutor would be invited to give some insight on how DWI sentences and fines are imposed. The speakers have not yet been selected, the Councilmember said. Councilmember Enrooth and City Attorney Soth arrived at 7:35 P.M. Councilmember Marks reported attending the October 3rd meeting of the Executive Committee of the Youth Service Bureau which had been held in the Bureau's new facilities in the Edgewood Community School in Mounds View. In addition, he had been appalled, the Councilmember said, to read the statistics presented by the Police Chief relating to the length of time offenders like rapists actually serve for their crimes, and when he had drawn the figures to the attention of a state legislator, had been told the legislature wasn't pushing for more effective • sentences because of the fear that the state would have to build twice as many jails than it has now to accommodate the increase in prisoners which would result. Councilmember Enrooth said he had gotten the same type of information from his neighbor who is a professional consultant on prisons and the Councilmember asked whether there would be any interest in having that person attend a future Council meeting and respond to the Council 's concerns about minimum sentencing. Another person who might also be consulted in that regard, Councilmember Ranallo said, would be Jim Zellmer, a City resident, who had servedas the Assistant Warden at Stillwater Prison and whose current job description was very similar to Councilmember Enrooth's friend's. When the suggestion was made that these two reports might fit in well with the November RCLLG meeting theme, Councilmember Makowske indicated they might make excellent follow-ups for 1986, but said the November meeting was planned to explore primarily the sentencing guidelines followed for DWI offenses in Ramsey County and she understood a spokesperson from MAAD might also be present to give her organization's reaction to those sentences. Short discussions preceded the acceptance of the City Prosector' s September 23rd report on matters handled at the Hennepin County Court September 18th and the September 10th minutes of the St. Anthony Chemical Awareness Committee meeting. In regard to the latter, the Manager said the City had again budgeted $1 ,200 to support that program in 1986 and had received no request for the $300 increase mentioned in the minutes. The September liquor operations report was also ordered filed. A work session to discuss with Ray Nelson, Liquor Operations Manager, the future • plans for that operation, was scheduled to be held, open to the public, at 6:00 P.M. prior to the Council 's meeting, October 22nd.