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-3- Councilmember Marks reported his attendance at the meeting of the. Executive Com- mittee of the Youth Service Bureau the previous Thursday morning where he said he had learned more about the Bureau's program directed towards juvenile shoplifters which provides counseling services for first offenders and their families. The Councilmember indicated he believed this was a very necessary program because shop- lifting seemed to be the hi.ghest level crime in which the youths the Bureau sees are involved. He said the program had actually originated with the Roseville Police Department and indicated he perceived the Bureau members recognized the need for an accurate evaluation of the effectiveness of this and other programs they provide and were hopeful such a study could be made .at someone else's expense. Councilmember Marks indicated he would be reporting later on the volunteer promotion program the Bureau had recently undertaken. Councilmember Makowske reported being unable to attend the meeting -that noon of the AMM Housing Committee, but indicated she would be passing around the minutes of the last meeting she attended. The Councilmember indicated she believed the City should join Minneapolis in the resolution they had passed related to problems most of the metropolitan area is experiencing from the accelerated air traffic from the International Airport. Mr. Childs said he would put the matter on the next Council agenda. Councilmember Makowske also reported receiving a resident complaint about the helicopter rides being given from the Apache Plaza parking lot the previous weekend. Councilmembers Marks and Enrooth said they had visited the ride sites several times that weekend and had observed the activities had been very well controlled. • Councilmember Enrooth said he perceived those low costing rides might have provided many persons with an opportunity they might never experience again. Mayor Sundland said it might only be necessary to change the takeoff and landing patterns for future rides. The September Financial report was ordered filed as was the September Fire Department report during which the Mayor reported receiving a demographic study of the City at the Chamber of Commerce that noon showing St. Anthony's population to be top heavy with persons between 55 and 75 years of age. He said that inbalance might account for most of the Fire Department's calls being for medical emergencies. Council- member Marks indicated he perceived that study also verified the assumptions about the City's population made by John Arkell during the H.R.A. ' s meeting with the Kenzington redevelopers the previous evening. Before the September and October reports from the Police Department were filed, several events, in which City patrolmen had been involved, were discussed with special attention given to the apprehension of five illegal aliens and recovery of counterfeit bills with that arrest, by Patrolman MacQueen. A correlation was drawn between the fines and sentences imposed by Hennepin County judges and the state sentencing guidelines discussed earlier in the evening before the prosecutors' report on matters handled at the Hennepin County Municipal Court, October 2nd was ordered filed. No Council action was deemed necessary regarding the notification of the meeting on solid waste management to be sponsored by Ramsey County, November 14th, or the is October 4th letter from Senator Rudy Boschwitz reporting the Senate action to nullify a Supreme Court ruling and allow state and local governments to continue to offer compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay, which had been written in response to the City concerns about that decision.