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project with them when the move was made. He said, in his own opinion, a little temporary food operation in that location wouldn't hinder any other facility, but rather, might improve another cafe's business by offering an alternative food service to attract more potential customers . Mayor Sundland said he had discussed the project with the Manager of the Town and Country Food store, suggesting the store might provide the warehouse operation with the food materials they might need and that person had indicated an interest in doing that even though the grocery store had recently started a deli service for its own customers . Mr. Nelson said the former operator of the warehouse cheese house had offered only cheeses for sale, which in his own opinion-, "just wouldn't cut it" . Instead, he perceived the potential for a successful combination cheese and sandwich shop, with beer or wine served with the sandwich, to 'accommodate all the people who would be coming into that area like the construction workers, etc. He said the hours of operation would be limited to only from 11 :00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. week days at the latest, and Mr. Nelson said he hated to tear down the walls and try to do anything else with that space in the short time left for the warehouse to be down there. Councilmember Ranallo said unfortunately he had been unable to attend the work session where the proposal had been brought up before, but he had asked staff to convey the opposition he had then, and continues to retain, to the City getting into any type of retail business which would offer competition -to the private sector. He said it is his own personal philosophy that "when cities, the state, or the federal government get involved in any retail business, it starts to • destroy the free enterprise system this country is built on". Councilmember Ranallo indicated the City had been in the liquor business long before he was a resident in St. Anthony. However, he said, he certainly would support the continuation of the liquor operation now because, with the restrictions the state has placed on the City's levying abilities, he perceived no other source of revenue for replacing the $300,000 the City gets from the liquor business to pay its bills from now on, but he said, he would strenuously object to the addi- tion of any further retail to the current liquor operation. The Councilmember added that another reason he had for supporting the City's opera- tion of the liquor business- was that by doing so, the City could control that use. He then continued by saying This Council has been accused many times of being 'anti ' business", and to support that 'assumption, the Councilmember related his own experience with a businessman who had visited his home, who had stated, "You people with all your restrictive sign ordinances, goofy license requirements, etc. , have almost made i.t impossible for a business to exist in the City". In the same vein, Councilmember Ranallo recalled he had in the past opposed the City trying to sell water control devices for showers -to encourage less water usage, perceiving that could be handled instead by the City hardware stores.. If the .Liquor operation is permitted to expand its retail in the manner proposed by Mr. Nelson, the Councilmember wondered, -what's to stop the Fire Department from. requesting to sell fire alarms or the.Police Department from wanting to sell burglar alarms. The Councilmember said he would perceive the proposed shop would • .be in direct competition with a number of City cheese and deli shops which are already being operated not too far from the liquor warehouse. Councilmember Ranallo told Mr. Nelson he had been the first to approve the Speakeasy bar in the Stonehouse,