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-4- Councilmember Makowske reiterated that the Ramsey County League of Local Government holiday banquet was scheduled for the following evening and she added, that there had been a very good advance registration for the affair. The Councilmember indi- cated she was preparing a written report on her own attendance at the Seattle conference for distribution sometime early in January. Her report, Councilmember Makowske indicated, would differ somewhat from the Mayor's and Councilmember Ranallo's because it would include her thoughts on the Women in Government workshop she had attended. Another very popular conference the Councilmember said she had attended had been the session on small cities which had an attendance beyond the capacity-of the room in which it was held.. Councilmember Makowske told the other conferees she perceived the fact that all the resolutions submitted by committees had passed at the Wednesday general meeting must have been indicative of the good job their committees had done. Councilmember Ranallo reported that he had already told the LMM he would not be attending the NLC conference in Washington, D.C. this March and had made arrange- ments to have any Human Development workshops taped for him. The Councilmember urged those who planned to attend that conference to make their reservations immediately if they wanted to be housed anywhere in the vicinity of the. Hilton where the conference is to be held. Before the November Fire Department report was ordered filed, the Manager explained that the four fire calls to the Apache Get-It-For-Less store had resulted from false alarms caused by water flow problems during one weekend and said the problems had since been corrected. In his December 17th memorandum, Mr. Hamer had advised that, because of its rapidly • deteriorating condition, the watermain running along Macalaster Drive from 37th Avenue N.E. to the railroad tracks, would have to be replaced next summer at an estimated cost of $9,730, which had not been budgeted for in 1986. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to indicate to the Public Works Director that the Council recognizes the necessity for replacing the watermain identified in his December 17th memorandum in 1986. Motion carried unanimously. The two reports from the Hance firm related to matters they had conducted in the Hennepin County Municipal Court in November and December were ordered filed following a short discussion of the fines and sentences imposed in cases the law firm was prosecuting. The November liquor operations sales summary was also ordered filed. Al Kaeding, 3909 Shamrock Drive, who represents the City's interests on the North Suburban Cable Communications Commission, gave an update on cable service being provided St. Anthony by Group W. He said his own group 's responsibilities had changed to a great degree in the five years he has served on the Commission and one of the major moves made recently had been to establish the North Suburban Public Access Corporation, a non-profit organization to oversee the granting of funds to encourage the growth and use of public access channels as a community resource for the ten northern suburbs. Mr. Kaeding pointed out how the membership on the subcommittee had been structured to further distribute responsibility for the use of cable access. • The St. Anthony representative told the Council cable penetration for the City had been far less than originally forecast, with only 705 current subscribers, including the senior citizen universal service as well as his own cable access. This