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-2- $1 ,430.24 to Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. for engineering consulting services • provided through November 16, 1985 on the St. Anthony;:Boulevard reconstruction project; $26,813.15 to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission for December services; $556 to the National League•,of Cities for annual membership dues from February 1 , 1986 to January 31 , 1987; and $93 to Ramsey County League of Local Governments for 1986 annual membership dues . Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Councilmember Marks and seconded by Councilmember Enrooth to authorize a proclamation by the .Mayor that the week of January 21st would be observed in St. Anthony Village in conjunction with the State's observance of the 71st anni- versary of the Kiwanis International . Motion carried unanimously. Copies of the letters from Group W. Cable officials informing its franchising authorities that the cable firm had been sold by its parent company to a group of cable operators had been included in the agenda packet and Mayor Sundland commented that he anticipated there would be franchise changes sought by the new owners about which the Council would have to be kept fully informed. Councilmember Ranallo announced that, because construction of the new Rochester Civic Center would not be completed by the April lst target date, the League of Minnesota Cities conference planning committee on which he serves had rescheduled • the LMM annual conference to be held in Duluth June 17 - 20th. He added that, because of the construction delays, the State Democratic Convention was also moved to Duluth. In reply to the Mayor's statement that he preferred outstate conference locations, Councilmember Ranallo indicated the last St. Paul convention had broken all records for attendance and Mayor Latimer wanted the meetings back in St. Paul in 1987 for the celebration of the Minnesota League's 75th anniversary. A rotating schedule has been set up for all other future conferences between Bloomington, St. Paul , Rochester, Duluth, and St. Cloud, if large enough facilities can be found in that city, he said. In response to the Councilmember's request for program topic suggestions for the Duluth conference, Councilmember Marks suggested that, since the response to the RCLLG's meeting on the county court system had been so positive, it might be interesting to explore the subjects of sentencing guidelines, prosecutions, and fine structures from a statewide perspective with state legis- lators, who actually set the guidelines, prepared to respond to questions from the municipalities about problems they have with the system. Councilmember Marks then indicated he would be participating in the training sessions for elected officials in a few weeks and then opened the discussion of resident complaints about their driveways being plugged up by the City plows as soon as they were cleared during the three day storm which occured at the beginning of the winter season. Councilmember Marks asked whether it was possible that the city crews could go back and open up those driveways for the residents and indicated he would be interested in finding out how much such a program would cost the City in terms of manpower and capital equipment. Mr. Hamer's response to questions of the same nature which had been raised during • the Council 's December 17th meeting was distributed to Councilmembers and the Public Works Director reiterated some of the problems his crews had encountered trying to keep the streets open during the weekend in question when 22 inches of