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• 1 Council Action 2 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Marks to table action on the 3 Conditional Use Permit requested by American Amusement Arcades dba 4 Picadilly Circus for an arcade next to the Apache Wells liquor 5 lounge until the Council' s next meeting to give the Councilmembers an 6 opportunity to do their own on site investigation of arcades and to 7 direct the City Manager and Attorney to further research the 8 security issues which are involved. 9 Motion carried unanimously. 10 Before the applicants left, Councilmember Ranallo told Mr. Heilicher 11 he, for one, would be visiting mostly his establishments. The arcade 12 representative reiterated those locations and then pointed out that 13 the Har Mar arcade, which has 4 ,000 square feet of space, sells food 14 and drinks in one area but doesn' t allow smoking, eating or 15 drinking in the game areas. He also said any police calls the 16 arcade managers had to make had resulted from the need to rid the 17 establishments of unwelcome patrons. 18 Mr. Childs reported Commissioner Werenicz ' s comments had indicated 19 that when he had called the other police departments about these 20 arcades, they had all agreed that there were always problems with 21 kids congregating around arcades, but these problems weren' t much •22 different than for any other mall locations where young people 23 gather. The Manager pointed out that Commissioner Werenicz had 24 reported that all the police departments he had contacted had agreed 25 that American Amusement were good operators. 26 COUNCIL REPORTS 27 Ranallo Requests City Observe League of Minnesota Cities 75th 28 Anniversary 29 The Councilmember said he had been attending the regional League 30 meetings throughout the state on behalf of the LMC, primarily to make 31 preparations for the above events in May. He said he would like to 32 see the first week in May declared "Cities Week" , the City to 33 purchase balloons to release at 1: 00 P.M. that Wednesday in unison 34 with all the other cities in the state, and generally, join in the 35 other festivities planned for that week. 36 Gopher One Call System Explained Further by Councilmember 37 Councilmember Ranallo indicated he had further information related to 38 the Minnesota Notification Corporation to which he had reported being 39 elected a Board member at the last meeting. He indicated the above 40 system had been set up by the Corporation in response to the pipeline 41 safety legislation passed in 1986 to establish a central point to be 42 contacted before digging to assure the pipelines won' t be punctured. •43 The Mayor said he perceived the same principle would be followed as 15