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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes • April 14, 1998 Page 4 1 organized the hosting, transportation, and entertainment on a tremendous job and stated he looks 2 forward-to the group's arrival. 3 Cavanaugh reported his attendance at the Northwest Youth and Family Services (NWYFS) 4 Board meeting. The Federal Government has shifted some welfare funds to the Federal, State 5 and Local Governments. This has resulted in NWYFS receiving over$1 million in additional 6 funding. NWYFS has developed an action team to determine how the money should be funneled 7 into the program. 8 Cavanaugh displayed the proposed invitation to the Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. He stated - 9 the volunteer committee has been very busy and there is tentative entertainment scheduled for the 10 dinner. 11 Cavanaugh reported he had met with the Mayor of Falcon Heights last week. She is involved 12 with a committee of the League of Minnesota Cities for improving community life and has 13 invited Cavanaugh to attend. Cavanaugh stated he would also like to attend the League of Cities 14 Conference. 116 15 Mornson noted Faust had also expressed an interest in attending the League of Cities conference. Mayor Ranallo stated.that generally all the Councilmembers try to attend the League of Cities 17 conference and two Councilmembers attend the national conference. 18 B. Mayor. 19 Mayor Ranallo reported he had called each of the members of the Bonding Committee for the 20 State of Minnesota. He received one response in the form of a letter from Gary Ladeck, thanking 21 him for calling. 22 Mayor Ranallo reported that on March 25, 1998, he, City Manager, and Councilmember Faust, 23 had attended a dinner held by the Northeast Business Group to recognize Officers Christman and 24 Lehner for the apprehension of persons involved in a drive-by shooting which occurred in St. 25 Paul. The Commander of the St. Paul Police Department commented at the dinner that the 26 number of traffic stops per day has a direct impact on the number of burglaries which occur in 27 that day. Ranallo noted that St. Anthony has a large number of traffic stops per day. 28 Mayor Ranallo reported his attendance at the presentation of the Eagle Scout Award to Andrew 29 Kagel. All four boys in that family have received the award and Ranallo suggested the family be 30 recognized at an upcoming Council meeting. 31 Mayor Ranallo noted that at the last Council meeting it had been stated that the Police Department was over budget for 1997. He has investigated this comment and discovered that the 10 Police Department was actually under budget by $48,464.87.