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-3- adequate charges are made for services rendered . One of the areas • the Councilman perceives where this might be true would be the park system where the people who use the parks should pay for the services . Some cities even charge for snow plowing and Councilman Ranallo indicated the Council might keep this in mind if there is a strong demand for branch collections in the spring. St. Anthony is ahead of other municipalities with the Employee Service Recognition Program recently put in place as well as for its recognition of- services of City volunteers . Conversations with other officials at the conference had led the Councilman to believe the senior housing project might have fared better with H. U. D. if there had been a personal contact with the Washington D.C. officials since he learned the H .U.D. officials like to go over the plans and objectives of the programs with the appli- cants . Mayor Sundland indicated he plans to reactivate the senior housing project application with those officials when he attends the League of Cities conference in Washington in March. Councilman Marks reported a Diamond Eight resident had complained to him that it had taken over a year for the landlord to replace a broken window, and that had been done only after a letter from the Attorney General had been posted on the apartment bulletin board. He would be very reluctant to have the City interfere in such a matter, Councilman Ranallo said, until he had seen the lease to determine whose responsibility the window was and had • determined just how the window had been broken. When Councilman Marks commented that there was no security system for that complex and asked whether other municipalities have ordinances requiring security locks , Councilman Letourneau told him his work takes him into many apartment complexes all over the metropolitan area and there seems to be no consistency within any particular city for providing security . Mr. Childs noted that there are more burglaries reported in the Equinox apartments which has security locks , than in Diamond Eight and it was also noted that, even where locks are provided, the doors are often propped open for children and the elderly . He indicated he would research other municipalities ' policies related to security locks . . .and whether the City ' s ordinance requires periodical testing of smoke alarms in apartment complexes . The Police Department report for October and the Liquor Operations report for November were noted and accepted as informational as were the November 18th Chemical Abuse Information Committee minutes . (These were distributed by Evelyn Holthus at last meeting as reported in the minutes . ) Brad Bjorklund reported the minutes of the Planning Commission meet- ing held December 7th , which included the Commission 's recommendation that the ordinance which would . amend the City Zoning Ordinance for the -Kenzie Terrace Redevelopment projects be passed by the Council as' written. Iie explained to Councilman Ranallo that the finding that