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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes • December 11, 2001 Page 2 1. Council Regular Meeting Minutes B November 27, 2001; and 2. Licenses/Permits, and 3. Claims, and 4. Resolution 01-092, re: Approve Ramsey County Grant application and Program; and 5. Resolution 01-093, re: Approve Cleaning Service Contract for City Hall/Community Center Building: and 6. Ordinance 2001-004, re: Wireless Telecommunication Towers and Facilities (2nd reading); and 7. Appoint Parks and Planning Commissioners from those persons interviewed earlier this evening. Motion carried unanimously. VIII. Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar will attend the meeting to give a presentation and answer questions. Mayor Hodson introduced Amy Klobuchar. She indicated that the City of St. Anthony was the last of the City Council' s that she was scheduled to address. Klobuchar stated that she was there to inform the Council of how their office handles cases, and to • inform them that they have assigned a Police Liaison to each Police Department in Hennepin County. The Police Liaison to St. Anthony is Therese Galatowitz. Klobuchar indicated that Galatowitz was a very seasoned prosecutor who has handled a number of major murder cases, and someone who works very well with the community. She added that Galatowitz could not be present this evening, but she invited anyone to call her at her office at anytime regarding any questions about any on-going cases in St. Anthony. Klobuchar indicated that one thing that she did when she came into office was compile a one hundred- day goal and a year-end goal. She added that they have continued to compile those goals every year. Klobuchar indicated that their main focus was on gun prosecution. She added that their goal was to increase the percentage of the cases that they charged that the police bring to them by twenty-five percent. She indicated that they met that goal, and over three years, they have increased that percentage by fifty percent, to a five-year mandatory minimum. Klobuchar indicated that another area that they worked hard in was the area of property crimes. She indicated that the community brought this area to her attention. She stated that they have two thousand felony property crimes that come into Hennepin County a year. Klobuchar added that they now have a special team of seven lawyers for felony property crimes, two of which focus solely on repeat offenders. Klobuchar reviewed the process with the Council, stating that they are trying to get longer sentences for the career offenders. • Klobuchar indicated that in the juvenile area, the spectrum is long and wide, from stealing candy bars to murder. She indicated that, upon reviewing past records of serious offenders, juveniles really started getting into trouble when they started missing school. She added that fifty-three percent of students in