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• Emilio Garcia of Barcelona, Spain, an AFS student living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Seeman, told the group and members of the press who were present about his family and home in Spain and related his experiences while attending school in the United States. Pictures were taken of the presentation of an honorary citizenship to him by Mayor Miedtke. The meeting was recessed from 8 :50 P.M. to 9 :00 P.M. and reconvened by the Mayor to consider the February North Memorial Medical report of services to City residents which was then filed. Motion by Councilman Sundland and seconded by Mayor Miedtke to follow the Manager's recommendation to withdraw the request to Twin City Federal for an additional 10 foot of boulevard. Motion carried unanimously. During the discussion of the March 10 , 1977 request from Ruth Welch, General Manager of Apache, that the City ordinance be suspended to allow overnight camping on the southwest corner of the shopping center's parking lots during the CB Jamboree June 11th through the 19th, the two staff members told of their unsuccessfuly efforts to get the Apache Merchants Associaiton and the CB association to provide specific details regarding the event including the exact figures for the number of vehicles which would be camped in the City at any specific time. They also reported an inability to obtain an applica- tion from the BC'ers for a public hearing before the Planning Board for a modification of the City ordinance which the City Attorney felt would be necessary if the participants in the Jamboree were to be permitted to park overnight within the City. Mr. Fornell reported he had been advised by the CB group that the date of the March Plan- ning Board meeting would be too late for them to publicize the camp in and the CB officials were almost 99% certain that they would drop their plans for the overnight parking. Councilman Sundland said he felt that since the Apache Merchants Asso- ciation had indicated they would assume the responsibility for the clean up after the campers and had indicated the overnight camping was a necessary part of the promotion which they considered vital to the shopping centers ' economic health , the Council should go along with the project. Councilman Haik said she was not too concerned with a controlled number of campers using commercial property and she shared Councilman Sauer's expression of sympathy with the merchants ' need for the pro- motion and would be just as concerned about the campers using the Salvation Army Camp for auxilliary campgrounds. However, both hesitated to vote for the request without more specifics regarding the number of campers to be anticipated, what arrangements had been made for a possible overflow of parkers who could not be accomodated at Apache and an assessment of police protection which the CB'ers had • promised the City Police Department. (5)