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-5- Information regarding the 911 emergency telephone planning/dispatch • services had been provided by Mr. Fornell. Motion by Councilman Sauer and seconded by Councilman Letourneau to follow the Manager's recommendation to continue dispatching emergency serivices through the Hennepin County Sheriff ' s radio, but to keep the option open for reconsideration of Minneapolis dispatching, should there be a resolution of the cost and benefit factors. Motion carried unanimously. Consideration of the proposed police reserves , intern, CSO, and crime prevention programs was pursued further. Mr. Fornell will research the availability of L.E.A.A. funding as requested by Councilman Sauer. He answered Councilman Ranallo ' s question of whether the other three programs were possible without the services of the CSO, whose position will no longer be funded after May 15, by saying these programs might conceivably be put in operation without the CSO, but it appeared she might be in the posi- tion to facilitate them since she had done the preliminary research for them and she and Sgt. Puffer had been working with the senior citizens on projects from which additional crime prevention programs might be started. Councilman Ranallo saw the simultaneous initiation of the reserve • and intern programs as essential so that if one does not work out the City will have the other program for extending the productivity of the regular police department and said he now felt, if the direc- tion for the programs could only be provided by the CSO, there might be merit in continuing that position. Councilman Letourneau disagreed saying he felt that if the ground- work for the intern, reserve, and crime prevention programs had already been laid by the CSO, it would only seem practical that the reserves and intern programs could now be set up by regular_ staff and the reserves and interns used to provide the crime prevention program. He was concerned that the CSO person, knowing the position will terminate in December, might not give 100 percent performance to the programs. His and Councilman Sundland's opposition to the continuance were reflected in their voting on the following: Motion by Councilman Ranallo and seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt the resolution which will continue the CSO position until January 1, 1980 , on the condition it shall be the responsibility of the CSO to initiate the proposed police reserve, intern, and crime prevention programs and bring them up to the stage where when the CSO position is phased out, they will be operational to such an extent they can be taken over by the police department. • P, v