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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 22, 2005 Page 6 responses, 100% rated employees friendly and courteous. He said store appearance and cleanliness also received very high ratings. 4 Mr. Larson gave an update on legislative activities. He said the wine and grocery legislation was 5 introduced last week. This includes trying to allow grocery stores to sell wine within the grocery 6 store. It is legal, currently, to section off a wine section in the store. He said he is seeking to get 7 it put on the shelves. 9 He thanked the Council, Public Works Department and the City Manager for being supportive 10 and helping with these projects. He also thanked his Staff, and the consultants and contractors. 11 He also thanked the customers. 12 13 Councilmember Gray congratulated Mr. Larson and his staff on the awards, and for the 14 successful transition into the new facilities. He asked how long it took to get the daily revenue 15 up to the level it was in the old location. Mr. Larson said it took about three weeks at the 16 Marketplace location. He said the Silver Lake Village has been more difficult. The store was 17 opened while construction was going on, and many mornings, he said they swept up mud. 18 19 Councilmember Gray asked if Mr. Larson has noted any change in the products sold in the new 20 facilities. Mr. Larson responded the Romanian wines sell very well. He said "Mary's" beers sell 21 very well. He acknowledged Darla, and said she has done an awesome job at bringing in small 22 product lines. He stated the response to it has been great. �z Councilmember Thuesen complimented Mr. Larson on the compliance checks. He said the web 25 site information was fascinating. He asked if Mr. Larson saw anything he would like to do with 26 the web site. Mr. Larson said he had a chance to go to a seminar on GovOffice. Mr. Larson said 27 he hasn't had has much time to explore the site during the construction. Mr. Momson noted the 28 site is very user friendly, and after about 10 minutes he was moving freely through their pictures. 29 He said that GovOffice would allow staff to maintain the Liquor Operations web site as well, 30 thereby saving the Liquor Operations Department money. 31 32 Councilmember Thuesen congratulated Mr. Larson and his staff for the awards earned. He 33 thanked Kevin and Darla for their years of service. 34 35 Mr. Larson said Kevin was his right hand person through construction. He said they try to work 36 together so that any one of the full time people can step in if need be. 37 38 Councilmember Stille noted that 39 °i Avenue will be reconstructed, and closed for part of the 39 summer. He asked how that will affect the Liquor Operations. Mr. Larson said that the opening 40 of Wal -Mart will offset that. He said they have lived through reconstruction for about 15 months 41 before, and will work around it. 42 43 Councilmember Stille commented they do an excellent job of attending to the customers. 44 ,15 Councilmember Horst thanked Mr. Larson for their support of Village Fest.