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I <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />II <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />City. Council Regular Meeting Minutes <br />November 26, 2013 <br />Page 2 <br />IV. <br />V. <br />VI. <br />B. Consider licenses and permits; and <br />C. Consider payment of claims. <br />Motion by Council member Jenson, seconded by Councilmember Stille, to approve the Consent <br />Agenda items. <br />Motion carried unanimously. <br />PUBLIC HEARING -NONE. <br />REPORTS FROM COMMISSION AND STAFF -NONE. <br />GENERAL BUSINESS OF COUNCIL. <br />A. Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom presentation. <br />Mayor Faust introduced Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom. <br />Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom thanked the City Council for the opportunity to speak and <br />discussed the roles and responsibilities of the Sheriffs Department. He explained that anyone <br />who gets arrested in Ramsey County come into the custody of the Sheriffs Department and the <br />average stay is approximately five days with a daily population of between 350 to 450 people a <br />day. He stated the Sheriffs Department also works in the court system providing security and <br />bailiff services as well as having responsibility for delivering judicial orders that are signed in <br />the County. He explained that their task is to provide assistance to local police departments and <br />to work side by side in times of need and to do that work seamlessly. He stated the Sheriffs <br />Department has been working on reducing the number of outstanding warrants and implemented <br />an online warrant service and will also be implementing a safe surrender program for low level <br />warrants. He advised the Sheriffs Department adopted a community notification program called <br />Code Red and Ramsey County residents with a landline are already a subscriber to the program. <br />He urged anyone without a landline to go to the Sheriffs Department website and opt in to the <br />Code Red program, noting the program is only used for emergency communications and <br />notifications. He discussed the County's prescription drug disposal program and stated they <br />have seen a tremendous spike in the use of heroin , explaining they have noticed that people <br />being treated for heroin overdose in the emergency room have indicated they started by abusing <br />prescription drugs and when the prescription drugs run out, heroin is a cheap alternative. He <br />wanted people to understand that heroin is not for recreational use and most users are between <br />18-26 years of age. He advised that unused prescription drugs can be disposed of free of charge <br />at the Sheriff's Patrol Station, 1411 Paul Kirkwood Drive in Arden Hills, and also at the Law <br />Enforcement Center, 425 Grove in downtown St. Paul. He encouraged the City to get the word <br />out about this program and educate the public on this issue. <br />Councilmember Roth requested further information about the unused prescription drug drop-off <br />locations and suggested that the Sheriffs Department put a locked box in every Police <br />Department to make it more convenient for people to drop off their unused medications. <br />Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom stated the Sheriff's Department is open to expanding the <br />program and would do so in cooperation with local police departments. He indicated some cities