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2City Council Regular Meeting Minutes November 26, 2013 Page 2 1 B. Consider licenses and permits; and 2 C. Consider payment of claims. 4 Motion by Councilmember Jenson, seconded by Councilmember Stille, to approve the Consent 5 Agenda items. 6 7 Motion carried unanimously. 8 IV. PUBLIC HEARING - NONE. 10 V. REPORTS FROM COMMISSION AND STAFF - NONE. 11 12 VL GENERAL BUSINESS OF COUNCIL. 13 14 A. Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom presentation. 15 16 Mayor Faust introduced Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom. 17 18 Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom thanked the City Council for the opportunity to speak and 19 discussed the roles and responsibilities of the Sheriff's Department. He explained that anyone 20 who gets arrested in Ramsey County come into the custody of the Sheriff's Department and the 21 average stay is approximately' five days with a daily population of between 350 to 450 people a 22 day. He stated the Sheriff's Department also works in the court system providing security and 23 bailiff services as well as having responsibility for delivering judicial orders that are signed in 24 the County. He explained that their task is to provide assistance to local police departments and 25 to work side by side in times of need and to do that work seamlessly. He stated the Sheriff's 26 Department has been working on reducing the number of outstanding warrants and implemented 27 an online warrant service and will also be implementing a safe surrender program for low level 28 warrants. He advised the Sheriff's Department adopted a community notification program called 29 Code Red and Ramsey County residents with a landline are already a subscriber to the program. 30 He urged anyone without a landline to go to the Sheriff's Department website and opt in to the 31 Code Red program, noting the program is only used for emergency communications and 32 notifications. I Ie discussed the County's prescription drug disposal program and stated they 33 have seen a tremendous spike in the use of heroin, explaining they have noticed that people 34 being treated for heroin overdose in the emergency room have indicated they started by abusing 35 prescription drugs and when the prescription drugs run out, heroin is a cheap alternative. He 36 wanted people to understand that heroin is not for recreational use and most users are between 37 18-26 years of age. He advised that unused prescription drugs can be disposed of free of charge 38 at the Sheriff's Patrol Station, 1411 Paul Kirkwood Drive in Arden Hills, and also at the Law 39 Enforcement Center, 425 Grove in downtown St. Paul. He encouraged the City to get the word 40 out about this program and educate the public on this issue. 41 42 Councilmember Roth requested further information about the unused prescription drug drop-off 43 locations and suggested that the Sheriffs Department put a locked box in every Police 44 Department to make it more convenient for people to drop off their unused medications. 45 46 Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom stated the Sheriffs Department is open to expanding the 47 program and would do so in cooperation with local police departments. He indicated some cities