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City Council Meeting Minutes for May 17, 2010 Page 6 of 9 event of natural disasters, public emergencies, and tragedies like the car in the pond which occurred on Saturday, April 10, 2010. Haas stated the importance of notifying the City Council; to be unaware of certain events has an adverse effect on the Council's credibility. At its April 19, 2010 meeting, Council directed staff to prepare a draft notification policy for Council review. City Administrator Mike Ericson presented the draft notification policy to the Council for their consideration, and Council discussed the need to include other emergency responders to the policy. Miron made motion, Haas seconded, to direct staff to contact other communities who have notification policies for copies of their policy, and seek comments from the Washington County Sheriff and the Hugo Fire Deparmtent. All Ayes. Motion carried. Discussion on Issues Related to 2:00 A.M. Bar Closing Applications At its May 3, 2010 meeting, the Hugo City Council approved the applications for a 2 a.m. closing at Sal's Angus Grill and the Blue Heron Grill. Council directed staff to investigate the impact of the 2 a.m. closing license regarding fees and additional workload of the Sheriff's Department. City Clerk Michele Lindau shared with Council information from the Washington County Sheriff's Department on Initial Complaint Reports (ICR) collected on the establishments and information on neighboring Cities regarding the 2 a.m. closing time permit. Of the five neighboring communities, two do not permit 2 a.m. closings: Forest Lake and May Township, which only has the Withdrow Ballroom that stops serving alcohol at Midnight. Centerville does permit it; however, the two bars in Centerville do not ask to be permitted. Also, in the past 14 months, one establishment has had ten ICR's between the hours of 1 a.m. - 3 a.m.; however, it cannot be determined if these incidents would have happened regardless of what time the establishment stopped serving alcohol. Haas made motion, Weidt seconded, to accept staff's findings. All Ayes. Motion carried. Approve Special Event Permit for Jim Miller for Neighborhood Bloch Party in the 159t1' Alcove North Cul-de-sac on Saturday, June 12, 2010 Jim Miller has requested approval of a special event permit in order to hold a neighborhood block party in the cul-de-sac on 159th Alcove North, on Saturday, June 12, 2010. The neighbors would like to have live music at the event and have the band perform until 11:00 p.m., which staff believes will create an unreasonable disruption and violate the City's Nuisance Ordinance. City staff has reviewed the Special Event Permit and has found no other issues, other than the time limitations. The applicant Jim Miller explained the band was from Iron River, Wisconsin and unable to start playing until 7 p.m. This is a three-piece band consisting of two guitarists and a drummer, and they played a variety of music. Mr. Miller stated that he had talked to the neighbors and he provided a petition signed by 15 neighbors, with only one neighbor unwilling to sign. Paul Christianson, 5390 159th Street North, stated his support for the request.