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<br />ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - MAY 12. 1997 <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />. CONSENT CALENDAR <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />A. Claims and Payroll <br />B. Approve Rubbish Hauler License <br /> <br />MOTION: <br /> <br />Malone moved and Aplikowski seconded a motion to approve the Consent <br />Calendar as submitted and authorize execution of all necessary documents <br />contained therein. The motion carried unanimously (5-0). <br /> <br />PUBLIC COMMENTS <br /> <br />Mayor Probst invited the audience to address the Council on any issue not already on the agenda. <br /> <br />No one came forward to address the Council. <br /> <br />UNFINISHED AND NEW BUSINESS <br /> <br />A. Crime Prevention/Ramsey County Sheriff, Bob Fletcher <br /> <br />Bob Fletcher, Ramsey County Sheriff, came forward to address the Council on crime prevention <br />issues in the County. Joining him were Undersheriff John Luey, and Crime Prevention Officer <br />Gary Wilzbacher. <br /> <br />Sheriff Fletcher discussed an upcoming federal crime prevention grant, and reported to the <br />Council that Arden Hills has one of the lowest crime rates in the Metro area. However, he said <br />crime is slowly making its way to the second-ring suburbs of the Twin Cities, and the Sheriffs <br />Department is taking a pro-active stance toward this problem in a number of ways. <br /> <br />Sheriff Fletcher reported the Sheriffs Department has just graduated its second class of <br />Community Affairs Officers, and discussed courses that could be taken through the Citizen's <br />Academy. He discussed the CityWatch computer system, which will be on-line in the near <br />future, and spoke of various ways this messaging system could be utilized, such as block club <br />group messages, crime data by neighborhood, and automated polling of City residents. <br /> <br />Deputy Wilzbacher came forward to address the Council on his job responsibilities, which <br />include overseeing thirty-five volunteers to the Sheriff's Department. He stated he is working <br />with TCF Bank in Arden Hills on a robbery response system. He then opened the floor to <br />questions from Council. He further discussed an upcoming course dealing with crime-free <br />multiple housing, which teaches managers to locate desirable tenants through criminal history <br />checks, credit checks, and the like. <br /> <br />Mayor Probst stated statistics show the greatest crime problem is in juvenile crime, and asked <br />what the Sheriff's Department was doing about this problem. Deputy Wilzbacher said the <br />