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Gem Lake City Council Meeting <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />• Scholarship Program <br />• Gem Lake City Appointments <br />• Century College class on chicken raising <br />• DWI Statistics <br />• Tobacco License renewal <br />• Sherriff department checking on business compliance. <br />• Ramsey County News <br />■ Councilmember Lindner is working with the Ramsey County Fair <br />this summer. <br />• Gem Lake's Goals for 2013 <br />PUBLIC HEARING <br />None <br />NEW BUSINESS <br />Sheriff Bostrom's Discussion with the City Council: Sheriff Bostrom explained the <br />responsibilities of the Sheriff's Department starting with patrolling for counties that does <br />not have a police department. The Sheriff department is one that uses patrol services, <br />crime lab, K-9 Unit and swat team. The second is detention services. The State of <br />Minnesota mandates that a person be turned over to the Sheriff department for holding <br />until trial. Also performs court services when a Judge orders the Sheriff to find the <br />people and arrest them. Another service is water patrol, patrolling over 35 lakes. <br />Finally, the Sheriff department performs investigations for different counties. <br />New Sheriff's Contract for Approval: The Sheriff contract is for year 2013, 2014, and <br />2015. Councilmember Lindner stated he has observed the extra patrolling around Gem <br />Lake. Upon motion by Councilmember Lindner and seconded by Councilmember Artig- <br />Swomley, the Sheriff's contract was approved. Ayes — 5, Nays — 0. <br />Liquor and Tobacco License for Country Lounge: There was some discussion <br />between the City Council members prior to making the motion for approval. <br />Councilmember Lindner read the following motion regarding the renewal of the license <br />for January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 for the Country Lounge, 3590 Hoffman <br />Road for Resolution #1: On sale and Sunday liquor license; #2: Tobacco sales license; <br />#3: Charitable Gambling license; and #4: 2 am sales approval and authorizing the <br />execution by the Mayor, Clerk, and authoring staff to forward the documents to the <br />Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division of the State of Minnesota. Upon motion by <br />Councilmember Lindner and seconded by Councilmember Artig-Swomley, renewal of <br />the liquor and tobacco license for Country Lounge was approved. Ayes — 5, Nays — 0. <br />Liquor License for Gem Lake Hills: The renewal license is January 1, 2013 through <br />January 1, 2014. Councilmember Lindner read the following motion regarding the <br />renewal of the license for January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 for the Gem <br />Lake Hills Golf Course, 4039 Schedemman Road for the on sale and Sunday liquor <br />Look for us on the World Wide Web at gemlakemn.org <br />