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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 26, 2011 Page 13 Nays: None. 10. Presentations a. Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom Mayor Roe introduced and welcomed Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom. Sheriff Bostrom thanked the City Council for the opportunity to address them; advising that it was his intent to make the rounds of Ramsey County communities at a minimum of once per year, and more frequently at the discretion of the re- spective City Councils. As a resident of the Phalen area, Sheriff Bostrom provided his personal family history, work ethic and parental influence on a philosophy of commitment to ser- vice and family as his foundation and lessons learned and applied to his enforce- ment career history in law enforcement with the City of St. Paul and with Homel- and Security, and his education and continuing education through the FBI Nation- al Academy. Sheriff Bostrom noted that it was a common statement that, "if Roseville is safe, the entire county is safe." Sheriff Bostrom reviewed current and future proposed status of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department; and advised that he sought recommendations from the City Council on how to improve service in Ramsey County on the future of law enforcement in Ramsey County, and cooperatively in working with the public safety chiefs in the City of Roseville and with other jurisdictions, recognizing that one (1) agency couldn't do it alone, as realized during the recently recognized September 11, 2011 ten (10) year remembrances. Sheriff Bostrom advised that he ran for office at the recommendation of others based on his service delivery beliefs, and through development of an emergency operations plan that had convinced him that this was how good governance should look. Sheriff Bostrom stated that he remained committed to apply those concepts and to focus the statutory requirements and mission of the Sheriff's Office. She- riff Bostrom reviewed those statutory purposes of the office: 1) To provide and manage detention services for all cities in Ramsey County; 2) To manage the court system and civil process documents and deliveries; 3) Manage 9-1-1 services for those not having their own dispatch services; 4) Waterway management and law enforcement, including water rescues (She- riff Bostrom clarified that this was not the wildlife side, handled by the DNR,but the people side); 5) To provide regional public safety cooperatively with the seventeen (17) ci- ties in Ramsey County, and bridge the gap within Ramsey County through