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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 24,2014 Page 43 customer base if he had to spend additional time tracking minimal purchases and entering the information in the computer, which would prove very cost- inefficient. Another factor affecting his business was fluctuations in gold prices affecting volume periodically. While he currently had customers coming him to sell family items based on their long-term relationship, Mr. Buchkosky advised that those customers may not wish to do so but could be forced to pawn items ra- ther than sell to him if he needed to base his prices on additional costs of business created from implementation of this law. Ben Bantam, Owner of Music Go Round Roseville, 5429 Pillsbury Avenue, Minneapolis,MN As previously noted, Mr. Bantam had provided written comment. Mr. Bantam reviewed their business model related to musical instruments and re- lated items not among the ten most stolen items in a list of 40 different categories, insurance industry statistics, and based on their own experience. Given the mini- mal percentage of stolen goods for their type of business, Mr. Bantam opined that the proposed ordinance would prove excessive for the end results; and while the APS had been used for twenty years, there was no data shown for recovery re- sults, other than the City of Minneapolis stating that people should "trust us" while not providing supporting data; in addition to little data to support the pro- posal offered by the Roseville Police Department. Mr. Bantam advised that they videotaped all transactions, and obtained a copy of their driver's license as well as having the customer sign a form stating that they were the owners of the items. Obviously, Mr. Bantam opined that they found this process successful from their perspective; and further opined that a much more ef- fective system would be to have real-time information available to apprehend criminals on the spot. Mr. Bantam advised that this proposal had significant consequences for his busi- ness, especially at the fees proposed, and with an average of 90 transactions per month, the fee would prove problematic for their store. Mr. Bantam advised that their average transaction ten minutes each, including the paperwork, even though they tracked these items now without being required to do so. Mr. Bantam ad- vised that their store did not have a dedicated area available for storage to hold items, and they would need to displace their lesson program to store items, includ- ing purchasing additional software and a separate computer system, as their cur- rent system was networked and would not accept the software. Eric Johnston, Local Baseball Card Shop Owner (with business partner Dan McKinnon), 2825 Hamline Avenue N Mr. Johnston concurred with comments already made; opining that such an ordi- nance based on the Bloomington model should provide a$100 minimum purchase price for second hand items rather than a $10 minimum, since only about 25% of