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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 18,2011 Page 21 Mr. Olson advised that he had been forced to eliminate a family member of the owner of the chain as a result of the revised ordinance, due to ongoing problems as all of their employees were continually monitored. Mr. Olson reviewed his firm's employee training process and continued due diligence, as well as syste- matic carding of their patrons. Councilmember Pust opined that she was confident in that being the business practice of all of Roseville's good business owners; and questioned if the estab- lishments represented by Mr. Olson or Mr. Burwell were required to increase their insurance or additional employee costs, other than to ensure their training, based on the revised ordinance. Councilmember Pust recognized that the off-sales didn't have other products to sell; however, she questioned rationale in creating a system to give one type of business one penalty and another business another pe- nalty. Councilmember Pust recognized the nature of their business, and assured business owners that Roseville wanted their operations in the community, as va- lued members of the community. However, Councilmember Pust, while recog- nizing that it was up to minors and their parents/guardians to be responsible for their own consequences, it remained the community's responsibility to do every- thing it could do; and why impacts on individual businesses should dictate how seriously the community viewed the offense. Councilmember Pust advised that she would attempt to remain open-minded dur- ing discussions, but she wanted to ensure that tonight's record did not show that the City Council was single-minded in protecting business interested, when they had another role for the community-at-large to ensure their safety and welfare. Councilmember Pust opined that, so far, the argument for making further revi- sions for a two-tier system, or reverting to a previous system, were not compelling to her. Mayor Roe questioned if there was a majority consensus of the City Council, as a next step, to bring forward amendment(s) to the ordinance for a future meeting, prior to scheduling a Public Hearing to hear public testimony; and if Council- members preferred to work outside the meeting via task force to bring recommen- dations back to the full body. Councilmembers Johnson and Willmus expressed their interest in bringing rec- ommendations forward. Mayor Roe directed City Manager Malinen to include further discussion on a fu- ture agenda. Further discussion with Mr. Olson and Mr. Burwell included notice of business owners prior to any decision-making by the City Council, based on their past ex- perience in not receiving notification; with Police Chief Mathwig and Mayor Roe