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<br />rll ---'\) <br />( ); <br />1fl}{ <br /> <br /> <br />Item #5.6. <br /> <br />River <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Mayor & City Council <br />Pat Klaers, City Ad~tor <br />October 25,1999 <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Emporium Update <br /> <br />Weekend activities at the Emporium continue to be popular and attendance when <br />bands are playing is increasing. However, with this increased attendance comes <br />"crowd control" type of issues that need to be appropriately managed. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Police, Administration, and Community Recreation staffs have met to discuss and <br />review issues at the Emporium. In order to address city (and parent) concerns <br />regarding activities at Emporium we are moving forward with the following: <br /> <br />· Improving the lighting at the Main Street entrance into Emporium <br />and along the parking lot curb at Emporium (the globe street lights). <br />· Early communication between Community Recreation and the Police <br />Department in order to assure that either reserves or officers are <br />available during music nights to patrol the parking lot to help enforce <br />the policy of no smoking on city property and the underage drinking <br />law. <br />· As Emporium is a "youth center" type of facility, we are limiting <br />attendance to ages 20 and under. <br />· Frequent patrol of the parking area by the on-site supervisors is <br />necessary in order to ensure that attendees are not infringing on Ron's <br />parking lot. <br /> <br />The staff meeting was held in part because of concerns about the mixing of young <br />adults and teenagers. Additionally, the age limit should result in almost all of the <br />attendees being from the school district area. Some older kids (young adults) from <br />outside our area have been attending the music/dance events. Michele Bergh held a <br />meeting with the Emporium youth group on Thursday evening (see attached <br />meeting summary). About 18 local teenagers participated and they felt that <br />restricting attendance to only residents of the school district was too strong of a step <br />to take at this time and that the age restrictions should address our concerns. The <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />13065 Orono Parkway · P.O. Box 490 · Elk River, MN 55330 · TDD & Phone: (612) 441-7420 · Fax: (612) 441-7425 <br />