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I I I Council Meeting Minutes December 9, 1986 Council Business, continued Benke stated if we apprehend persons who are on the grounds and there is a problem, there should be grounds for an officer to take some action; would be supportive of having staff confer with School District staff to consider this issue further, not knowing precisely what will become of that (state law may need to be changed, may need a local ordinance change). Williams asked if it is now against a city ordinance or a state law to deface public property; Kelley responded affirmatively. Schmidt stated his concern is that police officers cannot look into the eyes of the suspect who mayor may not be a perpetrator, he may simply be there for the sole purpose of enjoying what is a public park and public park property. Schmidt noted that in the summer time and on weekends, children under 16 are not actually in the house at 9:00 or 9:30 p.m. and would probably want to be in a park; and asked what the curfew hours are in New Brighton. Kelley believed the current curfew hours for fourteen and fifteen year olds is about 10:00 p.m.; and Midnight for 16 and 17 year olds and noted there were exceptions. Schmidt asked if you don't catch them and enforce vandalism, the alternative is to enforce a curfew; that means running kids off the street and believes that is really more of a home environment and desirability in terms of controlling what time kids come home. Brandt stated another alternative might be to look at a trespass- ing ordinance related to a certain time period which would give the police something to use to remove persons who are conceivably thinking of doing something illegal. Schmidt stated schools can tell us what would be an appropriate time for the trespassing to go into effect. Benke, recognizing it will be difficult to write constitutionally sound legislation, again suggested staff work with the school district to find a solution. Motion by Brandt, seconded by Williams, to ASK STAFF TO CONFER WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS REGARDING TRESPASSING AND VANDALISM ON SCHOOL PROPERTY. Brandt noted the Park Board minutes reflected a discussion of glass containers in parks and asked about the probability of banishing glass containers from the parks; Anderson responded that this past Fall the City of Hopkins adopted a ban on all glass containers in the park system and he will check with them in the Fall of 1987 to see if the ban had any impact. If there has been a positive impact in Hopkins, Anderson will have the item on a Park Board agenda for a recommendation to council. In the mean- time, Anderson will request ball teams to bring cans to the games rather than glass. 5 Ayes - 0 Nayes, Motion Carried Page Seven