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Council Update continued September 22, 1995 6. 7. 8. Proposed semaphore at Highway 12 and Wayzata Boulevard. Mayor Callahan has expressed the city ’s concerns regrading the proposed semapnore at Wayzata Boulevard and ^'ghway 12 to Valerie Reinaas of MnDOT. Valerie has provided the name of the person to whom we need to express our objections. I will be working with the Police Chief to prepare information outlining the city ’s concerns regarding the proposed semaphore. Ma3cwell Bay access. Mike Gaffron, John Gerhardson and I met with Larry Killien of the DNR on Wednesday, September 13 regarding the status of the Maxwell Bay access project. The DNR is working toward getting an application to the Planning Commission in November. This will require two meetings with the Lake Use Committee prior to November. One meeting will be to discuss "use” issues. The other meeting will be to discuss the design of the access. We discussed the roadway improvements needed for the .access; including the right fum lane from North Shore Drive to Tonkawa Road and into the access, and the left Uim bypass lane on east bound North Shore Drive. Mr. Killien indicated that the County can install the bypass lane on east bound North Shore Drive. Tlie installation of the right turn lane is a more significant project and will i .'quire additional discussion with the County. On Thursday, September 14 Gary Cheswick, Mayor Callahan and I met with the Mayors of Long Lake and Spring Park for the quarterly police contract cities meeting. Mayor Nancy Check of Minnetonka Beach had planned to attend but was called away to an emergency. The first item on the agenda was a follow up on items from the previous meeting. These included emergency medical response as it relates to the Orono Police Officers as first responders, emergency preparedness and the development of an emergency response check list and drug enforcement. The next discussion item was training for bar owners and employees regarding under-age drinking. We then updated the cities regarding discussions with the city of Wayzata tor cooperative police serv ices and the status of the l.ake Minnetonka Area Police Services Study. The final agenda item was comments and questions from the police cities. The two mayors indicated general satisfaction with the quality of police service. Mayor Olson ot Lone Lake identified two issues. The first, is that there is a perception that the visibility of police officers in downtown and in the parks is not as high as it should be. The second, is that there has been discussion among the Councilmembers regarding the two supplemental officers provided to Long Lake under the contract in addition to the "basic" coverage, questions have been raised regarding why Long Lake needs supplemental officers while Orono has only basic coverage. (Gary Cheswick and I have met with