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Agenda Items - February 11, 1974 Page 2 10. The Kennel License for Norman Larson is before you tonight and you have a rather extensive list of items concerning his operation. I have given you the police reports from the last three years as well as the Federal inspection, which has been performed on his operation to show that he has passed the Federal requirements for the kennel license. You should pay particular attention to the names of many of the individuals on the police reports for I have received many callSfrom individuals stating that they will be at the Council meeting to request � Mr. Larson' s license not be renewed. �fter having reviewed with the Chief of Police and with the Hennepin County Sheriff ' s office and other individuals who have had contact with Mr. Larson, it seems to me that the essence of the whole problem boils down to two points. 1) Mr. Larson will not allow the general public to go through the kennel in search of a lost dog without an Orono police officer being present, and 2) there are many people who object to his practice of taking lost dogs that are not claimed and giving them to the University for medical research purposes . As the memo from the Village Attorney points out, there is no legal reguirement that can necessarily force Mr. Larson to allow the general public through his own establishment, and secondly, the right to sell dogs to the University is sanctioned under a Federal license. .a The memo from the Chief of Police points out that the calls the department has received during the past couple of years in which an Orono officer was requested to accompany a citizen through Mr. Larson' s kennels�not one of the dogs was found. After you review the file, I am sure you will come to the conclusion that there is no question but that Mr. Larson ! is being, to some extent, harassed by certain individuals who are y basically unhappy with him. I would urge that the Council request of � Mr. Larson that he should at least consider it a good public policy to � allow an individual who has a lost dog the right to go through the kennel �' andlook for it. It would certainly be a good public relations gesture on his part and it would definitely save some time and effort of our own Police D,epartment if it did not have to go up there to accompany the citizen to look for a dog. Having said all of this, the staff still feels that there is no justification for denying Mr. Larson renewal of his license. 11. Again the Council has before it consideration for the selection of a Village Engineer and a Village Attorney. You have in your packets the petition which is being presented to each of you signed by 82 individials stating they feel the Village Attorneyshould not be selected from among current residences of the Village of Orono. 12 . You have in your packet a letter from Metropolitan Sewer Board concerning the interceptor sewer line that is due to start in 1974. The question that the letter is addressing itself to is sewer in the Browns Bay area. I have contacted Bernie Mittelsteadt of Orr-Schelen-Mayeron, in regard to this letter and we are trying to get some additional information and I hope to have it to you on Monday. I am primarily trying to clarify the intent of this letter. The question is , is the Metropolitan Sewer Board saying that Orono may be required to put in our sewer lines in the