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TO: City Council �� FROM: James Cosby, City Administrator �� DATE: May 24 , 1974 SUBJECT: Council Meeting of May 28 , 1974 INFORMATION ITEMS The first item in your information packet is a letter concerning Officer Dressel of the Orono Police Department. Last year, Sergeant Dressel was demoted to Patrolman due to certain activities that he did while on duty. I have the file in my office and for those of you who were not on the Council at that time that may wish additional information on the matter, I will be glad to discuss it with you at a later time. Anyway, as a result of his actions, he was demoted and I informed the Council of the action that Sergeant Dressel had done at the time, the action that I recommended, and the Council conceded that the demotion would be justified and told me to proceed with the demotion, even though no formal Council action was taken on the matter one way or the other. At first Sergeant Dressel took this very hard but as time went on I have been rather surprised and amazed at his entire change of attitude toward his work and his fellow officers . He has come a long way from this time last year in improving himself and making a greater contribution to the department. As a result of that, I feel that his lesson has been learned and I can recommend, along with the Chief of Police, that we promote him back to the position of Sergeant, even though�e would consider promoting him back to Sergeant, he would not become the second in command of the department. Sergeant Daniels will remain second in command with Sergeant Dressel, then, third in command. The second information item that you have is a letter from IDS addressing themselves -to certain changes in the lease of our liquor store. I have no objections to these lease changes, per se, but I think that it is important to pay particular, attention to the next to the last paragraph on the first page, where they assure the City of Orono that they will do everything possible to relocate the Orono liquor store in the new development if and when, that development should be approved. If the IDS proposal is approved, I do not feel that the City of Orono should be at all bashful to insure that we have an understanding with IDS that our liquor store be located right beside the Super Valu store. The third item in your packet is a brochure from the North Memorial Medical Center in which a rape symposium was conducted last week and Councilwoman Butler attended this conference. The staff feels that it is important to begin developing sensitivity among the police officers and other interested citizens in the community about this particular problem which is drastically increasing in incidences across the country. I expect that Councilwoman Butler would prefer to give a report to the Council on her impressions on the conference and how she sees Orono participating in a program of rape counseling.