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Council Minutes of 2/7/2006 been a substantial increase in problems at this location. For all of 2005, there were 129 calls, with 82 of the calls resulting in 116 arrests for various violations of open container, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, drug possession and felonious assault. There appears to be an inordinate number of calls for a bar which is only open one day a week. This pertains only to the adult night where liquor is being served. This is creating a hardship for the Police Dept. based on the number of calls that they are handling, and it takes services away from other areas of the city and other calls. Most of the calls they receive are to the parking lot, where most of the arrests have been made. Apparently, there is no security detail in the parking lot. There is also a teen night held on Saturday nights. The first complaint that the Police Dept. received regarding this was in November of 2005 regarding smoking, lewd dress and underage drinking. In the last four weeks, the statistics presented were that there was 23 calls resulting in 57 arrests in the parking lot on Saturday night, which resulted in 2 assaults, 12 disorderly conduct, 24 underage possession or consumption of alcohol, 2 possession of marijuana, 4 felony drug trafficking, 1 felony arrest warrant, 1 felony vandalism, 6 loud stereos, 3 curfew violations and 2 public indecency charges. As far as anyone can ascertain, there is no alcohol being sold to teens on the premises. Since Mr. Hammond has become the owner, there has been no reduction in calls or improvement in the problems. The large number of calls received requires our safety forces to concentrate on one place. There have been 9 calls for the EMS squad to go to this location, and it's creating a lot of problems for our city at this point in time. Mr. Hammond came forward and discussed several different points that he was going to address and said he was willing to comply with the city standards and correct the problems. The committee voted unanimously to put this motion in a form of a resolution to object to the liquor license transfer and request a hearing before the Liquor Control Board in Columbus. The legislation will be addressed this evening. In response to a question by Councilman Gareau, Safety Director Terbrack came forward and said that this past Saturday a higher age limit for entrance was instituted at Krobar. The reports he has received from the Police Chief indicate that there was a large decrease in problems. Councilwoman Dailey Jones, member of the Fair Housing Review Board: 1) The Fair Housing Review Board met on January 19, 2006, after a successful year where the board helped the city realize its substantial equivalency status through the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Currently, the city is in the capacity building stage with members of the administration and members of the board expected to attend training in Washington, D. C. sponsored by HUD. Assistant Law Director O'Malley has attended the first week of training and will report to the board at the next meeting. The members would like to have the board sponsor a predatory lending program before this summer as the members have a concern with the number of non-traditional lending agencies, or predatory lenders as they are otherwise known, in our city. As the Fair Housing Review Board is concerned with possible housing discrimination in North Olmsted, the number of these agencies is of concern. By holding an informational program, the board hopes tc, 9