HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981 11-17 Maplewood wants option on '911' calls DISPATCH Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1981 / 1B
Maplewood
wants option
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on 11 calls
By Karl J. Karlson that at a time when the city
Staff Writer budget is being squeezed, "we'd
like the option of going into it or
Maplewood city manager Bar- not."
ry Evans is seeking to have the "We don't know if (the service)
Legislature's mandated emer- is necessarily a good thing, but.
gency telephone number system the real question now is whether
be made voluntary. we can afford it,"he said.
"We would like it to be option- St. Paul Mayor George La-
al," Evans said of the system, timer, also faced with severe
which will cost his city.$26,000 city budget problems, is consid-
in start-up costs and about ering making a similar request
$1,600 a month to operate. to get out from under the three-
Evans said he has written a year-old mandate. He has been
letter to Gov. Al Quie and sever- asked to do so by the fire depart-
al legislators seeking help to re-
move a mandate that the so Under a 911 system, common
called "911" system he used by in other parts of the country and
the end of 1982. in use in a few Minnesota cities,
"It's a classic case of the Leg-
threerson a need
don a dialthose
slature telling us to do some- telephone to
some-
hing and not giving us the mon-
v for it," Evans said. He said Please see 911/ 16B
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