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The city councils of Maple- Zylla said he and the city
wood and Oakdale have decided . council "didn't feel that would
to stay out of the controvery be appropriate," and the counctt-
overa proposal to close Hillside took no position on the matter
Junior High School, at least for last week.
now. -
MAPLEWOOD residents Gil-
bert Leiter and Paul Houska
have proposed that North St.
Paul-Maplewood District 622 ei-
ther sell or lease the school to
the city of Maplewood as a mu-
nicipal building.
The present Maplewood mu- •
nicipal building, on• the other
hand, would be made available
for district offices.
Maplewood City Manager Mi-
chael Miller recommended last
week that before the city pro-
ceeds with an expensive study
of possible uses for Hillside, .
"We should have,some indica-
tion from the school board that.
they are willing to go along with'
it." .
In Oakdale, City Administra-
tor Dennis Zylla said he was ap-
proached by District 622 board
member Michael .Graske, who
asked to appear before the city
council to seek.support for the
Houska-Leiter proposal.