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An agreement which would have the
Maplewood city police department share
its dispatching service with North St.
Paul is pending.
The Maplewood city council, at its last
regular meeting (Oct. 2), authorized the
city staff to send a letter to North St.Paul
offering the service for$7,000.
Maplewood Police Chief Dick Schaller
said offering the service to North St.Paul
for $6,500 would be "a good bargain for
North St. Paul as well as Maplewood."
North St. Paul has been serviced by
White Bear Lake for$5,000 this year.But
now it is learned that White Bear Lake
wants to raise the cost of the service to
$13,000.
Schaller admitted that the $6,500 is a
cost estimate that he arrived at one year
ago, when Maplewood's offer was not
acted upon by North St. Paul. "The
degree of cooperation would offset any
additional cost," he said.
But Mayor Robert Bruton said that
unless the agreement had a"one to one"
relation only North St. Paul would be
"benefitting."
The mayor noted that both police
salaries and the cost of gasoline have
risen by at least 10 percent in the last
year."I can't help but think that the cost
(for providing the service)now is around
$7,000," he said.