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EN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: March 21,2011 TO: Mayor& City Councilmembers FROM: Patrick Klaers, City Administrator SUBJECT: Sheriff's Contract Background The City is part of a seven City group (actually six cities and one township) that contracts with Ramsey County for law enforcement services. This contracted cities group started about 50 years ago and Arden Hills has been a member since 1978. The 2010 -2012 Agreement for Law Enforcement Services has not been approved by the Arden Hills City Council. All the other members of the contracted cities group have approved this Agreement. Discussion Attached is the proposed 2010-2012 Agreement. Please see Section C: Terms of Agreement/Termination on page 5. Per C.1, the City did not give nine months notice that it would not be renewing the Agreement. Also the City has not approved the successor Agreement. Nonetheless, the County is continuing to provide law enforcement services in accordance with the signed 2007-2010 Agreement (which is identical to this proposed Agreement). Per C.2, the City may terminate the Agreement at the end of a calendar year if it gives written notice nine months prior to the end of the calendar year(before April I st). Unless the City is going to contract with another City for law enforcement services or going to re-establish its own Police Department, it makes sense to approve the proposed 2010-2012 Agreement with the County. I have heard from individual Councilmembers and from the Council as a whole that there are some concerns with the police services that we receive and with the cost sharing (between the seven cities) for the contracted services. I agree that if concerns exist then they need to be addressed in the best way possible; but, in my opinion these are budget issues and not contract issues.