SOUDAN- Breitung Township has plans for improvements this coming year, lots of plans. Docks, rinks, playgrounds, streets, trails, and infrastructure all are on the township’s radar. At a …
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Stephanie Ukkola
BREITUNG- The Breitung Town Board established a recreation committee to make improvements to the Breitung playground/rink area at their meeting last Thursday.
Chairman Tim Tomsich said that there is an outdoor recreation grant program from the Department of Natural Resources that could be used to fund new boards for the skating rink, which are in very poor condition. The township received funding from this grant program in the past to build the trail between the Soudan baseball field and the skating rink. Tomsich said the grant amounts usually fall between $25,000 and $250,000.
The grant application deadline is at the end of March, meaning the current hockey boards would need to last another season. Other needs were identified, such as new mulch at the playground, and other ideas included a separate rink for young skaters, a gazebo, a horseshoe pit, pickleball courts, or gardens. The board named Stephanie Ukkola to chair the committee. Breitung residents
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Stephanie Ukkola
BREITUNG- At the Tuesday special meeting of the Breitung Town Board, the supervisors voted to start the process of hiring a police chief for the township. Breitung and the city of Tower currently have no local police service after the full-time officer and police chief both left the Breitung Police Department for jobs with other departments.
Members of the Tower-Soudan police committee recommended local policing to the town board, possibly managed by a joint police commission in the future. The committee also recommended that off hours be serviced by St. Louis County’s 911 service, instead of having Breitung officers on-call 24/7, to prevent officer burnout. The committee made their recommendation after ten weeks of research, a community open house, and a survey.
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Tower council rejects move to suspend on-call police coverage Posted
Marshall Helmberger
TOWER The city council here, at a special meeting on Monday, rejected on a two-two vote a move by Breitung Township to suspend on-call police coverage for the months from February through April but it’s unclear if the decision will ultimately matter.
Under the township’s police contract with the city, Breitung retains the right to manage personnel hours for the township’s officers. The town board greenlighted the staffing reduction at their own board meeting last week but did so after hearing from Tower Mayor Orlyn Kringstad that he was approving the change on behalf of the city via executive order. He acknowledged at Monday’s special meeting that he lacked the authority to make such a decision on behalf of the council.