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A New L Brighto Arden Shoreview Hills 1 Roseville January 19, 1977 Mr. Tom Lewcock City Manager City of New Brighton 803 5th Avenue N.W. New Brighton, MN 55112 Dear Tom: naffs ihts et o� C�Jc✓m�2t�e 2233 HAMLINE AVE. N. • ROSEVILLE, MINNESOTA 55113 TELEPHONE: 612/631-2205 RECEIVED JAN 2 1 1977 CITY OF NEri BRICtIfoN For the past three months, the Consumer Service Division of the North Suburban Area Chamber of Commerce has been pursuing and developing with the assistance of the Kellogg High School DECA Club, Edina Police Department, a Edina Crime Prevention Fund Committee, and the Roseville Police Department, a program entitled a "North Suburban Area Crime Prevention Reward Fund". At our December 9th Board of Directors meeting, our directors upon the reccomendation of the Consumer Service Division adopted the "Crime Prevention Reward Fund" concept. The attached resolution is provided for your reference. Briefly the fund raised from .donations obtained from the general citizens of the North Suburban Area, the business community and service clubs would be used to "assist" area police departments or appropriately the Ramsey County Sheriff Department in buying information. Past experience in the Community of Edina has shown that without a certain dollar amount being available citizens generally will not provide information because they do not wish to become involved. With such a fund, information is obtained much faster and with less police time. In some cases, citizens donate the money back to the fund again. The North Suburban Area Chamber of Commerce feels this program has a great deal of merit and it has been working sucessfully in Edina for five years. Therefore we wish our communities to adopt such a proposal. The Chamber fully understs that one organization will have to get behind a program of this kind. We are prepared to do this. We do wish to point out that their is no financial com- mittment on the part of your City we only wish that you adopt the concept. Tom, we have provided for your use along with copies of our letters to the mayor and councilmen, a copy of Edina's Crime Prevention Newsletter, copies of our Chamber's position and a copy of the various mews articles that appreared in local area newspapers that you may wish to include in the councilmans packets. If you have any further questions or concerns prior to the Council Meeting, please contact me. I will be in attendance to answer any questions. Thanks for your assistance. Sincerely you s�"'; Dan Bucholz Executive Vice President BETTER LIVING THROUGH BETTER BUSINESS N9 CIC