Mayor Baker: No sheriff plan for me
May 18th, 2007 by Wayne Garcia in Activist News, Our Government, Urban ExplorationsI ran into Mayor Rick Baker at the Reality Check Tampa Bay planning session this morning and asked him about the CONA vote on police services. CONA voted 13-3 on Wednesday night to ask City Council to request a bid from Sheriff Jim Coats to take over police services in St. Petersburg; some neighborhood activists believe it could save tens of millions of dollars.
Baker’s response to the vote and the idea of folding the SPPD was succinct: “It’s a non-starter.”
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