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City weighs Backus lease offer while county drafts police-station lease
Summary
A Backus Community Center representative urged the city to lease police offices through 2031; councilmembers later described preliminary, informal county lease terms that would move the International Falls Police Department to the county law enforcement center and said they will review a formal draft when it arrives.
Lois Lundin, speaking for Backus Community Center, urged the City of International Falls to keep the International Falls Police Department in suite space at Backus and offered a long-term lease option to the council. Lundin said Backus built out and financed the third-floor police suite, described it as a 4,877-square-foot, secure, ADA-compliant space with 10 offices and 10 dedicated parking spaces, and proposed freezing rent at the current month-to-month rate of $6,446.33 if the city would sign a lease through May 31, 2031.
The presentation matters because the Backus suite is already configured for police operations and because Lundin said rental income helps Backus service a 2009 renovation…
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