MONROE - The potential of starting a municipal court in the City of Monroe met a quick defeat at the Common Council meeting Tuesday.
After reviewing a comparison of the present system using the Circuit Court and the proposed municipal court, council members voted unanimously not to pursue hiring a municipal judge and operating a municipal court.
Police Chief Fred Kelley, who wrote the study and presented the comparison information, recommended that the city not have a municipal court.
"You have very little to gain," he said. "And add the headache of operating that court."
"The amount of additional revenue kept by the city (would be) at best only about $4,000 more than is brought in now," he said.
But that amount is based on paying a municipal judge minimally, and keeping a part-time clerk. Kelley believes the city would need at least a full-time clerk.
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After reviewing a comparison of the present system using the Circuit Court and the proposed municipal court, council members voted unanimously not to pursue hiring a municipal judge and operating a municipal court.
Police Chief Fred Kelley, who wrote the study and presented the comparison information, recommended that the city not have a municipal court.
"You have very little to gain," he said. "And add the headache of operating that court."
"The amount of additional revenue kept by the city (would be) at best only about $4,000 more than is brought in now," he said.
But that amount is based on paying a municipal judge minimally, and keeping a part-time clerk. Kelley believes the city would need at least a full-time clerk.
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