(Arnolds Park)– The Arnolds Park city council is going ahead with plans to purchase bulletproof vests even though it wasn’t awarded the full amount of a grant it had applied for.
Police Chief Al Krueger told the city council last week the 18 vests have an estimated cost of 8,500-dollars. He says the department applied for a federal grant but received only 4,500-dollars. He says several businesses have donated a total of 3,200-dollars, leaving them about 925-dollars short of what’s needed to purchase the vests, including one for their drug dog, Rambo.
Krueger says he’ll order the vests this week. He says he’ll find other ways to make up the shortfall.
