Nik Rajkovic / news@whmi.com

South Lyon City Council on Monday voted to renew its contract to receive police dispatch services from Novi. The five-year agreement runs from July 1 through June 30, 2031.

The yearly cost to South Lyon will begin at $178,833, then increase about four-percent each year to $209,208 in the final year.

“Where we’re at location-wise, we also can go ahead and lodge prisoners at Novi rather than driving down to Pontiac,” said Doug Baaki, South Lyon city manager, and former police chief.

“They’ll arraign our prisoners for us too, inside their video room. When they’re done, either we have to pick them up and take them to county, or we pick them up and release them from our facility. So, it’s a really good deal.”

Baaki praised current Chief Bonnie Unruh for helping broker the agreement.

“Last year, when we talking about dispatch services, other departments, such as Oakland County, were raising their rates quite elevated. Let’s put it that way. I’m very pleased that we’re getting four percent for the next five years.”

Under the agreement, Novi will provide police and fire dispatch service 24/7 for South Lyon.

Baaki told council South Lyon has been contracting dispatch services since at least the 1980s.