Cloquet city councilors and administration agree: it’s time for another police study.

While not referring directly to police and council actions that contributed to a rising tide of citizen mistrust and frustration over the previous two years, city administrator Aaron Reeves pointed out that the Cloquet police department was one of the issues that drove last year’s election.

Councilors voted unanimously Tuesday to pay the Novak Consulting Group $48,800 to conduct a police department operations study after Mayor Roger Maki suggested they get things rolling.

Such a study will evaluate th...