ITEM TITLE:
New Fire Station or Public Safety Facility Concept Plan
SUBMITTED BY: Jason Miles, PE, Capital Facilities Director
FISCAL NOTES:
Expenditure Required: N/A
Unencumbered Balance: N/A
Funding Source: N/A
RECOMMENDATION:
Work session discussion item.
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Attached is a concept plan for a new Fire Station (FS) or Public Safety Facility (PSF), the latter based on a new PSF that was recently constructed in Skagway. The PSF concept is a potential solution to multiple City needs to include the following:
1. Bringing Finance and Capital Facilities back to City Hall for efficiency of government operations by occupying the existing Police Wing (to be re-modeled)
2. Providing additional, needed storage for City departments through use of the existing Fire and Police bays
3. Through #2 above, Parks/Rec and Building Maintenance would no longer occupy the yellow warehouse across from the Kelsey Dock, thus allowing for:
a. Renovation of the warehouse;
b. Expansion of the Museum Annex; and
c. Construction of an Interpretive Center (IC) addition to the warehouse.
i. A new Port Office could be incorporated into the IC, allowing for demolition of the existing Port Office for enhanced public access and events
Total estimated development/renovation/re-model cost is $20-25 mill.