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Amending the spending and financing budgets for the Public Safety Training Facility, Special Investigative Unit, and Communications Services & Maintenance Projects.
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WHEREAS, in 2014, with direction from the City Council’s facility planning policy sessions, city staff began to explore options to provide new facilities for the police operation functions currently housed in the Public Safety Annex located at 100 E. 10th St, including police training, Special Investigative Unit and Communications Services and Maintenance, or Radio shop; and
WHEREAS, in 2015 the City adopted a plan to construct a new training facility at 600 Lafayette, a new Radio Shop at the Public Safety Garage and Fire Training site on Energy Park Drive, and the relocation of the Special Investigative Unit; and
WHEREAS, in 2015 the City contracted with the St. Paul Port Authority to begin construction of the new Public Safety Training Facility, anticipated to be completed in October 2017, at a cost of $18,000,000; and
WHEREAS, the Police Department and the Office of Financial Services Real Estate Section are presently managing a capital project for the construction of a new facility to house the Police Department’s Communication Services and Maintenance operations anticipated to be completed in October of 2017, at a cost of $2,218,888; and
WHEREAS, the City entered into a 15 year lease agreement with GO Wild LLC, approved by City Council RES 17-231, for space in the former Macy’s store currently being redeveloped by the St. Paul Port Authority for the purpose of housing the Special Investigative Unit and the buildout of the space is anticipated to be completed in January 2018 at a cost of $500,000; and
WHEREAS, funding for this effort was provided in the 2016 Capital Improvement Budget ($1,000,000 General Obligation CIB Bonds), with additional funding in the 2017 Capital Improvement Budget ($16,250,000 General Obligation Public Safety Bonds) and a donation ($3,000,0...
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