Item B: Use of Facility Reserve - Next Steps on Police Patrol Facility

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Phase 2 (5 to 10 years) Relocate the rest of police to a combined police facility. Completely renovate ($30 to $50 million not including inflation) or vacate City Hall. RECOMMENDED MOTION I move to direct the city manager: (1) to develop a conceptual plan and estimate for (a) making seismic upgrades to city hall to meet the life/safety standard, and (b) expanding municipal court’s space to meet the court’s needs; (2) to use appropriated but unspent city hall complex master plan funds to complete an analysis of potential sites owned by the city but limited to downtown, to determine the most suitable site for a Police Facility and return to council with a final recommendation on that location; (3) to develop a cost estimate for a phased Police Facility, rather than a Patrol Facility, with the first phase consisting of space for the patrol function – but designed so that it can be expanded into a building for the entire police department; and (4) to investigate the willingness of EWEB to eventually sell its Administration Building to the City for use as a city hall, and if there is such a willingness, undertake and bring back to council a preliminary analysis of the pros and cons of using that building for city hall. th The city manager shall return to the Council with the information described above by April 15. Until the Council makes decisions – after receiving the information described above – the city manager should not include in his proposed budget the use of any portion of the facility reserve. C:\Documents and Settings\ceexelf\My Documents\City Manager\JR-Police Patrol Memo.doc