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Glendale delays crime lab construction pending regional partner decisions and programming
Summary
Council members pressed staff over the apparent two‑year slip in the crime lab schedule and a $4 million carryover intended for programming and design; staff said the city is pursuing regional partners to share costs and will use the $4 million to complete programming and design work before construction.
Glendale city staff told the City Council on March 4 that the planned local crime laboratory has been moved later in the capital improvement plan as the city gathers information about potential West Valley partner participation and completes programming for the facility.
Council members complained that the project appears delayed two years compared with last year’s CIP and asked why the $4,000,000 the council had previously set aside for design and study was not shown clearly as carryover in the printed materials. “I never received a memo telling me what’s happening,” Council Member Turner said, adding that residents expect the lab to move forward…
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