Rio Rancho outlines facilities master plan including Fire Station 8, training center and multi‑gen campus

Rio Rancho city staff gave an update at a work session on a multi‑year facilities master plan that identifies five major projects and sequencing tied to debt retirement and potential repurposing of a gross‑receipts‑tax (GRT) increment.

"The purpose of the facility's master plan is to identify and plan for the needs based on growth and the strategic plan," Ryan Chavez said as he opened the presentation and summarized the outreach and inventory work that informed the plan.

The presentation front‑loaded Fire Station 8 and a separate training facility. Deputy Chief James Williams said Station 8 will sit near the intersection of Veranda and Capizone Boulevard on about 1.35 acres and include roughly 15,000 square feet of building envelope. "We're sitting at roughly about 12 to $14,000,000," Williams said on the station budget; he added the city has received a $5 million state appropriation and would cover the remaining $7 million to $10 million from a GRT bond. Williams said the station design includes four apparatus bays, space for 12 bunk rooms for future growth and initial staffing of five…