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City hears multi‑million dollar plan to replace undersized police and fire facilities
Summary
City staff and a consulting firm presented options to rebuild or renovate the police and fire facilities, citing square‑footage shortfalls, aging systems and phased site work that would also expand salt storage; estimated costs ranged widely depending on scope and phasing.
City consultants told the Eastlake City Council that the city’s police and fire facilities are undersized and showing signs of age, and presented a phased plan that would rebuild service facilities, relocate salt storage and construct a new police station.
“Just to kind of recap the process, we started with a series of surveys to the police department and the fire department, and the surveys returned a series of their needs,” said Michael Bartlett, a firm representative who spoke to the council. Bartlett said the firm quantified room‑by‑room square footage needs and identified specific functional deficiencies in both departments.
The presentation said the police department is currently sized for about 40 officers and is short roughly 2,000 square feet; staff and consultants said the city should plan for roughly 10 additional officers over the next five to 10 years.…
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