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Commerce City council approves $2.88 million civic center remodel; security, police space prioritized
Summary
Commerce City Council on first reading approved Ordinance 2686 to appropriate $2,880,280.20 to remodel the Civic Center, creating new police workspaces, a training room that will double as an emergency operations center, relocated legal and human resources office space and a hardened public entry screening point.
Commerce City Council on first reading approved an ordinance to appropriate $2,880,280.20 for a Civic Center remodel intended mainly to create additional space for the police department, provide a new emergency operations/training room, relocate the city attorney and human resources, and shift the public security screening point to improve building access and safety.
City Manager Jason Rogers told the council the plan is intended to address growth in city staff and allow full implementation of the city’s Drones as First Responder program. “For full implementation, full activity of the DFR program relies on some stepped improvements to be made to shifting the EOC and creating the office space for that staff to be accommodated,” Rogers said during the presentation.
The remodel is broken into phases. The most immediate work — described by staff as the “bare necessities” to accommodate human resources and police space — was…
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