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Pecos chief outlines need for new police, animal control and Criminal Justice Center; staff identify two candidate sites
Summary
Police Chief Lisa Bedam and city staff told the council the current facility is undersized and highlighted two roughly 10-acre candidate properties; staff said project planning and funding could take years and estimated construction costs of $35–$50 million.
Police Chief Lisa Bedam told the Pecos City Council on Thursday that the city’s current police, animal control and Criminal Justice Center is functionally undersized and creating operational and liability risks, and she urged the council to move land acquisition forward.
“The department itself, we have people literally stacked on top of each other to do their daily operations,” the chief said, describing…
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