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Council reviews multi‑station public‑safety plan: Stations 10–12, training campus and timelines through 2032
Summary
City staff presented a multi-year public-safety plan recommending new stations (10–12), a North Base training/prevention campus and a downtown or campus-based relocation of Station 1/admin; staff projected a phased schedule from 2028–2032 and flagged equipment and personnel cost pressures.
Fire officials presented a phased plan to add several new stations and a prevention/training campus over the next five years to address coverage gaps and increased call volume. The study identified candidate sites for Station 10 (36th & Highway 9 or 24th & Cedar Lane), Station 11 (Tecumseh & 24th), and Station 12 (108th & Franklin), and proposed a North Base campus for training, prevention and fleet storage that could include a new burn tower and ‘dirty classroom’ for practical evolutions.
Presenters said the plan assumes a repeatable floor plan to lower long-term capital costs and emphasized staff shortages: the 2025 study identified roughly 78 additional firefighter positions as a high-priority need. They outlined a calendar of estimated construction timing (Station 5 & 10 in 2028; Station 1/admin and training campus in 2029; Station 11 in 2031; Station 12 in 2032), but cautioned the estimates exclude land and apparatus (staff estimated adding roughly $2 million per apparatus and additional land-acquisition costs). Councilors discussed downtown redevelopment trade-offs if Station 1 relocates to Santa Fe & Main, and whether a campus approach (co-locating admin with North Base training) would be preferable to a downtown headquarters.
