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Town manager proposes $25M combined police and public-works facility; 0.5% sales tax on November ballot eyed
Summary
Basalt’s town manager presented a proposal for a combined police and public-works facility estimated at roughly $25 million and about 15,000 sq ft, to be funded by borrowing partly backed by a proposed 0.5% sales-tax ballot measure drafted to sunset when debt is repaid (estimated up to 20 years).
Town Manager Gloria Kaschberger told the Planning & Zoning Commission that the town is proposing a combined police and public-works facility on Original Road to replace aging and dispersed facilities. Kaschberger gave a programmatic estimate of roughly $25 million and said the building would be about 15,000 square feet; the town has approximately $7 million in reserves available and would need to borrow roughly $18 million to complete the project.
To pay the debt, Kaschberger said the town will propose a 0.5% sales tax on the November ballot, drafted to sunset when the loan is repaid (the draft contemplates a payoff up to about 20 years). She described benefits including consolidated evidence-processing capacity for police, covered storage for public-works equipment and a community room that could double as an emergency-operations center. Council will finalize ballot language by the end of August, Kaschberger said.
