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Councillor Lynentine.

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Moving on to the first item facilities master plan update.

Uh Ryan Chavez.

How are you today?

Good afternoon, Mayor, members of the governing body.

Um I'm going to give another update on our facilities master plan.

Um the purpose of the facilities master plan is to identify and plan for the needs based on growth and the strategic plan.

And the facilities master plan goes beyond the ICIP but has been incorporated into the ICIP.

Um to recap our process and how we got here.

Uh we originally met with and requested facility needs and priorities from the police department, fire and rescue, public works, and parks and rec.

We inventoried maintenance needs and developed a maintenance schedule, identified potential funding sources, and then we presented those priorities to you all at a work session in June of 2023 with an update in June of 2024.

In those updates, we uh you saw a similar version of this slide a couple of times now.

Um as these debts retire, the city can replace these payments with new and future debt to fund some of these projects.

Um additionally, when the higher ed GRT earmarks unsets in FY28, the governing body can reauthorize the increment to go towards a facilities master plan, future staffing needs, and other needs.

Um the current five-year forecast projects that it will be at nearly six million a year.

So with that, um we have the big five projects that we've considered in the facilities master plan, which include Fire Station 8, the Fire and Rescue Training Facility, Operational Annex, and Streets of Ridaway, Multi-Generational Recreation Center, Police Headquarters, and some others.

Um I'm going to pass it off to the project managers for each of these projects to provide a status update, starting with Chief Wenzel to talk about Fire Station 8 and the training facility.

The second being the training facility.

So station eight, station eight will station eight, excuse me, will be located at the corner of veranda in Cabezone Boulevard.

It'll be sitting on approximately 1.35 acres of land and have a building envelope size of just over 15,000 square feet.

So the current status of the project is we have received our 60% uh plans.

We are reviewing them and hope to have those turned back to the architect and engineers by this Thursday.

That will then allow us to uh work on the 90% completion plans.

Those are due to us within two weeks of this Thursday.

We'll then send it back to the department as well as other city staff for a comment and review, and then another two weeks that'll come back with 100% plans.

Once we receive our 100% plans, we will go to the bid.

We are looking at doing about a 45 uh day bid for the construction.

Once that bid is awarded, that's probably gonna put us late November to early December.

Realistically, that probably puts us at breaking ground and shovels uh putting place in the ground, uh the beginning of 2026.

So funding for the station, we're sitting at roughly about 12 to 14 million dollars.

We did receive five million from state appropriation.

So the city would be uh responsible for the additional seven to possibly ten.

That would be coming from a GRT bond that was just purchased by the city.

Um key points that we do want to talk about with station eight.

It'll have four bays.

We are looking at putting 12 bunk rooms in there.

That's not how we're gonna initially staff it.

We would be staffing it with five individuals, but it does allow us uh future growth.

So here's some more renderings for you.

This is kind of looking from the I guess uh Maggie Cordova Elementary, kind of the front parking lot off of Cabazone.

And then there's the west, I guess the east elevation, so it'll be kind of the exterior into the kitchen and the uh outside portion for the firefighters, and then this will be the back of the station.

So, again, where the firefighters will be parking.

Uh so some other components that we do want to talk about for station eight is we will be having a community room just over 900 square feet, almost the same size as what we have at the senior centers senior citizen center just up the road that'll allow us to uh do voting and some other community activities within that fire station as well.