TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Tony Olmos, Public Works Director
SUBJECT:Title
Site Assessment Findings for Fire Station No.2 (Public Works Director Olmos).
REVIEW AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that City Council review Site Assessment for Fire Station No.2 as prepared by Citygate Associates, LLC and direct staff to continue evaluating expanding the existing Fire Station No.2 site.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There is no fiscal impact associated with the review of the site assessment findings. There may be future fiscal impacts dependent on City Council direction regarding next steps.
BACKGROUND:
The current facility was built in 1954 and was constructed to meet codes and standards in effect at the time. However, since that time, many codes and standards have changed and/or become more stringent. Specifically, the facility does not meet current seismic standards and also does not meet all standards of an essential facility, including gender accommodations. The existing size of the facility cannot accommodate the size of modern apparatus and does not have sufficient parking for firefighter's private vehicles when fully-staffed. Therefore, the existing fire station should be either seismically retrofitted and rehabilitated to meet as many of essential facility standards as possible or should be reconstructed. To accommodate some of these challenges it would most likely require a two-story facility.
As part of the previously approved Capital Improvement Program, the City Council approved Fire Station No.2 - Design Development and Interim Improvement Project in the amount of $430,000. As approved, this project would lead to reconstruction and not rehabilitation of the fire station.
Design Development (DD) would essentially develop the preliminary desig...
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