Finance Committee - 12/18/2019 Page 3
Mayor Donchess
Yes but the study would be paid for?
Karen Smith, Business Manager
Out of that account.
Lt. Carlos Camacho
So the last thing that they wanted to do with the study is to relocate our existing crime lab and the forensic
criminal lab as well. The laboratory that we have now have outgrown their space and they need to expand with
all the new technology and the work that they’ve been doing.
Basically the study itself after it is completed will give us the chance to kind of see where the building is and if
going vertical is even a possibility. The new HVAC system is coming in here in the near future — this coming
year. If we start planning if we want to go vertically and we start planning this process now, we can actually
build the HVAC system to support this future growth of the PD vertically in the years to come. That was in five
years, ten years when we do expand vertically and go up, we don’t have to take away the current HVAC
system that was recently installed. We're trying to plan for the future and the priority of this project is to kind of
see the space needs for out detention facility and the forensic crime lab. That would be one of the first project
we do. The vertical expansion will happen five to ten years from now.
Mayor Donchess
Do you have a completion date on the HVAC, an estimated completed at this point?
Lt. Carlos Camacho
It’s going to start in the summer. | believe they’re going to start coming in the summer so hopefully before
2021. That's what I’m guessing on that right now but | know they’re going to start in the summer if everything
goes as planned. That’s a big project and by that time hopefully with this study we'll be able to tell the HVAC
company that’s putting in the system hey make sure you guys leave room for the future to kind of expand he
HVAC system if need be.
Mayor Donchess
Discussion? Questions?
Alderwoman Caron
Thank you. I’m happy to hear that you’re looking at the expansion five and ten years down the road and these
changes that you’re making now that can accommodate that. Kudos to you for doing that. We have the funds
as the Mayor asked in your capital projects?
Karen Smith, Business Manager
Karen Smith — yes.
Alderwoman Caron
Thank you.
