Special Bd. of Aldermen — 04/15/2019 Page 5
recommended by a company that specifically does ranges to help curb those lead levels. But the air flow system
in there is not pushing that back in an environment that keep it to them.
Alderman Klee
Yeah that was kind of what my second question was. So when it was pushing the air back into them, was that air
cycling into other areas of the station or the house sort to speak?
Deputy Chief Carignan
To answer your question simply is no. There is a pretty heavy secure door that closes that range off and it is
sound proof so it is pretty tightly sealed so that airflow is not getting pushed throughout the building. In 1977 we
had much different tactics, we would basically stand on a static line, the targets would move forward back and
forth and the officers would just shoot at the targets as they were moving. The training nowadays is a lot different,
| know the Chief has talked quite extensively on how well we train and how important it is that we train and using
Best Practices and Modern Techniques. We now have the targets, we engage the targets are static at the end
and we move back and forth to it. And some of our training includes moving forward, moving back, moving
sideways, up in front of cover. So it is no longer feasible to stand there and the way that air flow goes there’s only
one blower that sucks and pushes the air and it is constantly pushing it into the officers. So now the way we do
our training it is inefficient and if we need to change the system, now is the time to do the range portion as well.
Alderman Klee
Thank you very much.
Alderman Tencza
Just a couple questions. First assuming that this bond goes through, are you going to need an extra space or
have to lease space other places so that the normal routine operations of the Police Department go on as per
usual.
Deputy Chief Carignan
Well | guess the assumption would be that this old system is pretty old and pretty big and cumbersome, | am
assuming that any new system would be a little more efficient, a little bit more smaller.
Alderman Tencza
And I’m thinking, excuse me for cutting you off, but | am thinking while the work is going on | can imagine it would
be difficult to have them completely overhauling the HVAC System or even windows and still have the normal — |
mean you guys are running 24/7 over there at the building so it’s not like there is a lot of down time.
Deputy Chief Carignan
| believe that the timeframe of the window project is around fall of 2019 because we have already had the bid put
in. So that’s the optimal time for them to put in windows and we will be prepared to provide officers or for civilian
personnel to stand by while they do it. The HVAC System would be much longer down the road, because we
would have to get the designs created and studied. So we are looking at about a 25 to 27 week turnaround time
for them to get the designs complete and to be able to put the project out to bid. So it would be done in different
sections. We would, you know, there would be times where we are going to have to shut down operations in
different areas. Our gun range, we will know ahead of time what we will need to shut down and we will just plan
accordingly. We had to shut down for almost a month to clean the range and we just did different sets of training
qualified before and after and we just worked around our systems that we just have to make do. And it’s
important so we will make it work.
