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MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and Council FROM: DATE: Pat Klaers, City Ad~/nistrator January 13, 2003 ~ SUBJECT: Public Safety Project Update Item 6.7. I would like to take a few minutes at the City Council meeting to update everyone about the status of the public safety building project. In brief, everything has been going very well. Both Tushie Montgomery Architect a~d Kraus Anderson Construction have been doing a terrific job for the city with this project. At this time the public safety building is slightly ahead of schedule, while the addition for the cable TV/city attorney area is on schedule, as is the utilities building. The public safety building has been moving forward without any major problems. So far we have spent about $31,000 in change orders and have about $44,000 in pending requests. Finance Director Lori Johnson will hatve quotes and bids to present to the City Council regarding some of the remmmng planned expenditures for the public safety project. Overall, this means that we are in good financi~l shape, and, after the pending requests, the contingency fund is at about $345,000i This brings us to...the gun range. The bids for the equipment and mechanical items associated with the gun range were approximately $205,000. About $108,000 of this total was for equipment within the gun range and approximately $97,000 was fOr the mechanical system. There is a strong desire on everyone's part to get the gun range completed, as this will ultimately lead to some savings in the police operating budget for training. Also, a small amount of revenue may be generated if we rent out the facility. The timing is such that we would like to order the equipment now so that it can be brought in and installed prior to the building being completed. There is about a fourteen week lead time from iordering to having the equipment on site so the timing is getting to a "go-no go" stage if the gun range equipment is to be installed before the building is completed. At this time we l should hold off on ordering the $97,000 mechanical system until the building is closer to c6mpletion and we know more about the status of the contingency fund. If we can't afford the mechanical component of the gun range, then we will have to identify some other funding. It does not make sense to have the equipment in place and not have the project complezed within the next year or so. S / Coundl/ Pal/ Updales/ PublicSaJbty