Resolution 18-028(A) Expressing Results of the February 26, 2018 Police Station Worksession and Providing Direction for the Next Step

CITY OF HOMER
HOMER, ALASKA

Mayor/Council

RESOLUTION 18-028(A)

A RESOLUTION OF THE HOMER CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSING RESULTS OF THE FEBRUARY 26, 2018 POLICE STATION WORKSESSION AND PROVIDING DIRECTION FOR THE NEXT STEP.

WHEREAS, The Homer City Council has been working since 2014 on a new police station including establishing two separate work groups, the Public Safety Building Review Committee and the Police Station Building Task Force; and

WHEREAS, The configuration, site, cost and financing for a new station have all been discussed extensively, including during a City Council extended worksession on January 29, 2018; and

WHEREAS, After the extended worksession City Council passed Resolution 18-013 that formalized City Council consensus, giving the following official guidance on:

Location: Corner of Heath Street and Grubstake
Total Project Cost: $7.5 million or less with $2.5 million from existing reserves
Spaces/Functions to incorporate into the revised design; and

WHEREAS, City Council convened a second worksession on February 26, 2018 to reach consensus on the next steps of how to proceed with police station design and construction and options to consider for how to pay for it; and 

WHEREAS, The purpose of this resolution is to state additional areas where the City Council can agree and give official direction on how to proceed with the project which will be followed up with additional legislation, as appropriate.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska, formalizes the following additional guidance on the police station project:

How to proceed with facility design and construction: Continue with the current general contractor/construction management contract.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of Homer, Alaska, will further evaluate and seek consensus on how to pay for the new police station based on the following City

Council prioritized options at the next regularly scheduled worksession, 4:00 pm March 27, 2018:

Seasonal sales tax
Sales tax
Bed tax
Portion of general fund fund balance
Re-appropriate general fund reserves to the police station
Raise property mill rate

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council on this 12th day of March, 2018.

CITY OF HOMER

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                                                                                                                BRYAN ZAK, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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RENEE KRAUSE, CMC, DEPUTY CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note: N/A.