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Santa Clarita City Council members approved a deal with Los Angeles County officials Tuesday for a new Sheriff’s Station.
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The agreement calls for the city to appropriate $36 million to pay for a new station to replace a facility officials said the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has outgrown, which has resulted in the leasing of space throughout the Santa Clarita Valley.
“We fully recognize that the facility that we have is substandard, and our deputies deserve a new station, and the citizens deserve a new station,” said Mayor Bob Kellar. “It will be far more cost-effective (to have our resources at the new location on Golden Valley Road).”
County officials have said that growing need in the area has required the leasing of several additional spaces that would be consolidated at the new, state-of-the-art facility.
The current facility was built in 1972, when the population was about 50,000, according to City Manager Ken Striplin. Officials plan to start in on the design phase this year, Striplin said during his report on the station agreement.
The plan calls for a “new, centrally located, two-story 44,339-square-foot Sheriff’s station, to be located in the city of Santa Clarita on city-owned property on Golden Valley Road.”
The specific location is expected to be where temporary Fire Station 104 is located, south of Centre Pointe Parkway, at 26200 Golden Valley Road. The current Sheriff’s Station is about 25,000 square feet, with a 6,360-square-foot service building.
The total cost is projected to be $51 million, which would have funding from the city and the county. The city expects construction to cost $38.5 million, and $11.5 million for project design and management.
The county would provide $15 million, and the city is expected to cover the remainder, and the city would also lease the land to the county at no cost, while the county operates the station.
The city expects to fund the construction primarily from bond financing that would be issued by the city, Striplin said.
The city also has 15-year option on the lease with the county, which allows the city to terminate county services at any time, which would require the city to return the entire $15 million to Los Angeles County.
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YA! Thank you Mayor Bob Kellar and the folks at city hall, LA county etc!!
Great! It’s about time and it is more central in the valley!
what happens to the old place? It was so central to city hall and I would think able to transport folks to the court as needed.
Great! Now staff it with about 10 more deputies who know how to do proactive police work. We need higher visibility patrols in all of our neighborhoods.
Oh Yeah please spend millions on a new facility
And another couple million on more of those not so fuel efficient SUV’s that are everywhere already. but yes the station was pretty old, out dated and ready for a change.