Fresno City Council approves new police headquarters

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Fresno is 1 measurement person to a caller constabulary office aft councilmembers voted successful enactment connected Thursday.

"The consent calendar passes 7-0," Fresno City Council President Mike Karbassi said.

The caller installation is simply 150 feet from the existent headquarters, which was built successful 1959. City officials accidental it is aging with constricted abstraction to service the community.

"With the household members of victims of these horrendous crimes, we don't person anyplace of privateness to present the worst quality to these radical that they're going to ever hear," an serviceman told councilmembers.

"We hitch down our desks each day, and there's achromatic particulate from asbestos," different serviceman said arsenic she raised already known concerns astir asbestos.

The metropolis volition lease the caller gathering for 21 years, spending astir 30 cardinal dollars earlier buying it for a dollar.

Documents uncover it volition diagnostic respective improvements dispersed crossed 3 floors and a basement, totaling 65,000 quadrate feet.

Chief Mindy Casto confirms that immoderate employees based astatine different locations could determination downtown.

"We would consolidate possibly a 100 much radical into headquarters," she said.

The connection prompted questions from Council Vice President Miguel Arias, who asked astir the outgo and the timing, conscionable weeks aft the metropolis broke crushed connected a caller dispatch center.

"I admit that determination is asbestos successful the building," Vice President Arias said. "But unless the officers are licking the walls, what is the contiguous information that forces america to concern today, erstwhile we conscionable got this a mates of days ago?"

"We're complaining astir things that are surely reddish flags for problems that could beryllium an exigency successful the future, and truthful that's what we're trying to resoluteness contiguous earlier it becomes a large problem," Chief Casto said during an interrogation with Action News.

Vice President Arias Arias yet voted to o.k. the caller headquarters.

It is expected to unfastened successful precocious summertime oregon aboriginal autumn 2026.

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