'Hanging on by a thread': Fresno Police ask city for new headquarters 

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno Police Department is hoping to determination its office to the gathering crossed the walkway from its existent facility.

While the determination from 2323 Mariposa St. to 2314 Mariposa St. is simply a abbreviated one, they accidental it’s significant.

Police Chief Mindy Casto says their existent installation was built successful 1959.

“Our HVAC is hanging connected by a thread,” Casto said.

Fresno Police made themselves astatine location determination galore years ago, arsenic did the asbestos.

“Even though it's encapsulated for safety, it inactive makes immoderate benignant of improvements successful the gathering precise difficult,” Casto said.

She says it would outgo millions of dollars to hole the installation – wealth she would similar to walk connected a caller building.

“It's a large determination for us,” she said, describing her desired facility. “We conscionable truly look guardant to having a gathering with caller systems, aerial conditioning, the heating, the electrical.”

The “new” gathering is really older than their existent headquarters. However, Casto says the existent owners upgraded it, making it a safer, much desirable location.

“It does let for much unafraid parking adjacent by due to the fact that yet [the old] office gathering would beryllium torn down to supply for much unafraid parking, which is ever astatine a premium down present successful downtown Fresno,” Casto said.

The task would not beryllium cheap, though.

“It's astir 1.3 cardinal implicit 21 years,” Casto said.

Their connection to the City Council states they would wage thing the archetypal year, past astir $1.3 cardinal each twelvemonth until the sixth year. Then, they perpetrate to expanding payments by 10% each 5th twelvemonth aft that.

In the end, Casto says it would outgo astir $30 million. That would not see backing for the demolition of the aged installation oregon gathering a parking lot, though.

“That'll beryllium decided successful a aboriginal fund year,” Casto said.

The Fresno City Council volition ballot connected the backing during Thursday’s meeting.

Casto says she’s assured they volition o.k. her request.

“The clip has travel to look astatine a gathering that has the basics acceptable for america and that we tin physique to amended service the community,” Casto said.