Tonight the Homer City Council will consider options for the city’s Public Safety Building, which has long been considered unsafe.
Homer Police Chief Mark Robl described the current building…
Chief Robl: “There’s a lot of safety deficiencies here in the current building, there’s some health and safety issues. Roofs leak, cells flood when we get too much rain in the spring, there’s a whole host of issues, it’s way too small for what we’re doing now.”
On January 13, 2014, the Homer City Council appointed the Public Safety Building Review Committee to provide a scope of work for going forward.
That committee has met regularly since then and tonight will provide options before the city council.
Chief Robl: “There’s been steady movement, now the council has to decide which one of the three options they might want to take and if they want to present it to the voters for a bond issue.”
The three options are the construction of a reduced size building with full public safety building campus, the full public safety campus, or a phased public safety campus with police station only. According to the resolution none of the options would exceed $25 million for the bonding request.
