City Council Work Session

Stacy Hallthought, but we didn't know for sure what we meant before. Okay. Does this also apply to things like fire trucks, fire stations, police vehicles, all of those things? Yep. Okay, and are those, those are all kind of included in there?

Speaker 19specific to the locality. So this is all cities' levels of service. And what these numbers represent is the city's current, what you're providing currently, acres per person, square feet of fire stations per person, number of apparatus per person today, per person in jobs, you know, today. And as new folks come into the city and new developments, what is their share of that cost to continue to provide that same level of service? So if you don't build more or buy more stuff, levels of service decrease, right? the cost, what it costs you as a city to continue to provide that same level of service.

Speaker 5The majority were in city. Fire and police were either recent purchase costs or CIP items, as with school. So essentially we're saying you have this amount of fire space currently and you have one planned new station. We're taking the cost per square foot of that new station and applying it to all fire stations as that's the cost to build a new fire facility covering all of them.

Speaker 19And that's part of our process as well to, you know, for our experience, you know, does it pass the sniff test? You know, I'm faced with occasional in other places where you go, that doesn't look great. Like, there's no way. You can't build that for that. Or that's way too much. You know, honestly, we probably, we tend to err on the more conservative side. But, you know, fire stations are $1,000 a square foot now pretty much everywhere we work. And so we see something that's less than that. I kind of, okay, well, what exactly? You know, what are you doing? Is it an expansion? Is there some other unique feature? But I don't think there was... If there was anything in this study that raised our eyebrows,