Summary:
In 2018, the Peoria Police Department commenced operations from the new Patrol Services Building located at the Pinnacle Peak Public Safety Campus. This facility implemented a new model for police officer duty locker and restroom/shower facilities that dispensed with code dictated ratios of men’s and women’s restroom/shower facilities in favor of a common officer duty locker room and individual restroom/shower rooms. Under such a model inefficient building square footage could be reclaimed while affording greater officer privacy.
The success of the Patrol Services Building design turned the Police Department’s attention toward a retrofit of the Public Safety Administration Building, the Police Department’s main precinct at the Peoria Municipal Complex. Staff worked collaboratively to redesign the officer duty locker and restroom/shower facilities to align with the new model. The final design boasts approximately 180 larger (than current) officer duty lockers, each equipped with pull-out boot drawers, exhaust ventilation, and power for charging personal devices. The common duty locker room more efficiently and conveniently deploys officer technology (Taser, Body Worn Camera, and Radios) along the pre-shift and post-shift locker room route.
The final construction cost for the locker room improvements exceeds the CIP estimate for the project. Factors contributing to the overage include higher demolition costs (concrete floor and locker base removals), higher HVAC and building controls costs (insufficient existing building exhaust), and higher temporary construction costs (portable restroom trailer rental).
Though costs for this project exceed the available CIP funding, there are two companion projects that have concluded bidding and will be executed concurrently. Administratively awarded projects PW00540 – PSAB EOC Renovations and PD00027 – Evidence Processing Improvements are forecast to underrun their respective CIP budgets by an estimated $300,000 and $275,000 respectively.
Construction of all three projects is scheduled to commence in March 2024 with phased completion in Summer 2024. Staff have worked with the contractor to pre-develop the construction sequencing to minimize the operational impacts to the building occupants. There are no anticipated impacts to levels of service.
City-paid project expenses during the construction phase include development fees, interior building signage and information technology equipment and cabling procured via cooperative purchase agreements and/or small dollar procurements, and construction phase project contingency, collectively totaling $102,131.