Sequim police plans move to larger quarters
October 17th, 2008 - 5:47am
(Sequim) -- The City of Sequim is looking at almost doubling its current police headquarters and signing a five-year lease because officials say construction of a new police station could be as many as five years away.
The plan also would allow Sequim to take "big steps forward" toward a new city hall.
A proposed lease and long-term plan for a new police station will be returned for review after the City Council got a first look at the plan this week.
Interim City Manager and Police Chief Bob Spinks says the long-term lease on the city's police headquarters in the shopping center at 609 West Washington reverted to a month-to-month lease a few years ago.
Then the police annex suite was leased on a month-to-month basis beginning in 2006, while the city pursued building a new police station.
Spinks says last month, shopping center owner Dick McNish told the city he wanted to convert those leases to five years at market rate or arrange a temporary lease while the police department found a new location.
According to Spinks, McNish is willing to have the city remain in the shopping center location and even expand another 52-hundred-80 square feet into the recently closed Danny's Restaurant and Village
Event Center.
In exchange for a five-year lease, the city would get below market rate rent for two years with increases in the three remaining years being tied to the Seattle area's cost of living index.
Spinks adds the city also would get an escape clause if it leased a new police station from McNish in the future.
The detectives annex would cost almost 12-thousand dollars annually and the existing police headquarters and the expansion would cost
81-thousand dollars plus 2-thousand for a gated parking area.
The total rent for police department space in 2009 would be just over 95-thousand dollars.
The city also expects to receive 12-thousand dollars annually in sublease payments from the Clallam County Sheriff's Office using the Sequim Police Department's space.
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