New Fire Station Meeting Minutes 7-19-2021

McKinley Station Meeting Minutes 7-19-2021

RUTLAND TOWN SELECT BOARD COMMITTEE MEETING

REPLACEMENT OF THE McKINLEY AVENUE FIRE STATION COMMITTEE

MONDAY JULY 19^th, 2021

The Replacement for the McKinley Avenue Fire Station Committee of the Rutland Town Select Board met at 4:00 PM on Monday July 19^th at the Rutland Town Municipal Town Hall. Present was Board Chair Mary Ashcroft, Board Clerk Joe Denardo, Board Member Don Chioffi, Board Member Sharon Russell, Board Member John Paul Faignant, Town Fire Chief Chris Clark, Town Police Chief Ed Dumas, Town Assistant Fire Chiefs Mike Carlson and Larry Dellveneri, Town Deputy Police Chief Ted Washburn, and Administrative Assistant Bill Sweet. There was a conference call line with a publicly accessible and warned phone number in use.

• The committee discussed where the last committee meetings left off.
  2020. The last meeting was May of 2020.
  2021. At that time, it was decided to move forward with the intention to build a new public safety facility which would house both the Fire Department and Police Department.
  2022. It was also decided the building needs to be replaced since remodeling would not be sufficient.
• Discussed options for using the existing property, by rotating the building so the garage doors face East.
• The Fire Department bays should have at least 4 bays and be at least 60 feet deep.
• A survey of the property has been done. It will be brought to the next meeting.
• Discussed the width of the bays and doors. The plan would be for a minimum of 8 feet wide for the trucks, 6 feet between the walls and 8 feet between the trucks. The bay doors would be 16 feet tall. Fire Chief Clark would like to plan for each truck to have its own door, so trucks are not stacked. This would require 5 bays with the trucks currently at the station.
• The apparatus bay layout would be similar to the Center Rutland Fire Station.
• Discussed space for the police Department. They want to plan for at least 3 vehicles plus a sally port and a holding cell.
• The building would need to have a sprinkler system. The current water is supplied from a well which only provides approximately 6 GPM. This would not be sufficient for a sprinkler system. A storage tank for the purpose of supporting a sprinkler system was discussed. The placement of the proposed tank would depend on a variety of factors. A tank would need to be approximately 30 to 40 thousand gallons but would depend on the size of the building.
• Discussed the possibility of building a new facility in another location. Once the rough scale of the proposed building can be seen a decision can be made.
• A retaining wall on the east property line may be needed to allow a build out of the property for enough space to be available for the building and parking.
• Discussed other public safety buildings other towns have recently built. We have some of the plans for these facilities and will use some of their components to design our building.
• The Police would like to have 3 bays to accommodate storing cruisers, and the sally port.
  1. Officers for the officers, evidence areas, interview rooms, a lobby and admin areas are also part of the needs of their facility.
  2. Each of the departments will work to come up with an approximate size of the space they are looking to have.
• The timeline for construction was discussed. It is possible to start construction in as little as 2 years.
• An architect was hired to help design the Center Rutland Fire Station, but a design build process was discussed for this building.
• The next meeting will be in 2 weeks on August 2^nd at 4PM. It will be at the McKinley Avenue station.

The meeting adjourned at 4:52 PM.

Respectfully submitted, Bill Sweet