Shouldn't this kind of brain storming have taken place before this point. We have spent over $5,000,000 and we still don't know what we need. Come on, some heads gotta roll on this.

Lets see know, Just for the move of the RCMP, results in

a new building for the RCMP, on Victoria street, $40 million plus

A new 911 building else where, 5 million dollars.

The old RCMP building becomes the new Studio 2880, 10 million dollars,

The old Studio 2880 gets to be the next site to be targeted for development.

I think that the eoc should be located within the new cop shop, if there is not enough room for parking, then bloody well design the building to accomodate, we have to think about the long term here, two seperate sites, construction and maintenance does not make sense, spend a little more on the the copshop and keep 'em all together.
metalman.

I agree "he spoke" - this should have been done prior to buying the site for this purpose.

I agree with metalman. The services should be together with enough parking.

I also agree with Stolz.

The entire building is in the wrong place. Relocate it on a main arterial with good access to wherever emergenices occur, whether large and infrequent or small and much more frequent.

For the cost of building parking space on that site, a new site can easily be assembled with sufficient room for lower cost parking.

The interesting thing here is that other than planning, nothing much else has been done yet. Tens of millions have not been spent yet on a building that will need to be overhauled within 20 years without the space to do that in a location of the city that, if it grows, will landlock it once more as the current station is thought of.

Where are the program design notes for this building? It would be interesting to see that facility program which would contain the decisions, the rationale behind those decisions, and identify any compromises which may have been made and why they were thought to be acceptable at the time.

In addtion, it would be interesting to see who signed off on them on behalf of the City. Is Council micromanaging this?

the proposed locations are still in the bowl. Maby not as polluted part of the bowl so that they can breath easier.

If we just built the new station in Strathcona, we could save millions of dollars on fuel and the cops could just walk the suspects to jail.

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Seriously though, this thing sounds like an entity without a solid leader behind it. Everybody seems to want this project to just evolve itself and build itself, without anybody having any real tangible accountability or clear responsibility for it. "It just happened".

You hit the nail on the head "trm". That is most certainly the impression I have.

I agree with everyone. Someone at that council table should have enough common sense to realize that this is moving forward like a powerless boat floating down a river headed towards a set of waterfalls.

The whole thing needs to be tabled until the cost AND location can be sorted out. I think it's pretty obvious that there are enough concerns about those two aspects that charging ahead without at least taking a second look would be incredibly irresponsible.

It just struck me that we have the person at the helm everyone felt needed study after study and could not make up his mind and therefore those people were concerned when he was elected.

And now a relatively significant number of people, even in the community as a whole, are saying that exactly that should happen - second thoughts, if not even first thoughts.

I think if sober first thoughts are not evident, then it is a good idea to have at least some sober second thoughts.

Seems like Stoltz is the only one with any balls here. Others should step up and avoice their displeasure. In fact WE should be at the council meeting tonight.