Fiscal Note
The 2010 Police Department Capital Budget includes $2,000,000 for a training facility (Project No. 9, 810642). The proposed acquisition cost, prorated real estate taxes and related closing costs are approximately $1,670,000. The remaining $330,000 will be used for remodeling and furnishing the facility.
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Authorizing an Offer to Purchase to Wildcat Investment Partnership to acquire the land and building located at 5702 Femrite Drive for the establishment of a Madison Police Department training facility.
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The Madison Police Department (MPD) has long striven to recruit, hire and train a diverse workforce to provide the highest quality, professional police service. This process includes conducting an internal Preservice Academy to ensure that all recruit officers are sufficiently trained in a community policing model that promotes problem-solving, community involvement, proactive policing and all technical aspects of police services. MPD’s Academy is one of only several police academies in the State, including Milwaukee, Wisconsin State Patrol and the statewide program operated by the Technical College System. For 14 years, MPD has collaborated with Madison Area Technical College and utilized space at the Commercial Avenue Campus. In late 2008, MATC informed the City that the Commercial Avenue Campus would be utilized for non-police functions and would therefore not be available for MPD’s Academy beginning in 2009. MPD’s Training Team quickly developed temporary training space in a leased vehicle storage facility. In the long term, that space is inadequate for the wide variety of training needs of new and continuing officers. Therefore, funding was included in the 2010 Capital Budget to purchase a facility for the purpose of training police personnel. The MPD and Office of Real Estate Services have identified a suitable property located at 5702 Femrite, which consists of a building containing 22,500 square feet of warehouse space and 8,000 ...
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