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Item No: 7A <br />Meeting Date: March 27, 2017 <br />Type of Business: CB <br /> <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Nate Harder, Chief of Police <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 8737 Approving the Installation of a <br />Perimeter Fence Around the Police Department <br />Parking Lot <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />The Mounds View Police Department is requesting approval of the installation of a <br />perimeter security fence around the Police Department parking lot. This has been <br />discussed at several city council meetings and a variance was granted in January from <br />the Planning Commission. <br /> <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />The purpose of fencing the parking lot is to secure the Sally Port entrance which exists <br />through the front yard and prevent children and the public from accessing the Police <br />parking lot from the adjacent City Hall Park and playground area. <br /> <br />The Sally Port is the garage entrance, in which persons in custody are brought into the <br />Police Department. A fence will serve as additional security to deter unauthorized <br />persons from entering or exiting the Sally Port when the garage door is open. <br /> <br />The playground behind City Hall is immediately adjacent to the Police Department’s <br />back parking lot where patrol vehicles are parked. The playground is fenced to deter <br />children from accessing the lot, however, there is nothing to prevent children and the <br />public from walking around this fence to access the parking lot. Additionally, the parking <br />lot is accessible from the adjacent trail and ball field, and serves as a shortcut between <br />the park and the Community Center. The City is concerned about the possibility of a <br />pedestrian in the parking lot not being seen when a police vehicle is making a fast exit. <br />The fence will be gated, similar to the Public Works facility. Authorized personnel will <br />be given a code to open the gate. <br /> <br />The fence has been discussed at several council meetings and had a variance <br />approved by the Planning Commission on January 4, 2017. <br /> <br />Quotes have been received from both Midwest Fencing and Century Fence. Century <br />Fence was the lower of the two quotes at $24,675.00. (Midwest Fence was slightly <br />higher at $25,914.00.) The fence quotes are for a black vinyl dipped 6 foot chain link <br />security fence with gate, as previously discussed.