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SPRING LAKE PARK FIRE DEPT., INC. CAPITAL BUDGET - INFORMATION FOR BOND REFERENDUM • To help everyone better understand our fire station coverage, a short summary is in order. Our entire area, Blaine, Mounds View and Spring Lake Park, is divided into two Districts. District One encompasses all of Mounds View and Spring Lake Park and the southern part of Blaine up to 99th Avenue from University Avenue on the West to the south side of 35W on the East. District Two encompasses everything north of District One from University Avenue east to Sunset Avenue. Each station is assigned a first due or primary response area for all calls and an increased secondary response area to ensure two stations responding to all structure fires, mobile homes, HazMat incidents, etc. For example, Station 2's primary response area includes the north half of Spring Lake Park west of 65 and the southwest corner of Blaine to 99th, but it's secondary response area includes all of Spring Lake Park, Mounds View to Long Lake Road and up to 109th Avenue to Xylite in Blaine. INDIVIDUAL ITEMS COST Station 1/Administrative Offices/Furnishings 1810 Highway 10 (at Spring Lake Road) $ 1,000,000 Station 1's response area, primary and secondary, includes part of Blaine 11111 and all of Mounds View and Spring Lake Park. Station 1 originates back to 1944 with subsequent additions and repairs. The initial apparatus bay was constructed by the firefighters. At the present time, the ceiling height will not accommodate the newer apparatus and given the condition of the exterior walls in the original section, I would not recommend trying to increase the station height for new doors. As all of you know, our administrative offices are presently located in Station 1 . We are like peas in a pod, a lot of togetherness with inadequate space to function properly. We had included a new administrative office building in our budget, but because of constant recurring problems related to maintaining our current station which has no crew quarters, inadequate floor drainage system, inadequate ventilation system, inadequate electrical delivery system, and walls/footings not designed for adding a second floor, we feel the present station should be razed and a new station built which would include administrative offices. This might entail acquiring adjacent property and would require setback variances from Spring Lake Park. Given the location of our volunteers assigned to Station 1 and travel distance to the three cities, the present location is the best. Our average response time from Station 1 is five minutes, the best in the department. The present building has seen its best day - all of us have certainly gotten our "money's worth" out of it. Now it is time to rebuild to include all the necessary items we need as well as amenities for the volunteers such as crew quarters for routine lounging and standby duty. [See reasons for Stations 4 and 5 additions; the same reasoning applies here. ] • -1-