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Special Council Meeting Minutes 8-3-09 Page 3 Mr. Renzi continued with his presentation, stating that the location of the building was determined by its presence on 91. We will get into the floor plan, but the administrative part of the program does face 91. It's set back about 60 feet off of 91 which will allow for some greenspace in front of the building. You can see that it's shaped like an L. The reason for that is we are showing an indoor parking garage for two vehicles and also a shooting range along the back of the parking garage. We have separated the squad cars for the police from the public use. We know that this type of facility does not get a whole lot of public use, but we do provide that type of parking. There is an entry feature for the public parking. Ken will discuss the plan a little bit and how the function is set up based on the site plan. Ken stated that they spent a lot of time in the process of preparing for their interview developing this floor plan so that it makes functional sense from a security standpoint and a functional point of view for the officers and staff. We developed this with a public entry off of the parking lot that Allan mentioned. This pink area is pretty much the only place the public can get without being escorted back. It's one of the key security points to a building like this; keeping the police staff separated from the public only as needed. We developed two spaces directly adjacent to the public entry where the public would have communication as they come in if they need to file a police report, or if they are there for an interview or if there happens to be an emergency during the day. They would have direct communication with the administrative staff. In the evening when the staff is not here, the dispatch center is always operable 24/7. There is a talk-through window where they can have communication with someone. It is very important that the public understand where they go and that they have somebody that they can talk to night or day. As you pass to the area shaded in yellow, that becomes Mayfield Village's area for the police department. The way we set this up is the spaces that face SOM Center are spaces that deserve a little bit more than natural light. They are office spaces where people are working 8-10-12 hours a day so they have more opportunity for natural light. We have investigators here. We set this up where they have an interview or conference room very close to the public entry. Then we have the uniformed patrol here where they can have roll call. Also, their staff offices are here. On this side of the building, there are a couple of electrical and mechanical spaces. Then you get to the corrections space where if a prisoner was brought in, they are pulled into an indoor room called a Sallyport. The Sallyport is where they shut the overhead door; the prisoner can be taken out of the car secured and taken into the booking area where there is a holding cell. This is a very secure part of the building. Directly adjacent to that is secured evidence storage. One of the most important things if a crime has been committed is making sure that the evidence is processed and processed properly so that it can be used in a court of law. There is a chain of command, chain of custody for evidence. As staff would enter here, there's evidence lockers that they can come in and lock the evidence and it is secure until a later time when they can come back and process it. This is all the corrections space. The back of the house spaces are spaces for the police officers, a men's and a women's locker room and directly off of that is a training/fitness facility area and some storage space.