p w yet today we have the opportunity to take a tour by the chief of police and the heads of the d p w to bring you all inside to see the actual conditions for yourselves right now we're at the side entrance to the police station and this is how the process begins if this is if we were having an individual under arrest the officers would pull up here into the area from the public view but from that point we would move the prisoner into port where it would be a closed and enclosure a secure enclosure where the off somewhat pull of vehicle right and secure it and then move the person from the vehicle into the building in a secure environment this is a lunch point and we will be over to this area here and we are the fingerprints would be taken and the pounding on the circumstances as you can see we have a lot of equipment here but in a modern radiative things like that these things can if there was a scuffle obviously somebody could get hurt and we were trying to avoid things like that but this is again this is my male side and rather than here w very simple up but in today's world as well are you supposed to have sight and sound separation for our prisoners obviously we have separation of sight but not sound you know in a modern facility you would have a lot more space because of the fact that as i said and i don't mean this in a negative way but when people pull up to watch the door and understand you know what this is this is it you know they made the reality of am in a bad situation you know whatever they make sure we've had a number of people escape from this facility because of the circumstances and the man you know what's going through their mind this is it well entrance and exit from the second floor it's twenty one stairs and as i said unfortunately a lot of times if someone is coming to see me particularly a lot of times you know what i've done is opted to go see them because obviously you can see from around the building to the parking is a issue but obviously when coming into the building our will come down and meet with them and i'm not a particular part of the bill that we have of the building as we have friends that it's not ideal but we're doing the best we can and again i credit a lot of the employees with working with us to make sure they get their best but you can see again this is is a number of offices off of this current and this is a unisex bathroom one bathroom on the second floor that men and women use and if you've been on  conference room in the building but my office as a conference table so a lot of times what we find is if people are going to be doing an interview or whatever they'll say you can use your office and i'll take a walk around you know go but  that we deal with daily you know but we've had mold issues that were recently i'm not sure if it was because of the rain or other things but we're trying to address those but you can see as i said the building was built in one nine hundred thirty one and it has served the community well but it hasn't kept pace with the times and what technology on the space needs of the department of a police department in the twenty first century the thing is this we have a lot of things that dictated to us either through the courts other community but unfortunately out again we don't have the space that we need to function as a modern day police  this area is as you can see it's this medicaid for interviews on both sides either a suspect or a victim or a crime but i just want to keep it on the stand if you can see that there's bias on the windows so it's really not very warm and conducive if you're the victim of a crime you know in today's modern facility we would have a room outside off of the main lobby so that you can sit down and you can talk with someone and not feel certain documents for a certain period of time and again we're in the business of documenting circumstances and a lot of it is we've got to keep it for a certain number of years before we can destroy it but again the space needs is a big part of what we're trying to show it but as you can see it very real issue for us again and i talked about it earlier bob having certain mandates set by the courts we have issues with evidence we need to protect that we need to hold it and what we did is we added the space a number of years ago to help be able to do that but i we can't go when it's a secured facility but just so that you get an idea i can tell you honestly behind those doors it's packed we need more space and that being said you know we're trying to do the best we can what the space we have available we're going if you saw a modern day facility most modern day facilities have an up to date firing range so that we can keep our offices up to date and and train all the areas of what we do with our firearms so again like i said my hat is off to the employees that help us through this you passes away this room used to extend into to that room however we had to shrink it down to make room for evidence and you can see that i can't even open the door and walk  space needs to talking with what we have today the building is about thirteen fourteen thousand square feet bit telling us we should have a building at least thirty thousand plus probably a little more to make sure we can run our operation  most efficient process and safe process with that being said the numbers that they gave the consultant react like that did the space needs they said eighteen point four would give you the building of that size years they know all the ins and outs and the history of where we are so gentlemen welcome to the show and ok tell us what we get what we look at at around t of all we go inside the tiny piece of equipment that the town homes we maintain everything central vehicle me then the other part of the building is the office the highway department anything that runs any type of main event snow storms hurricanes anything that any major event the runs out of here runs on a very small office in this will show you when you go inside the building which of the times you can have anywhere from thirty to fifty to over one hundred people that will come through this building during a manner back then in the inside we also store all of our d p w highway division a quick man is all stored inside which is very important most people don't understand that the importance to keeping a quip when stored inside inside storage is very important for a put it like it will keep the equipment much longer the long jetty of the equipment stored inside is very important as and you will see by the equipment that you the taxpayers pay for we take a lot of pride in our equipment the cost of the equipment is expensive and you can see you'll see by some of our equipment our equipment is in top notch condition our employees stand a lot of time and effort and pride in our men and special thanks also goes to our vehicle maintenance staff they take a great great care in taking care of our  these doors are often down because of snowplows coming in and out it's been last year was a tough a tough one to having this all they're working on and now hopefully we won't have this portable system we don't know that for sure though it might be here all winter again we don't so this is the area that we talked about where all the town equipment is free police fire electric li haven't done it yet i don't know what they what they're going to do how they're going to replace all these windows but this daily and in the rainstorm the snowstorm that we get that you get think it's coming out of the north go that way the just the snow inside the garage it because they leak so ok so in this way you do all the work the windows leak the roof leaks water comes in from the outside you have to crack the door  that's in his office this is where we are obviously you have mentalities there's only one facility here that we use for females three daughters if they were to you would have to come down my mother would have to come down the and how my aunt have to go in your off that's it i'm finding it really hard to believe every bathroom when i sit down to my knees literally hit the sink in front of all right let's see what the female facility now with in that within his if a sewer line breaks or sanitary line breaks and they're out there repeat placement because you see i'm out there in the snow the cold i mean they're out there doing a good job so they're out there in the hole i've seen them they're filthy t some nasty conditions they come back to the work they caught but i got to go all the trump through their house with all that stuff way to go in waco network chapters over the next would be twenty four hours about on a break so they have to stay in the court well they can change people and then i suppose all the contract plowers in and out of what you just said you're the command son now it's just so you're all plowing all day or all night while i was like we had a couple years ago we had you know i'm team feet of snow they come in they're came from the old fire house they were going to throw these out they said hey you guys want some lockers for the town yard we said sure because the old ones we had was so damn old well they said they were these are improvement the gravity put in and so when you're working like you say twenty hours in snow they come in for a break right he said that she and i might get up in a short break and then you know like this and then you're in the garage when it's it's probably like sixty degrees and here vehicles outside in the last half half the time span that we keep it was because they're able to be stored indoors inside one vandalism is cut completely because they're in a night matter of fact we had one one of the issues two of my guys and they really bothers me that we've had a couple of guys that have been sitting in there eating lunch in the chair over there and literally have a rat run across the away as more and more so in the winter trying to get out of the cold so it has happened but i know studies in the past have been done about the d p w building the smaller the highway building and the equipment storage building but we have cemetery we have the parks and recreation we have by the water department is now under one big grouping public works right in a perfect world would everything be consolidated into one big building in one big operation that would be the plan the plan would be t would be to house everybody on my under one roof we would bring the administration so you'd bring the office down here so we'd have jay jay marcotte the director myself the office staff and then everybody together cox cemetery water highway recreation everybody would come together and be one central building so you have everybody together whatever you can do to help us out we would greatly appreciate it belmont is a great place we're fortunate to have such great employees working for us so police put your best foot forward and show the employees how you feel and give us some help give us some help here and support support the capital budget committees request and give us some help here and do some do some good here and give us some help here at the garage police thank you very much appreciate your time thank you very much well they time be well