Remodeling would cost city $250K

Joint Safety Services Building By KEVIN CORVO Wednesday February 11, 2015 9:43 AM View Larger

Hilliard City Council members are expected to authorize the city's share of a $350,000 remodeling project at the Joint Safety Services Building on Northwest Parkway, a facility shared by the Hilliard Division of Police and Norwich Township Fire Department.

Legislation was introduced at the Feb. 9 meeting of the public safety and legal affairs committee to authorize the expenditure of $250,000 for the city's share of the project.

Norwich Township would contribute about $100,000 toward the total cost and would oversee the project, police Chief Doug Francis said.

The agreement is expected to be approved at City Council's next regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Hilliard Municipal Building, 3800 Municipal Way.

Francis said the project should be done by the end of September.

Francis said "a few things have changed" since the facility opened in 2009, but most of the changes center on the police side. Not the least of which was the relocation of police, fire and EMS dispatching in 2013 to the Northwest Regional Emergency Communications Center in Dublin.

The former dispatching area will be used for additional office space for support services, Francis said.

The building's interior also will be reconfigured.

Renovations include moving wall partitions to nearly double the size of the mayor's court, Francis said, as well as expand meeting rooms the township utilizes.

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