CONTRACT AWARDED FOR NEW STATION.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - A $16 million construction contract was awarded Tuesday to build the long-awaited Palmdale sheriff's station. Bernard Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Inc. of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. was selected unanimously Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
``The supervisor is very pleased with the passage,'' said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's Communication's Deputy Tony Bell. ``He feels that the new station will increase and enhance public safety in our valley, and he is looking forward to getting started.'' Construction at the south east corner of Avenue Q and Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling will begin in May and is expected to be completed by December 2005. The new station will have a 47,000 square-foot main building, including a 7,800 square-foot jail, an 8,300 square-foot vehicle maintenance building, a communications tower, a helicopter pad and staff and visitor parking areas. The new facilities will allow deputies to spend more time on the streets and less time transferring their prisoners to the Lancaster sheriff's station jail and dropping off and picking up patrol cars at a maintenance yard. The 11.5 acre lot where the station will be built was provided by the city of Palmdale. In addition to providing the land, the city has also agreed to perform $1 million in improvements, including widening streets and right-turn pockets near the station, relocating street lights and modifying the existing traffic signal system. The new station will replace a crowded leased station in a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into on 10th Street East at Palmdale Boulevard. The station opened in 1992 when the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley sheriff's station split into the Palmdale and Lancaster stations. The appropriation The designation by the government or an individual of the use to which a fund of money is to be applied. The selection and setting apart of privately owned land by the government for public use, such as a military reservation or public building. was $16 million, but the entire cost of the project, including design and planning, has topped $24 million. The plans for the station have had to be redesigned a number of times because bids outweighed the funding earmarked for the project. Last year, when the contract was put out, bids came in at nearly $4 million over their budget. Greg Botonis, (661) 267-7802 gregory.botonis(at)dailynews.com |
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