1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1 CITY OF SEATTLE 2 RESOLUTION __________________ 3..title 4A RESOLUTION relating to Council direction on budget and other matters related to the North 5 Precinct capital project (A1PS107). 6 7..body 8WHEREAS, the state of Washington assigns to charter cities the obligation to provide a chief 9 law enforcement officer (RCW 35A.12.020), and The City of Seattle Charter Article VI, 10 Section 5 has accordingly charged the Chief of Police with the duty of maintaining the 11 peace and quiet of the City; and 12WHEREAS, the Seattle Police Department’s North Precinct serves approximately 280,000 13 residents of Seattle, who represent over 40 percent of the City of Seattle’s population, 14 plus students, in-district hospital visitors, workers, local businesses, and customers; all 15 living, working, and recreating in Council Districts 4, 5, and 6; and 16WHEREAS, of the service calls that the Seattle Police Department receives citywide, 17 approximately 30 percent are received from North Seattle; and 18WHEREAS, the police officers from the North Precinct respond to a variety of emergencies, 19 including the tragic Café Racer mass shooting in the Roosevelt neighborhood in May 20 2012; and 21WHEREAS, the existing North Precinct facility opened over thirty years ago in 1984 and was 22 4 intended to house 154 staff; and 1 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1WHEREAS, the 1998 Seattle Police Department Long-Range Facilities Plan from the former 2 City of Seattle Executive Services Department noted 18 years ago that the North 3 Precinct facility was at that time already overcrowded by 30 percent; and 4WHEREAS, the existing North Precinct currently houses 254 staff, which is 65 percent over its 5 designed capacity; and 6WHEREAS, aspects of the existing North Precinct have been repurposed, such as converting 7 the community room into a locker room, to address overcrowding; and 8WHEREAS, a 2002 analysis by consulting architects and City staff from the Seattle Police 9 Department, Seattle Public Utilities, and the former Fleets and Facilities Department 10 determined that the existing facility could only accommodate limited expansion at the 11 current site; and 12WHEREAS, consulting architects provided further predesign studies in 2007 and 2012 13 updating the space and cost needs related to construction of a new North Precinct 14 facility; and 15WHEREAS, fire, rescue, and police facilities are essential facilities that are required by the 16 Seattle Building Code to be built to allow first responders to operate during and after a 17 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The North Precinct is the only precinct located north of the 18 Lake Washington Ship Canal and the precinct facility would operate as a stand-alone 19 Precinct Area Command with spaces intended to function in the event of a major 20 citywide disaster; and 4 2 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1WHEREAS, the proposed North Precinct facility will play an important role in fulfilling 2 conditions of the federal consent decree entered into by The City of Seattle in 2012, by 3 providing training space to be used by police officers citywide in order to accommodate 4 new training requirements for a more accountable police force and community meeting 5 space that allows police and the community to interact with each other and build 6 relationships; and 7WHEREAS, as a result of the federal consent decree entered into by The City of Seattle in 8 2012, the Seattle Police Department conducts five times the amount of training 9 compared to the years preceding the imposition of the federal consent decree; and 10WHEREAS, the Seattle Police Department shall continue to provide training to its officers at 11 or above the current rate even after The City of Seattle has achieved substantial 12 compliance with the federal consent decree; and 13WHEREAS, the proposed North Precinct facility design includes space accessible to the public 14 both in the interior and exterior of the facility, including a community meeting space 15 with a large lobby. The exterior public use elements of the facility are designed for 16 public use consistent with the federal consent decree’s statement that “[e]ffective and 17 constitutional policing requires a partnership between the Police Department, its 18 officers, community members, and public officials”; and 19WHEREAS, the Seattle Police Department is committed to utilizing the City’s Racial Equity 20 Toolkit on the design and programmatic spaces of the building in order to construct a 21 facility that meets the spirit of the federal consent decree’s statement above and 4 3 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1 promotes community trust and engagement, particularly from communities of color that 2 are disproportionately impacted by policing; and 3WHEREAS, as indicated in the City’s Memorandum of Understanding entered into with the 4 United States Department of Justice as part of the consent decree, “SPD needs strong 5 community relationships and sustainable dialogue with Seattle’s diverse communities to 6 ensure constitutional and bias-free policing, to closely interact with the community to 7 resolve neighborhood problems, and to increase community confidence in the 8 Department,” all of which are assisted, in part, by the public-space elements of the 9 North Precinct design; and 10WHEREAS, by unanimous Council action in 2013, land for the North Precinct project was 11 acquired pursuant to Ordinances 124387, 124390, and 124391; and 12WHEREAS, in 2015, the Council approved a total project cost estimate of $160.2 million, 13 which included $14.3 million for land acquisition, $145.1 million for the construction 14 and design of the facility, and $800,000 for public art; and 15WHEREAS, in addition to land acquisition costs, the City has expended approximately $4.5 16 million through July 2016 in design, consultant, and other costs; and 17WHEREAS, the Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS) and the City 18 Budget Office (CBO) have projected that delay of this project will cost the taxpayers of 19 Seattle approximately $500,000 per month of delay; and 4 4 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1WHEREAS, FAS has indicated that the design of the new North Precinct is at 60 percent 2 design; and 3WHEREAS, the North Precinct project used an independent third-party cost estimator to 4 independently verify the cost estimates of the General Contractor/Construction 5 Manager. This independent verification work, completed at the end of the design 6 development phase for the North Precinct project, resulted in a value engineered 7 reduction of over $18 million in the scope of the project; and 8WHEREAS, further value engineering that occurred in 2016 at the request of Councilmembers 9 10 identified an additional $11 million in cost savings, leading to a revised total project cost estimate of $149 million for the North Precinct project; and 11WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the facility will have a life expectancy of 50 years and meet 12 the operational needs of the Seattle Police Department for many years to come; and 13WHEREAS, the City is committed to providing the 280,000 residents of North Seattle with an 14 effective and efficient precinct that will accommodate population growth and associated 15 public safety needs of the community over the next 50 years and that is responsive to 16 the needs of all communities, including underrepresented communities, and that is 17 mindful of the cost impact to the City’s General Fund; NOW, THEREFORE, 18BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE 19MAYOR CONCURRING, THAT: 4 5 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1 Section 1. In November 2016, the Council intends to appropriate funding for the North 2Precinct project and approve a total project cost estimate as part of the 2017-2022 Capital 3Improvement Program. The Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS) shall 4regularly engage an independent third party cost estimator throughout the design process in 5order to help ensure that the North Precinct project costs are accurate and reasonable; all 6independent third party cost estimators shall be selected in consultation with the Council. 7Specifically, as it did at the end of the design development phase of the project, FAS shall 8engage an independent third-party cost estimator after the design team completes its 60 percent 9Construction Documents submittal, in order to verify cost assumptions by the General 10Contractor/Construction Manager (GC/CM), correct cost models as needed, and align material 11and labor costs. The GC/CM cost estimate should be within range of the third-party cost 12estimator’s cost estimate and costs must be aligned before the project proceeds. The same cost 13reconciliation process shall be undertaken when the design team completes its 90 percent 14Construction Documents submittal, in order to reach the final estimates that will be used to 15negotiate and set the price for the construction contract with the GC/CM. 16 Section 2. FAS shall, with the assistance of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, 17Department of Neighborhoods, and Seattle Police Department, engage in a full Racial Equity 18Toolkit (RET) analysis of the facility’s design and operations, including the interior and 19exterior building design for all planned programmatic aspects of the facility, pursuant to the 20City's Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) and consistent with Council Resolution 31164 21(2009), which directed City Departments to use available tools to assist in the elimination of 22racial and social disparities. In conducting the RET analysis, FAS shall solicit community 23perspectives from the North Precinct service area’s various demographic groups, including but 4 6 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1not limited to historically underrepresented populations, vulnerable populations, those most 2likely to interact with the police, those historically disproportionately impacted by police 3action, and those most likely to be victims of crime. FAS shall provide the Gender Equity, Safe 4Communities and New Americans Committee with a report of its intended community 5engagement plan. The RET analysis should be completed by October 3, 2016. The results of 6the RET analysis shall be provided to the Gender Equity, Safe Communities and New 7Americans Committee upon completion. The results of the RET analysis will help to inform 8the Council’s decision on what is the appropriate total project cost of the North Precinct project 9in the 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program. 10 Section 3. The North Precinct facility is a valuable opportunity to build stronger 11community-police partnerships through the provision of inviting public spaces that encourage 12positive police-community interactions. Accordingly, the project design should retain common 13public areas and community amenities; provided, that the RET analysis described in Section 2 14may inform the project design and programmatic features of any public space, including 15review of community priorities for use of those public spaces. 16 Section 4. The design of the new North Precinct facility includes a training facility that 17will be used by all members of the Seattle Police Department. The training facility is a critical 18component of ensuring that police officers are properly trained to respond to emergencies, such 19as the 2012 Café Racer mass shooting, and in constitutional policing, including de-escalation 20and bias-free policing. Accordingly, the project design should retain training facilities, although 21completion of basement facilities may be deferred if necessary to remain within budget. 4 7 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1 Section 5. It is expected that the project will retain the planned construction start date of 2April 2017. FAS shall, at the earliest point in time, report to the Gender Equity, Safe 3Communities and New Americans Committee if any delay is anticipated for any reason. 4 Section 6. FAS shall provide regular briefings on project progress for the North 5Precinct to the Gender Equity, Safe Communities and New Americans Committee. In addition, 6FAS shall provide written North Precinct Monthly Progress Reports to the City Council; the 7reports shall include information on the current project status, design and community 8engagement efforts and outcomes, a detailing of life-to-date expenditures, the most recent total 9project cost estimate with explanation of any changes since the last report, and budget risk 10issues. 11 Section 7. The City of Seattle finds itself in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. 12One of the recommendations made by the Housing Affordability and Livability Advisory 13Committee was to identify opportunities for City-owned property to be surplused and used 14either by the Office of Housing or a non-profit housing developer to increase the stock of 15affordable housing in the City. Accordingly, it is the City Council’s intent to use the current 16site, or to appropriate all proceeds from the sale of the land or building where the current North 17Precinct is located if the site is surplused, to further meet the City’s affordable housing needs. 18 4 8 1Amy Tsai 2LEG North Precinct Capital Project Budget RES 3D7h 1 Adopted by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 22016, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this ________ day of 3_________________________, 2016. 4 ____________________________________ 5 President ____________ of the City Council 6 The Mayor concurred the _____ day of _______________________, 2016. 7 8 _________________________________ 9 Edward B. Murray, Mayor 10 11 Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2016. 12 ____________________________________ 13 Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk 14(Seal) 15 4 9