The estimated costs of adding a dispatch center to the proposed new Fire Station No. 2 in Beachwood is approximately $230,000 for construction, and another $535,000 for electronics. The figures were announced by Beachwood Fire Department Chief Patrick Kearns at a City Council committee meeting Monday night.
BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- Architects' drawings and estimates show that the cost to include a dispatch center at the proposed new Fire Station No. 2 at Richmond Road and Park East Drive, would cost less than adding dispatch to the current police annex at the city hall complex.
Beachwood Fire Department Chief Patrick Kearns told City Council' s Safety and Public Health Committee Monday that making a dispatch center out of what had been planned as space for Beachwood police to use in an unspecified way, would cost about $230,000.
The space that would house the dispatch center was largely part of the original drawing's footprint, but does include some added space as one wall would be built out eight feet from where it was originally planned.
The new space would include four seats for dispatchers, a locker room, break room and an office. Wiring would be fully completed, however, to allow dispatch space to expand to as many as eight seats. Possible expansion is crucial as the city is looking to build a regional center that would also serve other communities and bring the city income.
The $230,000 cost does not include electronics. Police Chief Keith Winebrenner said the estimated cost of adding electronics to the police annex, which also remains in the running as possible home to a dispatch center, is $534,000.