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Approve leases of the Goddard, Derby and Haysville Fire Stations to Sedgwick County Fire District #1.
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Recommended Action: Approve the leases.
Background: In 2004 the fire district adopted a plan to relocate five fire stations in response to changing population densities throughout the portions of the county served by the district. The plan called for:
1. a new station, #32, in the north central part of the county that also would serve as the new headquarters of the district, replacing the headquarters in Bel Aire;
2. a new station #33 in the Maize area that would replace an existing station in Colwich, which is not inside the district;
3. a new station #39 near Garden Plain that would replace an existing station in Goddard;
4. a new station #35 south of Goddard that would replace an existing station in east Wichita; and
5. a new station #36 east of Derby that would replace an existing station on the north edge of that city.
At the same time a funding strategy was adopted to pay for the relocation plan with a combination of cash and bond proceeds. The first three stations were to be funded with district cash, and the final two were to be funded with debt. The BOCC, acting as the governing body of the fire district, subsequently adopted budgets that included revenue from increased fire district property taxes, and allocated the increased revenue to pay for the costs associated with the relocation plan.
In the years since the plan originally was adopted it was revised and expanded as follows:
1. the station in east Wichita, Station #38, was not closed when its replacement was completed; it continues to serve the eastern part of the county; and
2. renovations of the existing station #34 near Haysville were added to the plan, and then before the renovations were initiated the station was replaced by a new station in Haysville.
The original funding strategy also was revised in two ways:
1. because station designs were to a higher ...
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