Fort Worth’s moving toward locking up the final piece of funding for its planned new $97 million police and fire headquarters and training complex.
Fort Worth’s Crime Control and Prevention District board – Mayor Betsy Price and the City Council – is scheduled on Aug. 30 to vote on using $10 million from a projected fiscal 2013 CCPD surplus to help build the complex on Fort Worth’s South Side. The $10 million would pay for the police firing range.
The City Council in early August is set to vote on selling debt to finance $77 million of the cost of the new center. Another $10 million is to come from the expected sale of the Police Department’s main building downtown to Tarrant County.
City and county officials are meeting Monday to work out the timing of the deal, which has to go before Tarrant County Commissioners.
Councilman Sal Espino, in a CCPD meeting Thursday night, wondered whether more of the police and fire construction budget should come from CCPD funds, given the city’s tight budget and major capital needs.
"I’m not going to stand in the way of a police and fire center," he said. "But why only $10 million from the CCPD? Why not more?"
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