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City of Loveland
May 11, 2015 RECEIVED
Linda Hoffmann
County Manager MAY 15 2015
200 W. Oak Street
PO Box 1190 COMMISSION S Fort Collins,CO 80522-1190
Greetings,
In 2013, Loveland Police Department and Fort Collins Police Services joined together to explore the
building of a regional training facility that could meet all of the current training needs for both
organizations as well as providing capacity for the future needs predicated by anticipated growth. Both
organizations do not currently have adequate training facilities to handle firearms and drivers training
necessary for today's policing environment. Fort Collins and Loveland created a project team and have
already expended considerable finances to bring the project to this point.
At the inception of the project Chief Hutto and Chief Hecker reached out to other regional law
enforcement leaders to see if there was interest in participating in the regional training facility as capital
partners. At the time there was no interest from those leaders in participating as a capital partner. Since
those initial discussions the team recognizes there may have been changes in needs and ability to
participate for those organizations. The purpose of this letter is to see if there is now interest in becoming
a full capital partner with Loveland and Fort Collins to design and build this regional law enforcement
training facility.
The following is a brief overview of the project as it stands today. It is understood that by adding capital
partners to this facility may slightly increase the overall cost of the project.
The project team spent several months assessing the training needs for Loveland and Fort Collins and
came up with the overall plan on needed facilities and infrastructure. Land has been located at the Fort
Collins-Loveland Airport and community outreach and FAA approval has been completed. The following
training venues are included in the overall plan for the facility.
• 25 position, 50 yard firing range
• 10 position, 100 yard firing rifle range
• 3 classrooms
• Pursuit Driving Track
• Skid pad for driving training
• Street grid for urban realistic training
• Shoot House/SWAT Training house
• Vehicle repair and storage building
• Administrative spaces
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The initial cost for all of the training venues is$24 million.That figure includes design costs and site
work necessary to build the regional training facility.There are four separate options being explored at
this point.Those are:
• Option A:Reduce the size of the vehicle repair/storage building,reduce one range from 25 lanes
to 20 lanes,and build later the street grid-$20 million
• Option B(Preferred First Phase):Same as option A but also not build the Shoot House,reduce
the vehicle repair building to a storage shed,reduce the administrative offices,and reduce the
classrooms to one-$17.5 million(Note:This is the preferred immediate phase)
• Option C:Build the entire project as designed-$24 million(planned buildout)
• Option D:Reduce the size of the vehicle repair/storage building,reduce one range from 25 lanes
to 20 lanes,and build later the street grid-$20 million
The operation and maintenance of the facility will depend on the design and build option agreed upon by
the capital partners and will be prorated based on agency size.Any capacity that is unused by the capital
investment partners will be sold to other regional law enforcement agencies.The revenue from this source
would be used to offset the ongoing O&M costs of the facility.The project team has had discussions
with these potential user agencies and to date have received 11 letters of intent,representing 1 100
officers,to use this facility in varying degrees to train their officers.The project team has also worked on
a preliminary IGA that outlines the governance of this joint venture.
Prior to expressing any interest in becoming a full capital partner we can make available members of the
project team to present a more in depth view of the regional training facility.
Please feel free to contact us if you have further questions.
Best Regards, j\iDarin Atteberry Bill Cahill
City Manager City Manager
City of Fort Collins City of Loveland
Cc: John Hutto,Fort Collins Chief of Police
Justin Smith, Larimer County Sheriff
Luke Hecker,Loveland Chief of Police
Barbara Kirkmeyer, Weld County Board of Commissioners
Steve Reams,Weld County Sheriff
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