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$180 million bond to fix public safety site?
Police, fire officials say new facility is urgently needed
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The Salt Lake City public safety building is in decay.
"Our motto has kind of been 'Make do and kind of do the best you can with what you've got to work with,"' said Salt Lake City police detective Jay Rhodes. "That we do. We become very creative."
"There's some issues that need to be corrected," he said Monday. However, "they don't have to be corrected because the building was built under a prior code."
"What we're looking at is doing a public safety bond that will get all these things taken care of," Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said as he led a Deseret Morning News reporter on a tour Monday.
The parking garage has been condemned, but the chief still parks there. A piece of tarp clipped to the ceiling hangs low over his car, collecting water and chunks of concrete that fall from above.
"It's probably the worst spot in the garage," Burbank chuckles. "The water builds up on it so you have to take a pole and push the water off."
At his feet is a large puddle of water from the latest spring storm.
Upstairs, an evidence storage room has holes in the roof, a moldy smell and the beams are split. The room has been re-roofed four times, but it still won't stop the leaks. Cars no longer park there because the floor is unstable.
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